I'm not going to use this episode as a judgement for the first part of the season. In general this season has got me a bit bored, but this episode was refreshing.
For the whole season the writing has been below par. Bland conversations and very mediocre editing makes it that this season doesn't feel like it's heading towards something very exciting. You haven't been pulled into the story itself in the first part of this season. This episode, however, is one of the better ones of the first half, even though it's a very un-Witchery one.
First of all, there's no monster and no Ciri, unlike in the previous episodes. Instead this episode is being used to accelerate the plot and launch the story into the second part of the season. Instead of with a very linear storytelling, the way the story is being told most of the tension of the conclave's party is being denied because you know Geralt and Yennefer are going to be calm and satisfied in their room in the end. To make up for the loss of tension they throw a lot of plottwists into the blender and it kind of pays off. You feel hooked to the conversations and the powerplay of all the different mages feels a bit more satisfying than before.
The plottwists at the end of the episode are predictable, but still decent.
There is now a decent basis for the second part of the season to be exciting and fun. However, I'm afraid that the quality of the dialogue and editing won't be magically (ha) increased, so we'll have to wait and see if the plot is going to make up for it.
This episode is refreshing compared to the other ones this season, but it's still not extremely good.
For the whole season the writing has been below par. Bland conversations and very mediocre editing makes it that this season doesn't feel like it's heading towards something very exciting. You haven't been pulled into the story itself in the first part of this season. This episode, however, is one of the better ones of the first half, even though it's a very un-Witchery one.
First of all, there's no monster and no Ciri, unlike in the previous episodes. Instead this episode is being used to accelerate the plot and launch the story into the second part of the season. Instead of with a very linear storytelling, the way the story is being told most of the tension of the conclave's party is being denied because you know Geralt and Yennefer are going to be calm and satisfied in their room in the end. To make up for the loss of tension they throw a lot of plottwists into the blender and it kind of pays off. You feel hooked to the conversations and the powerplay of all the different mages feels a bit more satisfying than before.
The plottwists at the end of the episode are predictable, but still decent.
There is now a decent basis for the second part of the season to be exciting and fun. However, I'm afraid that the quality of the dialogue and editing won't be magically (ha) increased, so we'll have to wait and see if the plot is going to make up for it.
This episode is refreshing compared to the other ones this season, but it's still not extremely good.