"[I] tried to explain: There was an uprising against Germany, but the Russians were across the river, and on the German side there were also soldiers from Hungary or Ukraine," he said. "For Americans, it was completely incomprehensible, too complicated, because they grew up in a different historical context, where everything was arranged: America is always good, the rest are the bad guys. And there are no complications
Disagree. I like the show and never had any interest in the games or books until I watched it. I think its mostly fine personally. I have only listened to the first book on tape though so I'm not enough of a nerd to "well ackshually" every tiny canon mishap.
Edit: I won't be watching it if they continue past season 3 though it is pointless to replace Cavil nobody can do it.
Edit2: Also I like show Geralt much more than book Geralt. Book Geralt has smug reddit energy sometimes.
I think that's the point, in the books Geralt starts off as a cynical centrist completely opposed to taking a side in any conflict. Over the course of the books as his character develops, he learns to care about more than just what immediately affects him.
He starts off that way in the show too but he's less of a smug redditor about it.
You're in the minority even of people who don't know about the setting. And it's not "tiny canon mishaps" they basically went completely off-script as if they ran out of book material like game of thrones except in this case the books were already done so it's just bizarre
I mean are there important things that were left out? Nobody seems to be able to vocalize it except "Lady character got too much story - more angry sword man"
Everything from book 1 made it into the show almost verbatim - but things were swapped around to different parts in the narrative. They didn't happen at the same times but they happened.
I don't need a full breakdown but it would be nice if someone could explain what was missing so I have an idea.