Terry Pratchett's "The Watch" - A diverse and inclusive steampunk BBC series inspired by the Discworld Novels

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Dude, I am scared for you *hugs*

wind up in a retirement home shamelessly pilfered out of unreleased Pratchett material that was supposed to not be used after his death

And here I hoped this media truly was destroyed and not out in the open...is it, like, in a torrent somewhere or what? Or were these assholes allowed full acess...

 

[neverendingmidi]

Episode 7: ......fuck

sorry i need a minute, just gonna play some music to get me into the spirit of things

ok im ready now

iniego skimmer sNIGGERs evilly and talks about how vimes will be murdered as vimes frees him for no reason and sheboon bitches like a bitch acted by a bitch cast by a bitch bitch bitch bitch. contrived argument happens and sheboon storms out like a nigger with my tv set

oh yeah and probably should mention that vimes has been having visions of him happily married with sheboon which he mugs the camera over. he now starts drinking after one of these visions and the auditors abduct him and replace him with his evilest universe counterpart and he wakes up in that other universe in prison.

carrot is passed out in some aids infested nightclub and an ugly anorexic looking vampire girl offers to suck his dick, calling it "something geeky" with a horrifyingly bad american accent or some shit i dont even know anymore. she also has possibly the worst outfit seen thus far because of the retard casting director's obsession with shoulderpads

.......and this vampire is Sally von Humperding from Thud.

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That scene happened and nothing will ever make it unhappen. Apparently sybil is the descendant of the king now so he runs off.

Vimes mugs the camera and acts a spastic in the alternate universe, typical mirror episode plotline ensues with evil alternate universe watch.

Evil Vimes wakes up and is also a drunk spastic who mugs at the camera and flails like a retard on meth. Troon cheery now permenantly has a beard. Angua smells the vampire dicksuck essence on carrot and chimps out like the angry fish faced toddler she resembles.

Shit vimes has been thrown to evil detritus who i forgot existed who beats the shit out of him while showing off his power ranger tier makeup and then immidiately believes him when he says hes from a different universe.

Evil vimes is actually bitch vimes and runs away from everyone before seeing carcer and groping him for being his gay friend. The two shit actors act shitly against eachother and vimes tells carcer sybil has the dragon controlling king blood and they mug and walk off.

Carrot then walks within two feet of carcer, who is just fucking standing there but doesnt notice him so that bitch vimes can ultra-mug and spastic at him.

This series is to comedy what the Junko Furuta murder was to chaste high school romance

Back to alternate universe, alternate detritus learns the full truth by going into the freezer section to allow the reduced temperature to cool his silicon brain and allow it to achieve its full intellectual computing potenital hahaha no the prison they are in is built on ancient trolls and when he touches them he gets their magical troll intuition to see into the multiverse and realises his main universe self died to fucking arrows despite being made of stone. he immidiately decides this man he met less than two minutes ago and who is the alternate universe version of a man he hates is his best friend and helps him escape.

Bitch vimes scampers along like a bitch. The main universe retard watch finds the main universe prison.

Ok fuck this its loading slower then a jew pays his taxes. im grabbing a smoothie and giving it a five minute break till it fixes itself. Shit vimes escapes and alt detritus magically communicates with the chunk of his corpse troon cheery keeps around for probable dilation purposes

Bitch vimes is even worse an actor than shit vimes and he locks the retard gang in one of the cells and fuck the footage is still shorting out goddamn i just want to fucking end this before i die of bowel palsy. Shitty fucking jokes ensue and a ripoff of mitch connor from south park. sheboon sybil is the warden in alternate shit world so the prisoners plan to cut her hand off to high five the goblin security guard hahahaha this is so funnee hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhaanhahahhahahahahahahaihhahahahahahahhahahahaghhahahahahahhahaghahhahahahahahehahhahahahahaharhahahahahah

Ok turns out they were not locked in the cell but the whole prison so the retard gang. shitty fucking death shows up to be pointless and nigger sounding. i also have noticed he has a lazy eye which about sums things up. the retard gang trick death into showing off his homewritten musical numbers in order to..... yeah i got no idea.

