#tnw s1

[eric-the-bmo]

-kicks down door- OKAY SO. THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SEASON FINALE HAPPENED. SO HERES A RECAP OF IT

The owlbear hunter is trapped in the barrier, and Louis and Markus light it on fire. Smoke fills the cylindrical barrier, to the point we can’t see the monster very well. Song casts a spell, turning the smoke into oxygen, making it very flammable inside. Louis uses up the last of his makeshift flamethrower, and it all goes up in flames; the barrier prevented any damage to the cul-de-sac. Charred bones clatter to the ground.

In the distance, John sees the plume of smoke and hears the monster’s shrieks of terror suddenly get cut short, and he knows that his competition has been taken care of. He can hunt freely.

Amira, an npc, sticks her head out of the safehouse to see wtf was going on- bc hello?? there was an explosion??? And the trio yells at her to get back inside, and her mother drags her back in and closes the door- but Louis' head is on a swivel, he's nervous, bc he wants to know where John went (bc they all saw him fucking lose it)- so he notices that as Amira's getting dragged back in, her gaze darts over to look at something past them, and her eyes go wide.

Louis whirls over and sees Song. She's catching her breath, as the smoke-to-oxygen spell took a lot out of her [she won’t be able to run very far]- and he sees John, crooked and sharp, lunging towards her. Louis yells, but with how fast John is, all Song can do is turn to see John and yell as she throws up her arms in an attempt to defend herself. As they do this, Song recalls a memory: They had stolen a book they’d been perusing from their father’s library and had gone out to the woods. They had everything set up; the circle, the candles, the stones. A monster had ran out to attack them, and Song spoke the incantation to summon the barrier; but instead of trapping it inside, the thing ran right through- but when it came out from the barrier it looked different. Instead of trapping the monster in the barrier, the spell had trapped it in an entirely new body. They didn’t get a good look at what it looked like, as it immediately pushed past her in a panic, knocking her down and out. Song had woken up in their father’s house the next morning.

John goes for the throat. Song attempts to stab him with her ritual dagger but he bites down, and it’s ecstasy. It’s been a long time since he’s eaten anything good, and while he doesn’t know why, the act of hurting this one seems right. Justified.

Louis gives Markus only one shot to do something to help. As John’s about to tear even more into Song’s throat, there’s a sharp prick at his spine, and then static- paralyzing venom from the bugs Markus had summoned is spreading through his veins. It’s hard to move, and he falls over backwards. A rythymic buzzing fills his ears, and from the venom and all his wounds, he passes out.

Markus takes off their hoodie to tie up John. Louis tears off part of his shirt to try and help Song- she’s wild-eyed, stumbling, hand pressed up to her neck to try and stop the bleeding. He tries to bandage them as best as possible, and Song uses healing magic to heal themself even further, leading to the two of them holding hands in the process. Song whirls around to ask John what the hell that was about, only to see Markus trying to drag the monster man over to their house.

A scream comes from the safehouse- it’s Shelby. She runs over to John, extremely worried upon seeing her best friend unconscious and bleeding. Louis says they’ll get him patched up, and Song grabs Shelby’s shoulders and tells her that John attacked her. Louis confirms John did in fact do that, but he can explain it all himself later, and Markus adds it was a bad drug trip.

Shelby and Markus carry John over to their house, where Markus immediately works on patching him up. Once that’s done, they head over to a corner and starts to sob. Shelby gets the vibe she should leave them alone, and pulls up a chair to sit beside her friend.

