First of all, I declare that I am neither a fan of the original book of "The Witcher", nor have I played the game. Before watching the show, I saw a bunch of comments saying that passers-by who have not read the original book or played the game had better not read it, because they are worried about us. I don't understand, I'm confused and dizzy.
That's right, it really piqued my curiosity.
2019 is almost over, and there are still American dramas that you can't understand without watching the original book or playing games?
We have fallen into so many brain-burning films, but still can't understand a magic drama? What happened to the passerby? Please don't look down on passersby, okay?
After chasing eight episodes in one go, it’s still too early to say magical epics. The eight episodes in the first season can only be regarded as appetizers. Slowly unfolding a grand structure, it is definitely a high-quality American drama. The most important thing is that they chose the right one. male protagonist.
But passersby can't understand it and so on, it's just too much, how can such a clear and clear plot still be incomprehensible?
What does it matter if there are several timelines? It is also clearly pointed out in the play that the King Temeria brothers and sisters, who incest with their sister in the episode of Yennefer's prom, were children at the time. When the wizards in the second and third episodes talked about the movements and situations of various countries, it was easy to understand that this was the previous timeline.
People who have followed American dramas for a few years can basically notice a lot of details. Besides, this is also a common technique used in many American dramas. Is it surprising?
Besides, the timeline of this show is much easier to understand than the first season of Westworld. The timelines of the three main characters gradually converge in the seventh episode, and it doesn't feel very confusing and difficult to understand. At the time, the time line of "Westworld" was deliberately disrupted. People who watched the show could not wait to watch and guess one mirror at a time, but a lot of people were touting it. The "Witcher" timeline is not complicated, and it is easy to find , why all the accusations and blacks?
Maybe the fans love it so much, it's all to blame.
The rhythm of this drama is fast, and the male lead Geralt is so handsome that it is easy for people to finish eight episodes in one breath.
Judging from the structure of the eight episodes, I don't think there is too much problem. This is a drama with a deep background and a long aftertaste, and it is worth chasing.
Although it is not a magical epic, it also captures the sadness of the high-magic doomsday elegy.
Different from the low-magic world in "Game of Thrones", although the power of magic in this world is still very strong, there are dragons, magic, elves, warlocks, and various monsters, but everything in the play is magic. A gradually declining fate.
The power of human beings is getting stronger and stronger, occupying the territory of the elves, and the elves seem to have no choice, and some can only take their clansmen to further and sparsely populated places to settle down.
And the witchers are getting fewer and fewer because the people who made them are dead.
Therefore, when Geralt appeared, people were hostile and disdainful towards him, fearful of the witcher's power, but not very afraid of him.
Even as a witcher, Geralt didn't seem to have a good harvest. Sometimes they can't take over, and sometimes they don't negotiate the price when they take over. It doesn't matter how much the other party gives, and even the person who pays will try to steal his horse while he is fighting the monster.
As an alien, he makes a living among humans. For those monsters, mutants, and cursed people, while he is rational, he still has a kind of compassion that hurts others. Geralt, played by Henry Cavill, is really good at this.
We have seen the power of dragon dance and the power of dragon flames in "Game of Thrones", and in "The Witcher", the oldest and rarest golden dragons even possess magical skills that can transform into humanoids, However, in order to protect the female dragon who was laying dragon eggs, he did not use the dragon flame to kill the Quartet, but only burned a few pawns with the dragon flame. A few dragon teeth persuaded the last group of dwarves to retreat. Even the dwarves can bargain with the golden dragon, except for the dragon teeth, the golden dragon promises that a dragon will appear at the wedding on the day of their king's wedding in the future.
You see, it's not that you can't use dragon flames, but that it won't last long, and you're more afraid of the power of human beings, for fear of attracting more people's attention and siege. The dragon also just wants to survive quietly and protect his cubs.
Once in the magical world, the most lethal and destructive dragons have weakened to this level. Just like the dialogue between the witcher and the golden dragon, the rarer and lesser creatures are, the more difficult it is to inherit, so the first It is them that are extinct.
Magic is on the decline, so what about kingship in troubled times? The same precariousness.
The princesses in this play, Jane is the dark version of Grimm's fairy tales.
The first to appear, Renfner, was once a princess with a good background and a bright future. But it's a pity that she was born at the time of the total solar eclipse, the wizard Trisgeb believes in the curse of the black sun, the curse of the black sun is the eclipse, and the wizards believe that many girls born after the eclipse are cursed , if they are not executed immediately, they will destroy the world in the future.
So Trace Geb captured many girls born after the eclipse to study, dissect, and kill.
Princess Renfner was also hunted down by the bounty hunter sent by Trisgeb. In the forest, the hunter did not kill the princess immediately, but he did not let the princess go as in the fairy tale, and took the heart of the animal back to cross; Instead, he raped Princess Renfner and was killed by the princess blinded by her grandmother's antique brooch.
The escaped princess lived alone in the forest and met seven robber friends (corresponding to the seven dwarfs in the fairy tale).
Trisgeb found Geralt the witcher and asked him to protect himself. He said that he had to kill the world in order to prevent the world from being destroyed by the curse of the Black Sun. Compared with harming a little girl, the fate of all mankind is undoubtedly more important, so my choice is the lesser of two evils . Geralt didn't accept it. He believes that evil is big or small, and that evil is evil.
Renfner also came to Geralt, explained his background and experience to him, and asked Geralt not to stop her from revenge, and to help her. Geralt just wanted to be neutral.