Alternate sheboon is just as cringe, obviously, and vomits exposition without any prompting, obviously and sends shit vimes to another fucking gimmick. Back in shit universe nigger retard spastic jawa cum guzzler death is still doing embarrasing music because KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK KKKOMEDY.

This makes the troon get #hashtagINSPIRED to rig up some bullshit bedspring escape.

Bitch vimes refuses to kill sheboon sybil after having another dozen inexplicable personality shifts but then he wants to and he randomly exposits that alternate universe nigger carcer was a watch officer and nigger carcer gets emo over this but still orders vimes to kill sheboon so that was fucking pointless

.....and in what arguably is the greatest case of Lore Rape thus far.... really arguably after everything i have endured..... vimes is seemingly confirmed to be the one true descendent of the last king of ankh morpork who was also the founder of the watch.

kebab she-wonce starts babbling about how noble all the vimes are for no apparent reason and nigger carcer again delivers a painfully badly acted monologue about how good doesnt exist n sheeit. in alternate universe alternate carcer meets shit vimes and more patented komedy klownery kensues.

Team retard have rigged up a battering ram out of flimsy wooden prison furniture that despite having about as much strength as a limp wristed faggot flinging stool at the prison walls is easily able to knock through a foot of solid stone wall.

Troon cheery acts like a faggot. again.

Bitch vimes sneaks up on sheboon sybil who apparently has the power to talk to dragons in this series because of course she fucking does and she vomits exposition about how in love but totally not in love with him she is to the shitty cgi mini dragon she carries around.

Despite treating vimes with utter contempt this entire series and never saying anything even vaguely positive to him and violently abusing him at the drop of a hat she immidiately jumps into bitch vimes arms and kisses him because simon allen knows about as much about romance as he does about not sucking the niggerest of nigger dicks in nigger hell.

Skimmer interupts this shameful display to throw an axe at them with the speed of a syphilitic snail. Despite having repeatedly attempted to kill him before and having just had him try to kill her and having a crossbow aimed directly at him while he is standing their gawping like a retard she just seems mildly surprised instead of just killing him. Oh and she realises bitch vimes is not shit vimes somehow.

In both universes bitch vimes and shit vimes fight sheboon and alt sheboon for dumb fuck reasons until they tell them to stop which makes them stop, and after 8 epsiodes of cringetastic fucking strang black wamman antics sheboon decides to let bitch vimes kill her despite knowing he is not her shit vimes because she is so heart broken and vulnerable.

Dunno where the "clusterfucked woke shit" counter is at, but its atleast one higher now

Oh and the show tries to get artsy and mute everything while the alleged tension tries and fails to mount while bitch vimes sobs and mugs like a homeless meth head shitting out a cobra. Then for absolutely no fucking reason the two vimes swap back to their own universes and we go back to shitty goddamn komedy.

Oh and the blood of the king was on the watch badge the whole time so its needed to control the dragon and nigger carcer has it now.

END.

You deserve a Semper Fidelis for both enduring this and your prose. I think "Oh and the show tries to get artsy and mute everything while the alleged tension tries and fails to mount while bitch vimes sobs and mugs like a homeless meth head shitting out a cobra" is my favorite yet.

 

[Judge Holden]

Dude, I am scared for you *hugs*

And here I hoped this media truly was destroyed and not out in the open...is it, like, in a torrent somewhere or what? Or were these assholes allowed full acess...

From what I can gather pratchett probably gave one of the original teams working on a watch series some of his notes between 2011 and his death, including shit he was working on at the time. After that team was dropkicked and simon allen brought in these old notes were shamelessly pilfered for fluff to bulk up this repulsive shitpile of a series without any respect or concern for his wishes.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

In a fair world, people like Simon Allen would never be allowed to work anywhere near a creative field again after such a blunder and he'd spent the rest of his professional life uttering the magic words "You want fries with that?".

 

[Chilson]

At the very least this show is probably not going to get a second season According to these dogshit ratings.

Then again, Batwoman is getting a third season despite fucking atrocious ratings. So I honestly couldn't tell you what the fuck is going to happen.

 

[Judge Holden]

Alright niggers. Dawn of the Final Day. The last episode of this godforsaken trainwreck will be released at some point this afternoon.