Song and Louis hang back to search for monster eggs. Song dispels the barrier; the dispellation causes a small sonic boom, shattering the windows of the nearby houses. Mr Patterson comes out and wants to know who broke the windows, and Louis (still covered in blood and holding a gun) says it was him. Mr Patterson says he’ll send a bill, and makes a comment on how he still can’t find his missing cat that went missing in Episode One. Just then he does find the cat, actually; they’d been in the bushes, and have kittens. Other neighbors come out, ask if each other is okay, and make their way home. Louis offers to walk Song home, and at the door Song invites him in for coffee. He very much would like to, but goes the Gentleman Route and declines- it’s 2am after all (and with his dialogue, an accidental misogynistic comment was made). Song dislikes this refusal, being used to getting what she wants, and also the comment. She leaves, and Louis beats himself up over it- and then the cell service returns, and he sees he has a voicemail.

It’s from his vampiric ex, who states he’s coming to move in to the cul-de-sac soon. Louis deduces he must’ve died in the fight with the owlbear and that this is hell; scorned by the one he likes, and suffering in the presence of his ex. He doesn’t sleep that night.

John wakes up in the morning, and feels sick when he remembers the previous night. At some point in the night, Shelby had untied the hoodie restraint, and had also fallen asleep; he manages to get off the couch without waking her and goes to the restroom to wash the dried blood off of himself with shaking hands.

Markus wakes up and busies themself with routine, ignoring their very serious wounds oh my god, and opens to restroom door to tell John to go to his own house. Oh- with him having passed out, and with all their houses being the same floor plan, John didn’t realize he was at Markus’s.

Still a bit out of it, he goes to leave, but is encountered by an awake Shelby, who’s angry he was going to leave without her. John attempts to say he didn’t want to wake her, and Shelby continues: she could’ve lost him last night, why wouldn’t you wake me up? She pauses (John looks like he’s going to cry), and says they and talk about it at home. They hug each other, and begin to walk back.

Shelby starts her breakfast, and tells John she doesn’t believe what Song and Markus told her, about him being on a bad trip and attacking them- in all the time she’s known her, he’s never seemed to be the type to do anything like that. John slowly looks at her, surprised and silently angry about what Song had told her. Shelby continues, expressing concern over his injuries. All he says about both topics is that he fucked up that night, and his injuries were due to the “wolf” they had gone after. Shelby gently tells him he should be more careful (she underestimates how much he doesn’t value himself, but he’ll try to be more careful for her).

With the Dome down, the mailman can actually do his job. He meets Louis (who, by the way, is still in last night’s clothes [he explains it as a hunting accident]), and recognizes John as being a resident of the town from before the House Raffle. Walter encounters Markus looking for worms, meets Song, and gives everyone their mail.

Louis figures if his ex is coming he might as well get dressed, and heads over to Song’s to apologize- who, by the way, just finished a shower, and she calls her father so he can send a guy to fix her house’s windows. She mentions she’s lonely, and her father leaves for a meeting. Louis knocks at their door, and they let him knock for a while bc they’re petty. He wants to apologize for last night, and says an individual from his past is coming over who might hurt Song to get back at Louis. Song asks Louis if he doesnt trust her father to protect her/ does he think he can’t protect herself? He says seeing her almost die last night made him realize he wouldnt want that to actually happen- it’s a whole thing. He invites her to go out for coffee, and she responds with “Perhaps.” The apology seems to be accepted.

The cast goes through their mail, and come across a Very Noticeable pamphlet for the first annual Greenville botanical parade being hosted next weekend! There’s a photo of presumably the mayor, next to a giant thorned plant; Song recognizes it as the same plant they had seen in a vision when they had cast their Clairvoyance spell a few episodes ago.

Episode 7: Cleansed In Fire means that Season One is all wrapped up!

The Dome is down, Song and Louis are slowly getting their rocky romance started up, Markus is steadily Getting Worse, and John has Guilt and is Terrified of interacting with the other Main Cast members! And there might be a carnivorous plant next season!!!

