Netflix - The Witcher - Assassin of Polls

Everyone's pupils retract in daylight and expand in the dark, cats or humans. Witchers had cat like pupils though, in the books too.

Nah, that's an adjustment the games made. For Book Geralt it's an inherent property of his eyes. And he deflects Yen's question about whether or not it's voluntary, if memory serves.

Don't remember what was specifically written, but I've always been under the impression that his pupils were normal most of the time and retracted into slits in bright light. Cats' exceptional night vision comes from the extra photoreceptor rods in their retina, it has nothing to do with their pupil shape, so I don't see the particular advantage to having slitted eyes under normal or dark lighting conditions. 

If witchers really have cat eyes then that explains why they mostly stick to melee combat, though. They're all nearsighted. 

You're right, then. Wait. If you're actually excited for the show and insistent on wanting to enjoy it then save the books for after. Otherwise there's really no way you won't be disappointed.

Personally I'm inclined to just skip it. Might give the first few minutes a looksie to see if it's as boring as the trailers look, but I don't think I'll watch it.

It's a mystery to me how producers don't seem to realize that the reason they've heard about a book or video game franchise at all is probably because it's some of the greatest of all time, and trying to adapt it into mediocre television, movies or games isn't going to appeal to anyone.

Or maybe they just think fantasy geeks are going to be happy to pay as long as there's swords and boobs. 

Ugh. I know I'm being a bit too cynical and pessimistic about the whole thing, but it's just so disheartening to see people spend fortunes to produce lazy garbage. It's like a grouchy cantina lady spending her days pushing overpriced shit food on people too hungry to put up too much of a fight. It might not impact her salary, but it's definitely taking a toll on her... humanity, soul, whatever. The whole damn point is to be and contribute something to the world that you can honestly pride yourself on.

According to early screening Twitter users say positive things about show

Yes f anyone sees the ign article what is the monster people are taking pictures with

Spider with a human head?

I dont remember it being 'horrible'. Many people were frustrated that it deviated from the books but I've never been bothered by this. Also it understandably lacked in visuals (costumes, decorations and stuff) and fight choreography sometimes. Plot is essentially stories of first two books, acting was okay and I quite liked its cast and soundtrack.
Movie on the other hand was a mess.
It will be interesting to compare these two series.

What did you find that bad about it?

You know, there are some people complain about Netflix taking away the 'slavicness' of Witcher by hiring non-slavic looking people like Anya Chalotra, yet no one seem to be bothered that all these slavic  mythological creatures are reduced to your typical Hollywood monsters. 

Looking really good now I have to say!
If only I could disconnect my brain from the games and not be bothered by the actors not looking and sounding like their W3 counterparts...

The article I read about the show mentioned Cavill has both read the books and played the games. He might actually be part of that "toxic" fandom.  The only movie I've seen him in (that I know of) is Justice League, and Superman didn't show up until close to the end of that one.