Henry Cavill leaving The Witcher after season 3 finishes on Netflix. To be replaced by Liam Hemsworth.
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Taken from a thread over on Reddit, Cavill is "stepping down" from his role as the lead in the live action adapation of The Witcher on Netflix.
This is an adaptation that has fragmented the fanbase of the books and games severely as the adaptation has been one of the worst in modern history, which isn't too surprising since it's Netflix.
Some of the issues involve:
The story being completely detached from the books.
Showrunners and shills berating fans that because it's an adaptation of the books, which are set before the games, that it's "not made for gamers". However season 2 specifically brings in a character with next to no page presence just to then kill off said character despite the fact he is still alive in the games. This is a character who only those who have played the games would care about so the name recognition is targeting those audience members previously berated.
Existing characters being portrayed in ways that make no sense going by the book descriptions, like Foltest. Characters interacting with others in ways that are so far beyond contradictory there is no actual way to explains things, like Yen and Vesemir both trying to effectively kill Ciri.
Geralt, played by Cavill, was about the sole thing many viewers were sticking around for because he's a massive nerd and fan of the show. To the point that during one episode where his horse is killed Cavill flat out rejected to do a scene making a joke about this. I can assume the joke relates to the fact Geralt names all his horses "Roach", like the fish, so the joke was probably something along the lines of "Time to get another one", however Cavill wouldn't do it. He ended up getting to rewrite the joke scene into a small speech that some fans have described as being the most character accurate scene of the whole show. Which shows you how completely out of touch the showrunners are, which should surprise nobody with the recent stories about them actively mocking the source material.
We could all hope said showrunners get fucked from this massive screw up but we all know better that these parasites always fall up.
Yen and Vesemir try to kill Ciri?
So these people know the characters' names and that's about it.
In the books Yen is blinded during the Battle of Sodden because she takes a spell to the face. Similarly Triss takes a fireball to the tits which is why she stops wearing low cut tops but that didn't stop CDPR still giving her an alt dress which completely ignored this.
This blindness is used as a mechanism to explore Yen being unable to use her powers because she can't fucking see and didn't learn the pre-requisite spells needed to see with magic yet.
Also in the books Ciri starts to learn magic. From Yen. She is told there are many things that can be drawn upon to use as a source and that Fire is one of the most dangerous things to do this with so should be avoided.
Ciri does the thing.
And effectively loses her magic capability because of it.
Well the writers gave all of that to Yen and made her lose her magic instead of just her eyesight after the Battle of Sodden. They also gave her Triss' arc from the battle, because the showrunner really just wants to write a self-insert.
Now Yen differs significantly from the book version in multiple ways which go all the way back to how she gets her magic in the show; by literally getting a hysterectomy done via magic. This doesn't happen in the books. This never happens in the books, it's not how magic works. Some magic users end up becoming sterile due to years or magical alterations done to themselves but they don't flat out castrate themselves to suddenly grant themselves magic powers.
So, with that in mind Yen then decides that after making the informed choice to give up her ability to have children, not that she was likely to anyway because she was literally a hunchback prior to all this, she claims her ability to have children was "taken from her". Which is the normal sort of bullshit you can expect from Twitter tier writers since again as mentioned the decision to go through with this was both Yen's and one she was completely informed about. She knew what the cost was.
So after Yen then loses her magic she goes full on psycho trying to get it back. At one point near the end of the second season this involves making a pact with a brand new demon added just to the show where Yen will give the demon Ciri and the demon will give Yen her powers back. Supposedly.
Anyone who has read the books will know how much Yen loves Ciri as if she was her actual blood daughter, and yet the showrunners for the Netflix adaptation wrote in Yen wanting to sacrifice Ciri to a demon because she had regrets about giving up her womb for magic decades ago.
As for Vesemir he learns Ciri's blood can be used to make more Witchers so thinks the smart thing to do is kill her and take the blood...
Entire show is a fucking joke.
It's a meme but I literally can't even [find the words to respond to this].
Instead it gets a long drawn out exhale of frustration 😤
I thought Vesemir doesn't want to make more witchers, or is the game blurring with the book in my head?