The Witcher season 3, volume 1 review: Henry Cavill plays it safe in his final batch
Things are different now. Geralt doesn’t really have time to slay monsters for coin anymore. He’s too busy keeping Ciri, the girl he’s sworn to protect, safe from the kinds of monsters who would use her for their own purposes. And they’re coming almost as frequently as those kikkimoras, strigas, and nekkers used to.
Francesca, an elven sorceress, wants Ciri because she believes Ciri is the subject of a prophecy, the person who will save the elves from annihilation. King Vizimir of Redania wants to marry Ciri to secure an alliance with Cintra; she is, after all, technically Princess Cirilla, heir to the Cintrian throne. Emperor Emhyr var Emreis of Nilfgaard wants her, too, though his motivations aren’t yet apparent.
After it becomes clear that the Rience problem is not going away, Geralt sends Ciri off to Aretuza with Yennefer as he pairs up with Jaskier to track down the fire mage. This is a big moment of growth for Geralt, as he’s still learning to trust Yenn again after she nearly sacrificed Ciri to regain her own magical powers back in
. But Yenn seems committed to working for his, and Ciri’s, forgiveness, and he doesn’t have much of a choice if he doesn’t want to send Ciri away on her own. So they split the party.The intervening episodes before the two groups link back up at Aretuza are all solid. We already knew the Geralt and Jaskier dynamic works, and Yenn and Ciri figuring out how to be around each other is a nice touch.
By the time the episode ends and the villain, the person who’s been puppet-mastering Rience all along, is revealed, it feels less like the satisfying answer to a mystery and more like that time theguy named himself the host of the show after pretending to audition various celebrities for. Maybe that’s because the villain has been heavily foreshadowed since season one; maybe it’s because we don’t get to see the payoff of the reveal.
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