Netflix released the official season 1 timeline of The Witcher on Netflix on January 10, 2020, several weeks after the show dropped. We break it down and discuss the inconsistencies with the dialog in season 1 episodes 3 and seven of The Witcher and take note of some major changes from the dates in the books. The full timeline can be found on witchernetflix.com. Clearly Netflix did not put much thought into their multiple timelines prior to releasing the show. They put out these retrospective timelines for The Witcher after backlash from confused fans. Unfortunately, the people that made these timelines did not pay much attention to the dialog at about 24:00 in season 1 episode 3 "Betrayer Moon" by the conclave of mages that discussed Princess Calanthe's personality 6 years before she is born according to Netflix. Calanthe was born in 1216 and the mages were talking in 1210 according to witchernetflix.com. Then, in episode 7, around 5:30 Geralt says he had not been back to Cintra for "twelve years" but the witchernetflix.com timeline shows it was actually 14 years.

Overall, the timeline problems show that Lauren S. Hissrich and the other Netflix writers did not put much thought into their original writing of the Yennefer of Vengaberg and Ciri backstories which were not in the books. This is more evidence that Hollywood writers that stray far from the source material will make a hash of it.

Video from witchernetflix.com, @NXonNetflix on Twitter, brief clips from The Witcher, Netflix season 1 episodes 3 and 7, and the official tease and gameplay from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine DLCs.

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