
āHenry Cavillās been cast as Geralt.ā
I had just come back from a convention. On one of the days, I had cosplayed Witcher with my friends. I was already a fan, and looking forward to Netflixābut waking up and hearing that from my partner, who was scrolling through his phone was⦠bizarre, and I was instantly wary and hoping to be proven wrong when Cavill took the role on.
He⦠hasnāt quite managed to prove me wrong yet.
Netflix recently revealed the first look at Cavillās Geralt, and my reaction is pretty much the same as the rest of the internet. Itās a weird choice.
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Things Cavill Needs
I know what people are going to say when they read this. āGeralt in the books doesnāt have as many scars or a beard!ā
True. Geraltās description isnāt really given to us in the books, so itās pretty open to interpretation. But he does need to look rougher to give off that Geralt vibe. Heās definitely supposed to look like heās seen some stuff even by the time this Netflix series is happening, even way before the games, but he looks all pretty and elven. Hopefully this is just a first look and Netflix can willingly listen to the shocked feedback.
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A Bad Halloween Costume
Okay, but the quality is actually kind of similar.
I wish we could see the rest of Cavillās outfitāthough maybe I would never have recovered from the horror. Still, maybe the rest of the outfit would have been better quality. This tweet is so apt because it just doesnāt look likc much effort has been put into the costume. Netflix have surely given a pretty big budget for such an epic fantasyādid they use it all up on actually hiring Cavill?
They seemed so weirdly excited to release this preview. Itās like they were hoping we wouldnāt realise the bad quality.
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Geralt Targayen, First Of His Name
I love this one because the only positive thing I could find to say was, āHeād make a decent Rhaegar Targaryen.ā
He absolutely does look like a Targaryen. The clean-shaven pale skin, the silver hair way past his shoulders⦠if they had said he was going to be cast as Rhaegar in more flashbacks in the final season of Game of Thrones, I probably would have been less bothered than them saying he was going to be cast as Rhaegar. Though at least on that show, theyād probably have given him a somewhat realistic looking hairline.
Geralt Targaryen, Father of Dragonsā¦
Choose Your Player
Another frequent comparison has been Raiden from the Mortal Kombat movies. Which makes sense. Not only does Cavill definitely look like Raiden, but those movies also looked fairly low budget.
I just donāt understand why they couldnāt have splashed out more money on this look. People are scrambling to say that it may not yet be finished, which is trueābut why show a cheap first look when they could have saved the big reveal to be something more impressive? Book Geralt, game Geralt, it doesnāt matter what kind of vibe Cavill is giving offāthe truth is, the costume is just cheap. My cosplayer friends have way higher quality stuff, and this isnāt even their job.
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My Father Will Hear About This
Another all too accurate comparisonā¦
Seriously thoughāhe kind of does look like a younger Lucius. Age Lucius back twenty years, or put Cavill next to Draco, and you can really picture it. Even the expression on Cavillās face in the preview makes him look like a Malfoy. Itās just weird that there are so many fantasy characters he actually kind of fits and yet, the only silver-haired fantasy character he looks nothing like is the one heās supposed to be playing.
I keep comforting myself by saying at least Iām getting a good laugh out of the tweets.
Nice Costume, Henry
This person actually saw the costume and thought he was dressing up for Halloween. It would have made sense. Cavill has said before that heās a big fan of The Witcher and has played the third game twice (which is quite an undertakingāitās a long, open world game). It would have made sense if this was just a Halloween costume. But even if it had been an amateur Halloween costume, I would have been pretty critical of just how little Geralt he gives off in his vibes. So the fact this is for the official TV show is⦠it kills me inside a little.
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Witch Hunter Gary
Youāve seen bootleg costumes, right? When companies want to sell costumes of characters they donāt have the license to so they sell worse, cheaper versions? Thatās what this is making fun ofāsuggesting Cavillās Geralt is a bootleg version of actual Geralt.
I wonder if Netflix is going to go on ignoring the bad reception or if theyāre going to maturely take the criticism and alter it a little. Whatās weird is, the actual author of the books is on that team as a creative influenceāI canāt imagine why he didnāt ask why his witcher looks a bit too elven?
Heās Taking The Hobbits to Isengard
Legolas was the first thing my friend said to me when she saw Cavillās costume, and itās the one thatās stuck in my head. He looks like heās trying to play Legolas. Thatās so true. Even the wig is just a worse version of the one that Legolas wears.
Legolas is the one character I canāt imagine they didnāt spot the resemblance toāand because Legolas is so iconic in fantasy already and so vastly different from Geralt, why not try to get away from that pretty elven image? Rough Geralt up a little! Give him some scars and some dark, tired, haunted eyes!
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Khaleesiā¦
This one is, hands down, my favorite reaction because the wig is about the same quality as the one theyāve actually used.
The one good thing is that Netflix has said he will grow a beard while heās out hunting monsters and witchering, which will serve to make him look a little rougher. No, book Geralt doesnāt necessarily have a beardāhe should, since I donāt know when he has time to shave, but itās never mentionedābut the point is that Cavill needs something to make him look like that rough and tough witcher we all know and love.
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Itās Funny āCause Itās True
Okay, okay. Iām going to stop criticizing this look and try to let Cavill have a chance at impressing me. But whether you think his Geralt costume looks great or youāll also in camp āwhy does it look like they bought this off Amazon?ā, you canāt deny that this tweet is accurate. Watch the video played backwardsāhe looks like heās doing a shot and sighing because heās in some really bad company and listening to something he categorically does not agree with.
Maybe theyāll fix up this look, or maybe this is really itāonly time will tell. I at least think the casting of Triss is excellent.
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