The Witcher - Season 3 Finale Breakdown
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I had a bit of a season 3 breakdown myself
Lol same
😂😂😂😂
Don’t you mean Geralt and yennefer finally figured out that the evil mastermind behind so many of the bad things that had been happening to them was Lauren Hissrich?
Absolutely ✅️
Leave lauren alone!
@@emarti3853hahahaha
Oh wait you're serious?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
😂😂😂
Relax
The Witcher series at this stage just makes me sad. Such wasted potential and opportunity :(
The art of filmmaking in the mainstream is dying.. they don’t know how to just tell a good story anymore, or even respect the source material.
How to disappoint passionate fans and an incredible IP…
I found the whole Witcher series hard to follow. I couldn't tell you where the characters were in terms of the world, why or what they were doing. The GOT series, apart from the last few seasons, were good at establishing the different locations and people. You knew if the scene was in the north, Dorne or Kings Landing, by the background or dress style of the people. But the Witcher, it could of been anywhere in the world and I didn't have a clue.
Wow! Talk about falling off a cliff! I'm a complete novice when it comes to The Witcher. I haven't played the games nor read the books.
Thus all those differing time lines in season one was difficult to follow, but I love fantasy shows so did my best to stick with it. Season two was much easier to follow, particularly after re-watching season one again for a recap and to ensure that I didn't miss anything crucial.
And now we have season three... Definitely the weaker of the three by a bit of a margin! And with Henry Cavill leaving? And rumours that the show might get cancelled? Yeah... It was a good run while it lasted but I think the run has ran its course!
Shame really... This show had so much untapped potential!
I thought season 3 was a lot better than season 2 but still not great . Agree it seems to have run its course...
Anyone else find the humor in the mages burying of the novices experimented on when they turned other novices into eels... Or am I just missing something?
Is the eel thing book canon?
@@RonsarLo It is not
Found it so hard to stick with the series and ended up spending a lot of the last few episodes feeling disconnected and not really even watching. Have struggled with a lot of the casting since Season 1 and it's not really got any better. Ah well, at least the books and games exist.
Honestly I was shaky and then I saw who was cast as Triss and decided to move on. It doesn't effect how I enjoy the games and books but it's kind of a shame these properties are never given to people who actually like the material.
You guys make yourself suffer without any necessity. And if anything you enable this crap.
How sad.
Stop hate watching
I'd love to actually see a video of you compare and contrasting the show from book details. I believe you actually did one for game of thrones at some point but I don't recall 100%😅
I had no idea what was happening in this season. 🤷♂
I honestly don’t know if I’ll watch any future seasons; I’ll definitely watch IDG videos on it still. Such a shame the way the cookie crumbled 🍪 😞
Well this breakdown is way more entertaining than the episodes it is about
They left the cookie too long in spoiled milk
I just feel sorry for Cavill, it would be really frustrating to be working on something you're so passionate about only for the people behind it to have little to no care for the source material and even ostracize you for having it. But hey, we cant understand that because we aren't smart like Polish people are
Really a case study in wasted potential. They had the budget, the lore, the A-list actors. All remained was for the writers to not put their own ego into the story and it would've been good
I would be very interested in your reviews and opinions on the series as well as your breakdowns of lore and events 😊
I honestly couldn't even watch season 3. Just makes me sad knowing Henry Cavill was being shit on because of how much of a passionate fan he is. It must suck to finally get the role of your absolute dreams, but then meeting a writing team that actively hates the series you love.
Very bold of you to assume that there will be further seasons after them crapping out this disaster
Even when it’s summarised and reviewed by a great like yourself the story is absolutely all over the shop
I think I lost brain cells trying to listen to someone explaining this plot in a serious manner, as people pointed out in the comments there is nothing coherent or good about the writing in this misfire of a show, shame it will take many years to get a proper Withcer show that focuses on adaptation, good quality, and not focus on modern morals and our modern world while completely ruining anything that was good about the source material.
