The wizard The first season was fun, but watching it again five years later brings with it some harsh realities. Based on the famous Wizard video game and books by Andrzej Sapkowski, the first season was a hit on Netflix, but received mixed reviews and a mixed response from fans. While The wizard Season 3 is just as confusing as the previous seasons in many ways, it also involves numerous long-running storylines and is rewarding and visually epic. However, the show still had some work to do in the first season.
As The wizard approaches season 4, he will look back at his previous premieres, just like fans, evaluating past successes and mistakes. The show has enormous pressure to perform in the coming years, with a new actor taking on the role of Geralt of Rivia (now Liam Hemsworth after Henry Cavill). As the main character of The wizardGeralt's importance cannot be underestimated. As The wizard Season 4 is ready for release, it's a good time to rewatch the show from the beginning and discover which parts of it haven't aged so well, providing a fresh perspective to approach the new season.
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The Witcher was stopped in its original 7 seasons
The Witcher TV Show Would Be Longer
The wizard The TV show created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich was originally intended to run for seven seasons, which means some stories will inevitably feel a little rushed towards the end. Now that it's clear the show will only last five seasons, their original plan presents itself as a harsh reality as the first season enjoys the slow burn of multiple relationships. The show will now be under pressure as there are only two seasons left to wrap it all up.
While The wizard was originally pitched as a seven-season show, a few more seasons would still do some good. The first season may have wasted precious screen time with certain gradual arcs. The wizard Season 1 received pretty favorable reviews, but Season 2 wasn't as popular with critics. About that, The Witcher: Blood Origin it was not received very positively and the 3rd season was an even smaller success in terms of ratings, despite making some improvements. As such, the main series has unfortunately been short-circuited.
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The Witcher's Tone and Purpose Are Inconsistent
The Witcher TV show can't seem to decide its reason for existing
The wizard the first season had a lot of appeal to a wide audience, but occasionally felt disjointed in terms of tone. The wizard It's funny and sad, like many good fantasies, but the show never found a way to connect the two as well as other examples. The books the show is based on are quite elegiac and tragic; the show captured this throughout Yennefer's (Anya Chalotra) arc in particular. However, this is not as evident in other parts of the narrative.
Jaskier's (Joey Batey) scenes with Geralt are often hilarious, providing the show with some welcome comic relief. But the fact that there are few moments of depth in this storyline to compare to Yennefer's arc sometimes makes it feel like the series lacks overall depth. A little more consistency in tone would have made The wizard it seemed more coherent, but as it was, it seemed like it wasn't committed to being either comedy, tragedy, or tragicomic.
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The Witcher: Blood Origin was a fun but strange addition to the franchise
The Witcher received a random add-on in the form of Blood Origins
Another harsh reality of rewatching the first season of The wizard It's how it aligns with The Witcher: Blood Origin. The wizard carried a sheen of newness and exciting possibilities in its first season, but in the third season it has toned down, to some extent. This takes into account the series' reduced length and lower reviews. Additionally, The Witcher: Blood Origin It was a rather strange evolution. of the franchise, and its lackluster debut showed just how far off the Netflix show's novelty was.
The Witcher: Blood Origin failed to recover the franchise's name after negative reviews in season 2, despite being the first spinoff of the series. It definitely had its own charm, although it differed from The wizard in humor and style. The Witcher: Blood Origin It's a very fun watch, but it doesn't add anything to the main show's story or solve any of its problems. That was fair enough, as that was not his purpose; however, it remains a somewhat jarring but fun addition.
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The witcher's dialogue can be atrocious
The Witcher TV Show Doesn't Always Get the Script Right
The wizard the first season has some great one-liners, but also some equally terrible dialogue. The wizard has a very large team of writers and this could have contributed to the lack of cohesion. There are moments of comedy gold when it comes to Jaskier, but these comedic moments are not reflected in every episode and the overall character progression can feel quite clumsy as expressed in conversations.
The writing is also quite exaggerated at times; the script would deliberately attempt to express its main themes rather than incorporate them naturally through the characters' dialogue. The first season's script sometimes feels like a rushed commercial attempt to create a thematically important story rather than the naturalistic character study it could have been. The real meaning would have been better conveyed through credible dialogue and subtext.
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Character development is completely inconsistent in The Witcher
Many character choices in The Witcher don't make sense
The wizard the first season has a lot of positives, but consistent character development isn't one of them. Geralt is presented as a gruff, silent type and doesn't grow up much throughout the first season. This is actually a good thing because Cavill's characterization is perfect from the start. However, the show could have provided a bigger emotional hook in season two if there seemed to be an incomplete change occurring in Geralt.
