s04e01 — What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

I liked the comment on YouTube that it's like Pirates of the Caribbean without Johnny Depp.

Oh my God, Rose Tyler, you're here too.

I'm sorry, but without me. Henry, we're all friends.....

That is, the authentic change in Geralt's appearance is due to the fact that his story is now being told not by some man from memory, but by the same man, but already reading a book (which Dandelion wrote) with some girl. So what is it?

Liam in the role of Geralt is even kind of good, I liked it, it's even a pity that he needs to finish the role for Henry and he will be constantly compared. With Kikimora, something confused me in the battle, and the final fight with the soldiers was good.

P.S. The rats were not impressed, somehow there is no chemistry between them or something, I did not get into it. If a spin-off was planned with them, then it's okay that it was canceled.

I wish it was Henry, but unfortunately... 🤷🏻‍♂️ It would be more interesting to play up his departure, but we have to make do with what we have.

If you don't pay attention to past seasons, then Liam is doing pretty well so far, although he still needs to get used to it.

Well, at least two Hemsworths played cool long-haired blonds :)
Shh, I think you just have to get used to Liam Hemsworth. I'm not saying that he's really bad, he's just not Henry Cavill)) It was correctly noted above that he got to take into account that he was the second and everyone will always compare him with Kavil.
But personally, I think that if he had been filming initially, he wouldn't have had any questions at all. Let's wait and see what he's like next.

But I'm glad that Jennifer is still the same beauty.

But globally, but the series didn't really hook me personally, I only liked Jennifer's line, Herald's last cut with soldiers and the motherfucking parrot))
Ciri's line was not particularly interesting. Her new friend's poor acting was especially disappointing.

I've gotten so used to Henry Cavell for three seasons. Now we have a story based on Buttercup's book with Geralt as Liam Hemsworth..

At the beginning of the series, it was strange, especially painful to the eye, that Liam's hair color and length did not suit, but by the end of the series I got used to it.. We have what we have and we look further.

Liam Hemsworth in the role of Geralt is more like a bookish one. As much as I liked Henry Cavill as a witcher, he was more built like Summer. The first episode is almost based on the book (although Yneffer and the wizards spent less time as far as I remember), which is encouraging, but remembering how the authors decided to make big changes in the second season... I hope this won't happen again or it will be appropriate. Regarding the series itself, it seems to look good, the plot is moving, but as if something is missing, it's somehow mundane. Let's see what happens next.

But it didn't work out that way...

When Nimue says at the beginning of the episode that she doesn't like what happens next, I found myself thinking that this is probably the least favorite part of the cycle for me, too. Not because of the quality, but precisely because the characters are separated.

Geralt
's gang is slowly gathering to find Ciri.
Cahir has already followed his tail, and soon, apparently, the vampire Regis will show up with his moonshine from mandragora.
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If in previous seasons the show was driven by Cavill's natural charisma, this time the actor's level simply equaled the rest of the show in its median performance. Not only the script has become distilled, but also all the actors, including the actors who are just performing, working out the contract, the directors and post-production (emasculated color and editing) As a result, we have a set of applicable tools that do not add up to a coherent picture of the fantasy world at all. I want to shout "I don't believe it!" for the whole series
. It's a pity for this witcher. Not in the cohort of great franchises. Not this time.

You're covered in blood. Face and hands
Your clothes are covered in blood
So burn, accept the torment
Falka, the monster. Give up hope

Well, I had to watch the first episode, see what they did.
Now it looks like a children's fantasy series with exaggerated emotions.

I'm the only one who was reminded of Sidab, well, it was just cheap and they piled on it. It was necessary to close

They killed Keira (S.) a reference to that very meme


La, Eskel, Keira. This show is killing everyone I love. No one can save the campaign from Katriona. (although, in general, I understand that this is already the plot of the game and they hardly have the right to do this)

The atmosphere is right on the spot — a balance between absurdity and meaning. The first episode is like a breath of fresh air: strange, audacious, but interesting.🤔

Pay the Witcher with a minted coin, a minted coin,
pay the Witcher – all this will be credited to you!

Well, have we decided whether we like the new Geralt or not?)) It seemed to me that he had become softer. Not only in appearance, but also in speech. Overall, I liked the series.

Geralt is no longer the same...

