What kills me is the logic that "my vastly different version of Ciri in my vidya who is in many many ways absolutely nothing like the characters from the books is ok" but one based on the books isn't ok if she has a different skin color. :|
Half tempted to start a thread about that subject because so many people are expecting "The Witcher 3: the show," most people don't even seem to realize that Ciri is a child and only becomes a teenager in the books.
Yeah, that was a bit of a brainfart.
This is like saying that the BFV backlash was really from mainly from different historians who studied WW2 since they were 5.
There are always haters. Why blame gamers again OP? There was nothing about gamers in the article.
Their concern for slav representation isn't genuine.
This backlash specifically came because fans of the witcher games responded vitriolically to a rumored casting call that would *gasp* mean that a tv show that isn't about their favorite game would have POC, note, this isn't the first incident. When the writer posted a picture of the writing staff, the same type of people flipped out because *gasp*, there are POC on the writing staff. Now rinse and repeat similar incidents until the idea of, specifically, "black Ciri" cropped up. Note, the same crowd has zero issue with the huge amount of changes the games make to the source material when it comes to characterization and appearances. A common post is "I want Ciri to look like she does in the game," in spite of the fact that Ciri from the game looks completely different from in the books right down to having white hair instead of grey. But skin color to these people is the main issue. :|
This. I don't get why people use it.
I think we can be honest:
Nah, people do it themselves to keep it low. Back off with your whatboutism. There were a lot of awful posts in that thread, period. Racists = garbage people.
Lauren was using it to communicate with fans and talk about characters, subjects, locations, everything. Shes a very smart lady and very passionate about the witcher. I don't think she left because she couldn't handle the angry fans. Hell, she's been getting it since it was announced last year because "Witcher is manly, no woman will understand" bs.
That was pretty much my point with the 2020 comment, with US being more diverse, you can't ask countless actors of color to just sit out a big scale production like the Witcher. No one except racists should have expected this to be an all white production.
You should really consider the context of what you just read, specifically the part about how those people who have SOOOOO much of an issue with the idea of Ciri being anything but white simultaneously have no issue with the ton of changes made to her characterization in The Witcher 3. I'm literally arguing that adaptations make changes, and that pearl clutching over one while being ok with the other is disingenuous.
You're a better person than most.
Why are you yelling at me when I have no problem with the idea of CIri being a POC. I'm for the idea that adaptations make changes. I'm just pointing out the cognitive dissonance of people who "want it to stick to the source material."
Not at all. It's an absolute undeniable fact. If you get literally ANGRY that a lead in a tv show isn't white, existing IP or otherwise, you have serious issues with race.
Bingo! People only get angry to the point of screaming online when the change is making a character not white.
A little more than rumors this time. The casting call specifically mentioned they were looking for a non-white 15/16-year old girl to play Ciri.
This is true.
Sometimes it feels more like "mankind was a mistake".
It's not unrelated. The changing demographics is why film and tv productions are working hard to try and have media be less white.
"I can't believe Geralt is surrendering to these elves, all they have are bows, just igni them."
If people weren't horrible aholes you would be and should be able to. No don't give any excuses to those acting like garbage and are garbage.
