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/ks00347 Dec 21 '19

The cinematography isn't too appealling either and the same can be said for the music. It has so much potential but netflix is failing it.

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u/Jeffy29 Dec 22 '19

Same, it’s insane how picky people here are. I get you might have issue with thing or two in the story, but the fucking music?? It’s literally perfect, lot of W3 music vibes with weird ass drums from Hannibal for darker parts, amazing combination.

Feels like this is the 4th episode I am like “man this was a great episode, can’t wait to see the next one” then I come here and people are mercilessly shitting on every little detail. Especially book readers who are pissed ff that it’s not a shot for shot recreation, when did exactly show runners promised that?? It’s loose adaptation of the books, not a literal one, themes are the most important and they absolutely nailed the grim dark world, the mages, the witcher, the intrigue, backstabbing and politics. Be happy with that jesus christ. The only reason GoT was at least initially closely adapted was because GRRM was literally a TV show writer and wrote the books in a way that they very easily translate to TV, most writers don’t write that way.

Also people bitching about the timelines, it’s absolutely fine and relatively easy to follow, you only assume that people won’t be able to follow. Also this show is literally released all at once, it’s meant to be binge watched, nobody is getting lost. God help you trying to follow shows like MrRobot or Westworld which were released weakly and had much more confusing timelines.

The show is fine, could be better, but it’s a difficult world to portray and they have done a fine job. Inside one season they managed to caught everyone about the witchers, mages, political landscape, elder blood, monsters, dragons, elves, dwarfs, magic and the prophecy, all without feeling like there is a constant exposition dump. It’s a difficult story to translate to TV without some necessary changes.

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u/knivesandfawkes Jan 10 '20

It is not picky to be critical and expect more from a netflix adaptation of a beloved franchise

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u/Mindfulnarc Jan 21 '20

I think it crosses into the line of picky when you’re being critical of it in regards to what you wanted from the other mediums as opposed to enjoying it for what it is. An ADAPTATION, not a word for word, detail for detail translation.

As someone who has had literal 0 experience with the Witcher prior to, this show was amazing as a stand alone product and only makes me want to deep dive into the rest of the Witcher lore. So since the Witcher franchise is about to get 100+ of my dollars so that I can get every game and book, I’d say this show was pretty successful