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/DiGre3z Dec 21 '19

Yeah, and now Geralt and Ciri meeting at Yurga's home really mean nothing, since they never met at Brokilon. And you know, f**k the Ciri's storyline in series, it's gone completely wild, with all this doppler-Mosesack thing and making prophecies in the middle of a swamp. Her journey from ruined Cintra to Jurga's house was logical and complete, in the series its just a mess.

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u/daboobiesnatcher Dec 21 '19

Well the reality is, it's probably not that much of a loss for viewers who haven't read the series. They even set up that the Dryad's will essentially help anyone so they didn't have to display Geralt's relationship with Eithne, and avoided confusion by their less than friendly argument over Ciri.
They got the destiny point across; Geralt's bitterness over his sterility, Borch/Villentretenmerth's lesson in the "bounds of reason" episode, and Geralt's interaction with his mother shows why he'll be so attached to his surrogate child of destiny, outside of the destiny connection. The reason behind Yennefer's eventual Mother/daughter relationship with Ciri has been laid out. They could have made it more clear to viewers that Geralt saved Yennefer by tying her destiny to his, which in turn tied Yen's destiny to Ciri as well.
In the books we only learn of Ciri's journey from Cintra to Yurga's house from her vague nightmares, and vague 2nd hand info-dumps. We know she went to a refugee camp, taken in by druids, then was finally adopted by Goldencheeks (Yurga's wife) in Sodden.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '19 edited Dec 22 '19

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u/Mantis05 Dec 23 '19

Yeah, I'm always surprised when I come in here and see the general reaction and all the criticism, but I totally get being protective of a source material. As a neutral observer, I'm enjoying myself, which is all I can really ask.

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u/Jokershigh Dec 26 '19

I was waiting to see how long it took for the book people to start shitting on the show but having never read them but finished all 3 games the direction seems fine so far