#sorry if that’s overexplanation but it would be better than unexplaining it

[hanzajesthanza]

Hi! I just watched your essay on YouTube and really appreciate all the hard work you put into it. I was interesting and you seem so intelligent.

As a huge Henry Cavill fan, he introduced me to The Witcher (which resonated with me on a personal level and really helped me heal my inner child) Through his interviews, I found out about the books and have been obsessed ever since, reading them twice. I agree that the show lacks depth and philosophical insight, and bc of Lauren, I can't forgive Yen for sacrificing Ciri!!!!!!

I had a question about your essay: you mentioned that TWN Geralt made a joke about r*pe abt the rock troll when Ciri had a nightmare .........💀 Could you explain that please? English isn't my first language, so I didn't quite understand his line.

Anyway, I really enjoy your witcher analyses and have been reading them for hours. I hope to see more on your YouTube channel. Thank you!

i’m glad you enjoyed the essay! thank you for all the kind words :D and i am indeed working on new videos so yay!

and okay, so re: the rape/bestiality joke.

(for the uninitiated, this is netflix witcher S2E1, a scene which is netflix’s equivalent of how blood of elves opens: ciri having a nightmare of her kidnap at cintra, and geralt comforting her).

the netflix exchange between geralt and ciri goes like this:

Henry Cavill: “I sleep like shit, too.”

Freya Allan: “You don’t sleep at all.”

Henry Cavill: “Makes for fewer nightmares… Except for the one about the rock troll. Overly friendly.”

Freya Allan: [Silence]

so, the phrase ‘overly friendly’ in english is used as a euphemism for ‘horny’ or ‘rapey’.

it’s kind of like a saying that you may already know: ‘is that a [gun, knife, etc.] in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?’ which uses ‘happy’ in place of ‘aroused’ (in other words, suggesting that the person (typically a man) who the statement is being said to has an erection (visible through his pants)).

it’s a similar concept of using an innocuous phrase (‘friendly’) to mean something sexual (‘horny’).

an example of how ‘overly friendly’ might be used (or how i’ve heard it used, anyways), would be to describe a pervy guy who constantly hounds women with flirtation and comments, or makes inappropriate attempts to grope them or touch them. you might describe such a guy as ‘overly friendly,’ ‘touchy,’ ‘grabby,’ which are all ways of saying: he’s a perv who will probably try to have sex with you, if you get too close. i.e., sexually aggressive.

so henry cavill’s geralt saying: “[i have few nightmares]… except for the one about the rock troll, overly friendly…” is a joke meaning that ‘nothing scares him, weeell, except for a sexually aggressive rock troll.’

and because it’s a nightmare, which are usually about scary, dangerous, or uncomfortable situations, i think it means the nightmare is of a rock troll trying to rape him… yeah :P kind of not the humor you use with your daughter!