The Witcher Season 3 will be Henry Cavill's last for Netflix, but why? We now have a Witcher actress saying Henry Cavill leaving wont affect The Witcher much because the show is about so much more than The Witcher. It really doesn't seem like Henry Cavill was valued enough on the set, or worse, was seen as getting in the way. While he was trying to improve the show by putting in more of the source material, if you want to change the source material, you're simply causing trouble. So as we get news that we will get a Season 4 AND Season 5 on Netflix, do you think The Witcher can survive without Henry Cavill? How much will it change without him trying to correct their scenes from the books? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

It says a lot about Henry Cavill's character that he was able to walk away from this show, it proves he has a lot of integrity, something VERY rare in Hollywood.

They hate him because he defended us. The customer. The audience. The people. So evil

The Roach scene is a glaring example none of the writers or showrunners ever even opened the books (or even the games). Anyone who knows anything about The Witcher story knows Roach is not "just a horse". Roach (named after the fish, by the way, NOT the insect) is Geralt's eternal companion, basically the only one that's always been there for him, through mud and snow and blood and tears, one who never hated him, never mocked him, undermined him, abused him, etc. An animal that has been a better companion to him than other humanoids. Roach is the one constant in Geralt's life, one he can always count on, which cannot be said about his other acquaintances. This is why all of Geralt's horses have been called Roach. It's not a name, it's a title, something that has deep meaning for Geralt. The fact an entire showrunning team can work on someone else's legacy without even having the FAINTEST fucking idea (or care) about the source material is simply mindblowing. How can this even happen?!

Henry Cavill seems like a genuinely good dude. He stands up for the fans, is a massive nerd himself and a chad. He is an awesome role model for sticking to your guns and leveling up as a man over time

The fact that they found it annoying that a huge star was over-enthusiastic about the role speaks volumes about their work ethic. Any competent showrunner that enjoys their job would be delighted with that situation.

I like the idea of firing the writers and bringing Henry back.

Hollywood must be pissing their pants after they realised Henry cannot be bought with money or exposure. A true man of integrity. Which makes him quite dangerous to their fake bs industry. Full support from me tho 👏🏼

Everything she says genuinely makes me believe that she’s just a bad writer and now I think I’m just going to do whatever I want in life because clearly talent and/or passion are not required.

Why do people hate this man? Hollywood just trashing this man and his work.

The fact he is a straight white man gamer nerd who is stunning in everyway is the ultimate piss off to Hollywood apparently.

Honestly the fight scenes involving Geralt and his witty and charismatic dialogue, combined with the way he talks to his horse is the one thing that makes the show watchable. Also Geralt shows good morals as a character towards the events he has to deal with. Makes it way more interesting and inspiring.

Reminds me, when the horse died in The Never Ending Story, it felt like watching the main character's close friend dying. Someone who traveled so far with the main character, and died sinking in the mud so he would'nt drown and continue on his path. He grieved as he watched the horse sink into the mud. A friend who sacrificed himself for another could be the greatest sacrifice one could make.

We live in a world where writers dislike their lead actors because they are really commited to their role. How the hell did we reach this point?

that woman's lack of awareness is astonishing.... does she think people want to hear why she thinks Henry Cavill left?..... he left because of you 🤣🤦‍♂️

Though we can all understand why he’s walking away, he’s made the character utterly iconic, but I don’t think I’ll be watching future seasons if he isn’t in them…

Never has there been a time where your channel is more needed than now. It's so sad to see so many beloved IPs be destroyed by people that mock the source and want to change it, yet whose creative experience is defined more by Twitter than the past 100 years of movies.

This is so telling. They dont understand the horse death scene because they lack empathy. Theyre NPC robots. Why would someone be sad when their animal companion dies? I dunno, keep "subverting expectations".

Everyone: "Damn, this isn't showing much loyalty to the books..." Netflix Writers/Actors: "Wait, someone wrote books about this stuff?"

Originally I was skeptical of Henry playing Geralt but when I saw the passion and dedication he showed towards Garalt’s character it made me absolutely love and idolize him as not only an actor but also as a person dedicated to bringing this originally little known authors vision to life

I've never watched the show or played the games, so I don't know anything about Geralt's relationship with Roach, but I get the feeling that writer is the kind of person who thinks of pets as toys rather than members of the family that people bond with. The scary thing is, she most likely is or will be a lonely cat lady.

