Strike back season 39/3/2023 ![]() It’s in this moment that Ciri has a choice to make. Little Horse saves Ciri from drinking a “puddle of water” that turns out to be the open maw of a desert creature attempting to devour her Ciri, in turn, beats another buglike monster to death after it leaves Little Horse critically wounded. She suggests using fire magic - which you’ll probably recall Yennefer using in the season-one finale with dire consequences - to do it.īetween these visions, Ciri is guided through the desert by an actual unicorn, which she names Little Horse. “You want to change the system, Princess Cirilla? Burn it to the ground,” she counsels. On her second appearance, the hooded figure introduces herself as Falka, a Redanian princess notorious in Continental history for killing her family and leading a bloody rebellion after being disinherited from the throne in favor of her half-brother. Well, a possible one.” She speaks vaguely about how she killed her father before meeting a violent death herself - as, she notes, many other women who tried to change the world have: “How many more times will history have to repeat itself?” In her first appearance, a hooded female figure draws Ciri into a dark room and says, by way of introduction, “I am the past, and this is the future. (Yes, there’s a real millennial-versus-boomer dynamic to this whole exchange.)īut Ciri’s encounters with her third visitor are both more interesting and more complicated to parse. You could say the same regarding a similar appearance from her grandmother, Calanthe, who cackles at Ciri’s pain and misfortune even as Ciri rails against this woman she loved, lamenting the role she played in creating the horrible, war-torn world Ciri is now forced to live in. This is, in all likelihood, Ciri’s brain grappling with her own feelings of guilt and inadequacy. Instead, this hallucinatory Pavetta is cruel, calling Ciri “a heavy weight to bear” and insisting that Geralt and Yennefer will be relieved she’s not their problem anymore. She died in a shipwreck when Ciri was still an infant, so you’d think this mother-child reunion would be a happy one. Pavetta, conveniently enough, represents Ciri’s past. Like Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Ciri is visited by three spirits: Pavetta, Calanthe, and Falka. On that last count, she doesn’t entirely succeed - though, as always on The Witcher, it’s not clear whether some of her “hallucinations” are actually magical encounters or prophetic visions, for better or for ill. Often the only character on-camera, she anchors what is essentially The Witcher’s version of Cast Away, sucking dew from rocks in the twilit morning, killing a lizard and eating its eggs, and doing her best not to go insane in the unforgiving heat of a seemingly endless desert. “Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan” is a worthy showcase for Freya Allan, who emerged as The Witcher’s most promising secondary lead over the course of season two. She is parched, delirious, and apparently hundreds of miles away from anything even resembling civilization. While Geralt spends the episode recovering from the brutal beatdown he received from Vilgefortz, Ciri wakes up from her trippy ordeal at Tor Lara and realizes she has been teleported into the Korath desert. This episode offers one convincing answer: a show about Ciri. What is The Witcher without its original witcher? Given that Netflix made a big deal out of simply introducing Cavill in all his silver-haired glory back in 2018, this could be something of an existential crisis for the show - even with Liam Hemsworth in the wings. By the time the credits roll on “Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan,” we are a single hour away from a post–Henry Cavill version of The Witcher. ![]()
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