Netflix's TheWitcherBloodOrigin is unfortunately little more than a middling Dungeons & Dragons quest. JosephStanichar reviews:
, Netflix’s wildly popular fantasy series, is set 1,200 years prior to the events of the main series and promises to tell the story of the first Witcher and the Conjunction of the Spheres, the event that merged the worlds of elves, humans, and monsters. Disappointingly, we spend most of the four-episode series in the world of elves, meaning we get a lot of people with pointy ears but much less monster-fighting.
The short series focuses a lot on fantasy politics; early on, a thousand-year war between three kingdoms is ended by assassinating the monarchs of all kingdoms, then installing Merwyn as empress. Suspecting that her position is temporary while Balor yearns for the throne, Merwyn spends a lot of the series sneaking around and trying to figure out what Balor is up to, which turns out is talking to an obelisk a lot in order to gain more magical powers.
One possible benefit to having the series act as a prequel with all-original characters might in theory be that it could stand well enough on its own that people who haven’t seen the main series could watch, but I can’t recommend that. Yes, you probably won’t be confused by anything, but the show really exists as a snack for fans to munch on between seasons, not as a satisfying meal in and of itself.
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