The music is still amazing. Everything is almost canon. But where did the rest of the Dwarves go?
Oh, and Geralt saw in a dream how Ciri danced with a Spark on the table, and the smoke stood like a yoke. And then he and Kayleigh took two steps. No, seriously, their 'dance' can't even be called a dance.
One of the magicians was killed, but I still couldn't remember if it was Rita or Kira.
Nimue's retelling at the beginning is funny, such a drama-drama.

The dialogues got even worse 😐
"That shit is mental, dude" it's just very fantasy

Actually, I have no complaints about Liam personally, the work is good, and from the shadow of Cavill it's doubly so. And let's be honest: against the background of the many other casting perversions of this series, Hemsworth looks almost great))). Rats are schidevr!I can just see them as a bunch of office proggers who went to a cosplay fest together. And they also wanted to create a separate series based on them... And it seems that for the past arbitrary distortions of the plot, someone got a lot of trouble, that at the end of last season, that in this series, they stay much closer to the books. Plus, we had a good time on that monstrous prequel about the time of the Interfacing of the Spheres, let go a little of what the scriptwriters were sitting on). But it's unlikely that this fact will save the series for me personally). Plus, there are quite a lot of events ahead that will need to be crammed into the remaining episodes, which will obviously be driven and cut. And we have already said more than once about the feeling of a lack of this and that, as well as the general drop in quality, is striking.

It's not the same without Henry😭😭😭😭

Beautifully he in the end bandyukov chopped

Wow, that's crazy.. And everything seems to be the same, and I even like the actor in other projects, but here.. It's like watching a Nickelodeon parody, tin, tin, tin

Has it come to the moment where an angry crowd breaks into the witches' castle, Jennifer walks through it without STRENGTH, without even hiding, and the strange witch in red JUST OPENS the GATE and gets stabbed?? Whoooo??? What kind of stupidity is that

An unpopular opinion. The facial expressions of the new Herald still give him away as an actor of the dramatic teen genre, but not of the heroic genre. But in general, it's not nearly as bad as it was shouted from every iron before)

The first episode left two impressions. It seems like the action movies are cool, and the landscapes are wow. And it's clear that Liam is trying. BUT for me, he's still too "sweet" for the role of Geralt. He lacks brutality in his facial features.

Some of the plot twists are a bit dumb in my opinion. The crowd is rushing towards the witches. And seeing Ian, they decide to open the gate when she hasn't even come up yet. And of course one of them gets stabbed. Well, Camon...

The moment with Ciri when the guy started hitting on her. Well, right from the moment Mistle appears, you can see how the chemistry between them is artificially pulled, leading to a romantic "path". Right after the guy's harassment, jumping somersaults with a new girlfriend, I don't know how I think this is a cringe idea for the plot.

In general. I was really glad to see Anya in the frame again with her coolest incarnation of Ian. I was glad to see Cahir, the actor is just playing it off. The first look at Zoltan pleased me. And everything else... sadly.

I also think that Hemsworth as the Witcher is not bad at all. Not Cavill, of course, but we have what we have.
I imagined rats in a different way. In the books they are so aggressive, greyhounds, with pretension. There's really some kind of snot here, not a gang. I didn't get this interpretation at all.
And there are really a lot of events that need to be crammed into two seasons. I suspect that galloping through Europe will be a narrative here.

In principle, Hemsworth did not fit badly into the role of the Witcher. The type and make-up became more close to the book. And the staging of the fights seemed to become tougher and more confident. The first impression of the change of actor is not bad yet, I thought it would be worse. Let's see what happens next.

Zoltan is a successful cast member, and thanks for that.

We have food.
We agree 🤣

In my opinion, everything is not as bad as critics estimate) and Liam looks normal, and the graphics are quite normal)

