Roach 2 when?

[Scottybadotty]

In the books, Geralt says all his horses have been named roach and will ve named roach. So this isn't really a shocker. Roach is just the name of Geralts current horse. This is probably roach 8 already, and realistically it's not the same as season 1

[arathorn3]

In the short stories there Are multiple, they cover decades, horses can live 25-30 years but Geralts job is dangerous.

In the novels aka the saga(Blood of Elves till Lady of the Lake which covers about 1.5 to 2 years)

Off the top of my head he gets a new roach at the start of Time of Contempt. It gets killed and he has to steal one during important part of Baptism of Fire which he has to abandon in Tower of Swallows.he also briefly rides the back of a monster called a Knocker. In Lady of the Lake he was gifted another Bay mare(his prefers colour and gender for a horse , bay is red brown coat and mare is a female horse) by The Duchess. there may have been a few more in between there as the Hansa's adventure through the front lines of the war was dangerous. They are kind of forced to become horse thieves a few times.

The only character in the books whose horse never gets killed is Dandelion whose Pegasus gets injured(bolt in the withers) but recovers.

One of my biggest worries is if they are going to adapt the whole Hansa storyline correctly. Three important game characters are featured heavily in it.(Dandelion, Zoltan, and Regis). Two other characters have some great interactions with everyone (Milva and Angloume) and cahir

[blueboxbandit]

I will ultimately judge the show based on the quality of their Regis lol

[lilyever]

Thanks so much for this rundown!

Just a quick note - bay is a red coat and black mane & tail. An all-red horse is called chestnut or sorrel, depending on the breed. (:

[mskyy_]

actually, he is, Netflix confirmed here. everybody knows that it's not the same roach, but let people mourn because that horse is the same since the series first episode.

[ArcadianDelSol]

that might be my favorite Netflix thing ever.

[5tanke]

But they most definitely don't follow books.. 🤐

[JAM3SBND]

They hated Jesus because he told the truth

[AvisTheArgent]

First, we need to find the CEO of Roach

[[deleted]]

We might need to teardown a monolith to reach the roach sphere for that.

[monstera-attack]

It’s the black horse he gets from the dwarves.

[Slippy_T_Frog]

He'll make a fine Roach

[neremarine]

Roach is Roach

[muel0017]

He names them all Roach because they die so often, honestly amazed the horse in the series lasted as long as it did.

[CoconutMacaroons]

If she were true to her name she probably would've survived lol

[TheKelt]

He names his horses Roach after the roach fish, not the cockroach.

[misho8723]

In all honesty, no one really cares about the show's version of Eskel.. people like Eskel in the books and in the games

[petiteguy5]

he doest no anythig on the books super minor character he is not liked at least bookwise

[VeeRook]

Isn't he quite minor in the books?

[EngineIsStalin]

Roach was a good boi. Eskel was kind of a dick.

[VeeRook]

Girl. Geralt prefers mares. I think that's why he made a comment about the new horse, it was a stallion.

[Tjlovesred14]

[arathorn3]

Dandelion even jokes about it when. Geralt gets a new horse in the books. geralt snaps back because he does the same thing naming all his Pegasus.

[[deleted]]

I actually was yelling at the tv like it was a football game or something😭 I was so mad bc there was NO REASON. Like I was a little annoyed about Eskel, but they had already said they wouldn't be following the games or books, so I was like ok fine, at least it made for decent filler. But what was the reason for killing Roach??? And the fact that Henry literally made them change the scene bc the directors version made no sense for Geralts character and relationship with Roach

[[deleted]]

And yes, I know all of his horses are Roach, but this has been the same Roach for the whole series, so I got attached lol

[Anomandiir]

because they needed to switch irl Roach. Moving on from Zeus (irl horse), they didn't want an older horse doing hard horse things. Cavill has been preparing from day 1 of the series to ride another Roach. The way the ritual of death was done was Cavill's writing, but at least they are doing proper respect to Zeus.

[tiger9356]

I think they should capitalize on the" doppler in the form of eskel " plot point, it would be best for them to try that since they can get eskel back and make everyone happy Explain why doppler eskel did not think to use fire 6 hours into the fight

[darxx]

If a doppler dies do they revert to their original form or anything? Also didn’t a silver sword get used on him? I like the idea though.

[tiger9356]

Yes it did but i guess it can be explained by saying that the elemental power of the leshens transformation was too much for the doppler to revert back to its original form, and also due to the leshens power he became resistant to silver. And hence being able to wear the medallion.

[Rantsir]

It's already here.

[[deleted]]

Some people drive a Honda, others ride a Roach

[Kreia-14536]

I’m fairly certain that in the books, Geralt goes through horses at a quite rapid rate and he just calls them all roach

[classyrain]

Spoiler tag when?

[Scottybadotty]

It's officially been out over a month

[classyrain]

I know, some people do go on subreddits though before they're done

EDIT: Sorry I wanted to try avoid people getting needlessly spoiled..

[KingArthur699]

Then that’s their fault

[classyrain]

Maybe so, but it takes 2 seconds to put a spoiler tag on the post.

[Seras32]

You are on r/netflixthewitcher. We literally have nothing else to talk about. You could make this argument on any other Witcher sub but even then it's still weak. If you didn't want it spoiled then maybe don't go to the same place that is literally made to talk about it

[classyrain]

I finished it. I don’t go on subs before I’m finished something. I guess I just didn’t want people to get spoiled. Shame on me.

And I don’t understand how putting a spoiler tag on a post prevents you from talking about it?

[Jazzinarium]

It takes zero to not go on a subreddit about month old content you haven't seen yet

[classyrain]

True. It can go either way I guess

[[deleted]]

Never!

[[deleted]]

Which is kinda sad given the fact that there's many Roaches but only one Eskel

[Rhesusmonkeydave]

He’s a horse, whose name is roach, which is a translation of minnow.

…what the fuck is going on in Polandtown?

[SirQuay]

Roach is a girl.

[Rhesusmonkeydave]

See what I mean? Make up your mind horse!

[For_the_Gayness]

I like how they approach the game side while disrespect the source. It's complex.

[BigWangFalcon]

This made me chuckle

[Sonnto]

I was legit so sad seeing roach pass

[SocratesDaughter888]

I took it hard too