I don't care about the books, or games, or ethnicity of who is cast. Those don't guide my view of the show at all. I'm just looking at this interpretation and I appreciate all the characters and enjoy the acting.
What I do care about is the writing, directing, and editing. Scenes are just thrown together, decisions made by characters make little sense, and the dialogue so often is trite.
New Ciri is definitely this way because of Creepo who likes messing with girls lives (we know who that dude is). Like why do you even need a name. But whatever.
Yen is 90 and knows all about Aretuza, but tells Ciri basically nothing? Allows the most sought after person to traipse around with a boy? Like I get being a parent is hard, but this is silly. Oh! But let's have a conclave. This will fix everything even though you can't trust any Mage right now (or outside influence). Then a dead queen no one cared about is used as a pawn and the tides change...snooze.
I really liked Robbie Amwell's character so that was a huge bummer but seeing Cahir do the deed he didn't want to was good tv. I like the character of Cahir and who plays him, so this was probably the most interesting scene of the whole episode. I hope he goes full evil.
I wish this show was better. It has good moments, characters, and actors. But the decline is real. It's trying to chess move like GoT but it falls flat because we don't get enough story to support it. We don't see Ciri and Yen grow with their magic. I wish we had fuller episodes with the core three so we even cared more. It's just been too disjointed. Sad, because it really did have a lot of promise.
What I do care about is the writing, directing, and editing. Scenes are just thrown together, decisions made by characters make little sense, and the dialogue so often is trite.
New Ciri is definitely this way because of Creepo who likes messing with girls lives (we know who that dude is). Like why do you even need a name. But whatever.
Yen is 90 and knows all about Aretuza, but tells Ciri basically nothing? Allows the most sought after person to traipse around with a boy? Like I get being a parent is hard, but this is silly. Oh! But let's have a conclave. This will fix everything even though you can't trust any Mage right now (or outside influence). Then a dead queen no one cared about is used as a pawn and the tides change...snooze.
I really liked Robbie Amwell's character so that was a huge bummer but seeing Cahir do the deed he didn't want to was good tv. I like the character of Cahir and who plays him, so this was probably the most interesting scene of the whole episode. I hope he goes full evil.
I wish this show was better. It has good moments, characters, and actors. But the decline is real. It's trying to chess move like GoT but it falls flat because we don't get enough story to support it. We don't see Ciri and Yen grow with their magic. I wish we had fuller episodes with the core three so we even cared more. It's just been too disjointed. Sad, because it really did have a lot of promise.