I dunno, they are not cartoons? So it will be very much an adaptation at any rate. As were the games.
Yeah, that was pretty terrible.
I don't do emojis, but insert a fist bump here - made the exact same point to the same comment/gaffer before.
At the beginning of the books, when it is likely to take place (I understand they start with first stories), she was a kid so that's good.
With all due respect, a subset (but perhaps very vocal one) of SJWs.
...why the fuck you had to bring the "S"-word into this? I'm in the opinion of "I don't care". You seem to be much more worked up over this, as you've stated in multiple messages.
While I agree with you, writing new characters to meet their race quota would just create different problems. If the character's too important, fans of the original will hate that character for effecting the story too much, but SJWs will hate it if it's not important enough. Blackwashing happens to be the simpler solution.
FFS. Isn't there really any middle ground? I consider myself a fan of the "original" (whatever that may be - I never finished the original Witcher game, because let's face it, it wasn't that good mechanically, but played through 2 and 3 + DLCs multiple times, have read a couple of the novels too). And yet... I'm indifferent, because it's still a new interpretation on a new medium, I'll wait for the result before I get all worked up. Or perhaps end up enjoying it. Who knows - we'll see in a couple of years.
I was just playing devil's advocate. Plenty of people are in the middle ground, including myself. As long as the core story isn't changed too much and its entertaining I'll be happy but there are always vocal minorities that won't be.
Anna Henrietta (Annarietta) is family with Fringilla. If you read the book you would know that she also had green eyes.
Yeah I don't care. This isn't the book, it's a Netflix show. You can always just go read the books again and imagine everyone as white if that is what you want.
So all you care is racial diversity? I want the show to be succesful and based on the books because they were amazing.
So, if the show were in any way to divert from the books, that would be bad? Or is it just the casting?
All I care about is if the show is good or not. The skin color of a side character in no way will affect that outcome.
In the books she looked like 20 years old because they could use their dirty magic to cover up the real age. Nevertheless, the actress doesn't look good for the role IMO. I can be mistaken, that's just my opinion.
Let Jamie Foxx play George Washington. Sure, no trouble there.
See, at this point I am really, really tired of this. Blackwashing and whitewashing are something that should be dropped completely. It's NOT how you reach diversity, it's not something progressive and you just piss off the fans. It's not ok to change the source material. It's not ok to change the real author's vision.
I've seen many movie/series adaptations that have been way superior than their source material. Hell, take "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" vs. Blade Runner. The latter is not a literal adaptation by any means. It is pretty much the seminal cyberpunk film (so much so, that William Gibson considered not finishing Neuromancer having seen it). So should Blade Runner not have been made?
I get the /s, but I just have to comment - I have, and thought Zack Snyder was a hack already then, didn't get what all the fuzz was about. But oh boy, he's been even worse since.
