I know this has probably already been said on here but hey I’m new and I want to vent. I’ve read the books and played the games but to be fair I read most of the books and played the first 2 games YEARS ago so I’m mostly basing stuff off of wild hunt.

Anyway.

Vesemir came across as cold, washed up and dumb. He aways struck me as warmer and wiser in the books and games.

Lambert and the other Witchers honestly just came across as basically uneducated, stupid and boorish drunks who are also creepy and pervy. I could not stand how Lambert and Eskel were portrayed. Yeah they can enjoy their whiskey and whoring but their mannerisms, accents, dialogue and general demeanor where so off putting. The relationship dynamic and banter between the Witchers in the game was a lot smarter, nuanced and witty. Basically they are just chest thumping dumb bros in the tv show cackling drunkenly at each other, saying “fuck” a lot and generally being painful to watch.

I was really looking forward to seeing Gerald interacting with the other wolf school Witchers because in the games you kind of get this feeling that he’s this big grumpy badass and then he goes home and you see that yeah he’s a bad ass but he’s also the somewhat nerdy big brother that everyone teases for being too idealistic. Yeah Lambert is kind of prick but he’s not supposed to be an ignorant boor.

Don’t even get me started on Eskel.

Can season 3 just be Geralt and Jaskier travelling around bickering and killing monsters.

Edit:

So seeing a lot of the comments I think maybe what’s also bothering me is how little they fleshed out the characters of the other Witchers. I think if they showed more interaction between them and Geralt or Vesemir that wasn’t in the midst of some emergency, fight scene or conflict. Having gone through Witcher training and the trials the fact that some of them are more caustic and bitter like Lambert makes sense but you only see like a 2 second flashback from Vesemir of all the boys dying during their mutations. The scene in s1 where Geralt talks to his mother about abandoning him to become a Witcher is great I just wish they explore that more from the perspective of the other guys. They are all meant to be bonded by shared trauma and hardship but I feel like that just gets glossed over for the whole “I’m a Witcher and I whore around, drink and do morally questionable things because hurrrrr manly reasons”.

I mean the prostitute orgy also made zero sense but hey.