Cavill looks and sounds the part, to be fair. Fight scenes look good.
My only [major] reservation is the dialogue. I don’t think the tone is easy to translate into television medium - I think a lot of the novels strength is through Geralt’s internal philosophical musing; non-spoken action. From the trailer it does sound a bit cheesy.
Oh and I still think that Yennefer cast is god awful and will never get over it.
I think ure pretty alone on the hype train re both the dialogue and Yen. Seems like both are getting a lot of early praise right now. The trailer probably highlighted some specific things to say to get those familiar with the books or games on the hype train. I would imagine though they ll treat it more like LOTR and during the show make the dialogue more TV friendly and throw out the occasional book quite.
Like many others I wasn't convinced by Yen s casting but that one little scene where she smirks after the horns comment by Gerald sold me on it. It seems to show she has what it takes to pull off the character imho.
The only thing that was jarring to me was the music but I'll assume that's just trailer music. Made it feel cheaper than it needs to be.
I'm now gonna have to binge rush the rest of the The Tudors or else Henry will still be the Duke of Suffolk for me.