Imagine the writers saying to John Wick after his dog dies: "We get you another one, it doesn't matter, you will have another dog and you can give it the same name!"

How can you not love Henry? He is so classy and so nerdy at the same time. Handsome, smart, well spoken, invested. Wonderful guy.

Having read the books (I'm not into gaming), I agree that the source material IS the foundation for the story and there should be basic faithfulness to that source with creative interpretation that makes sense. I'll miss Cavill because to me he absolutely nailed Geralt.

Henry Cavill is a rare professional who gets the source material and wishes to respect and honour it. Genuine class human being

It's a lack of empathy (which is a sign of psychopathy, by the way). This makes so much sense, how can you possibly be a writer and explore the human condition, if you cannot empathise with others. I would not be surprised to discover that her lack of empathy is the rule in Hollywood, rather that the exception.

i love how you have an actor, that happens to be your main character, that everyone agrees does a great job, including the author of the books, and that loves the source material, the story and the character so much that he is not only willing to do his best possible job portraying it, but even go beyond that and also di the writers job better than then, and that somehow is being "annoying" to them. is as if you were looking for shards of glass in the bin, found a genuine diamond, and you tossed it away because you are looking for glass

the "we're already pressing the boundaries of reality" is amusing when you consider they had the massive oversight of making Jaskier like 50-60 by the time the timelines converged, and they thought that was less important than the fact Roach could live a few years longer

When I found out they wanted to make a joke of Roach’s death, I gave up on this show. Which was painful after the visceral reaction I had the first time I heard Henry’s Witcher voice. It was bad enough they gave her a brutal, painful death. They preceded her death with showing our beloved Roach as the only real being he could open up to. And don’t we all know that we can watch movies with thousands of people dying but as soon as we see a horse die, it hits us in the guts. So freakin out of touch with reality and the source material.

Alik Sakharov was a exclusive producer on the show for season 1, he directed the Pilot BUT he left because of creative differences with Lauren's version....this is what he had to say: “You see, in my perception, Eastern-European literature has a completely different pace. It is no coincidence that Andrzej Sapkowski has so many storylines and characters. The producers set the task of setting the adaptation at an action pace and filling it with colorful special effects. That was their vision. My vision was very different and I tried to convey it to them, giving my arguments. Unfortunately, I was not considered convincing enough, so I decided to leave the project.” And something about Henry Cavill: “Glad to hear it. By the way, Henry Cavill is the best thing in The Witcher, in my opinion. He absolutely nailed the role. Moreover, he is a very flexible actor who is able to listen and learn. I sincerely hope that he has many interesting and good projects ahead.” And hes NOT the only person who left. Tim Aslam the Costume designer for season 1 left, Sonya who made the beautiful soundtrack for s1 left, some actors left, a writer left, now Henry left. s1 was made without the appropriate preparation and without time to get things right. Tim Alan, the costume designer, didn't know who he was designing for nor the concept in which the clothes were worn. Henry's wig for Geralt wasnt ready....his own stylist had to work on it day and night to make it look more natural! For the Blaviken fight reshoot they had one day, henry brought in Wolfgang Stegemann and they worked on a fight choreography together, henry learned the whole fight in 2 hours!!! He saved Lauren's a** here and many more times. The writers didn't want geralt to have magic abilities btw....until henry insisted it was necessary to include.

Poor Henry. He had to completely recreate his work-out schedule to replace the strength training he's been getting from carrying the entire show.

Honestly, I'd wager Henry could easily obtain the rights to make his own Witcher based project if he really wanted. I'm betting they sold the concept of being "faithful to the source" to Sapkawski when he granted them the rights to make this show so he could legally nullify that contract and offer it to Henry instead.

This happened with the Terry Pratchett series of the Watch where even the family of Pratchett said it shares no dna with the source material.

My favorite part of this writers Witcher is when Yennifer is specifically told that choosing beauty and power, to get what she wants, will cost her ability to HAVE A CHILD. And then spends the rest of the show saying that choice was TAKEN CROM HER by Aretuza and nobody told her!

The best part of Emhyr in the book was that he thought he was so ruthless that he can just impregnate his own daughter for the sake of fulfilling the prophecy to have his heir rule the world, then he sees her daughter with people who were more of parents than them, and he couldnt go through with it. He admit it as much, and let them leave. That was level of depth Sapkowski put into writing the characters. Not fan fiction writing done by talentless narcissist.

