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Im not sure this pic is true or not as I haven't read the books but it made me laugh.

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But if the show ever moves past the story laid out in the books like “Game of Thrones” did, Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says fans should definitely not expect it to mine the games for material.

“Extreme long vision is no, we will not start adapting the games,” Hissrich told TheWrap during a press round table at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. “I can only attack one season at a time, I’m so excited for this one, the rest kind of makes my mind explode right now. If someone says ‘what happens in Season 7,’ sure I have thoughts. Fingers crossed, we get there.”

The games, in case you’re not familiar, are a trilogy of stories that serves as a sequel to the books, picking up where they end and continuing the story of Geralt of Rivia, a famed monster hunter who keeps getting caught up in lots of major world events.
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Daehawk wrote: Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:29 pm Im not sure this pic is true or not as I haven't read the books but it made me laugh.

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She looks like the stereotypical fortune teller lady.
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I never thought of it that way, but yeah, you're right.
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Cast compared to game characters. Still not sure as Id figure most would know the game characters and not the book. I never heard of the books before the game.

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I have a feeling this series is going to confuse a whole lot of people.
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Actual conversation, discussing why the characters and locations in Lord of the Rings online looked different from the movie versions.

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New trailer. Geralt in tub.

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Looks really good to me.
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That was much, much better than the original teaser trailer. Will definitely give this a look.
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Yeah, that looks more promising.
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I guess the orgy at 0:30 is to stake claim on GoT's place in pop culture.
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Onion confirms all 400 side quests from game are in the tv series :)

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I just talked to my sister about this.
Sis: Did you see the trailer for The Witcher?

Me: I did! Looks cool. I hear it's based on the books.

Sis: Oh, yeah. I read the books.

Me: The trailer really seems to reference the games in cool ways.

Sis: Um ... there are games?
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Which is funny because I wager a majority of the people who have gotten into the books have been via the games, alhough it could also be true a whole new audience will view the series and want to play the games.
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Rumpy wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2019 10:53 pm Which is funny because I wager a majority of the people who have gotten into the books have been via the games, alhough it could also be true a whole new audience will view the series and want to play the games.
Yeah, my sis is an outlier who got into the books through RenFaire culture.
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Yeah, come to think of it, I have a friend who may have discovered it the same way. But I have to wonder just how widespread learning about it that way would be.
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The Witcher Showrunner Has Seven Seasons of Story Planned
Talking to SFX magazine for issue 320 (via PCGamesN), Hissrich said “I’ve [mapped out stories] for seven seasons. Right now it’s just about, ‘how do you set up stories that really capture audiences for years at a time?'”

“The worst thing we could do is put all of our energies just into season one, and not be thinking about where these characters can grow to,” she added.
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Season 2 to start filming in early 2020:
A full month out from the debut of the highly-anticipated TV series adaptation of acclaimed fantasy novel series “The Witcher” and Netflix has officially greenlit the series for a second season.

Like the first it will run for eight episodes and is set to begin production in London early 2020 with plans for a Fall 2021 premiere on the streaming service. Schmidt Hissrich will again serve as executive producer and showrunner.
That's encouraging. I would take this to mean they were pleased with what they've seen, enough to keep the production ball rolling. I'm also going to guess it's partially because because Yennefer is a featured character and not Triss.
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Smoove_B wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:45 pm I'm also going to guess it's partially because because Yennefer is a featured character and not Triss.
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I will say that is very nice of the Netflix folks to schedule this release for the first day of my christmas va(stay)cation.
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Did someone, somewhere, summon a djinn to then wish for all 8 chapter titles? Here you go. Now does anyone know a doctor to check Jaskier's vitals?
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Yennefer (not Triss):

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The final trailer:

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I predict that I will watch the entire season over the Christmas break and love it.
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I predict I'm going to risk deep-vein thrombosis when this comes out as I merge with the couch.
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Yeah between this and Mandalorian, my holiday is pretty much spoken for... oh and that new Star Wars movie.
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This looks surprisingly good, but I'm going to be real disappointed if there's no sex-on-a-stuffed-unicorn scene.
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Also, they better send us them damn collectible nudie cards!
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...and I'll still watch it 12 times if my past addiction to that damn game is any indication.
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I will watch it and (hopefully) love it, but I think we should all be ready for the knee-jerk media reaction that it's just a Game of Thrones rip-off.
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I'm glad they've already renewed for season 2. It may be the kind of show that could use the first season to set things up and have a slow payoff. Or they could get right to the wooden unicorn sex scenes.
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What's hilarious is that like half the people reading along have no idea what you're talking about because they choose poorly and went with Triss.
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Smoove_B wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:26 pm What's hilarious is that like half the people reading along have no idea what you're talking about because they choose poorly and went with Triss.
I chose well and went with Triss, but that choice happened after the unicorn. :D
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I chose neither Triss nor Yennever. I went with Roach.
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