“To us, it was so fun,” Schmidt Hissrich tells Polygon. But showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says it’s all light-hearted. If that sounds like The Witcher writing staff snapping back at season 1 criticism, that’s because. “If you don’t mind me saying so, that one, it’s not your strongest.” The dock guard goes on to say the story was “a bit complicated” (it took him until the fourth verse to understand there were different timelines), the magic kiss was “a bit cheap,” he saw the dragon twist coming, and also: “The bit when the lute player ends up with the warrior ladies didn’t really ring true for me, I must say.” It’s all a very lovely fan interaction until Jaskier is about to walk away and the guard offers up a few final thoughts on certified lute jam, “ Toss a Coin to Your Witcher,” and the plausibility of the story. He runs into a guard, whom he charms by telling the guard he’s, yes, that bard. In episode 4 of the new season, “Redanian Intelligence,” Jaskier is tasked with sneaking aboard a ship so he can give the all-clear to a group trying to escape to Cintra. The bulk of the season rids itself of the complicated timeline that some found too convoluted, and probes deeper on relationships between its player for those worried the show is not emotionally deep enough.īut The Witcher also has fun with the critical response thanks to a brief scene with Jaskier the bard. At the end of the episode, Geralt begins to train Ciri, as well he might.For those who couldn’t keep up with season 1 of The Witcher, rest assured that season 2 is a different beast. The fact that leshies aren’t supposed to work this way raises an important question to be answered later, and the fact that Geralt and Vesemir are forced to kill him makes for a fun action sequence and a pretty emotional moment. It’s also a good excuse for obligatory monster-fighting since Eskel is nursing an injury from the leshy that gradually turns into him becoming a tree monster of his own. His fatherly approach to Ciri, particularly how annoyed he gets that she might see all the debauchery, is funny but also quietly charming, a hard man going soft. There’s a lot of good character-building stuff for Geralt here. But that mission is almost immediately undermined by Eskel, who arrives fresh from a battle with a tree monster called a leshy, and pretty soon after floods the entire place with prostitutes. The Witchers return to Kaer Morhen for the winter, and Geralt plans to protect Ciri there while also training her to protect herself. The other story strand sees Geralt and Ciri arrive at the titular Witcher keep, where they run into some faces that’ll be familiar to fans of the franchise, including Eskel, Lambert, and Geralt’s father-figure, Vesemir. Yen, meanwhile, is focused on the loss of her magic, having realized that her powers have been gone since the Battle of Sodden Hill. The show hasn’t necessarily done the best job of explaining its large-scale politics, but this is significant, trust me. After venturing deep into a crypt, the three women share visions at the same time, spurred on by a dreamlike journey to a cabin in the woods, and as a result, Fringilla and Francesca agree to ally the elves with Nilfgaard. They each see the figure as a different person, and the robes as a different color, but shared dreams are always significant in fantasy stories, even though it’s a bit weird than none of these three very smart women find it odd that all three of them see exactly who they want to, and are told exactly what they want to hear by that person. This entire thread is really in service of bigger worldbuilding duties since Yen, Fringilla, and Francesca are all having the same dream of a mysterious figure in robes. Perhaps it’s clearer to have just the one persecuted underclass).
(In the books and the games, the elves form part of the Scoia‘ tael, a rebel movement fighting for nonhuman freedom, but nobody seems to be mentioning this in the show, and dwarves have barely featured at all.
Yen’s a quarter elf if you recall, but her heritage doesn’t do her any favors among this crowd.
But anyway, the first plot finds Yennefer and Fringilla being taken away by elves after the cliffhanger ending of the previous episode, notably including Filavandrel, who is now playing second fiddle to Francesca.
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