(Episode 3) Yennifers almost falling off dress was fine for a dip I. The hot tub, her beheading dress didn’t seem too impractical.
I hope Ciri realizes that no amount of training will make her as good as a Witcher, that requires some performance enhancing substances…
Brian
Man, maybe it’s because they largely stayed on one plot thread the whole episode but that final one felt WAY longer than 48 minutes. Not “longer” like “God, when will this end” but I just felt like I’d sat through a 90min movie or something by the end of it. Was surprised to see it wasn’t any longer than the rest.
And…?
A pet peeve of mine in the show is everyone knows what a Witcher is and does, but doesn’t seem to understand what a Witcher is and does. A Witcher is a super-powered mutant with decades of experience fighting supernatural threats.
Nope, Ciri won’t match Geralt after a winter of training.
But I don’t get why every untrained tavern-going nitwit on the Continent seems to think they can fight one.
I can’t remember if they mention it in the show, but in the books, the Witcher’s believe that a child acquired through the law of surprise would not need the mutations to become a Witcher. It’s why they want one so badly, because they’ve lost the knowledge on how to make the mutations. They always assumed such a child of surprise would be a boy.
This doesn’t feel too much different from your local bar-going nitwit wanting to prove to his buddies that the boxing champion, MMA fighter, Navy SEAL, etc having a drink isn’t really so tough and is probably a pushover in a “real fight”. Witchers are semi-mythical and while people know they exist, I assume many people (especially after your fill of ale) figure they’re mainly just fightin’ dudes and all the rest is folklore, old wives tales and bullshit to charge a higher price for killing a deformed bear rattling in the bushes. Especially when he’s sitting alone at a table, refusing conversation and nursing a drink and the only time he talks is to call you a liar about how many talons a bog troll has.
We’ve just seen people hassling Geralt in a tavern. I wonder if a more boisterous Witcher with tales to tell and news to share fares better than the grump “refusing our hospitality”.
Many people in the real world have heard of dragons, but very few have ever seen dragons or know how dangerous they actually are.
Because humans would NEVER try to mess with physically superior creatures to their own detriment!
Yeah, i find that part completely believable.
I’m really enjoying this show. I looked the first season, but found it confusing. The simpler time line is helping me. 
We did rewatch S1E3 for context about Triss, and found some of the other parts helpful to review, too.
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Because humans would NEVER try to mess with physically superior creatures to their own detriment![/quote]
That’s modern Western society, inured to danger by its absence, whereas in the show humans die at the hands of animals, monsters, and weapons-bearing humans on the regular. And the Continent looks to be in that period when people with (quality) swords and other weapons were known to kill ignorant commoners willy-nilly.
I don’t remember much about the first season, but wasn’t there a time skip that would have meant Jaskier was no longer around?
Think ‘furnace with wings’ - Flash of light, searing pain, then POOF! You’re nothing more than a pile of ash!
As a normal human, he should be older, for certain. He was at Calanthe’s party when they learned Ciri’s mother was pregnant, and she’s a teen now. But he came in late to the timelines of Yennefer and Geralt, iirc.
He meets Geralt after the big timeskip (Geralt is born in 1160, Yennifer finishes her training/is transformed in 1210, Geralt first meets Jaskier in 1240 (when Jaskier is 18), and it is 1264 as season 2 starts. Jaskier should be 42 now.
Jackie must be one of those Paul Rudd types, he looks great for 40! But as a bard that’s pretty believable
Finished the series last night. And I have lots of questions, that are all too spoilery to go here. Oh well. I enjoyed it, though. And we’ve now re-watched two episodes from season 1 to refresh our memories.
(episode 4)
Not sure exactly how Triss got the message that she was needed at Witcher HQ. Magic? Singing telegram? Not critical, just curious.
Thanks for the heads up that Triss was in episode 3 of season 1 – it helped to refresh my memory. Also, that website is useful.
Brian
My big question - are humans not native to the Continent? Did they arrive as part of the Conjunction with the other monsters or earlier?
The Elves talk like humans are recent arrivals.
Humans arrived after the Conjunction. Iirc there were hints that the elves arrived in an earlier conjunction too? But not sure about that.
The same way the whores did? There’s clearly some sort of traffic with the nearby inhabited valley (as seen in the animated prequel show).
It’s complicated - humans arrived via rifts with the Great Conjunction around 1500 years before the current era, but the humans in the Northern Kingdoms (the Nordlings) only arrived on “The Continent” 500 years ago (760s), by ship, in an event called the First Landing. I think they replaced any preexisting Northern human groups.
I think the human part of the Nilfgaardians also predate First Landing, but they have elf blood as well.