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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9219661" data-attributes="member: 18">If it was animated, I might expect Netflix to potentially turn out something good, but they've done fairly poorly with live-action fantasy shows, in a variety of different ways. I don't agree with some traditionalist/"but it isn't the books!!!!!!" criticism of The Witcher, but it certainly wasn't what it could have been. And Shadow & Bone had 95%* perfect casting, 100% understood was good about the books, the characters, the setting, and the story, and just didn't have the budget to do what it needed to at anything less than fast-forward speed. If they'd had 10-13 episodes/season instead of 8, it could have been totally amazing. But it was solid, and then Netflix killed it, at the same time as saying actually it did really well. Incredible stuff Netflix.Animated is a different matter - Arcane is practically a masterpiece and so ridiculously better than the risible source material it's mind-boggling. The Castlevania stuff has been solid to great.The other big problem with live action BG3 is, several of those characters 100% live and die on the voice acting. Astarion could be ruined in a heartbeat by casting the wrong guy, likewise Lae'zel. Some of the others it's a bit easier, but damn. And on top of all this, in live action, it'd be hideously expensive, like oh my god expensive, if you didn't want it to look dire. Especially in places like the Underdark, for god's sake.* = Failing to cast a tall girl as Nina Zenik was a crime - the character is like 5'10 at a dead minimum - and tall girl actresses - who there are more of every year - have a hard enough time already thanks to the diminutive stature of so many male leads, but otherwise Danielle Galligan was good.</blockquote>

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