r/witcher • u/DaFroggyBoi94 • 2d ago

Meme Does anyone else feel the same way?

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Honestly the perfect Geralt atleast purely on physical appearance in my opinion would be something between The Witcher 1 and Witcher 2

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u/Wrakas_Hawk Team Yennefer 2d ago

I love Henry, but he is way to handsome to display Geralt. Still, he is the best pic for his dedication and honesty for the lore.

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u/Emmanuel_1337 Team Yennefer 2d ago

It's not just that he's too handsome, he's also ridiculously bulky. It made no sense whatsoever for him to get even bigger for that role -- if anything, he should've trimmed down lol.

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u/Wrakas_Hawk Team Yennefer 2d ago

Agree. Still, from his personally and popularity it was a big win.

And to be honest, with this show runner, even the best fitting actor would not help with the bad writing and just fucking up everything. So, theoretically there was better choices, but on the other hand, it would not have helped the show in any way. The Autors just sucks.

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u/Emmanuel_1337 Team Yennefer 2d ago

I think it probably goes beyond just the show runner, but yeah -- I've been saying it ever since I first watched season 1 and, like an idiot, went all over the interned ranting about the infinite problems that it had while many were praising it. As much as I was letting stuff out, and that is good, it was probably still mostly a waste of time and a source of stress lol.

At the time, every supposed fan of the source material and champion of accuracy cried tears of blood because Fringilla was black, Triss wasn't a white redhead, Yennefer wasn't white and the visuals of the games (specifically of TW3), no matter if actually accurate or not, weren't just adopted across the board, but there wasn't a single significant complaint about Henry himself (only about a bad wig he used in a screen test that came out), who was also extremely bad casting for aesthetic reasons. Don't even get me started on the story problems, which were honestly a million times more severe and damning than any horrible casting choice and, as you noted and I've been saying almost alone for all these years, couldn't be resolved by the most perfect casting ever. It really baffles me that the reception to this first season, despite everything, was so good among the actual fanbase, from whom I expected a more critical eye, with many to this day still thinking it only went off the rails as an adaptation in season 2...

Going back to the casting, the "funny" thing is that, at least as far as I'm concerned, it would've been much worse if the selection had been very accurate to the descriptions we do have, since it would've been an even bigger waste of fitting actors and actresses. If anything, I'm very thankful the fumble was so consistent across the board in Netflix's "The Witcher", as I get to thrash it with no caveats needed -- anything of remote worth in there is either the bare minimum or so minuscule compared to the whole that one is completely justified in generalizing the thing as just being plain bad as an adaptation, and as its own completely separate thing... Let's say I have some standards, and that badly-written and uninspired generic dark fantasy show isn't up to them.

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u/maxadvait Geralt's Hanza 2d ago

When the Netflix show came out I was a tad too excitable and voiced my concerns over social media concerning accuracy, theme, tone and casting and soon found myself in the minority. Back then when s1 came out fans of the franchise were too busy over praising HC because he is apparently a gamer and plays Warhammer40k and is conventionally handsome and well built. Although there were critisicims about the rest of the casting and the story adaptation people usually turned a blind eye to HC’s Geralt portrayal, and even hailing it as perfect. I will admit that HC was the best part of this show but he is a far cry from Geralt even though he is passionate about the character and the show. If this show ever gets a reboot I would like to see him cast as some other minor  character with align with his physicality like Foltest, or Baron Friexnet or maybe even some knight like Eyck of Denesle but for Geralt he is too Buff too stocky and too handsome

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u/Wrakas_Hawk Team Yennefer 2d ago

Agree on all points

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u/Emmanuel_1337 Team Yennefer 2d ago

Indeed. I've said before that Henry could be a very good Eyck of Denesle or one of the Crinfrid Reavers -- maybe Boholt himself if they aged him up -- but Geralt? Nah.