his head is a trapezoid
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This is probably the longest Dude and I have ever kept up with watching something together. No, we watched Twin Peaks for longer when he got the DVD set, but that was, well, a special case. Oh and we’ve, well ok we do watch stuff together. We’re just watching The Witcher predictably every night instead of watching Stupid Youtube (usually Bon Appetite Test Kitchen or Buzzfeed Unsolved but occasionally The Sharpest [X] Knife In The World or that one where the guy made the laser-cut bust of Vin Diesel out of deli ham). So I guess it’s not that much.
Episode Whatever We’re On, with the dragon and the Dramatic Breakup, was my least favorite so far even though I finally got with the program and loaded up a general timeline so I know when the fuck these various scenes are. It just– I mean, I know a lot of stuff is just left offscreen and implied here, but they just kind of left it up to the viewer whether Geralt and Yennefer’s entire weird dynamic is literally based on knowing one another five minutes and then fucking once, or whether there was supposed to have been some kind of relationship in there, but suddenly he’s Crazy In Love with her, so that was super annoying and heteronormative.
But anyway, I still enjoyed the episode, because Dude finally was paying enough attention to bring up how fucking weird Geralt looks, like, in general. Which was my point– he’s not hot! Here’s the thing, Henry Cavill looks like a cartoon man, and they just– the shape of the wig they put on him only accents that, and then the colored contacts– they very deliberately made an extremely unsettling-looking person out of the entire character, and it’s weird! “His head,” Dude said contemplatively, as something extremely plot-significant about which neither of us gave a shit happened on screen.
“Yeah?”
“It’s like… a perfect trapezoid,” he mused, as the camera fixed on Geralt’s face, which was, in fact, a perfect trapezoid, no human shape at all.
“That’s so true,” I said, and we spent the rest of the episode attempting to figure out if any of him was human-shaped at all, and discovering that, no, he is actually a video game character in a live-action film and it’s so unsettling.
I did appreciate that in this episode’s sex scene we saw Geralt’s tits but not Yennefer’s. Equality! I wonder if someone’s tallied up the nudity because this episode for sure had a lot more male nudity, though the fact that there were only three women in it was probably a factor. Bonus points, though, that Yennefer’s dress unlaced from the back, which doesn’t even make sense but did make it less titty in general.
One realizes, of course, that the fact that while they don’t avoid all creepiness (I mean, anyone who is not a named character is disposable and whether they are killed or nonconsensually orgied is much of a sameness to the plot), they do a much better job than most media, is because the director’s a woman, which I hadn’t picked up on despite watching most of the credits (which have now begun to have really fucking weird songs sung over them that I can’t tell whether they’re meant to be serious or not???) until this episode. Ohhhhhh mystery solved.
This is probably the longest Dude and I have ever kept up with watching something together. No, we watched Twin Peaks for longer when he got the DVD set, but that was, well, a special case. Oh and we’ve, well ok we do watch stuff together. We’re just watching The Witcher predictably every night instead of watching Stupid Youtube (usually Bon Appetite Test Kitchen or Buzzfeed Unsolved but occasionally The Sharpest [X] Knife In The World or that one where the guy made the laser-cut bust of Vin Diesel out of deli ham). So I guess it’s not that much.
Episode Whatever We’re On, with the dragon and the Dramatic Breakup, was my least favorite so far even though I finally got with the program and loaded up a general timeline so I know when the fuck these various scenes are. It just– I mean, I know a lot of stuff is just left offscreen and implied here, but they just kind of left it up to the viewer whether Geralt and Yennefer’s entire weird dynamic is literally based on knowing one another five minutes and then fucking once, or whether there was supposed to have been some kind of relationship in there, but suddenly he’s Crazy In Love with her, so that was super annoying and heteronormative.
But anyway, I still enjoyed the episode, because Dude finally was paying enough attention to bring up how fucking weird Geralt looks, like, in general. Which was my point– he’s not hot! Here’s the thing, Henry Cavill looks like a cartoon man, and they just– the shape of the wig they put on him only accents that, and then the colored contacts– they very deliberately made an extremely unsettling-looking person out of the entire character, and it’s weird! “His head,” Dude said contemplatively, as something extremely plot-significant about which neither of us gave a shit happened on screen.
“Yeah?”
“It’s like… a perfect trapezoid,” he mused, as the camera fixed on Geralt’s face, which was, in fact, a perfect trapezoid, no human shape at all.
“That’s so true,” I said, and we spent the rest of the episode attempting to figure out if any of him was human-shaped at all, and discovering that, no, he is actually a video game character in a live-action film and it’s so unsettling.
I did appreciate that in this episode’s sex scene we saw Geralt’s tits but not Yennefer’s. Equality! I wonder if someone’s tallied up the nudity because this episode for sure had a lot more male nudity, though the fact that there were only three women in it was probably a factor. Bonus points, though, that Yennefer’s dress unlaced from the back, which doesn’t even make sense but did make it less titty in general.
One realizes, of course, that the fact that while they don’t avoid all creepiness (I mean, anyone who is not a named character is disposable and whether they are killed or nonconsensually orgied is much of a sameness to the plot), they do a much better job than most media, is because the director’s a woman, which I hadn’t picked up on despite watching most of the credits (which have now begun to have really fucking weird songs sung over them that I can’t tell whether they’re meant to be serious or not???) until this episode. Ohhhhhh mystery solved.
