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Re: Yeah, I have a feeling you're not going to like the rest of the season much better... Cannoli Send a noteboard - 17/01/2020 01:57:21 AM

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because later episodes of the first season comes back again and again to the same siege of Cintra and its prior history, though from different angles and with different parts of the backstory being filled in. A couple of your points are explained further in a way that makes a little more sense, but most are not.

There is a thing I noticed in the first episode where Mousesack mentions Stregoboars' locking up the mutant women, but the way he describes it, sounds like it's in the distant past, whereas Stregoboar talks like it wasn't too long ago, and Renfri was one of the subjects, and she can't be that old. I thought it was another mistake, or maybe Stregoboar and Renfri age more slowly like Geralt, and they are hundreds of years old. But if the Cintra story is going to be an ongoing part of the narrative, maybe that suggests the chronology isn't synched up? Like the bard Geralt meets in episode 2, who begins making up songs about him, and by the time Cintra falls, those legends have spread? Geralt isn't famous to the people he meets in the first episode, but early in the third, a hooker knows the songs about him.
I do think Cirilla is supposed to be no older than 13 or 14, even if the actress is older (as is usually the case with actors playing teenage characters). And although it's not entirely clear, I got the impression she hasn't been the heir for very long yet, as her parents died not that long ago. But yeah, even so she does seem rather badly prepared compared to what you'd expect from a noble girl of that age and position historically speaking.

The funny thing, is when Calanthe tells Eist about the duties of a grandfather, I figured he must be a trophy husband or something, because there's no way he's old enough to be a grandfather. I also wasn't sure about her age, either, though her makeup job clearly wasn't designed to flatter her. But it turns out the actor playing Eist is a year older than the one playing Calanthe, who is a year older than I. And if I had a kid at the same age as my father when I was born, that kid would be older than Freya Allan, who plays Cirilla, let alone however old she is supposed to be.

Cannoli
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Knowledge is a curse, if you're a history buff watching fantasy shows (The Witcher ep1.01) - 16/01/2020 06:33:49 AM 580 Views
Yeah, I have a feeling you're not going to like the rest of the season much better... - 16/01/2020 05:05:23 PM 446 Views
Re: Yeah, I have a feeling you're not going to like the rest of the season much better... - 17/01/2020 01:57:21 AM 542 Views
Okay, and now that's confirmed. - 17/01/2020 02:41:59 AM 481 Views
But... it’s not history... - 21/01/2020 04:14:44 PM 602 Views

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