I wish to speak of this in relation to the Netflix series and their casting choices, out of most arguments I see people regurgitating in needless flame wars, I cannot comprehend why more folks do not think of this rather straightforward one.
My main criticism is the inconsistency resulted by the casting choices of Triss and Fringilla, to give a very simple analogy this would be like casting King Arthur as a black man, this could be a really amazing actor who does a great job in every aspect, however this cannot solve the inherent issue at hand. That issue is that even though Arthur is a legendary figure, and that one may argue taking liberties in their imagination, those liberties must have logical boundaries, I do not believe it would be possible for you to find anyone of dark complexion in dark age Britain, in fact, if a Breton would see a black person they would probably be fascinated and think they were seeing a new species (even the Romans were perplexed at the sight of many Celts, who had things such as very pale skin, blonde and red hair, things the Romans did not possess, nor had they seen any humans possessing them before!), why? Because there was simply little if any links/communication between these two locations (Britain and Africa).
In fantasy settings, authors tend to mirror the correlation between geography and ethnicity in their world building. This is clearly seen in The Witcher but also in other major works such as LotR (e.g. Haradrim being men of the south who hail from deserts and have swarthy complexions). We even see this in the game TW3 itself, if you play Hearts of Stone you will encounter the Ofiri, men of the far south who hail from tropical climates and have dark skin, this seems quite in line with how humans in the real world are! We also have the Zerrikanians as well, perhaps most easily paralleled to the aforementioned Haradrim, people who are south of the Northern Realms (but not as south as the Ofiri) and so, they are swarthy/tanned and even the visual aspects that we know of, associated with their culture, resemble the Middle East.
In conclusion, I refer back to the Arthur example, making any Northerner like Triss black is essentially the same as casting an 8th Century woman from Scandinavia as black, it is simply not feasible. In the case of Fringilla being a Nilfgaardian, heck it would've been an attempt to favour accuracy if they cast an actress of Italian/Spanish/Greek ethnicity, as Nilfgaard (again referring to the
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Some of your options are: Ciri post-Witcher 3 (using powers unique to her character), Vesemir pre-Witcher series, or Lambert/Eskel concurrently? Or would you rather have Geralt be brought out of retirement for some reason?
Dark horse canidates: Coën from the books or an unknown Witcher from a different school.
Edit: apologies for the minor spoiler in the title for Witcher 3. But the only other options would be he's dead or is still out galavanting around so I didn't view it as a serious spoiler to say it's implied he retired.
I got into the series after playing the latest video game. And to be honest, I’ve been having a hard time determining whether I liked the books because I enjoyed the game so much, or if the books were actually good.
I don’t think I really enjoyed the constant flipping between future and present, and new characters revealing what occurred to our heroes. More often then not I was left asking “what is happening?” then I ever felt I had a clear grasp on what was going on.
Book 5 was so slow and boring, but the last couple action scenes in six and seven were pretty sweet.
Definitely lots of movements that were cool and exciting, but I wonder if I hadnt already played the games if I would have stuck it through..
What are your thoughts?? Let’s discuss !
I am about to finish Sword Of Destiny, I am aware that Wild Hunt doesn’t follow directly the Novels. But for example, Ciri is an adult, very independent and already knows how to fight in the games. In wich Novel, Ciri is like that?
If I remember correctly they recast Carrie father right?
To me it has to be the peasants who oppose and taunt Geralt at every occasion when they know they have absolutely no chance against a witcher.
Also Keira Metz decision to try to do a deal with Radovid was pretty stupid and reckless.
Oh yeah and and i'd add : cutting your own ear to give to the Crones !
Tier 1
-Gaunter O'Dimm
-Unseen Elder
Tier 2
-Vilgefortz of Roggeveen
-Geralt of Rivia (Blood and Wine)
-Dettlaff van der Eretein
-Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy
Tier 3
-Geralt of Rivia (Witcher 3 main game + HoS)
-Eredin Bréacc Glas
-Caranthir Ar-Feiniel
-Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon
-Imlerith
-Yennefer of Vengerberg
-Philippa Eilhart
-Letho of Gulet
-Eskel
Tier 4
-Lambert
-Vesemir
-Triss Merigold
-Keira Metz
-Olgierd Von Everec
Thoughts?
You have to say, for all the downsides the streaming wars have, it is exciting for consumers as it forces streaming services to churn out quality and be innovative.
When I did this with Mass Effect I was super lucky to achieve peace between the Quarians and Geth which takes a ton of right decisions in the first two games. Is there any super result in this trilogy that I need to be mindful of in Witcher 1 & 2? If you can do it w/o spoilers great but I'll survive if you can't. Thanks.
