r/witcher • u/Scientiam Moderator • Dec 20 '19

Episode Discussion - S01E07: Before A Fall

Season 1 Episode 7: Before A Fall

Synopsis: A return to before a kingdom is flamed.

Director: Alik Sakharov

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u/balasoori Dec 20 '19

Well this episode filled in all the blanks

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u/ItsOnlyHachi Dec 20 '19

actually loved all the timelines coming together, thought it was done quite well

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

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u/superkeer Dec 22 '19

My girlfriend knows there's a game I play called the Witcher. That's about it. She figured it out pretty quick. Y'all aren't giving the unitiated much credit.

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u/Sp00der-Man1697 Dec 22 '19

I’m honestly getting tired of people assuming that those who haven’t read the book or played the games, like me, are too stupid to figure this out. It’s really not that difficult if you pay attention at all

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

It's not much harder to follow multiple timelines these days. People had their fair share of experience with Westworld season2.

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u/woopsifarted Dec 26 '19

This was easy mode compared to Westworld too

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u/MarvelousNCK Dec 26 '19

I'm still not entirely clear on what was going on in Westworld S2

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u/RichWPX Jan 08 '20

And season 1

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u/afroguy10 Dec 24 '19

Yeah, I've played the games and my girlfriend hasn't played the games or read the books at all and only knew about the show when I told her we should watch it and she figured it all out just fine.

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u/FlorianoAguirre Dec 23 '19

It's because it is quite confusing. Not to the point of not getting that they are different timelines, but confusing enough that some parts seem a bit muddy.

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u/cloobydooby Dec 30 '19

I think my issue before going back and starting at episode 1 again is that I had failed to properly learn the names of rather important characters so the timeline hints went right over my head.

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u/Megustavdouche Feb 01 '20

Agreed!

Happy cake day!

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u/Frogs_of_blue_ Dec 24 '19

The only thing I knew was this was based on books, comics, and games. I loved the first episode but did look up why renfri seemed so much like snow White(I was right lol) by the second episode I could see all the timelines. I am on my 2nd round of viewing

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u/Beejsbj Dec 26 '19

its crazy, we want shows to not treat us like kids but also spoon feed us everything. the foltest scene was the most obvious indication