As someone's who been a fan of the witcher universe since long before the Wild Hunt popularized it, I have to say this show really seems to be in a slow decline. The first season was a confusing mess of time skips that people unfamiliar with the material had trouble understanding, but the characterization was overall fairly good. The second season was probably the best so far, dealing with Ciri's training and introducing the other witchers at Kaer Morhen. But the third season, well, lots of cracks are starting to show. For one thing, the characterization and relationship of Radovid has been completely changed from the book (so now he's not only gay BUT the king's brother rather than son?). The loss of Henry Cavil is obviously also going to be a huge blow to next season. Also, the actress who plays Milva (Meng'er Zhang) is TERRIBLE. She acts like she's in a completely different TV show, like she thinks she's in a teen drama or something and it's so jarring. And the fact that she is being set up to be one of the main characters next season does not bode well.

Another potential issue that many have voiced concerns with and I also am curious about is regarding the diversity casting. Making Radovid gay or Mistle black doesn't really have any consequences now, but it makes you wonder how closely the show is going to follow the book since both of those characters have rather dark aspects to them that come up later. I mean if the show actually follows the source material regardless I would commend it, so it remains to be seen.

I could be wrong, but I have a feeling this series will not be able to see the full story to completion. Honestly, they really should have tried to just do small narratives each season rather than trying to tackle the entirety of Ciri's storyline, because all the small changes they keep making are just going to end up compounding more and more as the series progresses. Time will tell how this series will be remembered.