As for next seasons, I wouldn't hold my fingers for more than one and even that starts to look bleak, with only casuals left watching the show and no passionate people to hype it, I think this is it. The optimists had already started dropping at season 2.
Great Synopsis, really unfortunate that the show runners didn’t feel like putting any effort into world building or reading the source material
Man this show went to shite fast. RIP
Anybody find it endearing when Robert says "pay attention over the next couple of seasons" as if we'll be around 🙃. All jokes aside, love your videos.
I cringe at the choice of actress who plays fringila.
somebody watched that GARBAGE lol poor deep geek... sorry soul...
I D G !!!!!!
What an awful map of the continent. It almost looks nothing like what the continent looks like.
I low-key cringe every time people pronounced it Deekstra. So thank you for pronouncing Dijkstra like the original Dutch name 😘😉
A lot of the names in the Witcher seem kind of Dutch, I'm not sure why since the author is Polish. Do you perhaps know why?
@@ruigerd the city of Novigrad in the books is supposedly based on medieval Amsterdam. As for the names, probably to make them sound foreign and exotic
He studied economics and before he became an author, he used to work as a sales representative for the (state-owned, as it was communism) foreign trade company. The Netherlands were one of his areas and he developed a fondness for the country and the language.
Funny enough, this job also kickstarted his writing career, even if indirectly. Since he knew a few foreign languages, he started as a translator for fantasy books and stories before eventually writing his own first short story for a writing competition (the story that is now know as "The Witcher", about the striga).@@ruigerd
This show was ruined by nepotism.
IKR I’m starting to think us nerds should start our own film company and actually do it right.
Didn’t even finish it. I’ve played all the games and read EVERY book twice. I’m that much of a fan and I didn’t even finish season 3.
Sadly, I didn't bother. All too common nowadays, TV writer that has little passion for the source material. Watch first 4/5 seasons of GOT, Peaky Blinders, and even how JK talks about her passion for her world.
You do not get to claim any knowledge about the witcher if you make videos about that pos that the show is. Respect lost. The witcher are books, this is bs. you cant explain anything about something that takes slavic mythology and butchers it completely, this has nothing to do with the witcher and only exsts because Sapkowski got greedy.
All the Whyte men die. All the more powerful men die. Wahmen survive because girl power girl boss plot armour. Yup pretty much unbelievable nonsense. The elf queen is an awful indecisive leader that has no right to survive the first volley.
This season was worse than Witcher Blood origins entire plot.
My only issue is I'm don't think I have any faith in the show at all anymore because the replacing the one person actually gave a fuck about the original story. Everyone else just wants to change it and keep like the key points similar but not even the same It's just hard to actually want to watch it or even watch it when they're just butchering it
Can't wait for season 4 with Bonart 😁 gonna be nuts! Love the show, hope they stick the landing and get a good 8 seasons
This season was a disappointment. I’ve given up on this series. Watching this felt like I was trapped in a maze without hope of finding the exit.
I had such trouble finishing Season 2. The last two episodes were a shore to go through. It had started well enough in Season 2 but I realised there just wasn't much to this Universe, even by the end of that season, I still had no idea about the motivations of the characters, who even these characters were! Again it's the end of Season 2 and I have no idea what's going on! lol I knew about the three main characters but I didn't care or understand the rest. It has been a terrible World building. In Game of Thrones you basically knew everybody and their motivation in the first episode. I liked Geralt killing monsters and that was it. They should have made this the point of the show and build on it. There is no way I'm trying Season 3. But thank you Robert for having suffered for us. ;)
The only episode I can even recall was that one with the beauty and the beast story. The writers were clearly not capable of weaving a grander narrative and should have just stuck to these small, serialized episodes. Better yet, fire the writers and find ones both interested in the Witcher and capable of adapting the books. What a waste.
@@Uncle_Fred Yea exactly, I think the Beauty & the Beast one was the first episode of Season 2 and it was will done, well executed and it was a good launch of Season 2. I was positive coming out of it(esp. since I had heard that Season 2 was bad). But I think overall when it's not about the three main characters, it's a mess. I literally do not care about any of it. Very unappealing. The show is doomed anyway with Cavill leaving.
