I would like to start by saying this, I'm a die hard witcher fan, read all the novels, finished the 2, 3 game twice over, own memorabilia etc, I wanted so badly for this show to be awesome. Nonetheless I went into this series with an open mind,.and my unfortunately how it disappointed thus far in the opening season. Let me start off with episode 1 which is a excellent example.of the shows glaring flaws, it takes a alternate and intertwining timeline approach, the way the directors handle this is by basically parkouring from story arcs almost instantly thus having a very drastic and jarring confusing effect on the viewer. If you're going into this only playing the witcher 3 and having nearly no knowledge of the books.god help you to understand what the heck is going on and why. Example, in episode 1 theres a scene of a queen discussing with her husband an impending army invasion, 3 minutes later, this army shows up and their squared off on the battlefield,.battle ends in...2 minutes, thennit jumps to a different story arc, then to the castle where the queen is injured this actually happens in literally every episode. Unlike its direct competitors of The last kingdom.and game of thrones those shows are much much easier to digest and absorb in understanding what's going on. The fight scenes are heralded as epic and even better than game of thrones, Nope, not even close. Acting? Passable at best, it's all very cliche, I so wanted this to work, anyway what's even more jarring is the decision to change characters races, and skin colors. This show claims it follows the novels to a T, yet key characters are switched to dominately black and or African descent. Very very weird, guess the agenda was pushed and forced to a T, 5/10. As a witcher fan through and through and a dark fantasy consumer I have to say this was beyond disappointing. The akward jumpmfrom timelines constantly.kept me pausing and figuring out what timeline I was currently witnessing, the forced and aggressive changing of characters skin colors such as the dryads and the Nilfgardian Vigo family to black was very hard to comprehend why? The dull and quickly ended fight scenes, some actors are plain trash I might add such as triss marigolds performance was yawn inducing, too much forced romance for the sake of romance was corny, what a dissatisfying experience.