Why are you talking about the books when I am discussing a show? Do you understand that there are differences?

I didn’t realize I was reading the books as I thought I was watching a TV show that has several locations taking place at different times.

It goes from left to right and this is what I see:

It’s more than the books ever gave, and really, the geographic details aren’t that hugely important in the story. There’s a continent with mountains to the east and sea to the west, Nilfgaard in the south and more mountains and cold in the north. Everything else is pretty much clumped in between. Cintra is the closest…

This timeline certainly isn’t without kinks. It claims that Ciri and Dara took refuge in Brokilon before Geralt arrived at Cintra to claim Ciri from Calanthe. 

That’s the point, they don’t have to be. If you’re not expecting a person to wear a mask, your brain fills out the missing details and leaves you with an impression of a regular person in spite of the mask’s shortcomings. If you actually held a conversation with a mask-wearer you’d notice the truth in seconds, but in…

Alas. I loved the first episode and the second was pretty good, as well, but the third is just such a mess that it pretty much killed my enjoyment. The time skip just ensured that there was far too much time wasted on pointless exposition and too little on the actual story, and everything felt rushed and unfinished as…

It seems to divide opinions. Some people find the combat system clunky, but I personally loved it for the most part — only the fistfight mechanics got me seriously annoyed. There’s no mook chivalry, the enemies will gang up on you every chance they get, so the goal is to stay in motion and keeping the baddies off…

for a show about a guy who kills monsters, there are barely any monsters.

If you’re still sticking around the prologue area, I’m not surprised. It’s the least interesting part of the game. It introduces all the important concepts to the player, but trying to be a completionist there got me bored, too. The game gets much more interesting once you get the main plot rolling.

To be fair, the original novels also avoided establishing any solid geography. There are no official maps of The Witcher, just extrapolations made by the game developers and RPG writers. Sapkowski wanted to keep the geography fluid so that he could insert new locations as needed and not keep too hard track about…

It’s clearly jumping around a lot both to different locations and different points in time, but I don’t know where any of these places are or what relationship they have to one another.

I’ve only read the two collections, none of the novels, but several parts of The Sword of Destiny explicitly state that witchers are bred and trained to lack emotion entirely, and the fact that Geralt feels any love or empathy at all is a failure of his programming. Does it move away from that in the later books and…

Based on the trailer, I assume that he’s a some sort of construct/clone made to fulfill Diana’s dreams.

I’m dubious about the whole “recreate Dr. Manhattan” plan.

It is hard to believe she and other Deus members would lose everything, but they have houses and other items paid for they could sell.

How the Hell did he get the capital or respect to be there is what I’m asking.

I can suspend my disbelief here. Due to what you mentioned, there really isn’t a way to steal a billionaire’s money in one fell swoop. If there was, people would try it all the time.

It looks to me, more and more with every mention and promise in this episode, that Whiterose’s machine is some kind of VR or like a San Junipero - post-death tech transcendence.

The episode was incredibly satisfying to watch, but I have to wonder about the end. Doesn’t Zhang have diplomatic immunity, being a high official of the Chinese government? It’s not exactly characteristic of China to allow their citizens, much less their leadership, be tried in foreign courts, especially American, if…