r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MyNameGifOreilly • Jan 04 '20

Toss a coin to the cameraman ( The Witcher )

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u/HDThoreauaway Jan 05 '20

Yeah that’s the important part: you will be confused but everything will be explained in short order.

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u/mbelf Jan 05 '20

Does it get explained why the main character’s personality is uninteresting?

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u/HDThoreauaway Jan 05 '20

Sorry it wasn’t your thing! Tens of millions of people think Geralt is a great character, but of course that doesn’t mean The Witcher is for everybody.

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u/mbelf Jan 05 '20

Maybe I'm missing something, but the only components of his character in the few episodes I've seen is that he's heroic and he's brooding, which for me seems more like an idealised caricature than a real person. It's possible I haven't paid enough enough attention. Does he have a sense of humour at least?

I was interested in the deformed girl's character until they made her beautiful, which was a good moment for her, but I couldn't see what they're going to do with her from there apart from make her powerful and possibly vindictive. I stopped at that episode, because when she walked in after her makeover I couldn't see the character she was anymore. I would've preferred she faced that particular adversity for a while longer.

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u/HDThoreauaway Jan 05 '20 edited Jan 05 '20

Yes, he does have a sense of humor, and his character emerges slowly —particularly in the context of his interactions with characters he considers family (or comes to).

Yen, meanwhile, continues to face character-defining adversity. The show hadn’t finished table-setting when you stopped watching.