Way too many details about the female characters and not so many (if any ) for Geralt. Focus on the main character Netflix at first,not the other way round. Other than that I enjoyed it and I believe that here we have a gem that will grow over time, season by season.
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@mrwoodshop Books are pretty much the same. I always thought Sapkowski made Ciri the main character, maybe 70 % of the books story is about her. Yennefer tho in the books almost didn't have a story, Netflix made it up almost completely. But yeah, as for the books I would rather think of Ciri as a main character.
I dare to say... it was better than Grey. For a such ridiculous story it was far more realistic which made it so much more enjoyable (and I enjoyed Grey).
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@akmaks47 I'm from Poland so in the cinema :)
I think Vasilisa is even more powerful than Sonya since she was able to raise her best friend Rose from dead to life and it doesn't seem to affect her much.
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@jarvis-824651 Its bc Sonya was alone and as is stated in this episode, Lissa has Rose to take her light so she practically has a power of two ppl rather than one. The first person to feel consequences of Lissa using Spirit would be Rose, Lissa would only fall after Rose's death probably.
I expected to get some questions answered and I got almost none of them answered. To say a few:
-Why did Thomas do what he did and more importantly what did he do? This was not elaborated on at all other than the few vague lines and scenes we got on the 1st movie
-Why/How did Thomas and Theresa end up in the maze?
-Was WCKD good or bad? (Maybe this was let up to the viewer)
-What was the whole point of attacking the city other than cool explosions and action shots? This didn’t seem to be a major plot point especially with Thomas being there, Also, who was Lawrence? and why purpose did he serve other than none?
-How did no one at WCKD know about Thomas’s “special immunity”? You’d think they’d test their employees before hiring them given the circumstances.
-Why did it seem like not everyone was on the same page about the cure? That was the purpose of WCKD right?
-Why did Theresa even “betray” them in the first place? I get she just wanted to find a cure but what?I feel like it had potential but it just devolved into mostly mindless action scenes and facepalm moments ( Like Theresa’s death I mean COME ON ) that just watered down the conclusion of a story that had so much potential and had me so interested in the beginning although I will admit Gally's return did surprise me. Nevertheless we never got the Thomas/Ava moment I was hoping for which, in turn, could have also lead to some of explanations to the above questions. Some of the side characters are just there to tug hearts ( RIP Newt ) or to just be there so you have some known faces to look at. All in all not a terrible conclusion to the saga but also not a great one… Just a cliché fest which comes expected with this sort of source material so no mayor points docked there for my taste. Kudos for the VFX, Some of the score and the Direction.
1>3>2
P.S The bus crane scene has been added to my not-even-a-tiny-bit-belivable scenes list cause I don’t care how much movies play around with stuff like physics but they gotta at least try for me. I’m sorry, all of those kids would have died.
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@superrob1500
I'll just simply answer your questions trying my best to mostly talk about the movies not the books. Probably you've already found your answers in the net but I like the series so maybe I'll help whomever.
1) What Thomas did and why was explained (soo quickly) in the end of Scorch Trials, when Mary told everyone that the last time she saw Thomas was when he gave her all the adressess and other things about WCKD and that he did it bc he told her he has enough of the ways WCKD deals with finding the cure
To answer also the 2nd question, Mary also suggests that this is why WCKD threw Thomas into the maze, I figure the same and that they don't have to waste him via prison or murder bc he betrayed them. But to answer this question truthfuly i would give you a major spoiler from books where in is explained to the bone. that Teresa and Thomas created the whole Maze and they knew they will be the last to go there, it was planned all along that they will be the test subjects as well.
3. I think so myself. Frankly, I just watched the movie and I cannot be more conflicted. after reading the series I hated WCKD but after watching the last movie ... They stand for the same way of saving people as the 90% of main characters after who I would stand for and root for in such movies. But simply, I just hated Teresa in both, movies and books, so I cannot root for WCKD xD
4. Lawrence was the guy without a nose. In the books, he was a Crank bully with maybe 3 others to "lead", he had one of the best scenes in the Scorch Trials. He made me fear the heck out of the Cranks not bc they are like zombies but they're "intelligently" mad and ruthless. In the movie he's plot (I figure) is only to literally take dwn WCKD so he brought the best guns t do it. He didn't plan much above the brute force.
5. It was hinted not explained exactly, as I recall in the movies. It was bc of the Maze experience that they could think of trying to do the serum. I think it was in other movies when Ava talked about the brains and the processess that happen in the brain which makes the best possibility of the cure. They couldn't tell before what really make an immune person so they had to gave the same experiences at the same level (amnesia - when you forget all your previous experiences) to figure out what exactly is making an immune person. At the end they were still thinking that all immune people after the horrible experiences could make a cure, but as well as in other things, nature is picky, like there are only carriers of diseases who will never get sick, here there are immunes who will never get sick and a kind of immune-carrier who can make others feel better. Imo ofc
6. If you're talking about Ava/Janson example it is simply that Ava was all about the cure, no price is too big, where Janson was all about power. He wanted to be immune and have the power to give immunity to people he chooses (who can give him the most). If you're talking about why Ava and Teresa had to have meetings with sponsors it's about the research. As they've said. They gave them time and resources but they didn't make anything resembling a cure, so they finally thought about investing in gathering the remains of the healthy people (which I think they should do at the beginning)
7. I hate her so I can get this wrong :D Before the Maze she was strongly with WCKD as is shown when she doesn't understand what Thomas did and why when WCKD took him from her, when he met her in some white room or sth. She forget everything but after they left the Maze she started to remember. Like she said, after seeing her mum she became strongly invested in helping others, that noone have to go through the same thing she did. And she "betrayed" them bc she knew there wasn't talking them down, and she wated the immunes from the maze so she couldn't simply walk away and leave them to their lives. She's similar to ava, she could risk everything for the cure, no matter the cost.
Thank goodness for McWidow. And common ground. And empathy. And for Bailey getting her head out of her ass and doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. I like her again. Those are the only bright spots right now.
The thing with Amelia and the baby is spinning out of control. It went from a drama triangle to a square to a pentagon (?) in a second flat. What the heck are the writers even doing at this point? This is gonna end badly any way they spin it. I can already see the crappy, half baked, half-hearted resolution coming and I'm preemptively cringing.
And the whole Alex thing epically sucks. Why did Justin have to quit out of the blue? Why couldn't he stay a few more episodes so that they could give Alex a proper send off after all these years. Having to destroy a well liked character, who's been there from the start just because of the actors' whims is heartbreaking. What an a-hole.
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@abtr I don't know if you know this already but Justin was having a heavy depression at that time so he had to leave without a notice. Apparently it was happening for quite some time and he just couldn't do it anymore and people in his life ofc weren't going to make him act. His health is number one concern.
