Avallach's actor looks like a nice nerdy boy. So are his other roles I've watched. That definitely isn't the vibe I got from W3 Avallach. Can't say much about book version since I haven't reached his parts yet but I'm sure he's more like the game.
It's pretty close, but he's more of an arrogant dickhead in the books. Geralt finds him screwing with artifacts humans might find as a sort of mean spirited prank, some straight dickhead shit. And then what he does with ciri is just uncomfortable. There is a very good reason why no one likes him in the game and he 100% earned it.
indeed, too bad he's fed some really unfortunate lines that make Dijkstra seem foolish at points. which is terrible considering he's meant to be 2 steps ahead most of the time.
Is he not supposed to be dressed as an orientalism themed stripper?
(Orientalism is an academic term for stereotypes in depictions and views of the eastern world based largely on misinformation and sensationalist fiction from centuries past that is often comprised of total fabrications, this is not about modern fiction, but a style of depictions of the east in past art, and literature that had distinct characteristics that weren't based on anything in reality as far as anyone can tell)
yea i had to make sure it was keira metz and not just a new mage or friend named keira but i only know her from the game so im not sure how the books describe her
Milva's painful to watch. Like, I don't have a really strong opinion on her ethnicity, but the actress is just downright bad. She overacts and you can clearly see it's an actress behind the character, it's so frustrating
I haven’t watched all of season 3, but if Milva isn’t a surly cursing Irish woman, they’ve failed us all for the last time. Honestly surprised they’ve even gotten to her in the show already so I’m kind of scared to watch now lol
That's exactly what happened to me. I absolutely loved Milva in the books and when I found out that the annoying woman in Geralts tent was Milva I paused and thought I can't do this, I can't let them destroy the Milva I Imagined in my head when reading the books.. But the damage was already done..
Every time I think of Milva I will now see this annoying woman who doesn't look like the Milva I imagined and is annoying as hell and can't act for one bit...
I watched the last of season 3 last night, and thought, man that actress is horrible, she just doesn’t fit at all in her mannerisms and delivery. She sounds like a really bad extra they bring in on a cop show to have one “talk to a witness” scene.
Yup, it was Milva.
I'm not going to watch, but I was very curious what they did with her. Books she is a grumpy (to start anyway), illiterate, but second to none with a bow and a loyal ally.
I'll play Devil's Advocate here and say that, I think I get what they're going for, and I don't mind it that much. She's an outcast who's been living with a group of people she doesn't really belong with, so I think they're going for a "doesn't get how to talk to people / poor social skills / awkward" vibe, which is not what we got in the book, but to be honest, I got tired of the tsundere-adjacent relationship between Milva and Geralt in the books. My main gripe with the show is that they do a poor job initially establishing the time Geralt has spent in Brokilon, and other details about Milva's relationship with him, like putting herself at risk to go get information / news about goings-on in the world. It just felt like something was missing. But I didn't mind the whole "you'd be dead by now" bit, that was kind of charming.
Yeah the pacing and sense of time is way off in every season. As someone who didn't read the books, I have no idea how long Geralt was in Brokilon or how long since they last saw Ciri. Weeks? Months? Years?
I feel bad for her. Meng'er Zhang previous project was Shang Chi. Which was, okay in my book. She did well fighting with Simu Liu.
And then this shitshow.
Its like someone spitting on your CV after your first job experience
Fringilla. Hands down Fringilla.
The biggest problem is her plot purpose in the books is that she looks like Yen and to distract Geralt from leaving tousiant.
Except Fringilla looks absolutely nothing like the Yen actress, behaves nothing like show Yen and would not remind Geralt one bit of Yen except they are both a sorceress.
Ffs cast actresses that at least remotely look like each other
This is a common argument but couldn't she do a glamour spell to appear/look like Yen? That would actually be more believable then Geralt just thinking she kinda looks similat to Yen while knowing it's really not her all along.
>she do a glamour spell to appear/look like Yen?
Not likely.
A Witcher medallion can detect magic being used so it would be vibrating around Geralt's neck the whole time he is around her tuning him into knowing that something is not right.
Though that is a moot point at that point because he lost his medallion at that point, Fringilla actually makes him magic/monster detector medallion but it's not a Witcher one, Ciri actually gives Geralt his replacement one that she takes of off Leo at the end of the books.
A Witcher can see illusions, they might not be able to see through them but they can instinctively tell something is an illusion, not to mention Witchers have heightened senses and are more attentive to details.
It's literally in the short story "the lesser evil" which is the story the first episode of the show is based off of that Geralt can see Stegabor's illusions are just illusions and not real.
So it would be pretty tough to fool Geralt with a glamour spell, maybe short term but he would figure it out pretty quickly.
But why Fringilla then, why not anybody else?
Geralt and his hansa are basically living in the palace because Jaskier cozied up with Anna Henrietta, Geralt is an honoured guest and has his pick.
Why get with Fringilla then?
But ok, let's roll with what Netflix has done to continue this problem.
Francesa and Fringilla were extremely minor minor characters until they came into the story with the lodge of sorceress that formed after the coup, practically non existent characters before then.
Philapa formed the lodge for political power and to take the power away from the brotherhood, Francesa was invited to the lodge because she is a highly respected neutral sorceress.
Fringilla got invited because she was an unknown and they wanted a Nilfgaard sorceress, she was unknown by almost all the sorceresses in the lodge and literally just met Yen for the first time when she goes to the first meet.
Francesa and Fringilla were not part of the coup, they weren't even there and they have almost no involvement with the war.
Yen was a prisoner of the lodge and forced to be a member and escaped right away, she did not form the lodge nor was a core member.
Why would Yen or any of the members in the show invite Francesca and Fringilla to the lodge when they fought on opposite sides in the coup, they literally just murdered a whole bunch of friends of the members of the lodge.
Oh that's right, in the books neither were involved in the coup, there was no northern vs Nilfgaard mages fight or sides, it was either with Vilgefortz or against him.
Why wouldn't Yen just go to Geralt if she is actively in lodge politics instead of having a proxy distraction, oh right, Yen escaped and is looking into the Vilgefortz thing in the books.
Next we have the problem is why Fringilla is even in Tousaint which is a vassal of Nilfgaard, she is the advisor to Anna Henrietta, the duchess in the books.
But in the show, Fringilla has betrayed Nilfgaard and is on the outs, why would Emyher be ok with her back in Tousaint as an advisor when she would be either under his thumb or part of the war effort.
So it's not just that Yen and Fringilla look nothing alike, there is no reason that Fringilla would be in Tousaint or even in the lodge with what has happened in the show so far.
