#I can somehow see them meeting up in the redanian intelligence episode like... Geralt is supposed to meet up with someone.

[spielzeugkaiser]

h e l l o ??? I never thought I'd say that, but the hat actually makes it. Like. I am looking.

[stromuprisahat]

Yennefer in season 2

Whole Yennefer's storyline was for nothing. She lost her powers, tried to sell Ciri, made up her mind and "redeemed herself", got her magic back somehow. Same spot as before they told us she's powerless, only now she likes Ciri. For reasons.

Not only it's unnecessarily book-divergent, it didn't add to the story in any way. Keeping her original storyline wouldn't be only "more faithful", but it would offer more development.

In the books she lost her eyesight in Sodden. The 14th of the hill storyline should’ve stayed Triss’. This switch adds exactly nothing to the plot. Tissaia could've grieved Triss. Triss getting badly burned and losing her characteristic beautiful hair, therefore being found and unrecongized would add her as a character and offer some drama for her. Yen’s missing only to meet fake!Francesca, Nilfgaardian fanatic!Fringilla and start her involvement in the Voleth Meir nonsense.

Instead of all this, Yen could've dealt with her blindness untill they find the cure. She even could've temporarily lost her magic due to psychological block or exhaustion. We could’ve seen her working with Redanian intelligence, saving Jaskier on their behalf in the first half of the season.

For the second half they should have kept teaching Ciri in Melitele's tample. And I mean some real teaching, not two quick lessons on the way to save Geralt. This would erase another unnecessary change of the book!canon: Melitele's tample was about worship, healing and herbs, not magic, that's Yennefer's storyline. They could’ve actually shown Yen and Ciri’s developing relationship. They didn’t like each other in the beginning, their growing appreciation of the other one would be much more interesting, than them instantly liking each other, because the writers said so, and didn’t wanna bother with that much work.

What we get is a character losing her main ability, but how does it affect her? There’s her desperation, ok. But she’s fully able to defend herself, get out of any trouble she gets into and that one time she’s caught by universally evil Stregobor, she’s immediately rescued by Tissaia. When "The Plot" eventually needs her somewhere else, she's teleported by the Big Bad. (Good thing it's in its abilities.) To make it short, it doesn’t have any impact on her aside from mental pressure, thanks to which the creators can „excuse“, why she’s suddenly an antagonist- for a single episode- and why should she have ulterior motives for Ciri, Geralt’s child surprise. But hey, she changes her mind for exactly this reason as soon as she finds out! Therefore even this has been for naught.

Since Yen’s relationship to Geralt should be one of the cornerstones of the story, I’m gonna mention it too. Last we saw Geralt and Yennefer together, he hurt her. Next we see them, they're okay, and then he has some righteous anger issues towards her. Am I supposed to root for him? Am I the only one feeling like HE should still be appologizing to HER?! The “writers” have completely ruined one of the stronges scenes from Blood of Elves, by ripping it out of context and having Geralt hold a sword to Yennefer’s neck! I mean, yeah, this version of Yennefer definitely deserves to beg Geralt for anything. Sure...

If I wanted to be a nit-picker, I’d ask why Yennefer, lovingly nicknamed „monochrome mom“, wears grey, violet and gold, when her style is whites and blacks, but I think this is enough for one post.

[spielzeugkaiser]

*chants* SPY!JASKIER. Ahm. Well. That's something I quickly threw together because I kept thinking about this. (bringing back my own tags from the hat piece) #I can somehow see them meeting up in the redanian intelligence episode like... Geralt is supposed to meet up with someone.#someone he will trust even if it's a tough job#and surprise surprise give me the drama of working together, while being full of suspense and pent-up anger, and bitterness and love while still not even thinking for a moment that it would be possible for the other to betray them. Thinking he hates me now but still knowing (maybe naively, stupidly) that you can trust each other with all you have-