The Witcher, Season 3: Trust Issues
Why I found this season of Netflix’s The Witcher personally unsettling
Includes Season 3 Vol. 1 ending spoilers and book spoilers.
Season 3 opens with the little family of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri traveling together, on the run, going from one temporary home to another and paying their accommodations’ owners for their “discretion.” Even so, with the whole continent hunting them down, paid discretions can only go so far.
They pack up at the first sign of trouble, thanks to Geralt’s extremely keen sense of danger — which is not only due to his being a witcher. The last season had Geralt slowly embracing the role of a father to Ciri. His growing protective instincts was verbally, and determinably, expressed when he called Ciri “mine” as an affront to Yennefer, who confessed to planning to deliver Ciri to Voloth Meir, the Deathless Mother, in exchange for the regaining of the chaos she’d lost after the battle at Sodden. We recall that Yennefer had struggles of her own regarding her lack of a womb (which she’d given up in order to fully become a mage), and a maddening desire to be a mother; that desire, however, was edged to the backburner when she lost her chaos and desperately sought to regain it. The end of that season spectacularly showed Yennefer regaining chaos at the moment she…
