The first you know as everybody is aware by now Henry Cavill carries the show. He hoisted this show on to his massive Witcher shoulders and just carries it. That's not to say that everybody else in the show is bad, it's just that by comparison no one else can hold up. Fans of the books, or games are going to notice the changes that were made to important characters. The casting decisions aside from Henry Cavill pretty bad. For some characters their ethnicities have been changed, and for others their sex has changed, and some have had both changed. This is a negative because it was done simply for the sake of diversity. for simply the sake of diversity. As someone that has read the books, graphic novels and played the games to me it is a huge problem. these are characters that you have come to know from playing gwent, or from interacting with them in the games, or from learning about their characters in the novels. Some characters have been deleted some have been merged into entirely new characters. Then there's the issue of the timelines they are trying to merge multiple timelines and it is not done in a very comprehensible fashion. If you have not read the novels or at least played the games you are going to be lost. It's a great show, and you can see where the cast members have put in the effort but the writing and casting decisions really hold it back. Unfortunately at this point the damage is done with hardcore fans feeling alienated and the problem is those are the same fans that the show needed because they're the ones most capable of understanding the convoluted timeline. I'm reading the show and nine out of 10 but that is only getting a 9 out of 10 because of how excellent Henry Cavill is as Geralt, Dandelion, some of the supporting cast, the signs, and Roach. An example of the bad decisions though is when an unnamed sorceress pulls out a sword and is suddenly capable of defeating trained fighters in just melee combat. So in summary if you're a fan of the series be prepared to be disappointed in a number of things, and if you're new to the series then be prepared to be lost. As fans all we can do is hope for the next season that they worry less about diversity, and try to stay true to the characters that are already established.