So this season has very little scenes between jaskier and geralt but this could be partially due to the plot, there were a lot of things happening this season and a lot of it was concentrating on yen and ciri. But when we did get geraskier scenes they weren’t ‘toned down’ at all imo. I hear the showrunner said they’re just friends but I dont believe it for a second. Showrunners constantly lie in interviews, and if she did intend for there to be maybe one-sided geraskier then it’s unclear how much she’d be able to talk about it in intereviews. If she's really adamant that geraskier is just platonic and this season was course-correction on her part to discourage ppl from shipping it or whatever, then why follow up on jaskier’s storyline from the previous season? y’know, the thing that made ppl ship it in the first place? Like how is ‘burn butcher burn’, “it did come from the heart, perhaps a broken one” or shirtless jaskier complementing geralt’s abs “””toning it down””” in comparison to the first season? even the short apology that makes it clear that jasier’s still hurt is better than nothing at all, which is often how relationships that become popular gay ships end up being treated in canon. S1 just had more of those scenes but i’d imagine if the showrunner really wanted to tone things down she’d know by now that shirtless jask takling about geralt’s abs, even if jokingly, wasn’t gonna do it lol. 

Idk what’s happening in Lauren’s head or what she’s planning (ig outside of the fact that this season firmly comfirms that she’s willing to change the original text quite drastically) but i’m again intrigued. Like, so far she didn’t drop jaskier’s emotional storyline and if she’s telling the truth about geraskier being platonic in her mind (very unlikely imo) then how is she gonna follow it up in next season? what’s gonna be the thing that pleases jakier? how will it stem from his character and his issues that were established so far? cos the problem here is that there’s little to jaskier’s character that isn’t connected to geralt: his job, his relationships with yen and ciri, his role in the plot, so if he’s not in love with geralt then how are they gonna explain his actions so far?