Well... I'm even surprised. The series really exceeded expectations. I thought it would be much worse.
Liam is not annoying here. And so it looked like a dubious cosplayer party, and Liam's physique fits even more, although his face doesn't match Cavill's either. But he was given Cavillian grunts =)
Fighting... monsters are just as bad as in season three, but you can see that Liam is not so used to the green screen, and it shows. I don't want to scold people, but the choreographer and the cameraman obviously didn't discuss how the scenes would be shot. The camera accents are wrong, the transitions are wrong. The choreography of the fight feels like it's staged as a thing in itself, without taking into account the location of the cameras.
Dwarves, according to Lore, are shorter than humans, but taller than dwarves. There's also not much difference in height between Zoltan and Percival. And I still think it's a poor decision to take dwarfs as dwarves for the sake of economy. A dwarf is OK, in principle I don't mind, but not a dwarf.
The rats... I'm sorry, Lauren, but I've been reading books. Rats are the dregs of society. I won't have any sympathy or empathy for them, even though you're actively trying.
Well, the dialogues... this is certainly something. They've just completely dropped in quality here. It feels like you're not watching a TV series, but the passage of some kind of game with NPC dialogues communicating with each other while the player is peeping. Sapkovsky is not a genius of high style in literature, but the simplicity of his dialogues and character characters read realistically. There are also banal and silly phrases thrown out for no one knows why. Kings and witches simplified speech by losing the difference from ordinary people, and people like Milva or Zoltan suddenly lost all the simplicity and rudeness of speech, talking like civilized townspeople in front of the camera.

Good start, great season! 👍

What's the problem with wigs?

So far, I'm bored. In the beginning, spiders were cheap computers. Well, basically, who is Cavell in Hollywood, and who is Hemsworth (this one). Obviously, the series has sunk in budget. I'll check it anyway...

I expected the worst. But globally, this does not change the attitude of the creators to the universe with a lot of shits and jambs. I'm not sure what I'm going to watch next. On the plus side, Liam is doing well, and the fights are well staged.

Ahah Zoltan Khivai, well, he looks just like (no), God, what a dummy series, the characters are empty, zero worries, I'm watching purely for the interest of sidji and cinema by virtue of my specialty)

The Witcher had Buttercup's face inserted

And now, instead of a witcher, a shaman

Honestly, I didn't think Liam was very suitable for the role of Geralt. But I'm glad I was wrong. In general, I got used to the recast very quickly. By and large, for me, the beginning of the new season is as smooth as the previous ones. On 4 out of 5. I'm not thrilled, but I can't say anything bad
either. P.S. the hook scene is tough. Watching this, I almost physically felt the pain of the poor guy😀

I miss Roach the most.

I still don't understand how Geralt's appearance was changed, with the help of the book's story or what? I don't understand shit.

Thanks to the entourage of Geralt's costume, the change of actor looks less painful, but, nevertheless, Cavil looked more interesting, although he was also distant from the book and game character in terms of appearance.

I'm sorry, but this is very bad. Actor, dialogues, plot... everything is lame. I understand why Cavil left. I don't understand why studios never focus on fans.

in my opinion, this is a new level of focus: to change the entire cast in the off-season. I've never seen anything like this, they've changed the actor, but the whole cast? Now I'll get used to new faces.

Noooo, where is Henry????!!!!

Well, what can I say, watching this stool is already physically painful. And that's despite the fact that I enjoyed season 1. Everything except the well-choreographed combat scenes with Geralt makes you want to puke. All the characters except the Witcher are annoying. The dialogues are dumb, the plot is boring, the acting is disgusting, the scenery, costumes, special effects and the picture are tasteless. It feels like the show has already been completely fucked up and was done purely to fuck off.

My rating for each season:
Season 1 — 7/10
Season 2 — 4/10
Season 3 — 3/10
Season 4 — 2/10

It's a pity when you have to divide the actors. in principle, Liam is not bad for this role, everything is as it should be, but of course by season 4 you are already looking at the screen and thinking "not that". that's why it's a pity that I have to play the role like this: (
either Henry would have played it (I know he couldn't), or Liam would have been there initially, I think there wouldn't have been such quibbles about him if he had been the Witcher from season 1

Battle with the kikimores:
"No, it wasn't, not just kikimora!
- First there were toothy Sharks! Then huge bulls! Then toothy Sharks riding huge bulls! ))

It also reminded me of the Rick And Morty series about a space TV series and a movie about two brothers.

And I like the new actor, he's not as cute as Cavell, and his face is more suitable for the witcher described in the books. Cavell was too handsome

I thought it would be worse. As it is, with the exception of the small details from Netflix (hello Keira), everything is moving according to the same confusing book. Sapkovsky spent the entire book cycle searching for his own style, constantly experimenting... So Netflix does the same thing) the scenes and dialogues in many ways almost verbatim convey the original, again, with the exception of the specifics of streaming. I don't want to defend the series, because it's really bad, but there are too many unfounded claims from people.

Can I please just say that my eyes bleed every time Ciri is in the frame? Now, in addition to a full make-up, she also has a self-tan.

