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Terry Pratchett's "The Watch" - A diverse and inclusive steampunk BBC series inspired by the Discworld Novels
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A-a-and we have the trailer. It is predictably horrible.
As a bonus, it is disowned by Rhianna Pratchett:
As a bonus, it is disowned by Rhianna Pratchett:
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Here is the trailer, archived for posterity because I hate all of you so fucking much and want you all to suffer as I have
EDIT: As anybody who just saw my mental breakdown on chat probably knows, they also have uploaded full clips of the series to be enjoyed, which I will inflict upon all of you now because I. WILL. NOT. FUCKING. SUFFER. ALONE.
Dont mind me im just gonna stand here and stare for a while....
DOUBLE EDIT: OH YEAH AND VIMES AND ANGUA ARE IN A PUNK BAND IN THIS ADAPTATION TOO JUST THOUGHT YALL SHOULD KNOW THAT
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What? Discworld parodied rock and roll, but “music with rocks in it” was completely different. I mean... where are the rocks?
THIS IS TROLL ERASURE.
It'sallabitsillyreally
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So the background voices for Death seems to be the Mrs Cake stuff. I somehow suspect I may need to do a full series re-read since somehow, backed up by the Klatchian coffee scene, I suspect all the funny lines may be lifted directly from the books.
I have no fucking clue what is meant to be happening with the education scene but, even more so than the trailer did, it's nice to see someone deciding that with no better ideas they should put on eyeliner and pretend to be Jack Sparrow. Truly, Johnny Depp was always who I pictured as Sam Vimes.
I would take any of the original male cast of the New Tricks series over this Vimes performance. Including the ones that died within 30 seconds of being on screen.
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Yeah, this shit is getting memory holed immediately.
It'll be shown once then the media will never mention it again.
They can blame fans hating what has been done to things like Star Wars, and all the others, on white cis male incel gamergators all they want. They might even believe some of it.
But trying that with fans of Terry Pratchett? No way. That is absolutely not going to work this time.
So after a quick squeal about how it's a brave direction and how the books still exist this series will disappear, and the makers can pat each other on the back and move onto raping some other beloved franchise.
Disgusting.
It'll be shown once then the media will never mention it again.
They can blame fans hating what has been done to things like Star Wars, and all the others, on white cis male incel gamergators all they want. They might even believe some of it.
But trying that with fans of Terry Pratchett? No way. That is absolutely not going to work this time.
So after a quick squeal about how it's a brave direction and how the books still exist this series will disappear, and the makers can pat each other on the back and move onto raping some other beloved franchise.
Disgusting.
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What pisses me off the most is that Pratchett did have some less-than-stellar stuff they could have done whatever with, like that abortion of a short story "The once and future...", but noo. Pratchett means Discworld. And Discworld, apparently, means "any fucking thing we want" T_T
... Why couldn't they pick Monstrous Regiment instead.
... Why couldn't they pick Monstrous Regiment instead.
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After watching the trailer, I was mostly just confused. Incredibly, incredibly confused.
It was over before my brain had even recovered enough to remind me I was supposed to be watching a trailer for a Discworld show.
Jesus fucking Christ, this is bad. I am so glad terry's not around to see this. It'd legitimately disgust him.
It was over before my brain had even recovered enough to remind me I was supposed to be watching a trailer for a Discworld show.
Jesus fucking Christ, this is bad. I am so glad terry's not around to see this. It'd legitimately disgust him.
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The first 10 seconds of this trailer gave me sensory overload.
The next minute gave me cancer. It's unadultered, unfiltered shit through and through. The female patrician has about as much screen presence as a thin fart in a warm wind.
To think the last person to portray the Patrician before was Charles Dance.
That guy just has to stand there in the thumbnaul and he has a better screen presence than that tart with a silly hairdo.
And what was up with some of the weird fish-eye shots of people bending forwards into the camera? Is that what these people consider interesting shot framing?
Not even dignify the rest with a more thorough comment then: It is shit.
The next minute gave me cancer. It's unadultered, unfiltered shit through and through. The female patrician has about as much screen presence as a thin fart in a warm wind.
To think the last person to portray the Patrician before was Charles Dance.
And what was up with some of the weird fish-eye shots of people bending forwards into the camera? Is that what these people consider interesting shot framing?
Not even dignify the rest with a more thorough comment then: It is shit.
Monstrous Regiment is a great book, the only stuff these assholes should be allowed to adapt should be books by Chuck Wendig, that way, we at least do not have to suffer the ruination of anything worth a damn.
