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The Witcher series EP talks about the soul and voice of the show
Netflix's Witcher adaptation is going to offer some brutal moments and dark storylines, but that's not all the show has to offer. In an interview with Comicbook.com, Executive Producer Tomek Baginski talks about the various elements the show includes to create a cohesive experience.
"Witcher is a quite special book and special world because it's fun. It's dark at moments and very gritty, but at the same time it's quite often very funny because even in the darkest moments, in the darkest moments of history, people want to have a party, right? People want to drink wine and people want to have fun, so yes, it's a fun show.
We have some fun with magic. We have some great fights with monsters, but also at the same time our main goal was to nail the characters. We spent a lot of time looking for the right voice. We spent a lot of time looking for the right cast for the show, and both for Lauren and for me and for the rest of the producers, the most important aspect of the series was the human side of it, and the characters we can build on.
...the rest is, of course, entertainment. The rest is fun, the rest is cool, And we have, I think more magic than any other show. We had some really cool battles with monsters and some really cool battles with people. But for us, the soul of the show is in the characters, and I'm so glad that we had the cast we had because it doesn't happen very often."