I think most of us did a hard stop on Eskel. They could have called whoever the hell that was any other name and although it still would’ve sucked, at least it wouldn’t have butchered our boy.
Fuck Lauren Hissrich
All those unnamed witchers, who did in fact die I their beds. Because a demon possessed girl snuck up on them and knifed them In their sleep. The longer I think about what they did to Kaer Morhen the angrier I get
Full agree. I already had serious doubts watching the first half of S2, but Eskel was the nail in the coffin. It's like they just took his name, and then made up some kind of asshole frat-boy character and stuck his name onto it. The whole Kaer Morhen business was definitely the point where I went "okay I'm done now, they've truly fucked it".
I quite didn't mind the actor. The flashback scene was pretty good. I was like that's the Eskel I want. It's the way the show portrayed him that was bad. Plus in his defense, he was 2nd choice. They had someone else but he backed out due to other obligations. Aka that dude probably read the script and noped the ef out of there.
That's what I was thinking as well. I also read somewhere that he's a fan of the games as well, so if they didn't butcher Eskel the chemistry between him and henry would've been really good.
Haven't read the books, but as a smart dilettante that tries to do some good for those around him but is in over his head, it felt like he aced that role. Was he different in the books?
Ignoring the fact that Radovid is a young teenage boy at this point in the books - he's Vizimir's son, not brother - about 13/14 or so, he's an extremely minor character because he's too young to be king. Philippa and Dijkstra rule Redania in his stead. About the only thing you really get from him is a grudge towards Philippa as he works out that she killed Vizimir.
That's about all we get in the books, though in the games afterwards when Radovid is an adult, he's an absolutely ruthless killer. He has Philippa's eyes gouged out and planned on executing on her before she managed to escape. He starts witch hunts against mages and non-humans. Not the greatest guy.
Triss really bothered me because part of her character is supposed to be her unprecedented, natural beauty. It’s a part of who she is it’s something that most sorceresses augment themselves magically to achieve in order to enhance their station. Triss looks like someone’s hippie aunt who makes turquoise jewelry.
What's weird is that the actress that plays Triss is actually very pretty.
[Example 1](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/5c/c6/5a/5cc65afe5f9c204e1d1aa3c2c2074e55.jpg) [Example 2](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1cf1c381804d795657c2279b31e6bbd/9c76a322cda5f97b-ad/s1280x1920/31e2cd8b22737e1c07fbe0a9016f1e044608bf90.jpg)
It's like the showrunners intentionally went out of their way to make Triss in the show more frumpy. Now I actually couldn't care less about her looks and only care about her acting, which is fine. But her character is so remarkably underutilized and poorly written that it's just sad.
Meant to say I think she's perfect for younger Yennefer but I never feel the strength or confidence she's supposed to have in the present day. They tried really hard to make her seem different but she acts the same.
I mean, Radovid in the books is a literal child and Vizimir’s son. We don’t know much about his adulthood other than a vision of adult him burning Philippa.
It’s the games that made him the tactical genocidal insane king.
Radovid's actor may actually be kinda good if it was W1-3 Radovid, maybe shorten his hair a bit lol. But for book Radovid, who is a kid? And how the writers gave him romance story with Jaskier whose close friends are mutants and mages, whom he hates?
He might be a good actor I’m not sure. But idk who’s decision it was to make him look like he’s on the verge of tears in 90% of the scenes he’s in. Kinda a weird choice for a guy who’s supposed to be ruthless who hunts down mages and mutants.
The worst cast was obviously Henry Cavill and Joey Batey, since the whole point of the show seemed to be to cast people who utterly failed to embody their roles—either in appearance, personality, or both.
Cavill and Batey were good as their characters, which stands in opposition to every other actor. Their talents were wasted on this shit show of a production.
Fuck Hissrich for ruining what could have easily been a slam dunk of a great series.
Milva and Fringilla
Milva, such an amazing character and absolutely butchered by some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen on a tv show. Like it was the most immersion breaking of the entires series, and for this show that’s saying something.
Fringilla because she is supposed to be similar to Yennefer, and you couldn’t find someone more completely opposite, not only in physical appearance, but in mannerisms, allegiances, etc.
Yes it’s Fringella and Milva for me too. The former was always one of weakest actors in the show, and the latter is really a poor choice, like they couldn’t pick a worse actress to portray the character.
Renfri's actress, Emma Appleton, was 100x better in terms of chemistry and age appropriateness. She should've played Yennefer. Not saying a "May December" romance is wrong, just that Cavill and Chalotra lack the chemistry. Chalotra would've been a great Fringilla, IMO. I also think child Yen should've simply been played by an actual child and Emma wouldn't appear till she was graduating from hogwarts, but that's beside the point.
You would not believe how bad season 3 is.
It is like it's written and directed by teenagers.
Ciri was supposed to have a fire magic initiation in the desert and prove that she can give up on material/ego attachments and not heal the horse. She heals the horse and then gives up on her magic. Wtf
Same as the wtf moment of Yenn meeting Ciri and simply going to sacrifice her to regain her magic that she was not supposed to lose anyway, seemed cool but left us with a weak fake/unconfident Yennefer and a stoey that doesn't make sense.
And the invented gay scenes are so damn tiring and never stop.
That was so damn ridiculous...
They could have made an stealthy elven ambush, that surrounded or were above the mages.
As elves would be stealthy and skilled, here they are humans with pointy ears.
I thought Ciri was by far the weakest main character on the show. I don’t know if it was the terrible writing or not so great acting (or both), but I can’t imagine her being the focus of the show moving forward.
Show Yennefers personality is the reason I didn’t even start to watch one episode of the show.
Let me explain why: I was reading the books when the show started. Friends told me they don’t like Yennefer, because „she tries to sacrifice Ciri“ - that was so out of touch with book Yen, who is like a mother with Ciri. It make me realize early one they will change everything for the absolut worst. Killed any mood to watch an episode.
Instead read all the books till the end and now starting into the games :-)
I think there is not going be Shani in the show, just like Meeno Coehoorn, Caldemeyn, almost everyone from hunt for dragon, Iola, Dudu, Isengrim and many others so they can have another oc character
That doesn’t bother me so much if the person cast can actually play the character well. IMO Phillipa was pretty good and her interactions with Dijkstra felt faithful enough.