10:25 In complete fairness, Geralt does become something of a father figure to Ciri, in the books and the games. He's essentially her mentor and guardian. If that's not a father, I don't know what is. In that aspect, the show having the two characters grow closer - coupled with just how much attention Ciri gets as the books go on - is actually good adherence to the source material. Or, at least, it would be if handled correctly. And considering how badly they fumbled Yennefer's relationship to Ciri? Well, I'm not holding my breath for a good handling of the Ciri-Geralt relationship dynamics now that Henry's stepped down. (For the record, I stopped watching after season 1, so I don't even know how well or how poorly they handled it in season 2 or any of 3 that already has/will air.)

the show is so confusing - as the books move on Ciri moves into becoming the main character naturally anyway...dont know why they thought the need to force Ciri and yen to be the main characters and Gearlt as the side - totally destroys Ciri's 'coming of age' arc

All boils down to pride. The writers can’t; for one second, stop and realize that their vision for “The Witcher” is not what the fans want.

I couldn’t imagine the frustration and heartbreak Cavill must’ve felt. Here he is as the *only* true fan of the series, the only person who knows the characters and their drives, yet he’s the one treated like a loon in trying to actually make the series successful… And just like that, they’ve gotten rid of the only thing tying this series to it’s actual heart.

I love Yennefer’s character portrayal in the show, she’s hot with those deep mysterious eyes, but without Henry Cavill not even she pulls me back into another season. You guys can probably tell me the Witcher is great as is in the books and games, and I’m fine with that, but Henry in white hair and murderous black eyes is THE deal maker to make me feel interested in the franchise, and I’m surprised the studio thinks it’s all gonna be alright

This is the 1st time I've come cross one ofyour videos and this is so amazing that you get a subscribe right off the bat. Amazing insight and I agree 100% with you!

i will be supporting Henry in anything he does because of how much he cared for the Witcher and doing it justice. he is one of the few actors that actually stands up for fans and telling stories properly from their source material. i enjoyed him as Superman never understood why many people didnt.

This is why FAN-driven series should have a quiz for all writers and show-runners and directors. If you can't pass the quiz, you aren't enough of a fan to work on it. Plus pop quizzes before each season and immediately fire those who can't pass.

Henry was the only man for this role he lived and breathed as Geralt of Rivia

Enjoyed the video, great thoughts man.

It's funny.. when I heard first heard Henry Cavill being cast as the Witcher I thought he would be the worst thing about the show. After season one.. which is the only season I could muster the fortitude to sit thru.. I realized he was the only thing holding this train-wreck together. You really do have to be living in a bubble to think this show is going anywhere without him.

These writters have zero empathy. Zero real world experience. A horse is not just a bicycle to the hero. It is his silent companion which they go through adventure and life with. When I played Shadow od the Colossus, when the horse Argo sacrificed himself to save the main character I literally cried. It is losing some one close who you had relied on.

It’s heartbreaking that this show was destroyed. I adored it. That actress knows the show is doomed but she’s speaking out of her a$$ to salvage her job because if the audience leaves, she’s out.

This is pretty consistent with what i’ve been seeing and watching elsewhere. Not having read the books and only dabbled in the games I still couldn't figure out what was happening with the plot. It was so all over the place I asked my wife if she thinks the writers were the same ones as those that did the Willow seasons earlier this year. Blech. But we love Cavill and the idea and lore behind the books from our internet deep dives behind the story… I hope we don't have to forgo the shows to actually get the story of the Witcher. I hope your prophecies aren't right… but I work with people, and your character assessment seems pretty spot on from how you presented it and what we’ve seen. Tis a shame. We’ll enjoy Cavill while we can and maybe the book author could fire the showrunner or something?… probably a pipe dream, though.

I don't think I've ever seen a show fail so hard while the actor who played in it became even more loved by the viewers.

“Won’t effect the show that much”. Yeah massive amount of people have already decided to not partake in season 4 is massive and we know what Netflix does to failing shows. When this fails (and it will) and the many people working on this have to go find work elsewhere only the writers and show runner will be to blame.