Agreed 100%. I was done with it after getting through season 2 and have no plans to continue. I think I'll skip these kind of shows in the future unless they have writers capable of adapting quality stories (preferably ones that the author has finished). I thought I could at least enjoy fantasy as a guilty pleasure type thing, but this show taught me that I don't, lol.
@@Uncle_Fred Even though there were rumblings that something could go wrong before that series started, there was enough insentives to watch it like Henry Cavill as Gerald for instance. There was some good in Season 1 but already the timeline change was making things pointlessly confusing. When there was the magic battle at the end of Season 1 and I didn't care about the stakes and who was who and what, I knew the show had big issues. Right now I wait until people I trust say something is good before I watch it. lol Like I won't dare trying Rings of Power and Wheels of Time.
Exactly. With Tolkien, the bar is set so high it's probably impossible to please me with any Tolkien adaptation, so I won't even attempt that show. Instead, I find myself enjoying audio book adaptations of the LOTR like Phil Dragash's, which blends the sophistication of Tolkien's writing with the music of Howard Shore. I find myself turning more to that these days rather than the Jackson movies.
I doubt I'll ever enjoy a new adaptation of Tolkien's works until the IP goes public. It's at that point and in all the muck that will be released that some great writer cut from the same cloth as Tolkien will combine their nerdy knowledge of Tolkien's universe with a grand story. I personally hope for something set in the east or south of Middle Earth. I'll probably be old as the hills at that point but it's at least something to look forward too.
I feel that new IPs offer more near-term potential. Someone is bound to make another high-brow fantasy flick or TV show.@@johnnyskinwalker4095
had no idea the Emperor was THE Emperor until halfway through lol
7 wk old baby, 14 maths after filming. Girl maths?
Season one, glued to the TV, season two, picked up my phone from time to time. Season three, glued to my phone, just listening to a now poorly written show. No Season four for me, Henry made that show.
Even the explosion can't messed up her make-up!
I always love how Robert stays true to his own personal pronunciations of names even where TV shows are using different ones.
DY-k- stra, VY-serys, RY-Ance.
As a Dutchie I can say Robert pronounces Dijkstra really well :)
I think Cavill will be a hard act to follow.
Was there ever any hints that vilgeforts might be a baddy? Seemed to come out of nowhere for me, I couldn’t have even told you his characters name before they decided he was bad. Stregabourg was obviously a red herring but there also seemed no other candidates. Sorry if I’ve butchered their names.
Yes, the actor played a character in the Marco Polo series who had a near exact same arc into villainy as Vilgeforts. Guess that counts as foreshadowing 🤣
As far as I remember there was a scene during the battle of Sodden (season1 finale) where he gave away that he was actually a baddy by killing one of their own allies.
@@mori1bundI had previously head cannoned that as he had to heal himself and that unfortunate ally was going to be the cost for the chaos to heal himself.
Thank you for reminding me of that though, I think that may really be the only hint that he’s the baddie besides him screaming at tessia about ceri.
the Series is good enough. bog down by some subpar writing, editing and some wind of modern politics. Still enjoyable enough. Don't get why people think it the worst thing ever existed. May be Henry's leaving one the reasons
You can probably safely leave out the words "season 3," or just replace them with "series" if you prefer. Because, let's be honest... if Netflix is paying attention, it's not coming back.
Little Horse? She finds a unicorn and names it Little Horse? Or is it Little Hoarse? Like, the intensely magical creature has a little bit of a post-nasal drip? Who names a unicorn Little Horse? I think I’m offended, as a Welshman, on behalf of the unicorn.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think a little is lost in translation. The word she uses in original Polish is "konik", which indeed is the diminutive of "koń", a horse. However, in Polish this may indicate not only the small size of something but also the speaker's fondness. In the book she clearly cares about the creature and creates a bond with it, and calls it a sweet little name. Maybe "My little horse" or "dear little horse" or something along the line would be a better translation.