Odds are it wont make its way to my streaming platform of choice until tomorrow so expect the final review/recap/serial killer mannifesto to be posted monday late.

If you wish to get a window as to my current mental state then play this song on a loop at max volume for several hours and you should get a decent idea as to where my head is as the nightmare approaches its climax.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It's going to be special. Maybe they even kept in mind that it's an episode hitting on Valentine's... prepare your anus.

 

[Judge Holden]

"Kiwifarms, shit. I'm still on Kiwifarms. Every time I think I'm going to wake up back watching that fucking trash show.

When I was in bed after saturday's marathon, it was worse. I'd wake up for a shit and there'd be nothing...

I hardly said a word to my bodypillow until I said yes to a dryclean.

When I was here I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I could think of was getting back to the fucking watch show.

I've been here days now. Waiting for the final episode, getting softer.

Every minute I stay in my room, watching weebshit and waxing my carrot, I get weaker. And every minute Simon Allen squats over the discworld mythos he gets stronger.

Each time I look around my balls squeeze a little tighter"

Alright.....last episode is uploaded on my streamy sauce. I have ample drank and comfort food at my side.
Time to Finish the Fight

EPISODE 8: fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Recap vomits cringe of episodes past, reminding me of all the goddamn trash that came before. Everything is still absolute shit. acting, comedy, writing, melodrama, whatever. doesnt matter. none of this matters.

shit vimes is without a doubt the worst example of all this in effect, the endless mugging of the camera and meth head spazming at every moment on screen to try and ape a shitty circus clown's take on captain jack sparrow and.....

....and right as i was writing this the episode opens with one more punch to the frucking jaw as the "never build a dungeon you wouldnt want to spend the night in yourself" line from Guards Guards is held down and violently brutefucked by the goddamn endlessly nigger shit spewing sewer of the writing as fugly tranny looking he/she vetinari opens the episode by randomly declaring to nobody in particular she must go to jail for not stopping the dragon...who has appeared precisely for less than 30 seconds this entire accursed show thus far....and opens a sekrit cell in the watch basement that is revealed to be a special needs 14 year old east london faggot's idea of what a sexy 1960s pimp pad looks like.

The shock of that cringe almost makes me miss out the ever shitter writing as shit vimes gibbers and flails around like a retard for the fifty thousandth fucking time OH GREAT and nigger death is back.

team retard is back trying to clear the streets before the dragon arrives and sheboon sybil makes an attempt at comedy overacting about as funny as walking in on your dad shitting himself to death while having a stroke. carrot acts embarrasing in his goddawful romance subplot but thats all we can expect now.

kebab she-wonce is now babbling about how in all universes shit vimes and the shit watch bring hope and love to everyone and how if they kill vimes now they will destroy all good...jesus fucking christ this show sucks. nigger carcer over-under-jigaboo growls about how its too late innit bruv ooga booga some shit.

nigger death is being screamed at by shit methhead vimes and is bullied into revealing that the auditors exist and begs to join shit vimes's shit band in exchange. back to carcer we get godawful monologue no.2819111 and kebab-she-wonce appears to be shitting her britches as she whines about muh love and muh hope and good and she appears to have been taking some of shit vimes's meth given how she is twitching aaaaaaand carcer finally kills her after she says he could be a hero for some reason.

oh fuck sake Crippled Midget On-a Trolley is back. and is now head of the thieves guild. shit vimes does his patented meth head over-acting and flailing at her about how its bad to steal and oh apparently kebab she-wonce isnt dead as crippled midget minion finds her.

Apparently being stabbed in the gut can be walked off as she is now fine and showing them on the map to where to find nigger carcer and spews shit about how shes doing this because of "the kind of universe she wants to live in" and i want to live in a universe where all these fucking people are being assfucked to death by razor wire dragon dildos in tepid pools of their own fecal matter

carrot humiliates himself by declaring himself a virgin and thus bait for the dragon and FUCCK NO hes gone back to the atrocity that is this shows spin on Sally Von Humperdinck who acts with unmitigated cringe at him for 2 seconds until angua appears looking like an angry blobfish toddler....as always...and then the two start yiffing at eachother in what might just be the most embarrasing few seconds of my entire life

oh yeah and sally is now a serial killer or something...fuck i dont even know what the show is trying to communicate. pretty sure we have hit another few dings on the "failed woke moments" counter but im long past keeping count.

