One thing the guys who criticise Netflix for its racial diversity in The Witcher always seem to forget
Had this discussion with this guy on Reddit again, always the same arguments, of course, the lore allegedly is all Slavic/white European. And then they pretend to care for the identity of other cultures and that they should be preserved and distinguishable and that there's Zerrikania on the continent for black people. Yes, Zerrikania, featuring so prominently in the books, right ...
What they totally seem to overlook, humans came to the continent through the Conjunction of the Spheres about 1,500 years before the events of the novels. They did not evolve on the continent through survival of the fittest. The distribution of skin colour on the continent ought to be mostly random. Yes, people who came from hot places in their original world and have a very dark skin colour as adaptation to the climate in their lost sphere of origin might prefer to settle regions like Zerrikania with a similar climate. But why wouldn't they settle in Toussaint, for example? Fringilla being dark skinned does not have to mean she has ancestors from Zerrikania and does not need to be explained in any way. Same with culture, people from all kinds of different cultures have very likely landed on the continent together and mixed their cultures while they were helping each other to survive in a totally new world. Why should there be distinct cultures related to skin colour and climate after only 1,500 years of populating the continent? A mix makes a lot more sense under these unique circumstances.
There was also a very funny thing one guy asked me when I wrote something like: Oh yes, the Korath desert is very Eastern European.
Did you know there's a desert in Poland? Yes, there actually is. We also have several "deserts" in Germany, but they are all so small, even a toddler would have difficulty getting lost in one of them 😂. Of course Sapkowski was exclusively thinking of this miniature Polish desert when he created the Korath 😂.
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Thanks for the warm welcome here's another 💛
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You can say whatever you want about Netflix The Witcher, but the Fringilla/Cahir dynamic is still unmatched imo
I mean… Cahir himself is already such an interesting character. Going from „total evil“ (season 1) to the viewer slowing realizing that he is also just a replaceable chess figure in a much much greater game. And he is slowly chattering under the expectations him and his master put on him. And - no matter how much evil stuff he does - you slowly start to feel sorry for him. Because you know it will end bad for him, there isn’t happiness but you still wish… there could be somehow
But with Fringilla in there, it gets even better. At the beginning she mirrors Cahir, but she manages to save herself, to live for herself. She shows Cahir what could be. And they have this weird dysfunctional relationship, is it romantic, is it platonic? Whatever, it is doomed. But they still need each other.
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