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I'm sorry, DISCWORLD???
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Jan 17, 2020 12:26
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Yeah, they've cast Anna Chancellor as Vetinari, which is just inspired IMO.
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Jan 17, 2020 13:03
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Charlz Guybon posted:Anyone seen Netflix's Messiah?
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Jan 17, 2020 13:05
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Open Source Idiom posted:Yeah, they've cast Anna Chancellor as Vetinari, which is just inspired IMO. Marama Corlett is also a good choice for Angua. And I don't know the guy who plays Vimes, but he looks spot-on for the part on that photo.
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Jan 17, 2020 13:32
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The Outsider is making me think that there's no reason to adapt King to film (Ok, Dr Sleep was way better than it has any right to be) but to TV instead. Not his novels, though, the man has so many goddamn insanely good short stories you could make a 60 episode show called Skeleton Crew or whatever that just adapts his best shorts into hourlong episodes. You have things like the Jaunt, Survivor Type, Everything's Eventual, Man in the Black Suit, All That You Love Will Be Carried away, and so on. The longer novella type stuff? Make it a two-parter.Hell, do a Bachman book or two. It's been attempted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_%26_Dreamscapes:_From_the_Stories_of_Stephen_King
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Jan 17, 2020 14:15
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Junkenstein posted:It's been attempted: Man, I haven't thought of this in a while. I remember liking Umney's Last Case and Battleground, and thinking Ron Livingstone was good in End of the Whole Mess, but everything else being a writeoff.
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Jan 17, 2020 14:31
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TBH that Discworld stuff looks pretty dire.
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Jan 17, 2020 14:39
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Watched the Outsider eps already released and this show kicks rear end. I don't know that I've ever seen Ben Mendelsohn play a good guy before
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Jan 17, 2020 17:02
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Megazver posted:TBH that Discworld stuff looks pretty dire. I certainly was expecting a more traditional fantasy aesthetic than... that. I don't think it looks bad in a vacuum, but it implies a tonal shift that feels wrong for the material.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:08
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zoux posted:Watched the Outsider eps already released and this show kicks rear end. I don't know that I've ever seen Ben Mendelsohn play a good guy before Uh, Captain Marvel.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:22
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Rhyno posted:Uh, Captain Marvel. Ha, good point.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:29
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I need this so bad
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Jan 17, 2020 17:32
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I haven't gotten around to watching Carnival Row, but all the adverts that Twitch showed me makes me think that The Watch's pre-production team took a lot of notes from CR's production team. Discworld has a load of anachronisms, I could see gas lights being a thing, and individual premises having an imp power a crude electromagnet to power some shop lights, but electric lamps are a bit too out of place, and I'm not keen on making Sybil Ramkin conventionally attractive (young, thin, etc) and perhaps there's something to unpack regarding the casting of Carcer. Perhaps they're going for a "Vimes wants revenge for Carcer killing John Keel sometime in the past", and since Keel, Vimes' mentor, is also portrayed by a black man it isn't as bad as a situation. Tudor/Elizabethian With Knobs On is what I expect from Discworld, not this Victorian stuff. My greatest dislike is how Vimes wears a badge like every cop in every American cop movie set somewhere in the vicinity of California wears their badge. It looks ridiculous on him, even if it's short hand for a thick audience of what they ought to expect from him.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:35
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Open Source Idiom posted:they cancelled ... The Son TIL. Dammit.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:41
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Little America on Apple TV+ is really goddamn good.
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Jan 17, 2020 17:54
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What does 'legalized crime' even mean?
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Jan 17, 2020 18:49
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Gentlemen it is a new century, and we must update our new division to reflect that https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/1218216711154847744
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Jan 17, 2020 18:52
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Let's just go ahead and draw a curtain over this "giving Fox News billions of dollars" issue and never talk about it again.ashpanash posted:What does 'legalized crime' even mean? Have you been following the impeachment coverage?
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Jan 17, 2020 18:52
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feedmyleg posted:Have you been following the impeachment coverage? There's a difference between 'ignored' and 'legalized' Edit: I guess you could argue that technically, the legal marijuana industry in the us is a 'legalized crime.'
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Jan 17, 2020 18:54
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ashpanash posted:What does 'legalized crime' even mean? Exactly what it sounds like. The Assassin's Guild can legally kill people, the Thieves Guild can legally rob people, and lawyers exist.
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Jan 17, 2020 18:55
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I hope the Discworld show is good but I’m not looking forward to legions of insufferable Discworld fans coming into the forum
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Jan 17, 2020 18:56
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ashpanash posted:What does 'legalized crime' even mean? License to kill? 