[ladycibia]

What choices have netflix made that you don't like so far? (I'm so interested) (Also is tnw just The Netflix Witcher? I'm not sure if I'm missing something)

Since lately there' been a bit of negativity towards twn (from what I saw at least - and yes! it stands for "The Witcher Netflix", I hope I typed it correctly in my last posts) I'm going to add a "read more" in case you don't want to see more of that. Also, I'd like to point out that I did enjoy the show; it wasn't *great* IMHO (Joey Batey was though), but it was ok! And I'm indeed looking forward to season two! I must admit that I'm a bit scared, but I'm also very curious

It's been a while since I last saw twn and read the books, so forgive me if I forget something!

First of all, I must admit that I can't remember anything about episode 7 and 8 (and I will ignore the Cahir/Vilgefortz thing as that's season 2 (3?) material and it's too soon to judge) except for the ending. And, unfortunately, that's my biggest disappointment: Geralt and Ciri's reunion at the end of season 1. Which is kind of a big deal. I mean, it's not even a reunion, since they decided to remove Geralt and Ciri's early meeting in Brokilon which is such a shame because 1. it's an adorable short story who sets the base for Geralt and Ciri's relationship; 2. Ciri's fun!! She's a kid, she's mischievous, spoiled, that little "she-devil"...:') while in the show she's really one-dimensional; 3. it would have given much more emotional power to the season finale. Now please compare:

“Geralt!” the little girl repeated, clinging to the witcher's chest. “You've found me! I knew it! I always knew! I knew you'd find me!”

“Ciri,” the witcher said. [...]

“You've finally found me! Oh, Geralt! I waited all this time! Yes, a terribly long time... We'll stay together now, won't we? Now we'll be together, right? Say it, Geralt! Forever! Say it!”

“Forever, Ciri.”

“Yes, just like they said! Geralt! Like they said... I'm your destiny? Say it! I'm your destiny?” [...]

“You're something more, Ciri. Something more.”

to:

"...Who's Yennefer?"

I know they needed a cliffhanger, but this is not an excuse. When my mother saw s1's finale she was like "ok", when I finished Sword of Destiny I wept. Geralt also met Jaskier before being reunited with Ciri and it hurts, because their exchange is one of my favourites in the books' series but obviously they couldn't show that. Thanks episode 6.

And talking about Brokilon...I don't know if you're familiar with GoT, but they could just have put Bran in place of Ciri and I probably wouldn't have even noticed. What an awful and useless subplot. Did anyone even enjoy it? I'm not judging, it's just mere curiosity, as I had a really hard time watching it without falling asleep or just getting annoyed at it. I understand that the "Eternal Flame" short story (in which dopplers are introduced) didn't really fit the show's atmosphere and direction (also Geralt talking about fashion with Jaskier because they're friends? pffffffffffffff right they don't like that), but I'm afraid the whole 'Moussack doppler' (and Ciri's adventure in Brokilon in general) was a poor narrative choice IMHO.

This is a minor one, but for me it was a really bad, bad casting choice: King Foltest. What the fuck was that. I'm sure the actor is a lovely person and I don't have anything against him, but that was *not* King Foltest. I'm sorry for making a GoT reference again, but I'm pretty sure that was discount Robert Baratheon with his wife's taste in romance. I got so mad when I saw him. *sigh*

Then there are some little details that I loved in the book, but they didn't make it to the show. For example, in the "Last Wish" if I remember correctly (and please correct me if I'm wrong) the elves saved Jaskier's life but they couldn't do anything about his permanently injured throat and so Geralt decided to find Yennefer because he was so mad that his bard friend wouldn't be able to sing anymore and that his friend was injured on his watch and he wasn't able to prevent that and protect him. This ofc was completely changed in the show, where Geralt is the one who hurts Jaskier by making the infamous wish. And you know, this could have been interesting, but again, Geralt doesn't consider Jaskier his friend and so it just adds that "tsundere drama" I don't really get??? I joked about episode 6 earlier, but I actually find the break up scene a thrilling choice that diverges from the original source. If only they had been friends in the first place. :( Sometimes I wonder if they didn't really expect Jaskier to become the fan's favourite?