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I thought Moist was insufficiently sleazy in BBC Going Postal but I didn't hate it. Then again that's probably a consequence of not having everyone's internal monologue at all times.
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I think Discworld has Audio Dramas. I'm pretty sure I listened to one.
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^^^ Guards! Guards! has definitely been adapted for radio. By the BBC, and faithfully. Epicurius posted:Dibbler in the books would have loved to be able to afford henchmen. Dibbler often does have henchmen when he's at the top of one of his scams. He's in a perpetual rags to riches to rags cycle where he hits on a fifteen minute fad and always winds up back on his sausage cart.
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YggiDee posted:I think Discworld has Audio Dramas. I'm pretty sure I listened to one. Both Guards! Guards! and Night Watch had them, and they were amazing. I can't find them on the internet any more, though.
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Jan 19, 2020 17:03
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At least the Hogfather adaption was good.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:At least the Hogfather adaption was good. YggiDee posted:I didn't hate it. That's about as much praise as the Hogfather adaption deserves.
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I'm sad that Detritus is not in, but to be done properly he'd either be a huge hulking animatronic, or a CGI thing, both of which probably would take too much budget away from a clearly overpaid casting director. No Nobby is -ing travesty, though.
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Iacen posted:I'm sad that Detritus is not in, but to be done properly he'd either be a huge hulking animatronic, or a CGI thing, both of which probably would take too much budget away from a clearly overpaid casting director. The golem in Going Postal looked just fine as a suit with animatronic mouth and expressions.
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hanales posted:Has anyone seen troll bridge yet? Parts, but not the whole. It should have been released at DWCon 2018, which I couldn't attend as a colleague was getting married and there was no cover. It looks good though.
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YggiDee posted:I think Discworld has Audio Dramas. I'm pretty sure I listened to one. Six, they're on audible. Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Guards Guards, Eric, Small Gods and Night Watch, in a bundle with Only you can save mankind.
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Iacen posted:I'm sad that Detritus is not in, but to be done properly he'd either be a huge hulking animatronic, or a CGI thing, both of which probably would take too much budget away from a clearly overpaid casting director. For all we know Detritus could be in it as one of those armoured guards, since that's the direction this series seems to be taking.
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Who What Now posted:This is extremely dissapointing, and the worst part is that it didn't have to be. The BBC made a perfectly good adaptation of Going Postal that didn't take a hot steaming poo poo all over the original source. That was probably the best one. Charles Dance as Vetinari was probably the best Vetinari we're ever getting in an adaptation.
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The only adaptations I've seen were Going Postal, which I loved, and Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic, which was fine. Though I was never hugely into Rincewind so the differences probably didn't bother me too much. I think I'll be avoiding this though, The Watch series was always my favourite and everything about this feels off.
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Point of order, the adaptations of Hogfather, Going Postal, and Colour of Magic are from Sky One, not the BBC.
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Point of personal privilege: NEEERRRRDDDD
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withak posted:It’s like they had some generic forgettable urban fantasy series in development and decided to leaven it with some popular IP that they already had licensed. Yeah, this is exactly what it feels like. I mean, DEATH isn't even in it.
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Tree Bucket posted:Yeah, this is exactly what it feels like. I mean, DEATH isn't even in it. Death doesn't appear in Snuff.
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Jedit posted:Death doesn't appear in Snuff. I thought the only Discworld book not featuring Death was The Wee Free Men? Doesn't a goblin die early on in Snuff?
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I was going to complain that while I don’t mind Cruces being made into a woman the person they cast is obviously too young for the character but then I looked it up and Ingrid Oliver is 42, so, uh, never mind that. I’m honestly not that heartened that they’re doing the greatest hits of the Watch books. Even one book is enough material for a full miniseries
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Is this even going for satire/comedy like the books?
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Doubtful Guest posted:I thought the only Discworld book not featuring Death was The Wee Free Men? Doesn't a goblin die early on in Snuff? It does but Death doesn't appear in it even as a non-speaking appearance IIRC.
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Avalerion posted:Is this even going for satire/comedy like the books? It's being described as a "punk rock thriller"
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freelop posted:It's being described as a "punk rock thriller" So not actually funny, as such
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Tree Bucket posted:So not actually funny, as such I'm laughing, and they haven't aired yet.
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freelop posted:It's being described as a "punk rock thriller" To be fair, that could be a problem with marketing, not with the show itself
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Tree Bucket posted:So not actually funny, as such Not ment to be funny anyway.
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I will say that the two things that consistently get me in Discworld were 'it's a pune or play on words' or Bloody Stupid Johnson. The first because it's like an idiot is explaining a pun to other idiots and the second because Pratchett seemed to keep on finding new ways to highlight how impossibly untalented BSJ was.
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Untalented? That is definitely not the word to describe a man who figured out how to locally redefine a universal constant.
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I like how over time, Bloody Stupid Johnson went from making things with extremely dumb proportions (the ho-ho, the Ankh-Morpork landmarks) to feats of incredible engineering (the Unseen University private bathroom) to bending the fabric of reality (Empirical Crescent, The New Pie).
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Megazver posted:That was probably the best one. Charles Dance as Vetinari was probably the best Vetinari we're ever getting in an adaptation. Charles Dance as Vetinari?? poo poo I'm gonna have to track this down. It seems so incredibly weird and wrong to adapt the Watch and not include Nobby and Fred. It reminds me of a story Terry told about working on an adaptation of Mort that had been going well until they had to pitch it to some Americans, who told them they loved it but to lose the Death angle. Also while I'm here, for whatever reason my brain has always cast Porridge era Ronnie Corbett as Vimes.
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SirSamVimes posted:I like how over time, Bloody Stupid Johnson went from making things with extremely dumb proportions (the ho-ho, the Ankh-Morpork landmarks) to feats of incredible engineering (the Unseen University private bathroom) to bending the fabric of reality (Empirical Crescent, The New Pie). He truly perfected his craft, just along a different axis.
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Somehow got a character arc despite not once physically appearing in the books.
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Pterry was that good.* *This could probably be posted every 10 pages without context.
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Beachcomber posted:Pterry was that good.* Fixed that for you.
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Bruceski posted:He truly perfected his craft, just along a different axis. BSJ inadvertently stumbling into the eldritch dimensions is completely in character.
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Shoehead posted:Also while I'm here, for whatever reason my brain has always cast Porridge era Ronnie Corbett as Vimes. Barker, surely?
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Frazzbo posted:Barker, surely? Shite, wrong Ronnie, but yeah. There's something about his demeanour as Fletch that's very Vimes-like.
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The late Paul Darrow (Avon in Blakes 7) is my go-to for Vimes, having seen him play the role in a Guards! Guards! adaptation. He didn't exactly have the look of Vimes, but he carried off the character amazingly.
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