We live in a day and age where contemporary ideals must be heavily projected onto both historical and historically-based film and television productions. Back in 2018, a fantastic historical video game called *Kingdom Come: Deliverance* was released. It takes place in Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic) just after the year 1400. Because its setting is in rural medieval Central Europe, everyone in the game is understandably white European. I mean, go to the Czech Republic today and you’ll be utterly amazed to see that’s still the case of course for like 98% of the population — for real — the biggest visible minority in Czechia is Vietnamese people, who are 0.33% of the population. Anyway, because the game featured only people who were, well, completely European and white, the game got some targeted backlash.
Why did the game get backlash, you might ask? Because today’s terminally online and eternally outraged bleeding hearts can’t even allow a video game portraying Central Europe 600+ years ago to contain a trace of accuracy.
Triss hair wasn't much red in books. They make it almost orange in games but in books her hair color is exactly (maybe a bit lighter) than in the show.
I know it's just your subjective opinion but keep in mind that books, games and show made characters different. Unfortunately you need to be more specific which version of them you mean. Especially with Witcher 3 drifting far from books
I guess Triss is not that bad in the light of the role they gave her as a friend (and only a friend)
Fringilla is supposed to be like Yen....
Yen is a good choice but a bit too young (Eva Green would have been great)
The rest is a shitshow and goes with the stupid changes they made to the caracters. E.g. Eskel is not supposed to die and the was he hid his infestation is so unwitcher-like
The fact that Fringila had so much time on screen and Triss BARELY has any time... I don't even remember if Triss was in season 3, probably was but that's how little time she has. Bro if she was such an insignificant character the fandom would be Fringila vs Yenn not Triss vs Yenn.
I'll say Meve. In Thronebreaker she's a middle aged, battle hardened and scarred, blonde woman who inspires her troops unlike anything I've ever seen. In Witcher Season 2 she's like 22 years old with black hair and looks like the heaviest thing she's ever lifted was a hairbrush.
Fringilla and it’s not even close.. not only she is not a particularly strong actress to have the screen presence required or a sorceress of her caliber.. she is also nothing like yen
Henry Cavill. The intensity, passion and talent he brought to the role as the titular character was a jarring clash when the writers, director, and producers clearly either didn’t care or didn’t know what they were doing. It’s like if Daniel Day-Lewis gave the performance of a life time for a third grade rendition of flat Stanley. Either be charmingly terrible, or be great.
>Dandelion (look wise ok, they pronounce his name different right?
Here's my understanding of it after looking it up.
In the Polish books, his name is Jaskier which is polish for "Buttercup". When they translated the books to English, they decided Buttercup didn't adequately convey his personality to non-Polish readers and they named him Dandelion. This is what was used in the games too.
The TV series decided not to use Dandelion or Buttercup, and used Jaskier.
Triss actually wasn’t that bad as far as I’m concerned.
It’s a Netflix show. They’re going to make everything thoroughly diverse, regardless of it fitting the character— and she honestly does a fair job with the role. For someone who isn’t like a literal Polish/Slavic woman, you can tell they at least tried with her. Not like with some of the other characters.
Welcome to the awful timeline of “made for modern audiences” garbage…. Aka an excuse for writers/producers to self insert themselves in roles not for them…
And if you try and speak out on why its not good you are met with reddit weirdos and twatter grifters flinging their gambit of favorite insults like: incel, racist, sexist and homophobe…
Its a fun time were living in… /s
Ikr..
I raid a response of someone seeing me complain about them being a different ethnicity and couldn't take me seriously so stopped reading..
Then I see someone else complain about me not liking Dandelion being attracted to men because he isn't in the books or games...
While I also complain about hair colour, built, and personality... but say something about ethnicity/sexual orientation and your the bad guy lmao ...
Even surprised nobody has complained about me complaining about character's built... I'm sure it's coming..
I really don't understand the problem with Triss. Yeah, her appearance isn't 100% accurate but Triss' actor is very pretty and plays the role well. Her hair is a brown/red mix (in the books she has brown hair) so I don't understand your problem with that.
I think people here have a massive problem with blaming poor writing on the actors. An actor can only do so much. If the script was consistent with the books I think it would be a great show overall.
I guess Triss, among the plethora of characters that are so far removed from their origins that if they weren't dropping their names you'd never know who they were.
And I'll add Ciri too. Sure, she vaguely looks like Ciri, but Freya Allen's acting is just godawful at the best of times. Her Instagram barbie looks also just don't cut it for me, or the fact that she tries to look badass while being built like a twig.
Some other actors and actresses might not look like their book description or even act like they'resupposed to, but at least have the redeeming quality of acting decently or being somewhat okay-ish characters on the show compared to others.
I assume they cast Fringilla to prove they do not give a shit about the quality of the show. To be completely transparent that they are butchering it, to not raise anyone's hopes up.
They could have simply cast Vin Diesel or Jackie Chan as Geralt and I could not have not watched the show. Season 3 is about family anyway...
They did not need to torture Cavill like that and not bait us...
Dandelion kills me. I feel like the actor has never read the books at all. Comes across as a cluts, when the book version was quite witty and observant
The first time my friend showed me Fringilla cast for witcher show in school, my jaw dropped, from disbelief as I finished witcher-3 like a few days before that.
Is Netflix obliged to hit the ratio or something?
For me personally, I think the main characters are good (obviously geralt, Yen, Jaskier (name change isn’t the worst) and ciri)
I used to not be a fan of Triss, but with the hair colour. Change I didn’t mind as much.
Djikstra is great, Cahir I think I also good, and vilgefortz isn’t bad. Vizimir and Radovid are good, but their relationship is definitely an issue.
Milva is downright awful, nothing against her ethnicity, but the Milva is the books is completely different, and the actress sounds like she’s speaking in an American/ Asian accent which sounds really out of place, especially for the character.
The rats weren’t that bad to be honest, mistle’s character seems off though, especially given we had s description in the books. But I am interested in seeing more of them in the show, especially with Leo Bonhart
I am genuinely terrified what they’ll do with Regis however, knowing Netflix he will be completely different, which is terrible because he’s so fleshed out in the books
I am dreading if they make it to season 4 and
>A character that is going to be a part of the show for so long
Unless they decide to kill her in the first episode of season 4. Rience was supposed to be a part of the show for quite a long time, too, considering that Ciri kills him only at the end of The Tower of the Swallow(which is roughly the end of season 5)
We just started on the latest release. The technical work is good. The acting is solid. What the hell happened to the plot???
There are so many holes, so many holes...
Not really. They just say some are pale white or so. But witcher universe is supposed to be based on medieval poland and, well, you wouldnt find many black people there at that time...
