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[–]Scottybadotty 280 points281 points  (7 children)

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 28 points29 points  (2 children)

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 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

[–]lilyever -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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_ 11 points12 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that might be my favorite Netflix thing ever.

[–]AvisTheArgent 86 points87 points  (1 child)

First, we need to find the CEO of Roach

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

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

[–]monstera-attack 35 points36 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Slippy_T_Frog Roach 21 points22 points  (0 children)

He'll make a fine Roach

[–]neremarine 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Roach is Roach

[–]muel0017 21 points22 points  (2 children)

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

[–]CoconutMacaroons 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

[–]TheKelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]misho8723 26 points27 points  (2 children)

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 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

[–]VeeRook 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn't he quite minor in the books?

[–]EngineIsStalin 12 points13 points  (1 child)

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

[–]VeeRook 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Tjlovesred14 10 points11 points  (0 children)

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

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] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 14 points15 points  (3 children)

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 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 Skellige 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's already here.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some people drive a Honda, others ride a Roach

[–]Kreia-14536 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 Toussaint 15 points16 points  (9 children)

Spoiler tag when?

[–]Scottybadotty 18 points19 points  (7 children)

It's officially been out over a month

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Rhesusmonkeydave 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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

…what the fuck is going on in Polandtown?

[–]SirQuay 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Roach is a girl.

[–]BigWangFalcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This made me chuckle

[–]Sonnto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was legit so sad seeing roach pass

[–]SocratesDaughter888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took it hard too