First, I come to the only part that follows the books. It's true that Jaskier is interrogated by Rience because he has a lot of connections to Geralt and thus probably to Ciri. The scene until Yennefer shows up is pretty well done. I think it's funny how Yennefer saved Jaskier from Rience and gave him his scar, but it also seems a bit cheap in retrospect because she used her magic in the books and they only presented it that way to follow their made up plot.
It doesn't make sense that Francesca gets pregnant when the elves haven't had children in decades and are therefore in danger of extinction and humans simply outnumber them as a result. Even if the elves could reproduce, Ciri would be completely worthless to the elves. They take way too much time away from the main characters .... again.
The little task Geralt has with Istredd feels kind of forced to make the whole Leshy thing with Eskel fit. You've heard in the books and games that big towers were used to conjunct the spheres, but it felt a bit like the King Kong scene where they're looking into the abyss, only much more boring and less spectacular. There could have been some monster fights thrown in here to tie into their made-up plot, but instead there's just flat conversation, Geralt learning that Yennefer is alive while creating minimal tension between him and Istredd that was much more extreme in a short story in the books. And a monster flies toward them and makes its way to Kaer Morhen. That's it for the epic adventure.
After that, Vesemir knows that Ciri is of the Elder Blood and her blood could be used to create new witchers. So he decides to use his only source, Ciri, first, while the boys had at most a 30% survival rate at the Trial of Grasses, so she would most likely die. This makes no sense in the long run, as he could simply use her blood and other test subjects to produce witchers for decades to come, but he's betting everything on one try?
It doesn't make sense that Francesca gets pregnant when the elves haven't had children in decades and are therefore in danger of extinction and humans simply outnumber them as a result. Even if the elves could reproduce, Ciri would be completely worthless to the elves. They take way too much time away from the main characters .... again.
The little task Geralt has with Istredd feels kind of forced to make the whole Leshy thing with Eskel fit. You've heard in the books and games that big towers were used to conjunct the spheres, but it felt a bit like the King Kong scene where they're looking into the abyss, only much more boring and less spectacular. There could have been some monster fights thrown in here to tie into their made-up plot, but instead there's just flat conversation, Geralt learning that Yennefer is alive while creating minimal tension between him and Istredd that was much more extreme in a short story in the books. And a monster flies toward them and makes its way to Kaer Morhen. That's it for the epic adventure.
After that, Vesemir knows that Ciri is of the Elder Blood and her blood could be used to create new witchers. So he decides to use his only source, Ciri, first, while the boys had at most a 30% survival rate at the Trial of Grasses, so she would most likely die. This makes no sense in the long run, as he could simply use her blood and other test subjects to produce witchers for decades to come, but he's betting everything on one try?