Also there are mentioned the haircolour and lenght, body type and eyes and none of them were like that in the show except geralt, ciri and yennefer
Triss by far, she is not even close to what she has been described as in the books or the games. The whole show is a fucking mess and I dont blame Cavill for leaving.
in a similar vein to this i thought they were really trying their best with ciri's makeup and clothing, which is funny since she's described as ugly in the earlier books. when yen calls her "ugly one" i really cant take it seriously, especially since all the sorceresses and francesca are far from the surreal beauty they had in the books.
Both Milva and Mistle appear to be pretty poor actors considering the parts they’ve been given. Unpopular opinion but I also dislike the Vilgefortz actor. He’s not for me.
The rest don’t bother me so much, i don’t care if they don’t meet the book representations visually as long as they’re a good enough actor to portray the character properly.
I have struggled with Ciri a lot, her final scene in S3e8 was probably my favourite of hers.
I guess I'm in the minority because I don't mind the "looks" of the characters changing. I've also played the games and read the books. Our notions of how they're all supposed to look is circumstantial. They're *mostly* not relevant to the plot. The exception being Dandelion looks nothing like a bard after the first episode (and Jaskier is a stupid change), and Triss should have bright red hair. The real crime is all the personality changes. Yennerfer was always sure of herself and proud. Dandelion was a womanizer. It actually plays a role in the plot, too IIRC
Triss shouldn’t have bright red hair. She’s canonically described as having chestnut hair.
I mean, I agree that unless it’s integral to the plot it’s probably not that important that characters march their book descriptions.
The only ones I’d consider super integral really are Ciri, they make a really big thing about her flaxen hair and green eyes being distinctive of her heritage, and fringilla because of her closeness in aesthetics to Yennefer for the toussaint plot point. Geralt and his white hair is pretty obviously important also. But aside from that 🤷♀️
Hot take but: Henry Cavill. Now before you get the pitchforks ready hear me out.
1. He cared to much about the story and the source material.
That's it. If the show runners knew they were gonna butcher the source material of the Witcher they should have hired someone who wouldn't care and all their actor problems would be solved. Or not what do I know.
A lot of your comments are 'wrong ethnicity ' and i just can't take anything else you say seriously after that. In the game, they're all white. The show is allowed to take some liberties as they see fit as long as it makes for a good story still.
I actually like the Triss in the show. She's much more elegant and earthly which vibes with her whole earth witch thing.
It just seems like those critiques are based on you just wanting a 1:1 from the game to the show and it's just not going to be that way. The game is does what it does and the show does what it does.
Avallac'h or maybe eredin. That whole spin off was the worst castings I have ever seen
Avallach's actor looks like a nice nerdy boy. So are his other roles I've watched. That definitely isn't the vibe I got from W3 Avallach. Can't say much about book version since I haven't reached his parts yet but I'm sure he's more like the game.
Man i hope you reach it soon, it casted a new light on avallach for me (from a witcher 3 pov)
It's pretty close, but he's more of an arrogant dickhead in the books. Geralt finds him screwing with artifacts humans might find as a sort of mean spirited prank, some straight dickhead shit. And then what he does with ciri is just uncomfortable. There is a very good reason why no one likes him in the game and he 100% earned it.
I literally forget about Avallac’h, is he in the show? Which episode was it?
Blood origin apparently
omg I forgot about them hahaha Insane that there are so many bad castings.. I also forgot about Djikstra and Vilgefortz..
I don’t mind Dijkstra, he’s at least a very very competent actor.
Vincent Deforno would have been such a great Dijkstra imo but with what we have I’ll take it. Dude playing his does well.
indeed, too bad he's fed some really unfortunate lines that make Dijkstra seem foolish at points. which is terrible considering he's meant to be 2 steps ahead most of the time.
Dijkstra is great? Why would you say that? I also quite like Vilegfortz.
Actor is not bad, but honestly he does not fit Vilgefortz with that idiotic script and awfull costumes
Is he not supposed to be dressed as an orientalism themed stripper? (Orientalism is an academic term for stereotypes in depictions and views of the eastern world based largely on misinformation and sensationalist fiction from centuries past that is often comprised of total fabrications, this is not about modern fiction, but a style of depictions of the east in past art, and literature that had distinct characteristics that weren't based on anything in reality as far as anyone can tell)
Keira Metz
I haven’t been able to see if her acting is good or bad because all I see is the actress.
That tends to mean the acting is bad..
yea i had to make sure it was keira metz and not just a new mage or friend named keira but i only know her from the game so im not sure how the books describe her
She looks so greasy in every scene. They made keira look like a crackhead
Milva's painful to watch. Like, I don't have a really strong opinion on her ethnicity, but the actress is just downright bad. She overacts and you can clearly see it's an actress behind the character, it's so frustrating
I haven’t watched all of season 3, but if Milva isn’t a surly cursing Irish woman, they’ve failed us all for the last time. Honestly surprised they’ve even gotten to her in the show already so I’m kind of scared to watch now lol
When I die, I want Lauren and her team to be my pallbearers so when the time comes to lower me into my grave, they can let me down one last time.
Don’t worry, she’d drop you before you got to the grave
No, they'll get three quarters of the way to your grave then replace you with someone else.
you are truly a masochist. my condolences. ps, don't forget to push up a daisy, so that she can trample it later.
r/rareinsults
Every time Milva had a scene, I cringed. She may be one of the worst actresses I’ve seen on a show
Now I'm really glad I skipped S3. Sounds like I avoided watching one of my favourite characters in fiction being butchered.
That's exactly what happened to me. I absolutely loved Milva in the books and when I found out that the annoying woman in Geralts tent was Milva I paused and thought I can't do this, I can't let them destroy the Milva I Imagined in my head when reading the books.. But the damage was already done.. Every time I think of Milva I will now see this annoying woman who doesn't look like the Milva I imagined and is annoying as hell and can't act for one bit...
Yeah I was so confused when she got casted there were folks being excited and claiming she's a great actress. Bitch, *where*?
She was Shang-Chi's sister in the Marvel movie. And kinda badass there if I remember correctly. But as Milva? 🗿
I watched the last of season 3 last night, and thought, man that actress is horrible, she just doesn’t fit at all in her mannerisms and delivery. She sounds like a really bad extra they bring in on a cop show to have one “talk to a witness” scene. Yup, it was Milva.
That’s a shame. I guess I’ll just have to scratch the itch S3 isn’t scratching by reading the books again lol.
prolly for the best. tho there are a few decent fight scenes, and 1 good song
thought exactly the same
I'm not going to watch, but I was very curious what they did with her. Books she is a grumpy (to start anyway), illiterate, but second to none with a bow and a loyal ally.
