The Witcher 3 thread - now with more goat

Yeah... this already looking bad.
Well, you guys know the saying get woke... Games turned into tv shows are shite, and the other way around.

But I think she's also flicking gasoline into this firestorm by saying nothing. She could just easily say that the post is fake or not, but she stayed quiet. Instead, letting it fester into this gigantic shtshow. She should have known how attached the Witcher fans are of this world, and there's a LOT of them. Like... a whole country and the rest from all over the world. I think the casting sheet is legit, but the backlash was so great they have to backtrack since "apparently" , a white polish girl will play her now. As it should be. Ciri is not black or brown (like me) or anything but pale white. Maybe a mixed japanese, korean or chinese can play her though, since they have very pale, flawless and glowing skin. Just slap on green lense and platinum dye her hair.


Also, I get that even if we get a white Ciri, some things could still go wrong. But changing the characters drastically point blank from a popular source material and an even popular game which stayed "mostly" with the source characterwise is a sure way of killing the hype.

The reason why GoT was so popular and loved was because it mostly stayed true to the books with the close help from the author. Mr. Sappy on the other hand have seem to have disappeared from the picture. They probably payed him to bugger off :/

It is simple really. First, I dont believe there was ever a leaked casting sheet for Geralt, I could be wrong, but never read about it.

Second, if they really were not the ones who put up that audition call for Ciri, I dont understand why not just say so. I know she said she wont comment, but she could just say "we did not do it" without saying anything about the cast. And thar's that, it would have been fine. Surely, protecting their livelihood is better than putting up with fake tweets. No?

So, yeah. Either they backtracked impromptu or they were testing the waters on how tolerant or in this case, how "intolerant" the rabid Witcher fans are.

Really, if it was HBO, I wouldn't have worried so much about it ☺️

Seems rather unlikely that Netflix would dramatically shift their casting preferences in the space of, what, a week ? And going by Lauren's tweet from earlier in the year.



I'm thinking that dramatically changing Ciri's appearance from what's presented in the books was perhaps not the original intention.

And we don't know if they walked back. They said absolutely nothing. You have just a rumor, like " they are looking for a polish girl " from Reedit, with no context and circonstance whatsoever. It might have been always the case. This " anonyme source " might even be false too as far as I am concerned. Two unconfirmed rumors. Or it could be a real guy working for Lauren, trying to fix in a non-officially way, the fake rumor they couldn't officially disappprove of. Who knows ? 
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xetykins : There were fake online articles from suspicious sites that confirmed Geralt as black, it was the same for James Bond. Of course, when you read the articles, anyone using his brain a little could actually notice that they got no evidences, except some " anonyme source " or rumors, or speculation, or vague statements from some famous folks. It was persistent for months, until Cavill was confirmed and Idris Elba assured he would not be James Bond. But some people read " confirmed as " in the title of these articles, and it was enough for them to believe that overall. So yeah, some stupid reactions on internet. That was just irrational. Even before that, we had people claiming that type of nonsense, without any evidence. 

Also, polishs are considered as an ethnic minority ( slavic ) in Great Britain. Even if that document was true, who says it wasn't for a polish girl, looking and noticing the actors overall.

In reality we have no idea what's been happening behind the scenes or what were Netflix's original intentions. This whole mess is based on rumors and a fairly vague casting ad.

Also I hope you were kidding with your last sentence by the way ... Since when we must give in to racists, stalkers, and bigots, just to be in peace ?   No. Never.  What is that kind of shit, where now, the productors must answer to all fake suspicious rumors like, Omg Ciri will be a trans in the serie TV " with violent and despicable tweets like :" YOU BITCH, YOU LITERALLY DESTROYED THE FRANCHISE, WHY IS CIRI A TRANS ? WHY IS EVERYONE GAY ?" You do realize that there are a lot of rumors and nonsense on internet, even on reedit, right ?

I don't know, being insulted for something you even might haven't done, doesn't give me any will to answer, personally. It shouldn't be the usual reaction toward that kind of stupidity to me. And since Farci explained quite well why she wouldn't do that, a lot of companies doing actually the same.. I'll stop right there. 

@ Xetykins. I never talked about you. Anywhere. I'm aware you are seriously and honestly concerned like I suppose many other folks and that's fine by me. I only mentioned the rabid haters on twitter that insulted her for doing something that wasn't even confirmed.. sometimes with racist implications... I mean, these guys don't deserve an answer to their dumb tweets, just to be ignored. That's all what I said. A compagny having to justificate itself just because of them, so you could have peace and stop being harassed is the wrong way to think for me. Bigots should be ignored. That's all what I meant. 

As for the other die hard and casual fans, they just have to wait. They'll know soon enough. Like everywhere else, you learn about the casting when THEY ARE READY. I'm not certain why that should be different here, and I'm not sure what's so difficult actually. They are not forced to respond to rumors that appears in the media. Rumors have always been part of the game, they will continue to happen in the future.

There is still one year. The only thing we can think as certificated is what coming from the netflix production. Well, mostly, if Lauren comes back on twitter as well... For now, I think she is going to remain silent for a while.

Hmm...any comments from Sapkowski on this? He sounded positively ecstatic when they announced the show, but last I heard he's no longer working on(with?) it.
Hope he got royalties this time around.

Is Thronebreaker the singleplayer campaign of the Gwent game?
If so I'm up for it. Love Gwent!!! I still play the physical card game with friends sometimes.

It might be a totally different game in general. Maybe it's not exactly Gwent, but it might be a card-based strategy game that tells an original story.

Just think of it as a Witcher game armed with Gwent cards instead of swords.