While taking Ciri outside Kaer Morhen Geralt realises (hears, smells or just feels) they are being chased by the flying monster he encountered at Cintra. Geralt calls it "some kind of chernobog" which is kinda strange as Chernobog ("black god') is a Slavic god of bad fate not a pterodactyl-like antropomorphic creature. He could just as well call it Lucifer or Hades.
Then we see the fight which is kinda good but still gives rise to some questions: What was Geralt's strategy for this battle? What was he gonna do after he had drawn out the monster? Why hadn't he taken his sword or was he going to knock it down with Aard sign? Why hadn't he told Ciri to hide back in the forest among the trees or rocks to make it harder for the flying creature to get her? As a result of the Witcher's inconsideration his horse, Roach, gets mortally wounded, and Geralt decides to use Ciri as a bait. (By the way, I liked the idea to show things with the eyes of the monster) Finally, he manages to kill "chernobog" with his inevitable knife and a sharpened stake (Indeed, where are the ***** his swords?!)
Meanwhile, Rience teleports to Kaer Morhen (which has definitely become a local tourist attraction as everyone and his brother knows its location) and attacks Triss and Vesemir. The latter does not only look but also acts as a pot-bellied innkeeper (my first association as I saw him in the second episode) now and gets his ass kicked by the fire mage without any effort: after Rience has parried his Aard attacks, he breaks a broomstick turning it into 2 clubs but fails to get the mage with a single drub. Then, as Rience manages to grab both (!!!) sticks, Vesemir just stares at him, pants and puffs until the mage turns clubs into red-hot coals so that the fail witcher has to leave hold of them and in a second is sent flying with a fireball. (Man, this Rience guy is really tough or is it just that Vesemir sucks?) After that, Rience takes the only bottle of mutagen (He seems to have some sort of telepathic powers as well) and disappears. Triss was of little use in this scene as well.
In Cintra Cahir defeats Dara at the fencing lesson - a skilled swordsman defeats a trainee, so what? I expected Cahir and Filavandrel to fence with each other and be equal in strength, but no.
Then we see Geralt and Ciri at Melitele temple where Nenneke says she has known Geralt from his teenage years which is weird but OK, since they don't mention the Witcher's age in the series. Ciri meets Jarra who leads her to some sort of flying globe (?!) that probably works as a magic sensor and here we've got a teenage joke about Jarra's tool size (they should have really added canned laughter at that moment). Geralt meets Yennefer, and I do not believe the actors there - there's no chemistry between them at all. Finally, we watch another fight which was supposed to be as good as the one at Blaviken that many viewers liked so much in the 1st episode: Geralt vs cut-throats Michelet brothers brought by Rience. At first the witcher just punches and throws them not even trying to take their weapons, but then out of nowhere he begins to massacre them but fails to get Rience (who teleports away) and prevent Yennefer from taking Ciri. The fight was rushed and illogical: unarmed Geralt is attacked by 4 assassins while his 2 heart blood people are in danger - he should have started to kill the outlaws in the first place.
As a result we got a very eventful episode with 3 fights that are fair to middling.
Fringilla still sucks, but I did like the characters of Codringher and Fenn.
Then we see the fight which is kinda good but still gives rise to some questions: What was Geralt's strategy for this battle? What was he gonna do after he had drawn out the monster? Why hadn't he taken his sword or was he going to knock it down with Aard sign? Why hadn't he told Ciri to hide back in the forest among the trees or rocks to make it harder for the flying creature to get her? As a result of the Witcher's inconsideration his horse, Roach, gets mortally wounded, and Geralt decides to use Ciri as a bait. (By the way, I liked the idea to show things with the eyes of the monster) Finally, he manages to kill "chernobog" with his inevitable knife and a sharpened stake (Indeed, where are the ***** his swords?!)
Meanwhile, Rience teleports to Kaer Morhen (which has definitely become a local tourist attraction as everyone and his brother knows its location) and attacks Triss and Vesemir. The latter does not only look but also acts as a pot-bellied innkeeper (my first association as I saw him in the second episode) now and gets his ass kicked by the fire mage without any effort: after Rience has parried his Aard attacks, he breaks a broomstick turning it into 2 clubs but fails to get the mage with a single drub. Then, as Rience manages to grab both (!!!) sticks, Vesemir just stares at him, pants and puffs until the mage turns clubs into red-hot coals so that the fail witcher has to leave hold of them and in a second is sent flying with a fireball. (Man, this Rience guy is really tough or is it just that Vesemir sucks?) After that, Rience takes the only bottle of mutagen (He seems to have some sort of telepathic powers as well) and disappears. Triss was of little use in this scene as well.
In Cintra Cahir defeats Dara at the fencing lesson - a skilled swordsman defeats a trainee, so what? I expected Cahir and Filavandrel to fence with each other and be equal in strength, but no.
Then we see Geralt and Ciri at Melitele temple where Nenneke says she has known Geralt from his teenage years which is weird but OK, since they don't mention the Witcher's age in the series. Ciri meets Jarra who leads her to some sort of flying globe (?!) that probably works as a magic sensor and here we've got a teenage joke about Jarra's tool size (they should have really added canned laughter at that moment). Geralt meets Yennefer, and I do not believe the actors there - there's no chemistry between them at all. Finally, we watch another fight which was supposed to be as good as the one at Blaviken that many viewers liked so much in the 1st episode: Geralt vs cut-throats Michelet brothers brought by Rience. At first the witcher just punches and throws them not even trying to take their weapons, but then out of nowhere he begins to massacre them but fails to get Rience (who teleports away) and prevent Yennefer from taking Ciri. The fight was rushed and illogical: unarmed Geralt is attacked by 4 assassins while his 2 heart blood people are in danger - he should have started to kill the outlaws in the first place.
As a result we got a very eventful episode with 3 fights that are fair to middling.
Fringilla still sucks, but I did like the characters of Codringher and Fenn.