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As soon as I heard that BBC America was involved I noped the fuck out of this. Whenever Americans decide to remake a British or Australian or another country's franchise, ninety five percent of the time the Americans will decide to, like, make it totally awesome and like, good and stuff and not like, totally dull and like, with all those weird things that aren't, like, like Americans would do that make American shows totally cool and better and shit. So I was already expecting Pratchett's work to be mangled like a horse that's been butchered with a nail file. A blunt nail file.
But this travesty? Woke Pratchett? The fuck? Not content with American Pratchett, not content with Woke Pratchett, we've got Woke American Pratchett. Even though the Dwarfs' plotline neatly cover everything a gender trender could ever want, even though Carrot and Angua between them can satisfy the most ardent of otherkin, even though Vimes' alcoholic arc is your toxic masculinity wrapped up in a bow, even though Lady Ramkin is the body positive movement from head to toe...
My God. I was expecting something truly awful, but I wasn't expecting this.
But this travesty? Woke Pratchett? The fuck? Not content with American Pratchett, not content with Woke Pratchett, we've got Woke American Pratchett. Even though the Dwarfs' plotline neatly cover everything a gender trender could ever want, even though Carrot and Angua between them can satisfy the most ardent of otherkin, even though Vimes' alcoholic arc is your toxic masculinity wrapped up in a bow, even though Lady Ramkin is the body positive movement from head to toe...
My God. I was expecting something truly awful, but I wasn't expecting this.
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Wow. I never thought of Charles Dance in the role of the Patrician, but he's absolutely perfect for it.
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A lot like with Tywin Lannister, he doesn't match the way how the characters are supposed to look very closely, but that is easily overlooked when you see him act these roles.
I would literally murder if someone made a show about Pratchett's Nightwatch worthy of the name with Dance in the role of the Patrician.
The clip I took doesn't even feature him that much, since there aren't many clips around (well, the snippet makes up for that with Terry making a cameo), but still, just seeing him stand there is enough to realize, that the role fits him like an expensively tailored glove.
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Found another nice one (sadly poor quality, but still):
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I can agree despite my immense dislike of it, but you cannot ignore the fact it is a really low-hanging fruit for a SJW adaptation (hell, just remember that tumblr post gushing how it is "all queer").
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These people don't want the low hanging fruit. They don't want new franchises invented by themselves, either. They want the classic big names, and make them their own. The more old fans hate it the better. They don't even watch it themselves or care too much beyond performative consumption and merch buying, it's enough that it exists and has the correct amount of representation, and that it was taken away and appropriated from existing groups, particularly those they see as dominated by white males.
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So I tried to put aside prejudice for a few moments whilst I watched the trailer and give it a fair shot. Production values seem good, Anna Chancellor is an actress I have liked since Staggered. And there are Pratchett elements retained - for example I saw the character named Lady Ramkin remove her wig to reveal she was bald at one point - so there's that.
But my resolution crumbled about half-way through when the character named Cheery sternly informs the character named Carrot (as you can tell, this is all a far part from these versions actually being them) that the guy in make-up is a "she". And once that resolution cracked I just gave up the attempt and the contempt came back in full. There are likely some good elements in the show. But I cannot watch it.
But my resolution crumbled about half-way through when the character named Cheery sternly informs the character named Carrot (as you can tell, this is all a far part from these versions actually being them) that the guy in make-up is a "she". And once that resolution cracked I just gave up the attempt and the contempt came back in full. There are likely some good elements in the show. But I cannot watch it.
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They know it's famous, but it doesn't really appeal to them, but they know it appeals to a lot of different other people so they want to add it to their galery of franchises.
And their way to get a say in these franchises is by claiming it has some dark past, shrouded in bigotry (either due to toxic manchild fans like what happened to Ghostbusters or due to some made up nonsense about supposed inherent racism like what is happening to DnD now), so they can claim that the only reason they haven't yet been into the IP as much is based on its bigotry and they will right this wrong now. Stopping them is akin to being a racist, so no one stops them.
And then they ruin it and turn it into something that mostly appeals to them for bleeting the correct buzzwords and containing the laundry list of correct stereotypes and token characters.
They know they only use something popular as a springboard to peddle their propaganda in its skin.
Life is Hell...
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I have never felt so bored in all of my life
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The complete audacity to try and make a trailer for a Discworld adaptation and not to feature the most iconic imagery of the franchise, the disc shaped world, on the back of four elephants riding a giant turtle through space.
Thank goodness it doesn't they want this to be successful either.
Thank goodness it doesn't they want this to be successful either.
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They can't do the turtle thing... it would be racist against India.