I was too lazy to go back and reply to that guy specifically, and it helps because I didn't want to immediately have them get a notification in regards to them being replied to so I could hopefully delay reading a smartass reply if that post is anything worth using to ascertain their type of retort.
I'm personally chill with the CGI, it doesn't have to be perfect, it's a Netflix adaptation FFS and like a lot of stuff from Netflix, it's not going to be top notch most of the time.
I personally hope that through word of mouth, people will avoid this series like the plague, because in my honest opinion, it's not acceptable to normalize and provide incentive for companies/corporations to spew shit from their asses all over the source material for the sake of $$$ in a vain attempt to entice fanbases from other shows that are out there.
That's just my personal opinion, if you want to enjoy it, that's okay, more power to you, but I feel that because there are people that don't have a comparison to go by, it makes it seem acceptable to utterly create something totally different from the series of books and games it's supposed to be an adaptation of to begin with.
I can't even look at that pretty boy Geralt and accept him as being the Geralt many of us know and love, our Geralt is a bit gruff, busted up from all the combat he's been through, and as a stronger and not so delicate looking chin.
If that's supposed to be Ciri, then wow, they really ruined her character more so than any other, and she's supposed to be one of the main characters that the story heavily relies on; instead, she looks like this overly sensitive pouty brat that can jump off a cliff for all I care, and I'd probably be put off by her character even without a comparison, because she looks/sounds annoying as fuck.
Yen isn't even Yen, and it's like she's being made into a witch to be the most powerful witch ever, what the hell is with that bullshit?
There's a lot of stuff in that trailer that will make the existing fanbase absolutely FURIOUS and you can be guaranteed that this will be one series that a lot of people will shit on since an overwhelming number of people actually played the games. There's a reason it's on the popular platforms for quality (graphics, I'm not shitting on Nintendo, I actually love the Wii and Switch) gaming, and hell, they even went out of their way to create one of the best ports to the Xbox 360 for The Witcher 2 that was ever done for the console, because even the graphics quality is surprisingly well fucking done in regards of how well the game actually runs for having been ported from a high quality (at the time) PC game to the 360, and that release was fairly popular as far as I'm aware which lead to a lot of people buying The Witcher 3 for consoles when it came out. It's a shame that due to the controls, it would have been less and desirable to port the original Witcher game to console, and the voice acting and graphics are crude and don't hold up very well; hell, the voice acting was pretty damn bad even by that era's standards, and the enhanced patch made a lot of changes in that respect and more.
Anyways, this isn't what we expected, because with the reputation that series of games has in regards of the developers doing right by their fanbase over and over again and going above and beyond to provide quality content even after the game is released, we expect that same respect and passion to have carried over to the adaptation, even if the developers have nothing to do with the Netflix adaptation.
This is a surefire way to put off a sizable portion of the people that were going to watch it, and some people may watch a few episodes only to stop watching it because it's so far off, but I'm not arrogant enough to believe that some of the fans won't enjoy it, and that normies won't enjoy it. I just hope that the number of people that enjoy that trash is not that they had hoped for and it gets canned for being garbage because it isn't The Witcher at all.
EDIT: Corrected a sentence because I put a word in there by accident that changed the meaning of what I had intended to construe in my post.
