She clearly draws inspiration from the games when it's convenient to her. The armor. The hot tub scene. The black blood potion. Everytime she makes some controversial decision it's "Based on the books", even when she changes things from the books. The argument "Oh, it's because I'm following the books not the games" it's a way to cover the awful decisions she made, and most people here supports her and this dumb argument.
If you don't like it or the casting? You're a sexist, racist or another -istophobe .
No respect for the source material, no artistic fidelity, lots of changes.
Another dumb down Hollywood production.
I see. You are disappointed that Netflix did not send the script to you for personal approval. I can understand that you are feeling this way, after all, you are
the internationally know expert on adapting fantasy book series to tv shows. I'm not entirely sure who these "most people here" are you refer to, but I guess quite a few of them are made of straw. I'd argue that "most people" actually have no fucking clue who the persons are that are writing the screenplay (I don't, and I'm too lazy to google for it), hence it's strange that they would be "supporting" an argument they haven't heard from a person they don't know. I guess you try to exaggerate for effect, but really, to me it looks like someone yelling at clouds complaining about the weather.
You don't like the casting:
I mean, sucks for you I guess. But Netflix is paying for the series and not you, and since it's their money they can do whatever they want with it as long as they don't break any laws. Crazy, right? This capitalism thing is getting out of hand, why do we not have a council of Witcher-experts that has the final say on anything regarding this series? But if you'd have the money available to pay for the series, you could cast whoever you want in it, so there's that option. I'm also not sure who in this thread has called you or anyone a sexist racist or whatever-phobe? Perhaps you can point that person out since I thought personal attacks are against board rules and such. You can report such behaviour (there's that button on the bottom left of every post) and the friendly mods will take care of people who call you names for no reason.