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I'm still optimistic about The Watch, since you can grab all sorts of stills and make a show look like whatever you want. I'm a little nervous about the direction they're taking Cheery, but I think the rest of the cast looks pretty great.
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https://twitter.com/MakeYeFretPod/status/1247846781079171072?s=20 This was the most accurate one imo
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I actually didn't hate Raising Steam when I first read it, it just wasn't one of my favorites. Then I started re-reading all of the Discworld books last fall and after reading it back-to-back with several others around that time, it's just sort of "meh" But to echo what someone else said, they're short books and I don't think I've ever felt like it was time wasted reading one, even if it wasn't one of my favorites.
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Tree Bucket posted:What was the first Discworld everyone read? I started with "Interesting Times" and it absolutely blew my 12-year-old mind. I had no idea what was going on but "your wife is a big hippo" and "there he is! Get 'im! Got 'im? Now kick 'im inna fork!" were pure magic. I'm embarrassed to say, I can't remember! In high school I worked at our small town library and was very bored one Saturday while I was waiting around for the bridge club to get set up before I could go home. Since my supervisor was gone for the day, I picked up one of the two Pratchett books that had been staring at me from the New Arrivals shelf all day. It was either Thud! or Monstrous Regiment. I devoured it over the weekend and was relieved when the other one hadn't been checked out when I came back for my next shift several days later.
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Honestly, if I was completely unfamiliar with DW I'd probably give it a shot for some trashy fantasy fun. Maybe I can be strong and turn off that part of my brain and enjoy it... who am I kidding, I'm just going to end up hate-watching it
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Remora posted:"I don't know. What do you think?" is, unfortunately, a killer Patrician line. There's a few bits of casting I thought were quite good, and Anna Chancellor as Vetinari was certainly one of them.
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I take back what I said before, I don't know how I could even hate watch this when I couldn't make it all the way through a single one of those clips, that acting was something else. I guess Angua seemed decent and I don't mind the deadpan Cheery, but that Vimes is unbearable.
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Jedit posted:Unfortunately the adaptations came 30 years too late to cast the two men who should have been Vimes - Pete Postlethwaite and Paul Darrow. I saw Darrow play Vimes in the stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! and he was perfect. Are there any recordings out there of the stage production?
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YggiDee posted:You're in luck, Peter Benedict (the director) recorded a matinee performance back in 1999 and uploaded all it on his YouTube channel 
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Oct 11, 2020 02:48
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well, I've gone from "I'll probably secretly hate-watch this, at least for the first episode" to "I'll probably secretly watch this for a least the first 2 episodes"
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The_Doctor posted:Vimes should tell the dragon to investigate the patrician? Now THAT'S a show I could get behind
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I think I've muttered "I'm so mad" about once a minute, it's a total disgrace. Is it a good hate watch? I guess, if you're someone who likes to watch a thing you care about get absolutely poo poo all over.
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Relevant Tangent posted:It's deliberate, they want to tarnish Pratchett so badly no one reads the books. This isn't a joke, it's like the show is aggressively trying to be to opposite of anything Pratchett wrote
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