According to Netflix, The Witcher was watched by 76 million households around the world. It’s now being considered as Netflix’s biggest series debut to date, even though the series had definitely several issues, with the biggest of them all being the confusing timeline.
The show used multiple timelines to tell the individual stories of Geralt, and the rest of the main characters. According to the showrunner, Lauren Schmidt, season two will move away from that approach, but not because of complaints.
Schmidt also said, that while she didn’t expect it to be as controversial as it was, she still stand behind it, in terms of storytelling.
She added that the goal was to get to know each character individually, and the only way to do that was through separate timelines.
“What’s great though is they have intersected now. So what we’ll see in Season 2 is that all of our characters are existing on the same timeline. What that allows us to do storywise though is to play with time in slightly different ways. We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in Season 1. Because, if you can imagine, if we were in three different timelines (in Season 1) and then flashed forward or flashed back, we would have been in four or five or six timelines — even I know that’s too much. So I think it will be a lot easier for the audience follow and understand, especially a new audience coming in. But there are still going to be some fun challenges with time.”
The shooting of the show has been shut down due to the epidemic. Even with six weeks of shooting already done, it’s very unlikely we will see season two any time soon.
You can read the whole interview of the The Witcher’s showrunner here.
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1. this isnt about videogames
2. its sjw trash like most netflix stuff
I assume you didn’t read the books or play the game…
must have missed the part that triss is not a redhead and elfs are black or the part where the armors look like dcks.
Triss isn’t a redhead even in the books. She has chestnut colored hair which is mainly dark brown with small tinges of orange. You definitely didn’t read the books.
Although I do agree that the casting for Triss was garbage. But to claim the the whole show is “SJW Trash” because it had bad castings is ridiculous. Especially considering how good the show as a whole actually is.
i remember reading an article that the interacial s*x scene there was put there by the jewish woman who wrote it to represent europe going past its racism and the white people clapping in the back are americans. Also the reason the armors of the bad guys looked like scrotums and dicks was to represent patriarchy. But keep on Cope.
>Triss isn’t a redhead even in the books
Yes she is, it was a mistranslation in some regions.
Sapkowski has been clear about her being a redhead.
>Especially considering how good the show as a whole actually is.
You really must have been dropped headfirst as an infant.
Neither did the showrunners.
Nice they are dumbing it down for the people who couldn’t put down their phones and pay attention.
Yea well said. It wasn’t confusing. I actually liked it, it was different from the usual shows.
Can’t wait for S2
how come the people who downvoted this upvoted this? I said the same thing
If you think you said the same thing as this, your reading comprehension is even worse than I thought.
He’s talking about timelines, you’re talking about casting.
they should replace Henry Cavill with John Boyega
Or Terry Crews.
I had no problem with timeline. I watched it 3 times in 2 weeks.
Seems reasonable since they are most likely done with the short stories.
Let’s see how things work out with a season long arc…
SJW trash feminist junk. Go watch 2002 Polish TV series instead.
Now if only the got rid of all the diversity castings and actually went for talent rather than skin color…
People who dont know the source material so arent aware of the rampant race-swapping
The problem with Netflix’s Witcher is the unnatural forced diversity, not the multiple timelines.