The monsters who are drawn to Ciri - including a particularly nasty one not even Geralt could identify - were apparently unleashed back in season one, when Ciri’s uncontrollable powers enabled her to escape Cahir by toppling a monolith that was holding them at bay. As Ciri eagerly bonds with her, it’s easy to imagine Geralt, Triss, and Ciri forming a surrogate family - especially when Triss asks Geralt to share her bed.įor now, at least, Geralt turns Triss down, and these interpersonal dramas are quickly superseded by the complex mythology The Witcher is building around Ciri. Bearing both physical and mental scars from the Battle of Sodden Hill, Triss is seeking comfort and support. But Triss has her own ulterior motives for making the trek. When Triss arrives, Geralt explains that he invited her to Kaer Morhen so Ciri could have a mentor who wasn’t a smelly male monster hunter. ![]() (To be fair, the show’s freewheeling approach to chronology also means it could spend an episode or two filling in these gaps anytime.)īut if The Witcher is building its narrative on relationships without fully doing the work to earn them, at least those relationships are interesting. Maybe something else happened, and we just haven’t heard about it yet? It can sometimes feel like The Witcher is missing a few episodes, or maybe even a full season. Geralt wasn’t exactly pleasant to Jaskier when they parted ways at the end of season one’s “Rare Species” - but as touchy as Jaskier can be, I’m not sure Geralt’s brief tantrum is enough to justify a “You Oughta Know”-esque scorcher about how Jaskier wants his friend to burn (literally? In hell? Both?). Jaskier is reintroduced singing a song expressing extreme bitterness toward the witcher to whom he once urged everyone to toss their coins. (Maybe a love quadrangle? It’s hard to gauge exactly how Cahir feels about Yennefer.) Triss’s apparent longing for Geralt developed offscreen, sometime after their brief and not especially romantic meeting in season one’s “Betrayer Moon.” Even Geralt and Yennefer’s tumultuous love story - which drives so much of their motivations - unfolded largely between episodes, with season one showing the beginning and ending and relying on dialogue to fill in the gaps.Įven the show’s friendships are feeling a little muddled. Take our new love triangle between Geralt, Yennefer, and Triss. The Witcher has never been shy about scrambling its chronology and asking viewers to keep up, but it’s also starting to feel like the show is eliding over parts of the story that needed a little more time to cook. Meanwhile, Triss Merigold - the friend Yennefer shared a tender moment with just one episode ago - has suddenly arrived in Kaer Morhen to hang out with Geralt and company. It was one episode ago that the mages even learned Yennefer was alive now, she’s a traitor being hunted across Redania while fleeing with their prized captive. ![]() After a slog through a sewer to avoid the guards and with the help of a few elves - who invariably meet grim fates along the way - Yennefer and Cahir manage to reach safety just in time for Jaskier to get in trouble, which will presumably necessitate Yennefer scuttling right back to save him.Īll of this happens very fast. Before long, Yennefer and Cahir are joined by an extremely welcome face: Jaskier, who has now styled himself as “the Sandpiper” and spends his nights guiding elves safely out of the city.ĭespite the constant stream of insults Yennefer and Jaskier blast at each other, it’s a convenient reunion just when she needs it. Much of “Redanian Intelligence” centers on a pair of mismatched couples: Yennefer and Cahir in Gors Velen and Oxenfurt, and Geralt and Triss Merigold in Kaer Morhen. For now, these former enemies are bound at the hip: trading insults and confidences, saving each other’s lives, and generally connecting in a way that might make Geralt a little uneasy if he were there to see it. Conveniently, her former prisoner is also trekking toward what’s left of Cintra, which Nilfgaard has turned into a safe haven for elves. ![]() Even Yennefer, a quarter elf, is in danger, which makes her Cahir’s reluctant ally. It’s never been a great time - at least not since humans arrived on the Continent - but somehow things are only getting worse.Īs the northern kings consolidate their power, elves are being rounded up by guards and sent off to places unknown.
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