#but his decisions are a giant snowball of inaccuracy

[littlestsnicket]

time of contempt!yenralt is geralt not trusting yennefer and being too scared of upsetting her to say it and sleeping with her anyway and the way netflix!geralt is different, that would never work.

i don't think the writers aren't fighting yennefer's arc in season 2 nearly as much as they are fighting this other version of geralt. and well... i wish some nuances of character interaction had gone a bit differently in season 2, but the thing that irritates me more than anything else in adaptations is when changes are made and the production backs off on them rather than following through. so whatever. i'm more interested to see what they do than anything else.

#the witcher #witcher season 3 #witcher spoilers #i guess? #adaptation #i will still defend the overall narrative thrust of season 2 i think it was inspired and interesting #but i do also think fandom at large took somewhat different things away from book!yenralt than i did #(but listening to the audiobooks now i still think my take is very valid) #i love book!yenralt so much narratively but it is also very bad in terms of functional relationships right up until the end #in my head they get their happily ever after but it's telling that they have to be outside of their own time and space for it to work #also i like netflix!geralt #i just also want to murder people who are like #henry cavil cares about the source material so much #because like... a lot of these things are on the record as being his choices #and i don't think they are necessarily bad in terms of the show telling it's own story (which i like a LOT in an adaptation) #but his decisions are a giant snowball of inaccuracy #in a way that is not deliberate and intentional like i think many of the things the writers are doing is #and the writing staff is left to have to keep making that story work #idk #this fandom is tough sometimes