The episode’s climax sees Geralt-both swords in toe, though he never really uses them-go to fight/save the striga and refusing to be stopped by soldiers.
Once inside, they push X to inspect on every object they encounter until they find a letter sitting around conveniently providing all the exposition they need: Foltest and Adda’s mother wrote it to let it be known that she was none too happy about her kids’ night-banging. Summoning all of his witchery wiles, he manages to sneak past the guards by throwing a rock and making a noise. Triss goes to investigate the monster (a Striga)’s beginnings with Geralt, who suspects, as we all do, that the monster’s father is King Foltest-pretty gross, dude that’s your sister. Storytelling! This storyline is generally based on one from the books and the first game, and also shares a lot of story beats with an unusually long, emotional quest from The Witcher 3.
It’s probably safe to assume that the nice guy is also the bad guy. They call rumors of the king’s sister, Princess Adda’s unfinished pregnancy impossible, almost ensuring that someone in that room impregnated her, and perhaps cursed by them as well. Appealing only to existing Witcher fans certainly isn’t going to be Netflix’s goal.īack in the Temerian court, the king is gluttonous, Ostrit is charming and diplomatic, and a head soldier is a rude jerk. To echo a concern I raised in my Four Marks review, it might be a lot harder to follow for people who aren’t already familiar with the world of The Witcher. Getting these recognizable characters into the show quickly is nice, but they are being thrown at the audience at such a pace that I worry about fatigue or confusion. Actress Anna Shaffer’s Triss has brown hair and brown eyes. In the games, Triss’s trademark is bright red hair and green eyes, while the books describe her as varyingly chestnut- or ginger-haired with blue eyes. She says her name to make it clear but would have otherwise been harder to identify immediately than Yennefer. I’m curious to see if the episode-by-episode differences in Geralt’s environments will hold up because so far, it has been both visually pleasing and an impressive job of varying aesthetics in such a consistent manner.Īnyway, in the Temerian woods, Geralt meets Triss Merigold, another well-known character to Witcher fans. Geralt has generally been traveling South in a somewhat ambling route so far. For reference, the yellow circles indicate Citra (where Ciri is from), Vengerberg (Yennefer’s home), and Thanedd Island (the location of Aretuza, Yen’s magic school). I don’t think they ever say more specifically than Temeria in the episode, but I’m assuming Geralt is in Vizima, the capital city, given that he’s dealing with King Foltest.
Check this map that I borrowed from the Witcher Wiki and edited to show Geralt’s route and destinations through the first three episodes (red line). Let’s digress into Velen’s geography for a moment. It is a bit reminiscent of Ciri’s storyline in and around Cintra, which is a nice touch because the two aren’t terribly far away. Temeria’s aesthetic is different from the places Geralt has been in the last two episodes (Brevakin was grey, Dol Blathanna was warm and sunny). The creators hit the mark with the environment here I wish it weren’t the last we saw of it. More importantly, though, is the snowy, smoky, dimly lit building built into the mountain, which sets a beautiful, haunting tone for the scene. The next seen features non-Geralt navigating pig carcasses, seemingly unaware of the spooky, non-diegetic music following him in his hunt for a monster who grew in the belly of a “pregnant girl who died before her time.” If he had been, perhaps he wouldn’t have died so swiftly. The witcher names his price (3,000 orens, another new currency for the show) to the boy’s father and sets out. Spoilers below for Betrayer Moon, episode three of The Witcher.Ī dirty, sweaty boy with unconvincing claw marks on his chest tells a non-Geralt witcher (whose pendant signifies him as a fellow Wolf School disciple) of a monster before dying. Unlike Four Marks, which minimized the titular witcher, the majority of Betrayer Moon’s runtime is spent with Geralt. The show jumps back and forth-a crucial point because that freneticism was a big detractor in episode 2-but I’ll run through one and then the other tonight and see if that provides a cleaner reading experience. I’m going to try breaking up the storylines. In our ongoing attempt to find the best way to review Netflix’s The Witcher, we’re going to approach episode 3: Betrayer Moon a little differently.
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Title: The Witcher, Episode Three: Betrayer MoonĬreated by: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, based on the series by Andrzej Sapkowski
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