The protagonist spends the whole episode hallucinating in the back of a cart after being injured in an utterly pointless little skirmish while the shit hits the fan? Is Kathleen Kennedy involved in this?
shareAll of this is actually in the books. Not happening at the same time with the Sodden hill, of course, but he does meet some random guy on the road, saves him from monsters, gets wounded, supposedly meets his mother (Vilena or something) and then gets reunited with Ciri.
The writers, the editors and the director simply didn't do a good enough job.
I've read the books and I'm aware it's taken from that, although as you say, certainly not at the same time. I'm questioning the wisdom of this writing with only an 8-episode season and they got Garhalt spending the finale in a cart after a meaningless little fight while the women save the world.
shareConsidering all the highly questionable changes they've made and... Well, almost everything else - at that point I didn't care.
shareThat battle scene ending was confusing as fuuuuuuuck.
Yennifer burns the whole Nilfgaardian army to a crisp leaving 0% survivors?
So, when Northern army arrives they're like, oh we're done here?
What about that David Dastmalchian's half-retarded brother a.k.a the king of Nilfgaard looking from the distance?
Did Fringila just give up and run away? She seemed pretty fucking OP earlier on, slaughtering witches and wizards left and right. Where would she go after Yennifer's Kame Hame Ha?
WTF is going there? Is anyone going to explain anything?
That wasnt the nilfgardian army, the army was supposed to come in 2 days, and it was explained in the show pretty clear.
shareNo, that was the Northen king of Tamaria whose daughter was saved from Ostriga curse by Triss and Geralt a while back ( I guess about 12-15 years before the present event in this fucked up timeline).
shareYou are talking about different armies.
It was repeatedly stated that ehmir was with just a small avant-garde and that they should not attack and wait for the army that was supposed to be there in 2 days. The northern army was supposed to be there as well in w days and we are shown Foltest riding.
Oh wait, you said "wasn't".
By the looks in the show Northern army arrived earlier and Nilfgaardian small troops were decimated by Yennefer's fire attack.
They didn't show if their big army had arrived yet at that point.
Still leaves questions about Cringilla.
I did like how Yenn sent out a huge fire wave that spared Tissaia and wiped out all the bad guys. Well, she should have *led* with that, shouldn't she? But it's the usual "the hero doesn't know how strong they are until everyone else dies first" kinda thing.
But Geralt in a cart: yeah, way too much screen time of that and his visions. And him finding Ciri at the very end with that lame line about destiny bringing them together: pretty flat.
The main fight belongs to the women sweetie. Have sex.
shareAnd it's elitist nonsense. In the books the armies of four kingdoms with citizens of every race stood together and the mages were kind of a heavy artillery battery. Their input was critical but still - only unity could have stopped the most powerful and advanced empire of the world.
shareThat sounds like a lot more satisfying story.
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