Everyone really does want this girl now, huh?
Well you know what, I am slightly coming around to Ciri, so that's fine with me now. And (finally) we get to see Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri all in the same room, which is pretty nice to see at long last. I just wish they had done more of it, because those parts are definitely the highlight of the episode (the location they're in looking pretty cool doesn't hurt either), as all three of them have, by this point, been fairly well developed and are interesting enough now.
The problem is, there's also the opening scene that feels a tad bit pointless, the fact that I still don't give a single toss about anything or anyone in Nilfgaard, which takes up a decent-sized chunk of the episode, the fight scene at the end looking perplexingly more like a fight from the new Mortal Kombat games than anything from previous episodes, and Istredd's sub plot not particularly arousing any interest in me either.
But other than that, the usual occurrences: acting's all good, directing's fine, cinematography's nice, blah blah blah. I'm not tearing my hair out at every turn this show takes, but neither do I ever really feel wowed by it. It's entertaining enough, but I had really been hoping for this season to be much better than the first because of the weird structure the first season had.
And unfortunately, I don't really feel like I'm getting that yet.
Well you know what, I am slightly coming around to Ciri, so that's fine with me now. And (finally) we get to see Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri all in the same room, which is pretty nice to see at long last. I just wish they had done more of it, because those parts are definitely the highlight of the episode (the location they're in looking pretty cool doesn't hurt either), as all three of them have, by this point, been fairly well developed and are interesting enough now.
The problem is, there's also the opening scene that feels a tad bit pointless, the fact that I still don't give a single toss about anything or anyone in Nilfgaard, which takes up a decent-sized chunk of the episode, the fight scene at the end looking perplexingly more like a fight from the new Mortal Kombat games than anything from previous episodes, and Istredd's sub plot not particularly arousing any interest in me either.
But other than that, the usual occurrences: acting's all good, directing's fine, cinematography's nice, blah blah blah. I'm not tearing my hair out at every turn this show takes, but neither do I ever really feel wowed by it. It's entertaining enough, but I had really been hoping for this season to be much better than the first because of the weird structure the first season had.
And unfortunately, I don't really feel like I'm getting that yet.