The point is I love it when racist or other ppl get mad because x doesnt look like the characters cause race etc
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Ciri in Netflix Witcher series probably won't be white
- Thread starter Potterson
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic. It's a term used mainly in the UK.
I wouldn't expect it. I'm just confused why Ciri specifically is getting an ethnic makeover, again going by the source material.
The scar isn't something she has until later. Unless this season is going to handle all the books, she won't get the scar just yet.
Why would they? Ciri is not related to Geralt in any way.
She would have been harrassed and criticized regardless. Look at Iron Fist... casting was criticized for staying true to the source. it doesn't matter what they do for any character. People are going to complain because "reasons"
Pretty sure i've already seen a large group of people criticize Cavill for the Geralt casting on these boards alone.
Yet somehow you're probably up in arms when a role gets played by a white male/female when ethnicity from the source material differs.
Heh, I wonder what the shitstorm is gonna be when we start to hear stuff from the Lord of the Rings project.
He really is still chewing on the fact he was so stupid and gave CDPR the rights in exchange for a slice of bread and a glass of water so they can make one of the best video game franchises ever and make a lot of money.
I'm all for diversity, but isn't her lineage kind of locked in being of Cintra/Nilfgaardian blood?
I haven't read all the books, but from what I've read, those bloodlines have been pretty ivory (happy to he wrong here).
I haven't read all the books, but from what I've read, those bloodlines have been pretty ivory (happy to he wrong here).
I guess it's pretty normal for many to want the main characters to look as identical as possible to the characters in the video game. People have to be okay with this without being called racists.
I just want to be sure I'm understanding this correctly. If people want the show to be casted as close to the source material that the show is based on as accurately as possible they're racist?
if you have a problem with a character being nonwhite?
yes, thats racism my guy
They aren't related. He takes her in and raises her, but they have no actual relation.
If he fights the good fight I do not care about his reasons tbh
Yes, but Nilfgaardian in the books is slightly more ambiguous, since it's the southern regions, so colored Nilfgaardians are a thing. I can fully see them going for a colored Emhyr, too.
You have to ask yourself what it is you like about the source material so much that you don't want it changed in this regard though.
Is it the arc of the character and her motivations/beliefs? Because she can still have all of that regardless of her ethnicity.
Or is it something superficial?
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Yeah, but that would be casting POC as some side character. I think the whole point of giving POC important roles (even if the original character was white in the source) is to make minorities less... minor. Like, to show they are NOT less important and are not marginalized. Although I'm from almost 100% white country so I might not fully understand it.
Of course I bet many Polish fans will be outraged.
But as I see it - Ciri being white was NEVER important. It's not her primary characteristic. So why not change it?
Slight tangent, Idris Elba would have made an incredible Geralt.
In the story she is the child of two, let's say, important people. If you change the race, you'll have to just make sure it matches with those parents as well (at least one of them, I guess). Otherwise it seems tad weird.
I think the stories assumed that Cintra was generally white (or at least the same race as the rest of the Northern Realms), so I guess they could make Emyhr also non-white?
Never heard of BAME, but that makes sense since it seems to be a UK thing. Was thinking it was weird how Hispanics weren't also singled out. :P
No problem with Ciri being a different race as long as her ashen-gray hair and emerald-green eyes are kept intact, those were always the biggest standouts in the books and the game. It'll be interesting to see if they make Nilfgaardians all be a minority.
Also, I'm really curious if she'll be more like book Ciri, game Ciri, or a little bit of both.
No problem with Ciri being a different race as long as her ashen-gray hair and emerald-green eyes are kept intact, those were always the biggest standouts in the books and the game. It'll be interesting to see if they make Nilfgaardians all be a minority.
Also, I'm really curious if she'll be more like book Ciri, game Ciri, or a little bit of both.
Cool good to know: surely the ashen hair part will be kept I'm thinking though.. that is somewhat locked in the books.
I can see Idris Elba as an amazing Emhyr...that would be bad ass!
If that's racism the word loses al it's meaning. Personally I don't care about this but I would be pretty annoyed if they ever made a Spirou movie and they changed Spirou his race.
He did have the look of a Witcher in Thor: Ragnarok.
The only thing I'm mad about is that they wasted Heimdals potential. Such a waste of a great actor.
Don't get me wrong, I don't care who they cast, I'm gonna watch the hell out of it. Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time and my wife loves the books. But , Ciri is white, that's just a fact. It's not up to me to decide what importance that plays in how she's handled as a character. When I heard there was a Witcher show being made, I assumed due to the source material that a white person would play Ciri.
It is what it is, it won't bother me to any extent, I just hope whoever they get kills it. But it is laughable to me that if you want people to be casted to match the source material your racist, people really love to apply that to as much as possible to a point it dilutes what it really means.
Wasn't she described as having off white/olive skin in the book? Maybe I'm missremebering. Not that it matters. If they want change her race it doesn't really matter.
What? How can this be? Isn't the character Polish?
*gets handed notes*
What? The books and games don't take place in Poland? Nobody is Polish? And there are minorities in Poland anyway?
*hushed voices*
It's a fictional world full of elves, dwarves and monsters? Magical genetic engineering too? Pfft! Make her blue then, what does it matter?
That said, Ciri does need to have white or ashen hair, it's part of the plot
*gets handed notes*
What? The books and games don't take place in Poland? Nobody is Polish? And there are minorities in Poland anyway?
*hushed voices*
It's a fictional world full of elves, dwarves and monsters? Magical genetic engineering too? Pfft! Make her blue then, what does it matter?
That said, Ciri does need to have white or ashen hair, it's part of the plot