Liam - doubtful, but okay

A fan of the first three seasons, especially a fan of Cavil.
Nevertheless, for me, the replacement of an actor is striking, but not critical. Liam was properly made up, and if you immerse yourself in the series, then in general you don't have to think about it.
The first series is without serious shocks, they just indicate who is where and what goals they are pursuing.

Of course, it's alarming that the ratings from both critics and viewers are weak, but I hope I'll have a good adventure next.

In general, it's not bad, as they said.

The devil is not as terrible as they paint him))
Of course, it's a pity that Netflix couldn't keep Henry in the role of the Witcher, but Hamstworth looks fine.

While the lines of all the characters look interesting, I'm only superficially familiar with the original.

But how can you not sink to the level of savages?
That's in the past)Go.

I don't rate Cavil highly as an actor, so I didn't even notice his replacement. Nothing has changed.

The wigs are terrible—the cosplayers at the commicon would have done a better job. In general, it feels like it has become cheaper to look.
Hemsworth, well, it's not annoying, and that's fine. In general, it remained the same as it was that season, but the enthusiasm of the rest of the cast decreased. It's really like a Sidab TV series.
But the music is great.

There is a film about a book that is read at the very beginning, Half a Century of poetry later (2019) https://myshows.me/movie/69465 .

The Witcher's shift, on the whole, went well. It looks organic. Of course, they could have explained this by the treatment after the battle, but they decided to play in a more original way, through an unreliable narrator. The behavior of magicians is certainly something with something, and rats are more like household toys than wild bandits.

Oh, I was so doubtful that it would be okay
, but it just turned out really well, cheerfully and vividly.
I didn't even have a dissonance between Henry and Liam.

Mixed feelings after watching the episode. It seems to be like a beer, but still something is missing... Are there souls in this project? Liam is not as bad as it turned out, but after Genka, of course, it's not customary to look at him. And the dark one at the meeting of the kings of the North is Maeve, who is supposed to be the blonde "white queen"? I hope that the battle of Yaruga will be shown in the season, and you can get high from this scene, just like when reading the novel.

What I mean is, of course, Kevin's gloomy face wasn't enough, Hemsworth is more relaxed in my opinion. But this season, Jennifer is responsible for the gloominess. But the roach also turned white😁

well, now it's like I'm watching some kind of cheap fake, it's not even about Hemsfort, but in general, some kind of negative vibe. Everyone has become somewhat well-groomed or something... As if they hadn't completely applied makeup and were saving on clothes again.

And the Witcher is not real!

Even Liam isn't that bad.. Why is the fake Ciri so much better than the real one? It was season 4, and it was unbearable to watch this amoeba.

I've gathered my courage, I'm starting.

I don't know how consciously they don't take a close-up of the Herald, and if they do, there's so much hair on his face that you can't see his features, but it's cool, they take a lot of pictures from afar, which also makes it difficult to see Liam, if it's going to be like this all season, an interesting move to spare the fans a little. All in all, it's not that bad, but Hemsworth still doesn't look good with the Witcher's hair.😂😂😂

Ian is a beauty, the lioness of her family❤

The Witcher series, which I watch every time I start a new season, I don't remember almost anything from the plot of the past, and all the characters except the Witcher, Ian, Ciri and Buttercups are just a set of familiar faces, why I don't understand this for the third time

Hemsworth turned out to be the least of this season's problems. Against the background of dialogues and editing, it can generally not be considered a problem. Yes, again, some kind of flawed wig that doesn't fit him in any way, but at least the lenses were more natural, like Ian and Ciri. These acidic colors were too out of place in the early seasons.
But the scenes that end in mid-sentence and the clip-cutting in general are very infuriating. Jennifer grabbed the Asian enchantress when the crowd broke in and killed Keira, and in the next scene she is already leading the others to the Asian woman. It is mentioned in passing that someone died, apparently Keira and the man, what happened to ordinary people and how Ian got into the building in the first place - guess for yourself. They won't tell us how she moves around the world and finds people no one else can find.
The time frame is completely blurred. How much time has passed since the end of last season? And in general for this episode?

I want to cry

I thought they'd disguise it and we wouldn't notice the new actor. But no, it catches the eye, especially in profile.
But come on, apart from the visual distortions, no others were noticed. We'll get used to it by the end of the season.

Hello everyone!! Answer me only those who do not have an orgasm watching this is undoubtedly a masterpiece.

How do they do it??? How does it get worse???