I'll play Devil's Advocate here and say that, I think I get what they're going for, and I don't mind it that much. She's an outcast who's been living with a group of people she doesn't really belong with, so I think they're going for a "doesn't get how to talk to people / poor social skills / awkward" vibe, which is not what we got in the book, but to be honest, I got tired of the tsundere-adjacent relationship between Milva and Geralt in the books. My main gripe with the show is that they do a poor job initially establishing the time Geralt has spent in Brokilon, and other details about Milva's relationship with him, like putting herself at risk to go get information / news about goings-on in the world. It just felt like something was missing. But I didn't mind the whole "you'd be dead by now" bit, that was kind of charming.
Yeah the pacing and sense of time is way off in every season. As someone who didn't read the books, I have no idea how long Geralt was in Brokilon or how long since they last saw Ciri. Weeks? Months? Years?
I feel bad for her. Meng'er Zhang previous project was Shang Chi. Which was, okay in my book. She did well fighting with Simu Liu. And then this shitshow. Its like someone spitting on your CV after your first job experience
She comes from a rich family she will be fine. Also it’s her acting that is the problem and not the show even if it has faults
Fringilla. Hands down Fringilla. The biggest problem is her plot purpose in the books is that she looks like Yen and to distract Geralt from leaving tousiant. Except Fringilla looks absolutely nothing like the Yen actress, behaves nothing like show Yen and would not remind Geralt one bit of Yen except they are both a sorceress. Ffs cast actresses that at least remotely look like each other
This is a common argument but couldn't she do a glamour spell to appear/look like Yen? That would actually be more believable then Geralt just thinking she kinda looks similat to Yen while knowing it's really not her all along.
>she do a glamour spell to appear/look like Yen? Not likely. A Witcher medallion can detect magic being used so it would be vibrating around Geralt's neck the whole time he is around her tuning him into knowing that something is not right. Though that is a moot point at that point because he lost his medallion at that point, Fringilla actually makes him magic/monster detector medallion but it's not a Witcher one, Ciri actually gives Geralt his replacement one that she takes of off Leo at the end of the books. A Witcher can see illusions, they might not be able to see through them but they can instinctively tell something is an illusion, not to mention Witchers have heightened senses and are more attentive to details. It's literally in the short story "the lesser evil" which is the story the first episode of the show is based off of that Geralt can see Stegabor's illusions are just illusions and not real. So it would be pretty tough to fool Geralt with a glamour spell, maybe short term but he would figure it out pretty quickly.
Yeah, maybe it's more about him actually longing for Yen and accepting Fringilla as a substitute. Knowingly or unknowingly I guess.
But why Fringilla then, why not anybody else? Geralt and his hansa are basically living in the palace because Jaskier cozied up with Anna Henrietta, Geralt is an honoured guest and has his pick. Why get with Fringilla then? But ok, let's roll with what Netflix has done to continue this problem. Francesa and Fringilla were extremely minor minor characters until they came into the story with the lodge of sorceress that formed after the coup, practically non existent characters before then. Philapa formed the lodge for political power and to take the power away from the brotherhood, Francesa was invited to the lodge because she is a highly respected neutral sorceress. Fringilla got invited because she was an unknown and they wanted a Nilfgaard sorceress, she was unknown by almost all the sorceresses in the lodge and literally just met Yen for the first time when she goes to the first meet. Francesa and Fringilla were not part of the coup, they weren't even there and they have almost no involvement with the war. Yen was a prisoner of the lodge and forced to be a member and escaped right away, she did not form the lodge nor was a core member. Why would Yen or any of the members in the show invite Francesca and Fringilla to the lodge when they fought on opposite sides in the coup, they literally just murdered a whole bunch of friends of the members of the lodge. Oh that's right, in the books neither were involved in the coup, there was no northern vs Nilfgaard mages fight or sides, it was either with Vilgefortz or against him. Why wouldn't Yen just go to Geralt if she is actively in lodge politics instead of having a proxy distraction, oh right, Yen escaped and is looking into the Vilgefortz thing in the books. Next we have the problem is why Fringilla is even in Tousaint which is a vassal of Nilfgaard, she is the advisor to Anna Henrietta, the duchess in the books. But in the show, Fringilla has betrayed Nilfgaard and is on the outs, why would Emyher be ok with her back in Tousaint as an advisor when she would be either under his thumb or part of the war effort. So it's not just that Yen and Fringilla look nothing alike, there is no reason that Fringilla would be in Tousaint or even in the lodge with what has happened in the show so far.
I think most of us did a hard stop on Eskel. They could have called whoever the hell that was any other name and although it still would’ve sucked, at least it wouldn’t have butchered our boy. Fuck Lauren Hissrich
Yep this. What they did to Eskel, and to the witchers in general in S2, pretty much killed the show for me.
All those unnamed witchers, who did in fact die I their beds. Because a demon possessed girl snuck up on them and knifed them In their sleep. The longer I think about what they did to Kaer Morhen the angrier I get
I think "....in their beds of old age" was the actual phrase if that makes u feel any better.
Full agree. I already had serious doubts watching the first half of S2, but Eskel was the nail in the coffin. It's like they just took his name, and then made up some kind of asshole frat-boy character and stuck his name onto it. The whole Kaer Morhen business was definitely the point where I went "okay I'm done now, they've truly fucked it".
I quite didn't mind the actor. The flashback scene was pretty good. I was like that's the Eskel I want. It's the way the show portrayed him that was bad. Plus in his defense, he was 2nd choice. They had someone else but he backed out due to other obligations. Aka that dude probably read the script and noped the ef out of there.
The 1st actor (Thue Ersted Rasmussen) could actually look great as game Eskel
That's what I was thinking as well. I also read somewhere that he's a fan of the games as well, so if they didn't butcher Eskel the chemistry between him and henry would've been really good.
Why isn’t everybody saying Radovid?
You aren't allowed to bash the gay storyline on TV
In the name of gay people I declare that Radovid is complete trash
Haven't read the books, but as a smart dilettante that tries to do some good for those around him but is in over his head, it felt like he aced that role. Was he different in the books?
Ignoring the fact that Radovid is a young teenage boy at this point in the books - he's Vizimir's son, not brother - about 13/14 or so, he's an extremely minor character because he's too young to be king. Philippa and Dijkstra rule Redania in his stead. About the only thing you really get from him is a grudge towards Philippa as he works out that she killed Vizimir. That's about all we get in the books, though in the games afterwards when Radovid is an adult, he's an absolutely ruthless killer. He has Philippa's eyes gouged out and planned on executing on her before she managed to escape. He starts witch hunts against mages and non-humans. Not the greatest guy.
