Sure, he’s in the books alongside the likes of Lambert and Coën, but aside from being the witcher who is most like Geralt – he’s roughly the same age, is exceptionally talented but less renowned for it, and has his own Child of Surprise – the witchers in Kaer Morhen are all pretty similar to one another. Let’s be reasonable adults and admit that most people who love Eskel feel that way about him because of how he’s portrayed in the games, which the show is explicitly not based on.

But get this: Not every change is bad just because it digresses from the original story. This is obviously a point of contention: Why kill off a character who doesn’t die? We have history with a strikingly similar scenario in that we’re still annoyed about HBO’s decision to kill off Game of Thrones’ Ser Barristan Selmy at the hands of some amateurish thugs in unreasonable masks.

To be blunt, Eskel dies early in the show despite living through the entirety of the books – he even plays a pretty sizable role in CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3, the events of which transpire several years after the end of The Lady of the Lake (the last Witcher novel, for anyone unacquainted with Sapkowski’s saga). The first and arguably most discussed change in The Witcher season 2 has to do with Eskel, a witcher who is basically Geralt of Rivia’s brother in every way except blood. Spoilers for season 2 of Netflix’s The Witcher follow. This is why criticism is extremely valuable when it is constructive, but pointless once it regresses to weird, unnecessary aggression on the internet.Īnyway, let’s talk about changes. If everyone wrote stories to your individual liking, the vast majority of the rest of the world would probably complain it wasn’t written to theirs. One of the most important things about art is that disagreeing with something doesn’t automatically invalidate it. What’s more, we also take issue with a major change we’re still trying to wrap our heads around.

What we mean to argue is that all of them are justified.īefore anyone interjects to say ‘that’s just your opinion’ – yes, this is just our opinion. Most went unnoticed, some have been widely lauded, and several are likely being bemoaned right now. The headline of this article should make its purpose pretty obvious: Season 2 of Netflix’s The Witcher made some pretty liberal changes from its source material.

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