I don't know, apart from the cast, it feels like it's the same thing, the series didn't shine anyway, but Keira's death is of course, and it's not even a pity

They fucked up the whole series

The Witcher is under a temperature of 36.7 🙃

Bring back our elephant!)

Not bad.Sometimes it's even very funny, but Leam seems to be playing the Witcher more gently than Henry, sometimes it even seemed like he was about to laugh.

The dialogues are kind of hackneyed as cliches. Dwarves don't speak much (Liam somehow overplays it, as if he's playing an ordinary person, not a witcher. It seems overly emotional. In terms of performance, of course, the series has become completely passable (

The strong and fearless Herald says "badge" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 was the comedy filmed further? The face is different, but the translation voice is still Cavil. Well , what the hell to watch 🥴

Well, as for me, they came up with a witty reason for changing the Witcher's appearance. It's unusual, of course, but okay.
And Hollywood has run out of dwarf actors, so there are two dwarfs left out of the whole train? Well, Jackson somehow got away with it in the early noughties.

In general, Geralt's replacement is quite successful, it's like he's not into the Persian theme, like this one, although Liam is somehow too soft in everything for a witcher.
I liked how Ciri's wavy, clean hair looks great when she's homeless, I didn't know that with Older blood comes immunity to poor conditions and dirt :D Teleports Ian anywhere, stole a pickaxe, instantly escaped, killed a guard and left the most excellent :D
Where are they in such a hurry that the plot of ~ two books is going to be crammed into 8 episodes, it seems like something is even canon, but at the same time everything is shown so ragged and crooked, they also add some monoliths when there are already a lot of things, it would be better to forget about them and it would be normal
and why Was Keira killed? There's not enough money for the whole Lodge, or what's the fun of killing Persians who are alive in all the books

Of the entire series, only the sound and Milva with Ian and Philippa are the most pleasing (yes, they are not canon in appearance, but I think they successfully handled the roles), but still I will not look further, Baptism of Fire and Tower of Swallows are my most favorite books and I do not want to spoil the impression of them, especially because that I love Ciri very much, but here she still didn't get me in the end, I don't know if Freya can't cope or if she's being prescribed a bad role:(

And why couldn't any of the magicians cure Gerald? and something tells me that Ciri wasn't bisexual in the book. Or was it?

Some kind of ridiculous death at Keira's.

I'm sorry, it's terrible... Well , that 's not it , from the very beginning it was clear from the back that something was wrong . I don't have that charisma, that chemistry. The voice (it hurts my ear ) is not the same and the butt is not the same. He's probably a good actor , but that's not his role..

Liam seems to have a kinder face or something ... and Henry in the role of Geralt, it seems to me, could destroy just with a look and expression on his face)

Very beautifully shot!

It's like watching a parody of The Witcher

How I missed Buttercup and his singing))

It really hurts my eyes, I can't

If you look at the voice acting of Red Head Sound, you won't notice the difference between the Geralts at all. :D
I really liked Liam, he's good, damn it. 😻

Or they could just take on the role of Geralt the Agronomist, the son of an Agronomist.

As a joke, I was waiting for the Kelly Clarkson song - What Doesn't Kill You - to play at the end of the episode.

Well, the recast for the role of Geralt turned out to be, to put it mildly, not very good. First of all, as expected, the actor is too cute, you look at him and for some reason you want to laugh wildly. No cold, piercing gaze, no inner heaviness, just the feeling of a cheap cosplayer with a budget of a couple million bucks. Secondly, the acting is very weak. And that soft voice? Pain for the ears. I had enough time for 15 minutes in the original, and then it was physically difficult to listen to that voice. Dubbing/Dubbing somehow covers up this gloom, but it doesn't save. In general, neither the game, nor the appearance, nor the presentation of Hemsworth Jr. do not even come close to the image of the bookish Geralt, but there is not even close to what Cavill could do for the image of Geralt. Yes, when Cavill was announced, they also hated him. And yes, he wasn't an exact copy either. But! He had a game: restrained, tired, with caustic irony and a look that gave goosebumps. He felt like a witcher... And then... I'm sorry, Henry, we fucked up everything. Not because Cavill was the perfect Geralt, but because he was trying to become one. And here... there's not even an attempt.. Critics quite rightly blasted this season to shit..

Well, no, I was trying to start watching this season. Truth. But Gerald, it's like you've been replaced... I can't do that.