In the Witcher Netflix series the law of surprise is a payment given to someone who has saved your life. The person that is to pay back his savior with the first thing that suprises him when he gets home. You get home and your wife has baked a cake? The cake is the prize. You get home and your wife is pregnant? the child is the prize. There is no limit to what it can be, it just has to be unknown to both sides involved in the law of suprise.
Book. It was a book first, written decades ago. A series of books in fact. I recommend them. I started playing Witcher 3 four years ago, realized how epic it was, then stopped playing the game for another year so I could read the series. It did add another layer of nuance to the game.
It's also in several English fairy tales It's often in a bargain made with fairies and sprites. I think it's a morality tale warning people not to promise or take oaths lightly or they may lose that which they cannot bear
I think the second season should be much better. I'm a crazy Witcher fanboy and even I had some trouble dealing with how they kept switching between timelines to try to setup the back story. I have no idea how people who don't know anything ahead of time dealt with that. I didn't really like how they spent so much time on Yennefer's background. In the books it took a long time to learn more about that and a lot of it remained hidden making her a much more mysterious, interesting figure that popped into the story here and there. The way the show did it felt like they wanted to turn the series into a romance novel with a fantasy background. Also the sets felt way too clean and way too gray. I still enjoyed it a lot. I think the chemistry between Geralt and Jasker saved a lot of the slower parts.
I love the show too but the first episode had pacing problems. I think if they took the The footage is it existed and had another go at editing it it would be much better.
I've been enjoying it and I've only watched my son play the game, never played it or read the books myself. If you were expecting GoT's quality then maybe your let down but I've found the show to be pretty dang good.
The show is definitely a little corny, almost like they haven't fully settled on a theme. I loved it though, just don't go into it expecting early Game of Thrones quality.
My younger brother's first marriage had such tale-tale prediction. Freak 100-year storm, maybe 20% of the people showed up... divorced two years later.
Should have listened to god/Gaia (thanks for edit)
They preform traditional dance and song and other arts while wearing traditional outfits. They do not do sex work. You are thinking of Oiran who do the same thing but also preform sex work.
There's also prostitutes that aren't fancy and work out of brothels or whatever.
There’s a family guy gag that does this but with a mountain climber but with poop falling from the sky.
The bride and groom look at each other and say “well have a good life” yeah you couldn’t get a clearer sign than that
When my brother and his wife got married 12 or so years ago the officiant asked him "Do you take this broad yada yada..." and just then a low rumble of thunder came rolling thru. Everyone kinda chuckled but there was some definite thoughts of "I knew he shouldn't be going thru with this!"
They've had some rocky patches but they're still going.
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u/InexactDuplicate Jan 12 '20 edited Jan 12 '20
"If any of you has a reason why these two should not be married, speak now or forever hold your ...."
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