@@berlineczka ah yes, the Russian language does a lot of this as well. That helps quite a bit, thanks!
@@davidlewis8814 All of the Slavic languages do!
Have not watched a single season 3 episode it remains to be seen if I’ll ever feel like bothering.
Look on the bright side. It won't ruin your enthusiasm for Season 4. The downside is that the 3rd season was painful to watch.
I struggled watching the last few episodes of Season 2.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 I probably did too but looking back it's hard to recall what even happened. Which is probably not a good sign.
@@John_Locke_108 I only remember the Beauty & the Beast story(which was decent) and Ciri getting possessed out of nowhere. It felt like a season where they tried to "limit the damages" that's why it's hard to remember anything from Season 2. There was nothing specularly bad but nothing memorable either. I will never watch Season 3.
Haven't really watched any Netflix Witcher related content since the end of S1, glad to see I'm not missing anything lol. I'll just pretend it never excited and keep the franchise's image intact in my mind.
I enjoyed season 3 for what it was. Better than season 2 at least and I consider it to be the finale season.
It helped that things were moving fast and it was flashy. Not high quality, but enjoyable.
Will I forget it quickly? Yes. And I had no higher hopes at this point.
I am really going to struggle to continue without cavill. I know that probably seems, shallow? But I really made a connection with THAT geralt,…
Im loving that all the baddies are Australian 😂😁 I wonder what that says about Geralt next season??? 🤣
Yeesh. Let’s not.
Nah, show dead.
I should have waited for this instead of watching the episodes. It would have been less painful, but I cant give up a chance to watch Henry
*safe to say that many within the Witcherverse are very good at being exceptionally naughty and in need of a serious time out until they learn how to play nicely with others or at least a serious restriction in their juice box privileges*
I... Didn't even watch past the first episode of the season.
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Season 4 was canceled, you didn't know?
So do you think Emhry in the show knows that it’s fake Ciri and he’s just going with the flow for the sake of the empire? Or he actually believes it’s Ciri? 10:05
He knows its fake Ciri, by making the nobles and leaders of the trade federation believe he has an heir it solidifies his position so they don't remove him from power. That's also the main reason he wants to find her in the Witcher 3 so he can abdicate the throne before he is assassinated.
First! Keep up the good work!
I need to finish the books!
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Season 3 was a massive improvement over season 2. The show is good when following a more streamlined plot, and I think season 4 could potentially be the best. I have no faith in Hemsworth, but Freya and Anya are more than capable enough of carrying the show - I love Cavill, but they are both far stronger performers. This was always Ciri’s story anyway, and Yen is a more compelling character than almost everyone else.
We need a Jon Snow show so Robert can watch good stuff. lol
Thank you! Now I don't need to watch it.
This season SUCKED but still here for idg uak
Horrible cliff hanger ending to an otherwise pretty good season, but not sure I can watch the show without Cavil.
Glad I'm not the only one that didn't utterly hate it. It's going to be very. . . Awkward without Cavil. Is it bad that I hope they make a meta joke about it? If they don't address it at all its gonna be weird xD
@@jacobsquare4812 How the show addresses it will be interesting. Same thing with season 7 with Rick and Morty with the new voice actors.
Spoiler alert: season 3 sucked
Honestly the show is really bad now.
Didnt even realize this show was still going!?!
Why do you pronounce things differently? If you're referring to the show maybe say their names the way they do?
Let's go Brandon
Man y'all are hating on the witcher, but I think they did a reasonable job bringing everyone together and still having the characters make reasonable in-universe decisions.
I wish man but they wrecked it
Even though it was not the best season I still enjoyed it.
Same
"Forz" is the German word for fart, so Vilgefortz has quite an appropriate name, and I grin every time I hear his name. 😄🤣
It‘s „Furz“.
@@ColHoganGer90 There are several variations: Furz, Forz, Pfurz...I heard all of them .