

Much of that, however, has to do with the prophecy involving Ciri and her family’s bloodline.

As Hissrich points out, there are still challenges with time in season 2. Clearly Ciri and Geralt are on different storyline tracks than Yennefer, but she’s not years behind them in the timeline. Minor spoilers ahead of The Witcher season 2 Now that The Witcher season 2 is out, viewers can weigh in themselves on whether or not the timeline is easier to follow this go around. But there are still going to be some fun challenges with time. We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in Season 1… So I think it will be a lot easier for the audience follow and understand, especially a new audience coming in. What that allows us to do storywise though is to play with time in slightly different ways. …What we’ll see in Season 2 is that all of our characters are existing on the same timeline. In an interview with The Wrap in 2020, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich had the following to say about season 2’s timeline: Here’s what we know! Is the timeline in The Witcher season 2 easier to follow? Now that the three character’s have reached the same point in time as each other’s, there’s a question of whether or not The Witcher season 2 will continue revealing bits of the soon-to-be found family’s story in a non-linear fashion. For viewers this became a source of confusion and the center of much of the criticism surrounding the first season. The most glaring example of this is Ciri’s storyline which is set in a completely different point in time than Geralt and Yennefer’s which wasn’t immediately obvious from the start.

From episode to episode it was unclear when events were taking place and how much time had passed between them. One of the major issues with The Witcherin its first season was its non-linear storytelling. By Sabrina Reed 10 months ago Follow Tweet
