The opening scene is awesome and then it pretty much drops off a cliff. The books (at least the first one) follow Geralt around. It's called The Witcher and it's about The Witcher. The show makes it clear early on that it's really about "strong female characters" and it just happens to have A Witcher in it somewhere. I don't want to see an old woman fighting in a war and telling a young woman about being a warrior. I want to see Geralt monster slaying and being a complete badass! But that's not the show! What a waste of Cavill.