The problem here is not the main actor though that's is tough to change after the phenomenal job Cavill did. The issue is you take a famous well loved franchise with a huge following, you name it "Witcher" and use the same characters as the book and the game just so you ensure all the fans show up and then you assign some generic writer who takes one look at the fantasy genre and says....hmmm I can do better. Both fantasy and sci fi suffer from this general lack of respect as genres, as if they're silly and dumb and therefore anyone can make a masterpiece. As if hit writers aren't just as rare and talented and imaginative as writers of any other genre.

Every time a fantasy or a scifi show or movie that is based on a book is announced I dread it. GOT was such an exception cause they stuck to the book literally scene by scene. I was blown away. Until they caught up with books and had to riff it even when the writer gave them a general outline of his next book. Even so, the drop in quality was immediate. You would think studio heads would take notice and make sure that from now on they get someone who will translate the works faithfully....but no. They get morons who want to get creative. You wanna get creative? Make an original work then. In the same universe even. Don't do this...travesty of a Witcher story. Witcher universe is gritty, gory and violent, original Geralt is pretty flawed and fairly miserable as are most witchers, because the profession is gruesome and thankless. They turned it into campy family friendly fun. Imagine if they did that to GoT. Would you have liked it? Really?

Witcher started off well for like...one episode. Then got progressively worse as they riffed more and more with every season. Season 3 was so cringe I could barely watch it. I realize some won't see it that way if they aren't familiar with the material but they don't realize how much better it really should have been. I am not one bit surprised Cavill as a fan of the work, left.