Both sides were pushing him, and neither wanted him to remain neutral.
Renfner deliberately angered Geralt, forcing him to take action, and Geralt told Renfner to leave the country, forget the past, and start a new life.
During the fight, Renfri told Geralt that even if he killed all the people himself, Strigob would not go down the tower and sacrifice himself. Is it really worth fighting against yourself for such a selfish person?
In the midst of Renfner's pressing, Geralt made his move, but he was still involved in this turmoil that he did not want to participate in. In order to protect the people of the town, he killed Renfner's men and fought kills Renfner.
Trace Geb arrived and asked for Renfner's body to be taken back for autopsy. Geralt disagreed, but in this small town dominated by Trace Geb, Geralt was stigmatized as a murderer. The butcher, banished from the town, did not save Renfner's body.
Although he is a powerful witcher, he still has to submit to the powerful humans and the deceived public.
Geralt left this sad place carrying the abuse and humiliation of the world, and he was later called "The Butcher of Blaviken".
The second princess is Ciri's mother, and her engagement ceremony is a replica of Beauty and the Beast.
The third princess, Ciri, was raised by her grandmother, Queen Catheran, but overnight, the city was destroyed, her grandmother jumped from the city wall, all the nobles committed suicide, the people were slaughtered by foreign enemies at will, and they were protected from everyone overnight. The little princess became a distressed orphan who was chased and killed.
In the play, there is also a newly born princess Aedirn. She and her mother were hunted down by the warlocks and monsters sent by the king. Even if Yennefer tried her best, she could not save her. What if she was born as a princess, and she was killed by a monster before she even opened her eyes. And it was the biological father who gave the order to kill the mother and daughter.
Maybe it was just a failed political marriage, maybe her mother couldn't give birth to a son, maybe it was just that her mother's family was useless and not strong enough.
Yennefer buried the baby she failed to protect with her own hands. Since then, she was disheartened and no longer wanted to assist the royal family.
The sorceress Yennefer's growth along the way is far from being a lovable character in ordinary American dramas, she is more layered and powerful.
Born with a crooked spine and crooked chin, she was disliked by her stepfather because of her ugly appearance, so she let her feed pigs and live in a pigpen. It was later bought by a sorceress and taught her to learn magic. The price of buying it is extremely cheap, even the price of a pig is not as good.
But she has a quarter of the elf blood and has powerful magical powers.
When she studied magic and successfully passed the Warlock promotion exam, she thought that as long as she became beautiful, she would get everything with a sexy and beautiful skin. What stood in the way of her future was her deformed appearance, for which she gave up her fertility in favor of a beautiful face and body.
She became the royal sorcerer of Aedirn and could assist the royal family.
After becoming beautiful, she is very greedy. She wants everything, just like a poor person who wants the whole world to know about it after becoming rich. After becoming beautiful, she has been using beauty and sexual charm to control men, so as to control everything.
But in the process, she will also be hurt. She found that the people who approached her just wanted to approach the royal family through her, and she wanted love, but what she got in return was loss.
After failing to protect the baby girl of the royal family, she was also hurt by the coldness of the heart and repeatedly, and felt that life lost its meaning. I have become beautiful and strong, but my heart is still empty.
No one can believe it. There is no one to trust. At this time, she wants to create a family of her own. She wants to restore fertility and give birth to a child.
For this purpose, she almost went into trouble, and wanted to subdue the lamp god and use her body as a container to become more powerful. If Geralt hadn't rescued her, she would have been killed by magic.
Geralt painstakingly persuaded her that the lives of people like them are completely unsuitable for the growth of children. Geralt said that the people who created us may have realized long ago that people like us cannot take on the responsibility of parents at all. , can you imagine that you are fighting people while protecting your children?
Yennefer admits it in her heart, but does not give in.
It wasn't until they met the Three Jackdaws and saw that Jinlong would do everything to protect his children, and Fu Xiao negotiated with the dwarves and took out his dragon teeth. At that time, Yennefer realized that the parents were this one. look like.
With children, no matter how strong you are, you have weaknesses.
Yennefer's hard heart at that time began to gradually soften.
How Children at War Rebuild Hope
Ciri met a little boy on the way to escape. When he learned that Ciri was a princess, the little boy was very sad and lost, because his family, neighbors, younger brother and sister were all lost by Ciri's grandmother Queen Casselland. killed by the army. From Ciri's point of view, of course she always thought her grandmother was a wise and generous queen, but Ciri knew what the little boy said was true.
This is the first time Ciri has seen the war and her grandmother from a different angle.
Ciri and the little boy have lost all of their families, and they both want to be each other's family and live together.
The little boy had countless reasons to hate Ciri, but the little boy said: forget the past and start over.
Children in troubled times always mature prematurely.
In just eight episodes, at first I thought it was a travelogue with the witcher as the first point of view, but in the end I found that I fell in love with this story. This grand story is only showing a corner of it. Soden, Xin Terra, Aden, Ungerberg, Livia, Temeria, I actually started looking for maps online, just like I was looking for maps in Game of Thrones.
The first season of "The Witcher" was not perfect, but the production was meticulous enough. Looking at Geralt's golden pupils and Yennefer's black-haired purple eyes, he should be very close to the game and the original book. The overall rating is at least eight points or more, far from being as bad as many comments say. I think this is a high-quality American drama, and it is worth spending time watching and reminiscing.
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