The Witcher
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Every internet wants aGame of Thrones.
ButGame of Throneswasnt alwaysGame of Thrones.
The shows original pilot wasfamously disastrous, requiring extensive recasting and reshoots just to be comprehensible to audiences.
You see, Geralt is a witcher.
(Thewitcher, even.)
On one end, you have Stregobor (Lars Mikkelsen,Sherlockstar and brother of Mads).
Stregobor is a weird, shady wizard who uses magic to populate his secret lair with fake naked women.
Probably not, but who knows?
We just jumped into theWitcheruniverse and its not quite clear what the rules are yet.
Renfri also wants revenge on Stregobor, and she wants Geralt to help her get it.
Instead, he counsels Renfri to give up on revenge and begin a new life somewhere outside Blaviken.
(Frankly: kind of gross!)
She also dream-warns him that hell eventually end up in the marketplace in Blaviken, bloodied and stoned.
For the record: She means thebadkind of stoned.
That Stregobor just sees monsterseverywhere, doesnt he?
Our POV character in Cintra is Princess Cirilla, more often called Ciri.
Calanthe eventually rides off with her husband Eist to confront a massive invading army from a kingdom called Nilfgaard.
Eist takes an arrow through the head.
Martin is poisoned by his parents in what they clearly view as a mercy killing.
A newly minted knight named Lazlo is shot while attempting to ride off with Ciri to safety.
She lets out an ear-piercing scream, which emits a wave that knocks down the soldier and his horse.
Usually, a TV show doesnt introduce two disconnected parallel plots unless it intends to connect them pretty quickly.
Prophecies may be maddeningly vague, but that certainly sounds like our orphaned princess.
More stuff like that, hey!
Knucklebones is apparentlya real and very ancient game.
Its kind of like jacks.