Likewise, many other characters make decisions that are not entirely consistent with their assigned purpose or personality. Tissaia (MyAnna Buring), for example, falls somewhere between an evil abuser and a kind mentor. However, the two are at odds. Audiences never got the chance to properly insult her as a villain, just as they failed to fully respect her as a hero. Yennefer idolizing Tissaia seems strange considering she turned some of her students into eels, which never happens in the books.
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Yennefer's trauma doesn't affect her as much
The second version of Yennefer does not entirely reflect her story
Yennefer of Vengerberg seemed destined for tragedy at the beginning of the first season, but her growth doesn't entirely follow that logic. Anya Chalotra is one of the actresses confirmed to return to The wizard Season 4, so her Yennefer will continue to be key to the show. So in Season 1, it was important that she got off to a good start. However, Yennefer's transition from farmer to sorceress is somewhat stunted.
Netflix released a 2021 animation Wizard spinoff movie called The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.
Yennefer was abused as a young disabled girl before being purchased by Tissaia. His arc is extremely powerful, including his relationship with Istredd. However, after his transformation, the script seems to forget his difficult past. Yennefer should have shown more signs of trauma during her rise to power, which would have made her a much more trustworthy, resonant, and powerful personality.
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The first season of The Witcher is often confusing
The Witcher goes through varied plots
The wizard the first season skips several subplots and timelines like many radio channels, creating confusion for many viewers. The show was based on short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, allowing for a certain level of serialization. However, the program also links its episodes to broader themes, creating the need for a lot of invention so that they all line up in a way that the audience can (with some difficulty) understand.
And that doesn't always work. It was necessary to bring together the show's diverse plots with overarching themes and a narrative, but that narrative is sometimes hollow. It's not driven by the in-depth nature of Sapkowski's books and the writers never managed to make it feel terribly important. Ironically, The wizard the first season would have benefited from following a timeline perhaps with an occasional flashback to enhance its message.
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The Witcher is far from being faithful to Andrzej Sapkowski's books
The Witcher TV show refers to the game and books
Each season of The wizard suffers from diverging heavily from its source material, but the first season definitely launched the show in that direction. The Netflix TV series couldn't exactly follow the books because they're even more disjointed than the show, but some changes felt gratuitous. For example, Tissaia turning students into eels. The show also followed the game to some extent, further confusing the plot.
Characters like Cahir (Eamon Farren) and Fringilla (Mimî M Khayisa) are almost unrecognizabledespite having a certain internal logic to the show. This made the first season difficult to watch for some book and video game fans. It was this infidelity that may have led Henry Cavill to leave the program, creating a situation that no one wanted. The relative infidelity The wizard the first season is probably one of its harshest realities.
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Ciri may act spoiled in The Witcher
Ciri's character was not well done
Characteristic of The Witcher character's weaknesses, Ciri is not the best written character in the series, despite being the main character in Sapkowski's book series. It's a shame that Ciri didn't get better lines, as she could have been a great driver of feminist themes for the adaptations. On the other hand, Ciri is an incredible protagonist in the books and games. She is imperfect, individual and seeks to free herself from a system that tries to control her.
In the TV show, Ciri appears much weaker and more helpless. She looks like the real princess she officially is, without the silent struggle she puts up in the source material. Ciri's argumentative nature appears more spoiled in the series, reducing one of the best elements of the original story. Ciri grows up to be more interesting and less annoying as the series progresses, but her petulance is still a harsh reality in the first season.
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Henry Cavill won't be able to finish Geralt's arc in The Witcher
Henry Cavill was the perfect Geralt of Rivia
The harshest reality to watch The wizard Season 1 is probably knowing that Henry Cavill won't end the series as Geralt of Rivia after his incredible debut. Cavill was the best thing about The Witcher; his casting was perfect, thanks to his natural domineering gravitas, and his departure was incredibly sad. Cavill left because he didn't think the show was going in the direction he supported, being a big fan of the books and the game himself.
Cavill left the show and lost a lot of viewers, as the viewing figures for seasons 2 and 3 seem to confirm. His departure likely also contributed to the show being shortened from seven to five seasons. Although this is a sad truth to bear in mind while rewatching The wizard In the first season, Liam Hemsworth still has a chance to be a great Geralt in the last two seasons.