the dragon is about to attack and sheboon sybil apparently still wants to take total power by enslaving the dragon which shit vimes is ok with as he meths at her as the two try to have a heartfelt flirting moment that is about as romantic as [INSERT INFAMOUS HISTORICAL RAPE/TORTURE/MURDERE HERE...FUCK I DONT EVEN HAVE THE ENERGY TO THINK OF ONE FOR THIS SHITTY JOKE]. and now fucking midget angua and carrot are flirting with the exact same passionate charm and fuck sake sally is back and bringing the ubercringe with her as he has latched on to them as they run the virgin joke harder into the ground than mossad jew agents ran flight 93 into the pennsylvania soil.

Nigger carcer is squatting in the street like a constipated indian and he now puts on the paper mache artifacts to control the dragon while the magic sword makes jokes about as funny as.....shit i dunno. something very unfunny. this trash has drained me so much i cant even find joy in tryhard comparisons and references.

as shitty blue cgi effects engulfs him he vaguely points the sword at the sky and goes "aauauuugh" with about as much passion and emotion as a middle aged retarded nigger in a care home filling his diaper for the 79th time that day. shitty cgi dragon appears and apparently cant be controlled. oh yeah and as part of the aforementioned virgin joke sally has a bunch of virgins with her who she magically controls to not help out for no apparant reason.

oh god now troon cheery is having a "save the day" moment as he vanishes with the dragon. nigger carcer thankfully fucking dies...i think. wait no hes still alive. the dragon is supposedly destroying the city but is never shown because this show is about as cheap as Simon Allen's flabby boyhood shitpipe when his uncles friends decided to pimp him out to jimmy savile and the BBC buggery boys.

nigger carcer is now explaining his real tru motivations and they are.....generic fucking revenge because he had a hard life n sheeeit. oh god hes full innit bruv underacting. all seems lost as team retard mope about not being able to do anything. sheboon sybil brings up troon cheery and puts extremely fucking obvious emphasis on the fact she calls him THEY because the show which previously turned a nazi analogue villains into the villains you would unironically see in nazi propaganda is so totally woke guiz.

oh and troon cheery is unfortunately not dead, much to the joy of his obediant goblin slave who literally fawns over his "mistress" being back.

that failed-woke counter must be at triple figures by now

apparenly troon cheery talked to the dragon, as he explains by faggot overacting, and knows how to stop it because troon magic....and....nooooooFUCK THEY DOING THE GODDAMN PUNK ROCK SHIT AGAIN. troon cheery says music will summon the dragon because fuck you. kebab she-wonce continues to shit her britches as she listens.

aaaaaaaaaaand they play the godawful intro theme to the show as we cut to other characters including fugly troon looking vetinari in her cringe fucking impersonation of a pimp pad.

i have this shit at double speed and it still feels like its taking half a fucking hour for this scene to end

sheboon sybil throws the mini dragon she carries around thats periodically been using for godawful comedy moments in a moment thats apparently supposed to be touching. the only touching being done is me touching myself thinking about the entire wehrmacht lining up behind the screaming, skinned body of simon allen and taking turns to fuck his prolapsed rectum until he reverse drowns on aryan semen

apparenly this works....rendering everything in the past 7 episodes utterly fucking pointless. kebab she wonce magically gets healed by dumb plot contrivences as nigger carcer gets erased from existence, but not before delivering another monotone innit bruv m8 line.

apparently this means everything he did has now been retconned into being done by her, and for once this appears to not just be a another continuity error but an actual plot point with all his photos on the shit watch board magically replaced with hers. as team retard prepares to arrest her she has a spaz attack and.....and they just made the kebab threaten to blow herself up to destroy a government building

......ya know at this point i fully expect the shows end credits to be simon allen in blackface dancing to I Wish I Were In Dixie as a porn parody of the george flloyd killing plays in the background

they let her go and she runs off telling them not to follow....and they apparently fucking respect her wishes because this show is fucking shit