Funny thing, the first season did actually pretty good job in setting all the pieces together for further progress. Sure not telling story in chronological order was confusing, but they managed to set pieces for the future well, and making Geralt (as author said "side character in his own story") one of three main protagonists made alot of sense. Unless you only played games, and know nothing about books. The books were about this weird family of Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer trying to live their life in weird circumstances. You have to build these characters for watchers to care. Sure, narration in books mostly follows Geralt (in later books moving to have significant parts focused on Ciri), but the split in first season makes alot of sense imo. Show had their issues, show runner is huge problem, and I agree with general video, that show runner sux. But claim "Geralt is the sole main protagonist because title" sounds like claim from someone who played games, but couldn't be bothered by reading the books. Similar problem as author points towards show runner.

How do these show runners and writers get these jobs when there are so many talented and passionate people out there. Baffles me

Lets be honest, he didnt leave, he was BULLIED/pushed out. "Be a Fan" should be the FIRST rule of hiring for this stuff! But instead they hire people who are actively out to ruin the show and universe. Its pathetic. Cavill and his love/passion was the best thing about this entire show. Oh fuck! You mean the guy who is obsessed with and knows everything about the world had notes!? No way! Thats the ONE GUY you listen to! She is just mad he keeps interfering with her fanfiction. It should say "inspired by, The Witcher"

Henry stood up for a storys and characters he loved and would not allow them to be sullied with his name attached. A real man and a real fan.

Henry and Peter Jaxon could prolly do this justice, peter did change a few things in Lotr but to my understanding it had something to do with the cinematography and how to translate book to movie is often a problem but u can stay really faithfull, change a few things and still be faithfull to the original IP

Nice spot on analysis

Seems that Mr Cavill was the only one within the cast and crew that actually cared about the story rather than their own activism.

Henry's performance as Geralt is the GOLD STANDARD of animation to live action. Huge loss - if the show wasn't going to shit anyway.

The show tried to eliminate the masculine energy from the story because it wants to focus on a mainly female cast. The story is HEAVILY focused on women being in power and being the main focus. That’s not what we wanted.

great channel love the presentation. I hope they dont hurt mate got mine fixed after a bad dentist

It's so bad that the Witcher could have been Game of Thrones but we just got season 8 of it.

Cavill was probably the only one on the show who understood or even only read and/or played the original. Man looks better and better with every new information uncovered.

Funny How the death scene of Roach that Henry rewrote ended up being the best scene of the whole season.

In the games, anyone that did the Roach quest in blood and wine when he talks to you know..Roach is a main character of the series. The fact the producers and writers didn't know this means they were never fans of the books and the games in the first place. How is it a huge entity like Netflix didn't understand this?!

Henry cavill was the only one who showed he has enough self respect to not bow down to the stupid showrunners who are hell bent on ruining the show.

I feel so sorry for Liam. He needs a vehicle to help him step out of his brother’s shadow only to take a role that puts him in Cavill’s.

I will forever fight for the point that if you want to do your own spin on things don't do an adaptation and make your own goddamn story. Agree so much when you said that they should faithfully follow the existing story until they run out of source material, and then based on the existing understanding generated from following the material you can then move on and devise your own storylines.

Hearing the quote about Henry Cavill being "annoying" for being excited about playing a character in a series he loves made me choke on my cereal...I think a lot of people can relate to being put down for being excited about something they care about. That just...that was so sad, man.

You said it best; Henry Cavill is the soul of the franchise. If they had respected the material and listened to Henry, they could've had one of the most faithful adaptations and they would be made way more money. Its a damn shame what they did to him and the author.

Grr Martin hates fan fiction. But cannot grasp how fans also hate adaptations that come across as the worst sort of fan fiction that blatantly misunderstands the source material.

I'm still pissed off with what they did to my boy Eskel 😢 But Henry made The Witcher for me. I shall not be watching the episodes without him. You can tell how passionate he was about the shows content that the writers are complaining he annoyed them wanting to improve things.

"Won't affect the show that much" that's comedy gold. If only it was meant to be funny when said

Poor Henry. Hes just a geek that wants to work on things he loves

We learn very young on the playground that there are two kinds of people; the thinkers that can create, and the bullies that cannot so go around destroying other peoples' works.

One of the most important attributes to have as an actor or writer has always been empathy. Being able to understand and empathize with real people allows you to create compelling stories with interesting and complex characters. One of my biggest problems with writers (especially film/tv) in recent years is that they seem to be so self-absorbed and narcissistic that they legitimately can't write compelling and relatable characters.

