I liked The Witcher (Netflix) a lot, but I found a relatively serious point of criticism: the magic.
At the beginning, Yennifer comes to the magic academy and learns that in order to do magic (to create / change something) she always has to destroy / kill something. She lifts a stone and "kills" a flower for it.
In the later course, however, this no longer appears to be necessary. It creates e.g. A portal and doesn't have to sacrifice anything. In the last episode she devalued magical catapult stones and burned a forest full of enemy troops and didn't have to sacrifice anything there either.
Why is that so? Have I overlooked or misunderstood something?
With the forest scene I would understand that it burns the forest and the victims are the troops.
Magic is chaos you have to try to be in control of the chaos so it takes a toll if you can't control it
Seriously? Are you actually asking what is possible? Visual: everything.
Almost all of your senses can be deceived.
The art is to evade it!
I missed something
no, wonder the same thing
It creates e.g. A portal and doesn't have to sacrifice anything
That was possible before.
and burns a forest full of enemy troops
she took the fire from somewhere else
At the beginning, Yennifer comes to the magic academy and learns that in order to do magic (to create / change something) she always has to destroy / kill something.
and that you have to channel / reorganize the chaos
That doesn't make much sense, you're right.
The system was different in the books, too, no idea why Netflix had to change this and then remain inconsistent.
That could be true
What does that have to do with the question?
Another approach: logic plays a minor role in fantasy.
On the contrary: to really enjoy them, you should be neglected.
I'll give you an example from the area: Science Fiction:
In Star Wars 4, Han Solo lands his spaceship on the Flucörtht in a crater of a large rock. There they get out. Without protective suit!
Hello: No breathable atmosphere, without air pressure?
You know what: I just overlook it.
Logic destroys imagination. Logical - right?
I understand what you mean but the key is:
Within every fantasy world there are rules that apply. If these are broken, it damages the film. In Star Wars it was just that there are unusual natural laws. For example, things like the theory of relativity are ignored.
In The Witcher there was this rule of chaos and sacrificing something to use magic. Then that was broken. How so?
Well, I can't answer that as an uninitiated.