She now communicates with the auditors and threatens them into talking to her aaaaaand she is now demanding power to destroy the watch because she has now decided to be evil...again....oh fuck the crippled midget is back and is now friends with fugly troon looking vetinari because fuck you

team retard have a "DIVERSITY IS AWSUM GUIZ" moment as shit vimes methmugs like a methhead and.......and now sheboon sybil is in charge of the assassins guild because fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you

oh and apparently they are flirting and there is less than 5 minutes left of this goddamn trash. the ex head of the assassins guild and shitty arya knockoff ambush sheboon in her crappy shack of a manor house as vimes flails and screams for no apparant reason outside. sheboon remembers she is strang black wamman and easily beats them up and dumps them in a pit.

more godawful flirting ensues until vimes is teleported away by the auditors and.......with the worst cliffhanger in recorded human history this absolute fucking abortion of a show, and possibly the entire discworld franchise as a whole......finally.....FUCKING......DIES.

 

[Intelligent Calcium]

Footage of Judge Holden wading through this shit just so we can have something to gawk at.

 

[glass_houses]

My dude... I thank you for your nobility and self sacrifice under such torturous conditions, but... what you've narrated makes no fucking sense. Is the writing truly that abominable and discombobulated?

 

[ddlloo]

My dude... I thank you for your nobility and self sacrifice under such torturous conditions, but... what you've narrated makes no fucking sense. Is the writing truly that abominable and discombobulated?

Considering there appears be alternate universes AND time travel AND extradimensional beings, I'm going to go with yes.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

This show has touched me inappropriately and I will never be able to show you where.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

@Judge Holden It's ok, it's ok *pets on the back lovingly*. You made it.

This show has touched me inappropriately and I will never be able to show you where.

My sister said this is her new favourite phrase.

 

[It'sallabitsillyreally]

My dude... I thank you for your nobility and self sacrifice under such torturous conditions, but... what you've narrated makes no fucking sense. Is the writing truly that abominable and discombobulated?

Yes.

I'm not going to attempt to provide something more nuanced than the above episode summaries because it does not deserve it. I would say this is Discworld by way of poor fanfiction with added Marvel Cinematic Universe and recent Doctor Who inspiration and topped off with a hefty amount of current year progressivism to date it excessively for unwary viewers in the future.

One thing I believe was missed out in the episode summaries, likely because of how little effort the showrunners did in highlighting it, is that Inigo tells Sybil the amongst those who hired him to kill were her parents friends. She displays little to no interest or real reaction to that and that kind of covers a lot of the show's problems, it's unspeakably shallow.

When they did their version of Sybil and were looking for why she has an issue with the Guild system someone clearly just wrote down "Batman" since she's a vigilante motivated by the death of her parents. But there's nothing more to it. She blames and the assassins and wants revenge on the specific one who killed her parents but at no point does she look any deeper than that. She has to be told, unprompted, that people hired the assassins to do it (duh) but even after that revelation she does not engage with that or show any signs of wanting to investigate further. There's no real engagement from her or the writers with that mystery because that would be effort.

Same with Detritus' death, there's no convincing emotional reaction or change in behaviour from the cast or tone in any meaningful way until it's half heartedly brought up again almost half a dozen episodes later with alternate reality Detritus.

It feels like a series for children. Ones too young for Discworld books since the plot and characters are all overly simple for anyone who actually enjoys a story. Even the premise of the Auditors as these powerful entities working through patsies like Carter has the feel of Saturday morning cartoon villains, which is odd because that was how they were in the books too most of the time.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

One thing I believe was missed out in the episode summaries, likely because of how little effort the showrunners did in highlighting it, is that Inigo tells Sybil the amongst those who hired him to kill were her parents friends. She displays little to no interest or real reaction to that and that kind of covers a lot of the show's problems, it's unspeakably shallow.

When they did their version of Sybil and were looking for why she has an issue with the Guild system someone clearly just wrote down "Batman" since she's a vigilante motivated by the death of her parents. But there's nothing more to it. She blames and the assassins and wants revenge on the specific one who killed her parents but at no point does she look any deeper than that. She has to be told, unprompted, that people hired the assassins to do it (duh) but even after that revelation she does not engage with that or show any signs of wanting to investigate further. There's no real engagement from her or the writers with that mystery because that would be effort.

