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HoloDust on 14 September 2018
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shikamaru317 said:
HoloDust said:

Yeah, I can understand if they did it for those reasons. Still...

Honestly, can't wait to see first episode - I don't like one bit that they picked Cavill to play Geralt (either Mads or Nikolaj are vastly better choices, and if they wanted someone younger Zach Megowan (Charles Vane in Black Sails) would be my choice), then all this shit about Ciri...I have very little confidence left that it will be any good.

I still have somewhat high hopes. Netflix has done a pretty good job on some of their originals. Take the Marvel series for instance, even though 3 of them have seasons that failed to live up to expectations, even the worst season out of all of them was still fun to watch imo. And then there is Stranger Things, which is just amazing.  Of course they've had dud series as well, but since Lauren was a producer on season 1 of Daredevil, which was great, I still have hope. Hopefully they really stay true to the source material, I don't want some kind of Eragon-esque adaption with a ton of changes, I want it to be very close to the books and the games. Hopefully they get good directors for the episodes as well. If Netflix is smart they will go all out on it with a big budget, this could be the next Game of Thrones if they get it right. 

Oh, sure, Netlfix can do good stuff, I consider season 1 of House of Cards and first 4 or 5 episodes of Stranger Things to be some of the best that TV has to offer in last 20 or so years.
It's just I'm kinda not expecting much anymore, given how it's going so far.

As for GoT level - I really doubt it, I think source material for that is of much better quality than that of Witcher. But it could be really, really good if they're smart.