The Witcher Netflix Series Season 2 Enters First Stages of Pre-Production - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 May 2020 / 3,934 Views
The Witcher Netflix series has been a success not only for Netflix, but also for the popularity of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The game reached a new record number of concurrent players on Steam with over 100,000 players.
It is no surprise Netflix is working on a second season of the series. The Witcher’s showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich took to Twitter to announce she has begun work on season 2.
"Leaving my family in Los Angeles continues to be the hardest thing I do. But here I am. Doing it again, with all their love and support to back me up,” Hissrich said. “Onto [The Witcher Season 2]!"
Leaving my family in Los Angeles continues to be the hardest thing I do. But here I am. Doing it again, with all their love and support to back me up.
Onto #TheWitcher S2!
— Lauren S. Hissrich (@LHissrich) January 8, 2020
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC on May 19, 2015, and for the Nintendo Switch on October 15, 2019.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Time to read the book series? I think so.
Let’s just hope the writers use a word other than “Destiny” lmao
a success but not good at all.
I think the Triss casting is because honestly she isn't an important character in the books. They have gone to the lengths of using colored lenses for the main characters, so I believe looks are important to the series when it matters.
More Netflix garbage is on the way.
Race bending a character in and of itself isn't racist. More often than not, the race of a particular character isn't actually all that significant to who they actually are, or the role they play in the narrative. Beyond that, the only other time a characters' race is actually important, is if the character in question has an iconic look associated with them. So you'd get into a lot of trouble casting a black Geralt, or a white Blade, etc. Fringilla though….granted, I don't know much about her, because she doesn't play a huge role in the games, and I haven't read the books, but as far as I can tell, she's neither iconic, nor is the race of her character particularly relevant. The actress did a good job, so there's no reason to recast her.
So many issues
Triss is young despite her appearance or not, she is not old at all compared to others of her profession. Her age is never stated but it's believed she's only around 40 which makes her nearly 60 years younger than Yen.
Further she never had her appearance changed by magic like most other sorceresses as she is allergic to magic and cannot undergo the processes to change her appearance, she cannot take magical healing potions nor can she wear magical makeup like the rest.
I don't disagree that Fringilla and Triss were miscast but at least get your shit right. I have less issue with their appearance and more with just the horrible lack of that quirk most witches have. They just dont have that presence, they're too meek.
The ballsack armour looks like the shit actors wear because they're going to touch it up in post production using CGI and it looks stupid because its designed to be easier for them to produce the require effect, sort of like what Robert Downey Jr wears as Iron Man before visual effects, but then they totally forget to do it.
Also more sign usage by Geralt would be nice but he barely ever uses them in the books like at all. Notable once against Yennefer and then maybe half a dozen other times and thats it.
I have exactly the same gripes about the show. The changes are stupid and I oppose all kinds of race or gender swaps, but I can live with them because the main characters are done right. Especially Geralt, he is just spot on, couldn't ask for a better fit.
About the armor, would it not be easier and cheaper to just make normal armor without these stupid patterns on them? I just don't get what they were going for. Unless the theory is correct that they deliberately wanted to make the soldiers look like balls in dick helmets as a way to have a dig at "the patriarchy".
This kind of extraneous stuff only serves to diminish a show, not improve it.
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