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Calanthe was always like that. It's a regional thing. Noble girls from the southern end of the Northern Realms are often raised in "the elven style", meaning they partake in sport that's restricted to males in most of the North. Calanthe in particular had a reputation for martial prowess and led her own troops on the battlefield. It is, however not terribly common. Prominent women fighters in the North are Calanthe, Meve, Black Rayla, and Renfri AKA Shrike. So not a ton. Not counting dryads (who are of course all women) or elves (who are less sexually dimorphic than humans).Last week there has been in Italy the Lucca Comics & Games fair, which has become the main convention on 'nerd' culture in Italy.
There, with the showrunner, the actresses for Yen and Ciri and Sapkowski himself, they have shown three scenes as sneak peek preview for the show. I am translating here their description done by journos attending the panel., since it seems they won't release them anywhere else. I abstain from commenting, except for: First scene, guuuuuurl Powah!
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The Witcher: la descrizione delle scene mostrate in anteprima a Lucca Comics & Games!
Ecco la nostra descrizione dettagliata di tre scene della serie di The Witcher mostrate in anteprima a Lucca Comics & Games 2019tv.badtaste.it
The scene opens in the courtyard of a castle, with Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) confronting Queen Calanthe (Jodhi May), who exclaims "Kill them!" A violent struggle immediately arises between Geralt and other people in the hall: the Witcher is extremely skilled in combat.
"It has been called the law of surprise," exclaims a nobleman brandishing his sword (the law of surprise is a custom regarding the reward that a man owes to another man who saved his life), "If you kill them you will kill me too! ”and throws himself into the fray.
The queen rises from the richly laid table, grabs a sword, makes her way in the crowd and approaches Geralt, asking everyone to stop and blocking the Witcher (the two swords meet, the queen is clearly very strong). The woman looks very annoyed. The atmosphere is grim and the sets are really rich in details, at the end of the clip the showrunner explained to the public that Henry Cavill (great fan of novels and video games) insisted on performing all the stunts alone.The sorceress Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) is sitting by the sea, as a crow whirls above her. The woman whispers to the crow: "For which one of us have you come?" At that point we see a bundle lying next to her: wrapped inside it there is the little body of a little girl. The sorceress starts talking to the newborn, talking about the life she will never live. She almost seems like she's rather talking to herself, a very bitter summary of what life holds: relatives, friends and lovers are all illusions, reality is solitude. "We women are but vessels," he says, "vessels from which men draw until they've drained everything." "You cheated," Yennefer concludes before burying the child in the sand, "You cheated and you won without even knowing it."In the third clip we see Ciri (Freya Allan) walking alone in a frozen forest: she is very cold and looks hungry. She gets near a bush to pick berries, but someone throws a pebble at her hands to make her desist. It is a boy (Dara, played by Wilson Radjou-Pujalte) hiding behind a tree, who explains to her by gestures that those berries are poisonous.He points to a mouse that runs on the ground at some distance, and the girl replies that mouse is not the kind of food she loves to eat. Shortly after we see the two sitting in front of a small fire, with the mouse on the spit. Ciri tells Dara she's been on the run for three days: she's running away from a man who has a bird on his hat. The boy does not seem to be able to talk: he does not speak for the whole scene. Before taking a mouse bite on a spit, Ciri suggests extinguishing the fire: she doesn't want to be tracked down, even though she hasn't quite figured out where to go yet. Shortly after we see the two walking in the woods: Dara is very cold, and Ciri gives him one of her gloves. The girl sees in the distance a camp with the flag of Cintra (the kingdom of which she is a princess) and is about to head towards it but when she turns around it seems that Dara has ran away.
The second scene is the worrying one. It sounds like it starts off fine, nice reference to Sword of Destiny, etc...but the end note makes no sense. Yennefer had no particular hate of men. And her single biggest desire in life is to have a baby, something that was denied her by becoming a sorceress. That's the crux of her character, in the traditional literary sense even. If they fuck that up they have fucked up the character.
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