Gintama season 1 episode 12
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From atop Yaruga’s keep she directs the entire offensive, and her pyrotechnic display acts as quite the finale to the battle. For all the power displayed by Nilfgaard, it is Yennefer who proves to be the episode’s most gifted sorcerer. This does erode away at episode 7’s hints that Nilfgaard was more of a multilayered villain, though their approach here certainly cements them as a tyrannical force.
Nilfgaard literally sacrificing mages to create magic missiles paints them as a sinister force, adding a cool layer of darkness to the Empire. The siege also provides a nice contrast between the magical attitudes of the Chapter and Nilfgaard, with scenes that elaborate on Fringilla’s discussion of light and dark sorcery from episode 7. These sequences are a joy to behold, especially in their more creative moments I rather enjoyed the madness of Nilfgaard mages opening a wormhole into the keep and firing arrows through it. Potions are brewed and used as chemical weapons, with witches detonating them using magically precise arrow shots. We see single mages take on entire squadrons of Nilfgaardian soldiers, choking out a dozen men at a time like an apocalyptic Darth Vader. It turns out that sorceresses are incredibly - no, absurdly - powerful.
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But “Much More” goes full Harry Potter and then some. Until now, The Witcher’s use of magic has been relatively low-key. And after episode 7’s long, hard look at Yenn’s obsession with power, it’s unsurprising that the siege of Yaruga River’s keep is alive with catastrophic magical energy. Ciri also has little to do in this episode - she simply needs to stay put until Geralt arrives - and so the chapter is largely devoted to Yennefer. While some of the dialogue does hint at interesting elements of his formative years as a Witcher - there’s talk of Vesemir and the ghastly process of providing Geralt with his distinctive cat eyes, as well as the briefest interaction with his mother - hazy childhood scenes with very young actors are rarely fun to watch, and this is no exception. A bite from a ghoul - a creature that offers one last reminder that some of The Witcher’s CGI creatures are woefully realised - reduces Geralt’s contributions to the episode to small, somewhat irritating flashbacks to his very young childhood. Meeting Ciri does prove the sole highlight for Geralt, though, as for the majority of episode 8 he’s hallucinating in the back of a truck. This, along with episode 7 bringing the show full-circle, suggests that the structure problems are more to do with ambitions gone awry, rather than an actual ineptitude for clever design.
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The way Geralt’s path crosses with Ciri’s, causing them to very nearly miss each other, is delightfully playful. The Witcher’s core problem throughout its first season is structure, but episode 8 proves that showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich does have a flair for fun narrative design that works. The structure of the show has meant this journey has been harder for the audience than it has been for the characters - indeed, Geralt has spent most of this season not searching for Ciri - but we’re finally there, and it’s exciting to think of where the road will lead next. For such a prophesied and vital part of the plot, this moment is rather underwhelming - certainly because of the fact that these characters don’t know each other, and thus there’s no true emotion - but the visuals of the two running into each other’s arms does work some charm. In other words, the show has only just begun.Ĭonsidering the events of episode 7, it’s easy to think this nice metaphor has arrived an hour late, but “Much More”’s final scene certainly marks the start of the journey we’ve known is coming since the premiere: Geralt and Ciri finally meet. It’s an indication that the story’s many elements have finally combined to create the true form of The Witcher. The unique silver emblems used for each previous episode - among them a broken lion, a solar eclipse, and a beast-marked fleur-de-lis - combine to create the show’s logo, now displayed for the very first time within an episode. The Witcher’s Season 1 finale is neatly personified by its title card treatment.