>Why shouldn't there be black people in Netflix' Witcher?
Medievalist here. I would say that there's no reason why any magical characters can't be black/PoC since teleportation is a thing in the Witcher. The problem with casting too many people of color, however, is that despite what some may try to argue, there simply wasn't that much long distance travel happening in the time period in which the story is set. Now, in any other fantasy setting you could simply handwave that away with a "this isn't Earth" explanation and that would be the end of it. But the charm and appeal of the IP comes from it's mundane aspects as much as the supernatural. Essentially, the Witcher stories take place in a world that is exactly like Earth, but it's got magical creatures and magic. The people still use relevant medieval tech and rely on medieval social and political conventions, they just have the added consideration of nonhumans and very rare magic users. While intercontinental travel did indeed occur, it was rare. You'd likely only see the odd trader or very wealth lord traveling from distant lands. This means that populations were more or less uniform. I.E. You'd have a ton of White European people and very, very rare people of other cultures/races that weren't very close geographically. If you did see a person from another race(a dark skinned person) they'd be treated as something special and mysterious.
What this means for the casting of people of color is that casting a mysterious wizard/sorceress as a PoC will be fine and might even aid the role a bit, while casting a random villager as a PoC is going to be incredibly immersion breaking, even more so if no one ever acknowledges it. It would be as weird as if there were a bunch of random white people walking around in Wakanda. It technically doesn't hurt anything, but it's going to be really fucking weird since they really shouldn't be there even if they could have flown there in an airplane. But it's their show.
You forgot about one thing: all humans on Witcher's earth have spontaneously teleported there from another dimension. It wasn't rare. Every human in the Witcher's world came from another dimension ~1500 years ago. Elves (Wild Hunt, specifically) were teleported into the human world, and killed or enslaved all humans there.
William Miller
I dont give a fuck about the lore I just dont like casting a nigger as a hot redhead sorceress
Ryder Cooper
Netflix show is based on the books. Triss isn't a hot redhead sorceress in the books. You can complain when they decide to adapt the games.
Cooper Nguyen
>Why shouldn't there be black people in Netflix' Witcher? Niggers are a scourge on society, that’s why.
Jeremiah Scott
OK then what is she in the books?
Ayden Parker
Whenever I hear the term poc it sounds like a disease like aids or explosive asshole diarrhea.
Auburn hair, never wore any cleavage, because she was horribly scarred after the Battle of Sodden, deep blue eyes, chestnut hair. In the games Triss doesn't even have her personality. In Witcher 1 she's a copy of Yennefer, in Witcher 2 she's mainly non-existent, in Witcher 3 she has no personality anymore.
Black people already have their wizards you mong. They're called shaman, healers, medicine men, witch doctors, etc... Why can't they write their own stories and have to keep interjecting into others? That's just going to lead to uncultured swine.
Luke Johnson
>reddit spacing
Brayden Torres
Nº one cares
Daniel Robinson
niggers don't have blue eye mate
Julian Jenkins
You can fuck right off with that noise. Sapkowski has described Triss as having red hair in interviews. The translation may come out as chestnut or auburn, but I'm certain Sapkowski intended her to be a redhead.
Jeremiah Collins
Yes, and? I didn't say the Netflix adaptation is true to the source. Just said both games and the show took liberties in portraying characters. >I'm certain I have the books in Polish sitting on my shelf. Shove your certainty where your head is, deep into your colon.
>niggers in the Witcher I don't really give a fuck if they want to put them in it. Here's what I don't want: A pajeet as Yennefer A mutt as Triss A nigger as Fringilla If the characters are already established as a certain race, don't fucking flip them to meet some liberal agenda or diversity quota.
Oliver Evans
No niggers in anything makes anything better - prove me wrong plebbitors
Kevin Cruz
Predator
Jack Cook
More like Redditor.
Nathan Green
If you don't like Predator you are a certified soiboi
I still think even casting a random villager as PoC is defensible, because it's fiction. Adaptations of Greek mythology, for example, have had changes to them that deviate from the original myths all the time, and no one really cares.
Take for example Clash of the Titans (1981). That movie featured a mechanical owl named Bubo, a Kraken (which isn't even from Greek mythology) and a completely fictional antagonist named Calibos, on top of numerous other changes.
The same applies for Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which makes Medea fall for Jason out of her own free will (instead of the intervention of Aphrodite), makes her the daughter of the King of Corinth and completely changes the original myth where Jason marries Creusa instead, leading to her and their two children getting murdered by Medea and Jason getting cursed for breaking his promise to marry Medea instead.
This also applies to more recent movies, like 300 (which portrays Xerxes as a flamboyant 8 foot tall giant "God-King" who barely wore anything, when in reality he was literally nothing like that) as well as Troy (which, on top of getting rid of all of the Greek gods altogether, also makes changes such as killing Agamemnon off when he actually survived in the original tale, not killing off Paris and Hector's child when they died in the Iliad, featuring the Trojan horse when Achilles was dead before it was used, the fact that Achilles isn't invincible, omitting that Hector actually fled from Achilles initially when they fought, and so on).
All of these changes are fine and nobody seems to care, they are accepted as a director simply doing their own take on the myth. But when Troy: Fall of a City portrays Achilles as black, suddenly that isn't allowed and that's "too unrealistic" and "historically inaccurate" and "deviates too much". Why is this going too far, but all of the other deviations (Bubo, the Kraken, etc) aren't going too far? The same logic applies to any other adaptation.
Landon Collins
/pol/ is like a ruptured septic tank, it's spilling all over other boards. Witcher doesn't have the same geopolitics and migration issues as any other fantasy world, because humans migrated into the Witcher world from another dimension.
Another thing is awful casting and characters that don't fit their descriptions in the books. While I'm fine with Triss, Yennefer is awful, and I strongly doubt her performance will give her character justice.
The Witcher games deviated from the books all the damn time. Geralt wasn't a badass in the books, he was whiny, angsty, skinny, and insecure, and also got his ass kicked a ton of times. He also never uses magic anywhere near as powerful as he does in the games. Nobody seemed to give a shit about him being different between the books and games, why does everyone suddenly give a shit about Triss being different?
Oliver Cook
What part of any of the differences you listed have fucking anything to do with his race? Fucking Jew.
Anthony Watson
Most of the people don't realize the show is based on the books. In fact, majority of the people shitting all over the Netflix Witcher played only Witcher 3.
Aaron Morris
Based. The accents of the heroes had me giggling like mad. I have a vague memory of fighting pumpkins inside a giant pumpkin. This and Banjo Kazooie were top tier.
Joseph Bennett
>I have the books in Polish sitting on my shelf So what's it say about her hair color? Finnish translation calls it chestnut brown.
David Lewis
Making a character black has LITERALLY NEVER EVER MADE THE CONTENT BETTER in any case in the entire history of the world.
I challenge you to disprove this assertion but I am confident you cannot. There is literally nothing that has ever been gained by making a character black for the sake of having more black people in a story.
Jeremiah Cruz
It says "fresh chestnut." Whatever the fuck that means. It can go from an actual color of a chestnut, or chestnut hair.
