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July 5, 2021 at 11:10 am #1661007
Well watched the 1st one and a half episodes last night…………………!
See why Gerry gave it the big thumbs down… as it has much to do with Terry Pratchetts books on the Watch as did the Films Starship Troopers to the Book. As in it used some of the characters names and a bit of the plot(s) from the books.
My guess is it the same as ST in that some one had a script that nobody wanted at the BEEB, they got the rights to the books and thought lets change the names of the characters , adapt the plot and call it Terry Pratchetts watch , most of its audience wont no the difference.
oh and for their fans no Nobby and Colon!!!!!!!
July 5, 2021 at 4:21 pm #1661120Nobby and Colon is what makes the Watch .. the Watch
well them and Carrot and Capt. VimesJuly 5, 2021 at 5:06 pm #1661137Is The Watch set in Discworld?
July 6, 2021 at 8:55 am #1661242Sort of,, it is an alternate universe Discworld.
I have to say as a show I really enjoyed it, but it is definitely not the city watch we know and love.
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July 6, 2021 at 6:07 pm #1661369I couldn’t get through first episode. It’s the names and city, but does not compare to the novels.
I thought the previous TV incarnations of Pratchett’s work were poor, but that goes to a new low.
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July 6, 2021 at 8:00 pm #1661383Typical of the BBC it looks like they’ve tried to take something that was near perfect and modify it to fit a woke agenda and in the process ruined the original work. This is pretty much their M.O these days.
July 6, 2021 at 8:32 pm #1661384July 6, 2021 at 8:43 pm #1661385Ventinari was a woman instead of a man. Deaths eyes were worse than Star Wars IV Jawa eyes. The acting was dismal. Angua was not how I pictured her personality. Vimes was a tool. And was that supposed be Gaspode the Dog?
It’s a shame. As the novels involving the guard were some of the better ones. I was never keen on witches ones and some of his later novels lacked the humour of his earlier works.
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July 6, 2021 at 8:51 pm #1661387I don’t know if it was supposed to be Gaspode, but I think everyone is making that assumption.
Vimes was a tool though. People seem to forget that and only seem to remember what he became.
July 6, 2021 at 11:49 pm #1661407@wurzzel If you read quotes from the guy who wrote/adapted it, it is quite clear that wokeness was indeed intended.
July 7, 2021 at 7:55 am #1661415@solar I haven’t seen those comments but I’ll go have a look. However maybe for me it’s hard to see it as “woke” when the source material itself is pretty “woke”
July 7, 2021 at 3:57 pm #1661623Who ever came up with ‘woke’ used in this way?
Woke is just a past tense of wake in my vocabulary.
July 7, 2021 at 8:17 pm #1661654Wikipedia has a whole article on the origins of the term. I agree it is a childish sounding term, but I didn’t invent it 😉
September 24, 2021 at 2:05 pm #1679311Good to see this discussion. thanks all
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