Well I honestly think that this wasn’t the franchise to do this kind of casting no matter how good their intentions were. There was absolutely no issue in the Witcher universe or the characters, they had no real reason change things.. Existing stories should not be messed around too much, you’re essentially just digging your own grave then. And I don’t mean just the casting. We all know what happened to GoT when they started deviating too much from the source material. No one in their right mind has nothing against with diverse cast, good example is the Disney Star Wars. I didn’t even think about that there is a black guy, a woman, latino, Asian etc. because they made their own story (a bad one though) and Star Wars universe has always been very diverse. I just think that if their main focus and message is not what exists in the source material then maybe they should write a new show, with their own vision and themes. No one complained about this in Harry Potter franchise either, because all kinds of students and people existed in the story and it was set in our time. And I don’t think that people who don’t like the changes in Witcher are automatically just simpletons or racists. Of course not. I think it’d be the same reaction if triss was casted as chubby blonde woman or something