It feels like they go through the motions of a plot and twist/reveal without really understanding narrative structure, setup and payoff... or even just human emotions and relations.
Like someone in the writing room went "let's add a dramatic reveal about the death of this character's parents... there, done. We now have another character saying 'Mwah hah hah hah. It is I who killed your parents' to her." It's cold and mechanical, outright cynical, running by the numbers and the first thing that comes to my mind are those huge automated pulp-novel writing-machines that are mentioned in "1984".

This writing sounds so far removed from any kind of human experience, you inadvertendly wonder if this isn't the product of automation rather than a person's effort to convey a story and emotions. And it is dumbed down so much and so inconsistent with itself or its supposed political agenda, it's just an incoherent mess of bad writing, bad acting, bad effects, bad filming, bad marketing, bad everything.

Same with Detritus' death, there's no convincing emotional reaction or change in behaviour from the cast or tone in any meaningful way until it's half heartedly brought up again almost half a dozen episodes later with alternate reality Detritus.

Compare that to the death of the dwarf Cuddy in the novel "Men at Arms", and how Detritus brings his body back to the watch house. It's a very touching scene without using many words to describe what's happening. They kill off a main character for petty reasons and treat it not even as a mild inconvenience and quickly forget about it. The helmet Cuddy built for Detritus is mentioned throughout the following novels here and there.

It feels like a series for children. Ones too young for Discworld books since the plot and characters are all overly simple for anyone who actually enjoys a story. Even the premise of the Auditors as these powerful entities working through patsies like Carter has the feel of Saturday morning cartoon villains, which is odd because that was how they were in the books too most of the time.

We knew these tools didn't understand Discworld when we saw what changes in the name of Diversity they made, but it's simply surreal to read up on just how much they fail, how utterly pathetic their understanding of even the most basic ideas of making a story is.

I know I'll never muster enough force of will to watch this shit without wrapping my lips around a fucking barrel right as the credits start to roll, but given what I've read in this thread, they didn't even pull off the most blatantly obvious "Brown/Not-Male = Good, White/Male = Evil/Dumb" shit off. It seems every brownskinned character is a sociopathic murderer or criminal... what is even going on? If this show hadn't been received like lukewarm diarrhea in a cup, people would be outraged about how badly this show portrays its non-white characters.

 

[It'sallabitsillyreally]

It feels like they go through the motions of a plot and twist/reveal without really understanding narrative structure, setup and payoff... or even just human emotions and relations.
Like someone in the writing room went "let's add a dramatic reveal about the death of this character's parents... there, done. We now have another character saying 'Mwah hah hah hah. It is I who killed your parents' to her." It's cold and mechanical, outright cynical, running by the numbers and the first thing that comes to my mind are those huge automated pulp-novel writing-machines that are mentioned in "1984".

This writing sounds so far removed from any kind of human experience, you inadvertendly wonder if this isn't the product of automation rather than a person's effort to convey a story and emotions. And it is dumbed down so much and so inconsistent with itself or its supposed political agenda, it's just an incoherent mess of bad writing, bad acting, bad effects, bad filming, bad marketing, bad everything.

The biggest contribution to that I think is they tried to do too much with too little. Look at all those character names used in the course of just 8 episodes and it's pretty clear they were trying to the Ready Player One of Discworld and failed worse than that one did. Plot and competent story telling were replaced with references and their own twaddle. As the episode summaries confirm the number of things that are essentially solved by the episodes not having enough time to actually do that so it's just coincidences and McGuffins all the way down.

Compare that to the death of the dwarf Cuddy in the novel "Men at Arms", and how Detritus brings his body back to the watch house. It's a very touching scene without using many words to describe what's happening. They kill off a main character for petty reasons and treat it not even as a mild inconvenience and quickly forget about it. The helmet Cuddy built for Detritus is mentioned throughout the following novels here and there.

And more importantly we had time to actually get to know Cuddy and his relations with the other characters. As opposed to one episode overdosed with content followed by "whoops, troll's dead. Feel sad audience." I can hear a quote from Secret World for this "You are wrinkly manager man. Your job is to be old and die so we can learn and be sad. Also you pay for gas."