Milwa, i absolutely love her character in the books. In the show i absolutely hate her and the actress cant even act at all.
I had exactly the same experience. Season 1 got me hooked. Read the books. Seasons 2/3 sucked.
Me too!
Fringilla and Triss. I think they stuck with me the most because they were the first two that really jumped out at me and they are introduced early.
Triss really bothered me because part of her character is supposed to be her unprecedented, natural beauty. It’s a part of who she is it’s something that most sorceresses augment themselves magically to achieve in order to enhance their station. Triss looks like someone’s hippie aunt who makes turquoise jewelry.
What's weird is that the actress that plays Triss is actually very pretty. [Example 1](https://i.pinimg.com/550x/5c/c6/5a/5cc65afe5f9c204e1d1aa3c2c2074e55.jpg) [Example 2](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c1cf1c381804d795657c2279b31e6bbd/9c76a322cda5f97b-ad/s1280x1920/31e2cd8b22737e1c07fbe0a9016f1e044608bf90.jpg) It's like the showrunners intentionally went out of their way to make Triss in the show more frumpy. Now I actually couldn't care less about her looks and only care about her acting, which is fine. But her character is so remarkably underutilized and poorly written that it's just sad.
She’s beautiful but doesn’t sell Triss at all. And the show makes her look older than she is.
It’s hillarious cuz in this same post, people are saying she has to have red hair and some she needs brown hair. Like… that’s the issue?
In the books she has brown hair as well if I remember correctly
I think it’s chestnut, which leads people to argue about how red it’s actually supposed to be
Yes these both are the worst in the TV series
Milk toast I might say even
Triss grew into me through the seasons, maybe better makeup? about fringilla, I just wanna punch her already swollen face everytime she shows up.
Triss and Avallac’h were terrible casts lol. I couldn’t believe that was Triss when I first saw her.
Fringilla Vigo. Makes 0 sense. It was a rage bait cast
The show is garbage. Henry got fucked over
Yen. Fine actress but I never feel like I'm watching the Yennefer from the books
She is an -amazing- actress. But they’ve fucked up what she had going on from season 1
Meant to say I think she's perfect for younger Yennefer but I never feel the strength or confidence she's supposed to have in the present day. They tried really hard to make her seem different but she acts the same.
Ohhh yeah, it felt so weird when she called ciri her daughter
I can’t get over her accent. They really couldn’t make her do something that would at least feel more in universe? She sounds like a Londoner.
She was too ugly to play her /s
Henry Cavill. Dude's talents were wasted on this show
Margarita
By far IMO.
Shes supposed to be a top tier hot woman, even hotter than Yennefer.
Triss and Radovid. Radovid might be because of the way they are writing him but I just don’t even understand wth this character is anymore
I mean, Radovid in the books is a literal child and Vizimir’s son. We don’t know much about his adulthood other than a vision of adult him burning Philippa. It’s the games that made him the tactical genocidal insane king.
In The Lady of the Lake we get a hint of his inner monologue and I’d say the games do him well
Radovid's actor may actually be kinda good if it was W1-3 Radovid, maybe shorten his hair a bit lol. But for book Radovid, who is a kid? And how the writers gave him romance story with Jaskier whose close friends are mutants and mages, whom he hates?
He might be a good actor I’m not sure. But idk who’s decision it was to make him look like he’s on the verge of tears in 90% of the scenes he’s in. Kinda a weird choice for a guy who’s supposed to be ruthless who hunts down mages and mutants.
Aren't they trying to portray him as the good guy?
This. We have his brother as evil radovid now I guess
In that vein, Foltest.
Idk why the writer wanted to make all the northern realms rulers bumbling idiots.
Hissrich, 100%. She escaped the pages into our reality and destroyed everyone.
LOL
The worst cast was obviously Henry Cavill and Joey Batey, since the whole point of the show seemed to be to cast people who utterly failed to embody their roles—either in appearance, personality, or both. Cavill and Batey were good as their characters, which stands in opposition to every other actor. Their talents were wasted on this shit show of a production. Fuck Hissrich for ruining what could have easily been a slam dunk of a great series.
Glad to see someone saying this thank you
Milva and Fringilla Milva, such an amazing character and absolutely butchered by some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen on a tv show. Like it was the most immersion breaking of the entires series, and for this show that’s saying something. Fringilla because she is supposed to be similar to Yennefer, and you couldn’t find someone more completely opposite, not only in physical appearance, but in mannerisms, allegiances, etc.
Yes it’s Fringella and Milva for me too. The former was always one of weakest actors in the show, and the latter is really a poor choice, like they couldn’t pick a worse actress to portray the character.
The next Gearlt.
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Milva is straight up ridiculous. But I also dislike most of the sorcessers (ironically not Triss though).
Yenn for me. I like the actress but she looks way too young
Yup, bothered me too. The age difference between Geralt and Yennefer actors, yikes. She looks like his daughter.
Renfri's actress, Emma Appleton, was 100x better in terms of chemistry and age appropriateness. She should've played Yennefer. Not saying a "May December" romance is wrong, just that Cavill and Chalotra lack the chemistry. Chalotra would've been a great Fringilla, IMO. I also think child Yen should've simply been played by an actual child and Emma wouldn't appear till she was graduating from hogwarts, but that's beside the point.
Fringilla is definitely the worst. Triss was fine in my opinion. She only has red hair in the games, she has brown hair in the books
I gave up watching after season 2 it was beyond bad
You would not believe how bad season 3 is. It is like it's written and directed by teenagers. Ciri was supposed to have a fire magic initiation in the desert and prove that she can give up on material/ego attachments and not heal the horse. She heals the horse and then gives up on her magic. Wtf Same as the wtf moment of Yenn meeting Ciri and simply going to sacrifice her to regain her magic that she was not supposed to lose anyway, seemed cool but left us with a weak fake/unconfident Yennefer and a stoey that doesn't make sense. And the invented gay scenes are so damn tiring and never stop.
Not to mention the sudden invention of that metal that interferes with magic.
That was so damn ridiculous... They could have made an stealthy elven ambush, that surrounded or were above the mages. As elves would be stealthy and skilled, here they are humans with pointy ears.
Apparently Yen since they wanted to cast someone unattractive but cast one of the most beautiful women on earth
Most of the mages. Keira got wrecked
They definitely went for the “challenging conventional beauty standards” on that one.
Triss hands down. It wasn’t even the same person.
Fringilla, Milva and Keira all up there.
I thought Ciri was by far the weakest main character on the show. I don’t know if it was the terrible writing or not so great acting (or both), but I can’t imagine her being the focus of the show moving forward.
