| shikamaru317 said: I quite liked episode 1, but episode 2 was a massive disappointment to me. The casting for all of the Wolf School Witchers other than Geralt seems bad. Take Vesemir for instance, Mark Hamill wanted to play Vesemir and fans waged a massive campaign to get them to cast Mark Hamill, instead we got this guy who seem kind of meh. Eskel is a total disaster, Lambert and Coen look nothing like they do in the books or games. Agreed about the whole multi-racial casting thing. Netflix's requirement that all shows must have a certain number of main cast members who are racial minorities really boogered up everything. Instead of designing some new characters who were POC, they instead changed the races of established character. Hit hardest by this is Fringilla, who was portrayed as a black haired white woman in the books and games, but is instead a very dark skinned black woman in the show. It is extremely offputting for anyone who played the games in particular, every time I see her my brain is like "I don't know who that is but it's not Fringilla". Race swapping and gender swapping characters is such a lazy tactic of modern Hollywood, a cop-out that they find easier than designing new POC and new female characters that are well-written. |
Ep 1 was fine yeah. And wth.. Mark Hamil would have made a great Vesemir.
And wow is that really a thing? Really can't stand forced diversity in films and media. Like if someone is genuinely a great actor/actress and fits the role perfectly I don't have a problem. Its when directors start deviating so far from original material as when I have a issue. And that's not even looking at the writing and dialogue, which is quite frankly pretty bad. The dialect and the way the characters speak so modern, its almost like watching some cosplayers dressing up. Its just jarring, and takes me out of it.
And yeah hated the way they handled Eskel's character in this. If it weren't for the decent action and Henry Cavil I probably would have dropped this but here we are lol.
had me roll my eyes and then some. Not trying to be a dick, but come on.