We knew these tools didn't understand Discworld when we saw what changes in the name of Diversity they made, but it's simply surreal to read up on just how much they fail, how utterly pathetic their understanding of even the most basic ideas of making a story is.

I know I'll never muster enough force of will to watch this shit without wrapping my lips around a fucking barrel right as the credits start to roll, but given what I've read in this thread, they didn't even pull off the most blatantly obvious "Brown/Not-Male = Good, White/Male = Evil/Dumb" shit off. It seems every brownskinned character is a sociopathic murderer or criminal... what is even going on? If this show hadn't been received like lukewarm diarrhea in a cup, people would be outraged about how badly this show portrays its non-white characters.

I mentioned the whole fanfiction via Marvel and nuWho thing earlier, I don't think the diversity thing was an angle they planned to take, they just did it in the trailers and lead up because, well, current/previous year. The whole thing properly got started three years or so ago and it shows. I think they were going for something akin to Doom Patrol. Which I do like despite frankly being far more woke than this nonsense. Also they might have been hoping that people would feel more empathy for Carcer, since there's half hearted attempts to make it seem like you should at times, and I would feel sympathy for Wonse getting shafted for the full blame if she not been helping him most of the way along. Oh, and the retconning was more lazy writing.

Also as another one of the subtle references that I missed because, like Judge Holden, the appearance of "Sally" made me want to choke a vampire salivating Tumblerina named Simon Allen. The stupid shoulder pads thing she is wearing is I am fairly sure a reference to Doreen Winkings from the books who was (technically) a vampire and I swear in one of the later books was described as something akin to an old style power suit complete with shoulder pads. If so while it still looks stupid it does so intentionally at least.

The yiffing at each other between vampire and werewolf was still spectacularly awkward though.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The biggest contribution to that I think is they tried to do too much with too little. Look at all those character names used in the course of just 8 episodes and it's pretty clear they were trying to the Ready Player One of Discworld and failed worse than that one did. Plot and competent story telling were replaced with references and their own twaddle. As the episode summaries confirm the number of things that are essentially solved by the episodes not having enough time to actually do that so it's just coincidences and McGuffins all the way down.

Reading all the previous comments I always had this scene from "Star Trek Into Darkness" or whatever it was called in mind, where Kirk and crew go on a wild goose chase to find some dude named Faggot McGee or whatever, who's involved in some warcrime bullshit or whatever and Kirk manages to catch him. When he's in a cell, he chews the scenery and reveals in a really hammy way that his TRUE and HONEST name is "Khan" like it meant something to the characters, but it really doesn't. It means something to the audience, but for all it matters to Kirk, he could have announced that his TRUE and HONEST name is actually Gilsperg McFag instead.

It's super lazy writing where the emotional payoff is entirely tied to other media. In this abomination of a stillbirth TV show, we have namedropping in a desperate way to get someone to go "Oh, it's [name from the books]!", but it ultimately falls flat since it's so obviously just desperate namedropping, the characters are so heavily switched up, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever (so it actually distracts you more than anything) and it's super lazy, cause it assumes that you'll just pick up on the name and go "Oh, so [x] is their personality, background and motivation in this scene!", when the writers couldn't be bothered to lay that foundation themselves.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Since they've decided trying to drive up something resembling interest the social media account for this thing keeps attempting to post stuff that'll interest people. But as it's clearly thrown together they spat this out 12/03

https://twitter.com/TheWatch/status/1370482269912195075

As the comments note it might have been substantially more appropriate to make a tribute of some kind to Terry Pratchett given it's the date he died.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Since they've decided trying to drive up something resembling interest the social media account for this thing keeps attempting to post stuff that'll interest people. But as it's clearly thrown together they spat this out 12/03

https://twitter.com/TheWatch/status/1370482269912195075

As the comments note it might have been substantially more appropriate to make a tribute of some kind to Terry Pratchett given it's the date he died.

Who are these people? This shit looks like they stole some costumes from Dr. Who.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Top left is Death, top right is goblin 4 the one that Cheery named like a pet, bottom right is another goblin, trying to recall bottom left.
Edit - I think bottom left was a random inmate in the alternate reality. One of the prison inmates who was in the arts and crafts bit. Don't think they had any lines or were given anything resembling a personality apart from being blue.