I think Breaking Bad did this “there are no villains” thing to us. The difference is that Walter (and everyone else) has a clear character arc, and these writers simply do not possess the intelligence & life experience to write complex characters who possess conflicting goals (ex, Walt wants to provide for his family, he knows meth is illegal, but he has limited time to make a lot of money, however his goals evolve and he eventually becomes a monster). The writers simply do not have the life experience of being torn between conflicting values needed in order to write complex and compelling characters, so we get “Woman good, white man bad”.

I think you give Hissrich too much credit saying she only saw Roach as a character, I think Hissrich only saw her as a prop!

Brilliant review

Thanks!

The thing was, Henry knew the plot so well and treasured it so much that even the new scenes/lines introduced felt so organic and well fitted. They new stuff just made Henry's acting of Witcher unique, going it nuance. Unless Liam grows a back bone against those so called writers, the Witcher series is doomed

This is so crazy to me that I'm getting almost every show my friends and I wished for 15 years ago when we were in high school but at this point I wish they'd just stop. The Witcher, Halo, LoTR, Cowboy Bebop, Wheel of Time and so many more have been destroyed and at this point I just can't fathom that these horrible writers have yet to learn a single lesson.

@Disparu Have you played the Next-Gen The Witcher 3? CD Projekt has added a new quest in which you can get armor from the Netflix series. This task is very well written and directed, it is a great example of how to make affiliations between different works. The saddest thing is that this mission is much more interesting than the series it refers to.

His departure had a huge effect: it made a lot of us lose all interest. I have no reason to think season 3 will be good, and even less to think 4 will. She blew it, hard.

Cavill's mistake was to not buy himself into the show as stakeholder. let that be a lesson to actors who want to have a say.

I didn't expect to laugh so hard watching this video! Great work! lol

In the books, Geralt are the main character, but the main story really is about Ciri. And it is more and more clear in the last 3 books.

So the showrunners have truly outed themselves as the main reason Cavill left, and their biggest criticism of him seems to be that he was so into the stories, the games and the general mythos of The Witcher, that he would hold up filming to make sure that what got to the screen was as close to the source material as possible... And they thought this was a terrible thing... And they are trying to hype up the new season with a new lead, who presumably *won't* create these 'problems'. This show is heading for Blood Origin levels of garbage at lightspeed, which is what they wanted to do with this franchise all along. The only reason people didn't get Blood Origin from the very first episode was Henry Cavill.

I loved the time where we have writers showrunners like David chase, Vince Gilligan,david Simon, Terrence winter who despite of being stern really supported their lead

My husband and I aren't going to watch it without Henry now that is why we watched it because of him. He was the Witcher ❤ it's sad because it was a good show I feel the new actor isn't as old or serious enough for the role. The other actor we love is the Bard he is that Bard no one else can be him. Going to just watch the Witcher with Henry over and over ❤

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The witcher is done, you can't lose the actor the brought the title character to life and possibly think it will continue successfully.

Henry is by far the maddest of lads I've seen in a very long time I hope he gets another show that he can make shine

there is no Witcher without Cavill just like there is no potc without Depp

You're totally on point, @Disparu , on all accounts. I will watch season 3 of The Witcher, and then I'm done. Shame, was looking forward to enjoying it with Cavill as Geralt for the full 7 seasons.

Can we get Henry to Voiceover the wicher audiobooks?

15:15 nailed it!!!!!!!

I just watched the trailer and I get it why he left... Even from just the trailer, it doesn't sound like Geralt. Like: "For the first time I undestand real fear." Really? Really? The kid that survived the Trial, now he understands fear? Please Geralt knows fear, if they just recognized Geralt as the hero of his own story it would make it all just more meaningfull, I don't know the contest of the line but if they opted for something like: "I have been scared before, fighting through my own fear, but it never felt as strong as this." I could accept it. They just don't want Geralt to be the hero as to the benefit the others as protagonists, which is stoopid, there is enough heroism to go around, if they cared about the books or games they would see it.

Find it funny how we live in a day and age where actors who aren’t paid to do script writing do it anyways cause they care about the source material more than the writers yet they go and hate the actor for making the show better

"she said she was very shocked when she found out [Henry was leaving]" ^---there's your problem right there