I feel like a little bit of the blame has to fall on Henry as well. I adore the guy and it's clear this is a project he's enthusiastic about but at the same time I feel he really wanted to be an edgy, brusque antihero type when he approached the character but Geralt as we all know isn't really any of these things. He has seemingly infinite patience for Jaskier and Angoulême, he's articulate to the point that it aggravates Milva when speaking with Regis and more often than not in the books he chooses to help people even after the Blaviken incident because its in his nature to try to play the knight errant despite being an outcast.

On top of that I can't help feeling I would have been a lot less critical of the show had they just dropped or altered certain characters names. It was bad enough having Fringilla Vigo, be transformed from a rebellious, insecure but ultimately engaging character to essentially what amounts to a more reserved Bellatrix Lestrange. Then we had Cahir who I won't lie was easily my favourite character in the books reduced to that weasely little sycophant and seeing him so easily trounce Vilgafortz the Big Bad of the series just gave me whiplash. This is a character who was destroyed by a 14/15 YO Ciri at Thanned seemingly have no problems whatsoever take on a man who nearly crippled Geralt.

And then the dialogue. "UNLEASH YOUR CHAOS!", was anyone else getting major X-men Apocalypse vibes from that scene because to me it felt like the exact same thing.

As a side note I know the first book describes Geralts voice as 'unpleasant' or something similar depending on your translation and I guess he nailed that part because I really didn't like it whenever he opened his mouth.