10 Things The Witcher Season 2 Changes Compared to Books
The latest season of The Witcher is not flawless. But at the same time, it manages to retain the atmosphere. In a few places, the creators decided to clearly depart from the book original. Did it benefit the show?
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- 10 Things The Witcher Season 2 Changes Compared to Books
- Ciri's Witcher training in Netflix's Kaer Morhen
- Yennefer losing her powers after the Battle of Sodden
- The events in Kaer Morhen - Eskel, whilst turned into a leshy, tries to kill Geralt and Vesemir
- Jaskier - an offended bard and a noble revolutionary
- A younger and... more confused Vesemir
- Dijkstra is a spy taken straight out of Sapkowski's prose. With one but...
- The melancholic Triss Merigold
- Ciri's Elder Blood as a mutagen
- Fringilla Vigo as the leader or friend of the elves
A younger and... more confused Vesemir
- Has this change worked out well for the show: no
- Could it affect the fate of the characters in season three: probably not
Kim Bodnia is a really good actor. He played Vesemir as well as he could. At first, he admittedly seemed to me far too young for the role (the actor is 56 years old and looks young for his age), but this isn't the crux of the issue here.
Unfortunately, the longer I watched him at Kaer Morhen, the more he gave the impression that he's Eskel's lost brother or one of the witcher's charges, instead of the other way around. Not only did Geralt, Lambert, Triss and even Ciri seem to have more to say than him, but the fortress's oldest inhabitant simply exuded childish naivety while trying to unravel the mystery surrounding his adopted son's death.
The worst part is that the writers turned him into the most useless character in the entire the season. Upon leaving Kaer Morhen, Geralt wasn't especially bothered about what Vesemir had to say, the witchers who brought a whole host of harlots to the fortress didn't care about him one whit, even Ciri wasn't willing to follow his advice, while Triss snatched the young princess from his hands as if the character played by Kim Bodnia was an unruly boy. A lot can be said about the show's version of this character. It can certainly be said that he was no one's mentor. It's a pity, but fortunately this plotline could potentially be corrected in future seasons, bringing Vesemir closer to the character Sapkowski always intended him to be.