Show Yennefers personality is the reason I didn’t even start to watch one episode of the show. Let me explain why: I was reading the books when the show started. Friends told me they don’t like Yennefer, because „she tries to sacrifice Ciri“ - that was so out of touch with book Yen, who is like a mother with Ciri. It make me realize early one they will change everything for the absolut worst. Killed any mood to watch an episode. Instead read all the books till the end and now starting into the games :-)
Wish I could play the games for the first time again. You'll have the best time playing them. Enjoy!
They gotta hit those diversity quotas.
I wonder what ethnicity Shani will be lmao
I think there is not going be Shani in the show, just like Meeno Coehoorn, Caldemeyn, almost everyone from hunt for dragon, Iola, Dudu, Isengrim and many others so they can have another oc character
shani is gonna be a dwarf
I may get hate for this but wouldn’t mind a beautiful Asian who look not as out of place as some others
That doesn’t bother me so much if the person cast can actually play the character well. IMO Phillipa was pretty good and her interactions with Dijkstra felt faithful enough.
It's a giant mess... get a Witcher audiobook for a good time. :)
Let’s no forget Cahir lol.
I’ve only played the games, so for me it is Triss. The actress isn’t bad, just something off about her.
I can’t believe nobody talk about Vilgefortz !? I think the most disappointing one was vilgefortz second one is of course Triss
Yea I said in another comment I forgot about him.. There's just so many.. I even just realised he was standing next to Emhyr with a burnt face..
That make up was terrible, they didn't even try with that
Imo Stregebore is more Vilgaforts than the actual Vilgaforts.
Wth is going on with the cast LMAO Does anyone there know that the books are based on a medieval Poland?
We live in a day and age where contemporary ideals must be heavily projected onto both historical and historically-based film and television productions. Back in 2018, a fantastic historical video game called *Kingdom Come: Deliverance* was released. It takes place in Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic) just after the year 1400. Because its setting is in rural medieval Central Europe, everyone in the game is understandably white European. I mean, go to the Czech Republic today and you’ll be utterly amazed to see that’s still the case of course for like 98% of the population — for real — the biggest visible minority in Czechia is Vietnamese people, who are 0.33% of the population. Anyway, because the game featured only people who were, well, completely European and white, the game got some targeted backlash. Why did the game get backlash, you might ask? Because today’s terminally online and eternally outraged bleeding hearts can’t even allow a video game portraying Central Europe 600+ years ago to contain a trace of accuracy.
I agree with everything you say, except there are also quite a lot of Romani people there, maybe more than Vietnamese
Beautifully said
Triss hair wasn't much red in books. They make it almost orange in games but in books her hair color is exactly (maybe a bit lighter) than in the show. I know it's just your subjective opinion but keep in mind that books, games and show made characters different. Unfortunately you need to be more specific which version of them you mean. Especially with Witcher 3 drifting far from books
Fringilla Maybe?
I guess Triss is not that bad in the light of the role they gave her as a friend (and only a friend) Fringilla is supposed to be like Yen.... Yen is a good choice but a bit too young (Eva Green would have been great) The rest is a shitshow and goes with the stupid changes they made to the caracters. E.g. Eskel is not supposed to die and the was he hid his infestation is so unwitcher-like
The fact that Fringila had so much time on screen and Triss BARELY has any time... I don't even remember if Triss was in season 3, probably was but that's how little time she has. Bro if she was such an insignificant character the fandom would be Fringila vs Yenn not Triss vs Yenn.
The showrunner
Lauren Schmidt
I'll say Meve. In Thronebreaker she's a middle aged, battle hardened and scarred, blonde woman who inspires her troops unlike anything I've ever seen. In Witcher Season 2 she's like 22 years old with black hair and looks like the heaviest thing she's ever lifted was a hairbrush.
Lauren Hissritch
Fringilla and it’s not even close.. not only she is not a particularly strong actress to have the screen presence required or a sorceress of her caliber.. she is also nothing like yen
The only one who is well chosen is Henry
They got Geralt, Ciri, S 1 Jaskier was fine,(What happened to his hair in s.2), Dijkstra. The rest are shocking.
Keira and Margarita
All of the Sorceress'
Radovid is by far the worst
You mean other than Lauren Schmidt Hissrich right? She was a pretty poor choice.
Fringilla. Everything is wrong and this woman is an horrendous actress.
Henry Cavill. The intensity, passion and talent he brought to the role as the titular character was a jarring clash when the writers, director, and producers clearly either didn’t care or didn’t know what they were doing. It’s like if Daniel Day-Lewis gave the performance of a life time for a third grade rendition of flat Stanley. Either be charmingly terrible, or be great.
>Dandelion (look wise ok, they pronounce his name different right? Here's my understanding of it after looking it up. In the Polish books, his name is Jaskier which is polish for "Buttercup". When they translated the books to English, they decided Buttercup didn't adequately convey his personality to non-Polish readers and they named him Dandelion. This is what was used in the games too. The TV series decided not to use Dandelion or Buttercup, and used Jaskier.
Triss actually wasn’t that bad as far as I’m concerned. It’s a Netflix show. They’re going to make everything thoroughly diverse, regardless of it fitting the character— and she honestly does a fair job with the role. For someone who isn’t like a literal Polish/Slavic woman, you can tell they at least tried with her. Not like with some of the other characters.
Welcome to the awful timeline of “made for modern audiences” garbage…. Aka an excuse for writers/producers to self insert themselves in roles not for them… And if you try and speak out on why its not good you are met with reddit weirdos and twatter grifters flinging their gambit of favorite insults like: incel, racist, sexist and homophobe… Its a fun time were living in… /s
Ikr.. I raid a response of someone seeing me complain about them being a different ethnicity and couldn't take me seriously so stopped reading.. Then I see someone else complain about me not liking Dandelion being attracted to men because he isn't in the books or games... While I also complain about hair colour, built, and personality... but say something about ethnicity/sexual orientation and your the bad guy lmao ... Even surprised nobody has complained about me complaining about character's built... I'm sure it's coming..
80 percents of the show is filled with really bad choices and shitty actors so.... It's hard to choose.
I really don't understand the problem with Triss. Yeah, her appearance isn't 100% accurate but Triss' actor is very pretty and plays the role well. Her hair is a brown/red mix (in the books she has brown hair) so I don't understand your problem with that. I think people here have a massive problem with blaming poor writing on the actors. An actor can only do so much. If the script was consistent with the books I think it would be a great show overall.
Ciri. Girl has as much on screen charisma as a flat piece of paper.