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Jan 17, 2020 18:58
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I signed up for Hulu when they were doing their $2/month Black Friday deal and dear, sweet Jesus, I love Letterkenny. ...but am I wrong in being at the point where I'm hoping there's an episode where the Skids get hit by Riley and Jonesy in their Jeep? Jesus gently caress, they can be grating.
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Jan 17, 2020 19:02
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The core premise of the first Watch novel is that the Watch is basically obsolete because Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, (pretty correctly) surmised that the only way to deal with all the loving crime was to effectively legalize it through the Guilds. The Thieves' Guild runs all the thievery (though you can pay them a fee to not get robbed). the Assassins' Guild runs all the murder, etc. Any thievery or assassination done by non-guild members is strictly punished by the Guilds. Alternatively: https://twitter.com/thomas_violence/status/473334014061707265?lang=en
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Jan 17, 2020 19:10
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The Watch books are cool and I would be ecstatic if they ever did Feet of Clay. WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN 
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Jan 17, 2020 19:15
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Escobarbarian posted:I hope the Discworld show is good but I’m not looking forward to legions of insufferable Discworld fans coming into the forum Can't be worse than the insufferable GoT fans
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Jan 17, 2020 20:18
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Rarity posted:Can't be worse than the insufferable GoT fans Discworld fans: hold our collective beers
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Jan 17, 2020 20:20
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Captain Invictus posted:Fair enough. I do hope it's something along the lines of this fan-made cartoon TAZ intro- I enjoyed it at the time but them continuously mining the one good campaign they did as if its an actual epic story worthy of being lovingly adapted across multiple media formats and not some guys telling jokes as they mash pop culture up with D&D and getting a little too into it is only more depressing considering how bad every campaign they've done since then has been. Without the lowered expectations of being a dumb comedy show by guys who never played the game before they wouldn't have been able to sneak actual pathos into it under everyone's defenses and now that they're actively trying to craft more epic storylines they never do actual jokes anymore and instead the DM just monologues exposition for most of the show. I can't begrudge them being so enamoured with the idea of creating their own original fiction when all the rest of their extended family content mill is just riffing on and reacting to other things but they really can't put that lightning back in the bottle.
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Jan 17, 2020 20:23
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The Circle is like a tacky SyFy adaptation of Neal Stephenson writing a short story intended to parody a William Gibson short story, only it's real and now I hate everything lol
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Jan 17, 2020 23:13
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Escobarbarian posted:I hope the Discworld show is good but I’m not looking forward to legions of insufferable Discworld fans coming into the forum There are a shitload of Discworld fans here already, just not really the bad kind. Tbh, at least in America, i've never really encountered the bad kind of Discworld fan.
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Jan 17, 2020 23:16
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The only people I've met who have even read Discworld are turbonerds, but non of them have been particularly maladjusted in the way I assume super fans of the books are.
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Jan 17, 2020 23:17
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Everybody I know who reads discworld is super chill But its probably less obscure in the UK and you maybe run into more weirdos there?
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Jan 17, 2020 23:19
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Zaphod42 posted:Everybody I know who reads discworld is super chill I think that's part of it. Same with Harry potter, as bad as American Harry potter fans are, holy poo poo have you seen the British fans lol Edit: and Dr who, and Sherlock Really British people are just the worst
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Jan 17, 2020 23:25
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Holy loving poo poo is anyone watching evil? cause the ending to the latest episode went from 3 to 11 balls to wall insane, depending on your interpretation of things.
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Jan 18, 2020 01:58
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Zaphod42 posted:Everybody I know who reads discworld is super chill This is exactly it. Just like, oh, Pratchett is the most genius writer ever because he’s wry, said hundreds of pretentious men with beards
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Jan 18, 2020 02:57
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Holy loving poo poo is anyone watching evil? cause the ending to the latest episode went from 3 to 11 balls to wall insane, depending on your interpretation of things. It's definitely an uneven show overall but yeah their willingness to go full bonkers is what keeps me watching.
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Jan 18, 2020 05:08
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zoux posted:Watched the Outsider eps already released and this show kicks rear end. I don't know that I've ever seen Ben Mendelsohn play a good guy before Director Krennick did nothing wrong.
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Jan 18, 2020 05:09
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zoux posted:Watched the Outsider eps already released and this show kicks rear end. I don't know that I've ever seen Ben Mendelsohn play a good guy before Captain Marvel
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Gonz posted:Captain Marvel AHEM Rhyno posted:Uh, Captain Marvel.
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