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dragonlady7) wrote2020-01-25 04:03 am
dragonlady7) wrote2020-01-25 04:03 am
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I'm listening to a Behind the Scenes Witcher podcast and the creator basically confirmed your Roach
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HA. Well, I figured that was it, because if it were anything more elaborate they’d mention it.
Says a lot about him, I suppose.
I’ve had a number of replies/reblogs confirming that’s the game/book canon for sure, so.
But I wonder how many viewers of the show will just never… consider that. I mean, to be fair, the timeline’s so screwy it’s perfectly likely that if you don’t dork out and Google it, you’d never really understand that it’s been something like, what, seventy years? Fifty at least? between the earliest scenes and the last. Since nobody ages– and like, ok Geralt doesn’t, Yennefer’s unchanging, but Jaskier is supposed to age twenty years at least and they made zero effort to change his appearance, not even changing the style of his dress or his hairstyle at all, and that’s seriously confusing. (Having Yennefer comment on his crow’s feet is a reasonable approach except I looked it up and literally two years are supposed to have passed between those scenes, so like– not super effective, there.)
I get not putting age makeup on him, that’d look corny, but at least give him different hair or something. Yeesh.
Anyway. Good to know that Geralt is a fucking dork who can’t come up with names in the TV show too.
If I were going to write fanfic in this fandom it would definitely be about Roach, but I am not convinced I actually want to take the time to do it. We’ll see, LOL.
HA. Well, I figured that was it, because if it were anything more elaborate they’d mention it.
Says a lot about him, I suppose.
I’ve had a number of replies/reblogs confirming that’s the game/book canon for sure, so.
But I wonder how many viewers of the show will just never… consider that. I mean, to be fair, the timeline’s so screwy it’s perfectly likely that if you don’t dork out and Google it, you’d never really understand that it’s been something like, what, seventy years? Fifty at least? between the earliest scenes and the last. Since nobody ages– and like, ok Geralt doesn’t, Yennefer’s unchanging, but Jaskier is supposed to age twenty years at least and they made zero effort to change his appearance, not even changing the style of his dress or his hairstyle at all, and that’s seriously confusing. (Having Yennefer comment on his crow’s feet is a reasonable approach except I looked it up and literally two years are supposed to have passed between those scenes, so like– not super effective, there.)
I get not putting age makeup on him, that’d look corny, but at least give him different hair or something. Yeesh.
Anyway. Good to know that Geralt is a fucking dork who can’t come up with names in the TV show too.
If I were going to write fanfic in this fandom it would definitely be about Roach, but I am not convinced I actually want to take the time to do it. We’ll see, LOL.