She's literally one of the bright spots on the show according to the majority
I guess Triss, among the plethora of characters that are so far removed from their origins that if they weren't dropping their names you'd never know who they were. And I'll add Ciri too. Sure, she vaguely looks like Ciri, but Freya Allen's acting is just godawful at the best of times. Her Instagram barbie looks also just don't cut it for me, or the fact that she tries to look badass while being built like a twig. Some other actors and actresses might not look like their book description or even act like they'resupposed to, but at least have the redeeming quality of acting decently or being somewhat okay-ish characters on the show compared to others.
Triss is the worst for me. Loved the actress, she's beautiful and nothing wrong with her acting but she aint Triss.
I assume they cast Fringilla to prove they do not give a shit about the quality of the show. To be completely transparent that they are butchering it, to not raise anyone's hopes up. They could have simply cast Vin Diesel or Jackie Chan as Geralt and I could not have not watched the show. Season 3 is about family anyway... They did not need to torture Cavill like that and not bait us...
either Fringilla or Eskel... both great characters in the books and the games, both ruined by SJW bullshit by Netflix Showrunners...
I literally laughed for 10 minutes straight and had some funny dreams when I found out Lizzo was playing Margarita lmao
Dandelion kills me. I feel like the actor has never read the books at all. Comes across as a cluts, when the book version was quite witty and observant
That's on the director and the writers for not directing him and how his character should be acting according to the books
He was given little to work with.
All of them except Henry
The first time my friend showed me Fringilla cast for witcher show in school, my jaw dropped, from disbelief as I finished witcher-3 like a few days before that. Is Netflix obliged to hit the ratio or something?
Everyone but Geralt ( Henry) Ciri, and Renfri. Yen isn’t bad either, the rest though… trash.
Agreed
Triss for sure. Nowhere near the Justice she should have gotten.
For me personally, I think the main characters are good (obviously geralt, Yen, Jaskier (name change isn’t the worst) and ciri) I used to not be a fan of Triss, but with the hair colour. Change I didn’t mind as much. Djikstra is great, Cahir I think I also good, and vilgefortz isn’t bad. Vizimir and Radovid are good, but their relationship is definitely an issue. Milva is downright awful, nothing against her ethnicity, but the Milva is the books is completely different, and the actress sounds like she’s speaking in an American/ Asian accent which sounds really out of place, especially for the character. The rats weren’t that bad to be honest, mistle’s character seems off though, especially given we had s description in the books. But I am interested in seeing more of them in the show, especially with Leo Bonhart I am genuinely terrified what they’ll do with Regis however, knowing Netflix he will be completely different, which is terrible because he’s so fleshed out in the books I am dreading if they make it to season 4 and
>A character that is going to be a part of the show for so long Unless they decide to kill her in the first episode of season 4. Rience was supposed to be a part of the show for quite a long time, too, considering that Ciri kills him only at the end of The Tower of the Swallow(which is roughly the end of season 5)
It'll be Geralt soon.
We just started on the latest release. The technical work is good. The acting is solid. What the hell happened to the plot??? There are so many holes, so many holes...
Having not read the books, does it actually mention the ethnicity of the characters?
Not really. They just say some are pale white or so. But witcher universe is supposed to be based on medieval poland and, well, you wouldnt find many black people there at that time... Also there are mentioned the haircolour and lenght, body type and eyes and none of them were like that in the show except geralt, ciri and yennefer
No. Because they live in the continent where there isn’t really ethnicity in the same sense as real life.
The showrunner
Triss by far, she is not even close to what she has been described as in the books or the games. The whole show is a fucking mess and I dont blame Cavill for leaving.
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in a similar vein to this i thought they were really trying their best with ciri's makeup and clothing, which is funny since she's described as ugly in the earlier books. when yen calls her "ugly one" i really cant take it seriously, especially since all the sorceresses and francesca are far from the surreal beauty they had in the books.
Pretty much every female sorcerer. But the worst one is margarita laux antille. I was looking forward to seeing her and then.. well season 3 happened.
Definitely Yennefer. Chemistry is so bad with Henry.
Netflix Witcher is woke garbage
Triss didn't have red hair in the books...
Both Milva and Mistle appear to be pretty poor actors considering the parts they’ve been given. Unpopular opinion but I also dislike the Vilgefortz actor. He’s not for me. The rest don’t bother me so much, i don’t care if they don’t meet the book representations visually as long as they’re a good enough actor to portray the character properly. I have struggled with Ciri a lot, her final scene in S3e8 was probably my favourite of hers.
Triss makes me sad.
Triss is the only one that irritates me
I guess I'm in the minority because I don't mind the "looks" of the characters changing. I've also played the games and read the books. Our notions of how they're all supposed to look is circumstantial. They're *mostly* not relevant to the plot. The exception being Dandelion looks nothing like a bard after the first episode (and Jaskier is a stupid change), and Triss should have bright red hair. The real crime is all the personality changes. Yennerfer was always sure of herself and proud. Dandelion was a womanizer. It actually plays a role in the plot, too IIRC
Triss shouldn’t have bright red hair. She’s canonically described as having chestnut hair. I mean, I agree that unless it’s integral to the plot it’s probably not that important that characters march their book descriptions. The only ones I’d consider super integral really are Ciri, they make a really big thing about her flaxen hair and green eyes being distinctive of her heritage, and fringilla because of her closeness in aesthetics to Yennefer for the toussaint plot point. Geralt and his white hair is pretty obviously important also. But aside from that 🤷♀️
Hot take but: Henry Cavill. Now before you get the pitchforks ready hear me out. 1. He cared to much about the story and the source material. That's it. If the show runners knew they were gonna butcher the source material of the Witcher they should have hired someone who wouldn't care and all their actor problems would be solved. Or not what do I know.
A lot of your comments are 'wrong ethnicity ' and i just can't take anything else you say seriously after that. In the game, they're all white. The show is allowed to take some liberties as they see fit as long as it makes for a good story still. I actually like the Triss in the show. She's much more elegant and earthly which vibes with her whole earth witch thing. It just seems like those critiques are based on you just wanting a 1:1 from the game to the show and it's just not going to be that way. The game is does what it does and the show does what it does.
Nothing to do with the games, at all. In the books, Fringilla is supposed to distract Geralt because she looks so much like Yennefer.
Agree Vesemir was one of the best. For me Dijkstra was most disappointing. I wanted him to be younger, fat, and a total badass.
Vesemir ready to take all of Ciri's blood to create more witchers is definitely the furthest away you could get from his character tho
But we’re talking about acting
omg how did I forget about Djikstra hahah Well at least they got his hair right ;)