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

[Cyclonus]

I'm getting the vibe that she's against it, but is there some reason she can't just come out and say "Stop raping my dad's corpse!"?

 

[Marissa Moira]

The good news is that it's BBC, which means it will be later re-made by an american company with the story entirely recast with different actors and the script changed.

Maybe with the narrator replaced by Oprah.

 

[ddlloo]

I'm getting the vibe that she's against it, but is there some reason she can't just come out and say "Stop raping my dad's corpse!"?

Probably because she has a personal career she doesn't want to jeopardize, and doesn't want investors of future adaptions to be wary of her oe think she is hard to deal with. IIRC she's still one of the primary people in charge of the company that handles her father's legacy, but unfortunately there was a bit of a case of Development Hell involved in this adaption where the end result is them having fuck all control with the eventual producers. I could be remembering wrong though.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Probably because she has a personal career she doesn't want to jeopardize, and doesn't want investors of future adaptions to be wary of her oe think she is hard to deal with. IIRC she's still one of the primary people in charge of the company that handles her father's legacy, but unfortunately there was a bit of a case of Development Hell involved in this adaption where the end result is them having fuck all control with the eventual producers. I could be remembering wrong though.

All the creative control clauses in the contract assigned that control to Terry. Once he died those clauses become obsolete and they could replace all the characters with disabled midget women without any oversight.

 

[ddlloo]

All the creative control clauses in the contract assigned that control to Terry. Once he died those clauses become obsolete and they could replace all the characters with disabled midget women without any oversight.

So I basically remembered right? Contracts signed while he was alive and kicking, it enters development hell, he dies and eventually some fake woke shithead finds the dusty contract in a drawer and rapes his legacy while no one with guardianship over it is able to do anything because the creative input was assigned to Terry and Terry alone?

 

[Salt_Merchant]

I'm getting the vibe that she's against it, but is there some reason she can't just come out and say "Stop raping my dad's corpse!"?

I reckon its probably not a good idea to piss off the BBC in Britbong land if your planning on making money in entertainment over there.

 

[Miller]

I'm getting the vibe that she's against it, but is there some reason she can't just come out and say "Stop raping my dad's corpse!"?

She doesn't want to get blacklisted. Her tweet is probably the only thing that she will say about this adaptation.

 

[Sable]

She doesn't want to get blacklisted. Her tweet is probably the only thing that she will say about this adaptation.

There was an earlier tweet posted (that I can't remember whether or not is in this thread, I can't find it) where when asked about the changes she basically said 'Yeah the BBC got involved and now we're not part of the process' or something along those lines.

 

[It'sallabitsillyreally]

Looks like things are getting lolworthy;

https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1305507935787900928

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFDRhxNnsh0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Long story short the writer opted to post an instagram that first mangled a Pratchett line then provided a shout out to some of those whose "fingerprints can be found somewhere in the half million frames." They opted to at no point name Terry Pratchett. Classy. Admittedly I'd say Pratchett's daughter calling this out is also begging for attention but still.

I don't have Instagram so no sight of the comments, based off Twitter sounds like there may be some unkind words.

Here's the writer's Twitter, no repeat of the Instagram post there but it looks like a few of his other Tweets might be getting comments on them about it;

https://twitter.com/mrsimonallen?lang=en

And a bonus I never expected, one of the other people involved in the project was recently retweeted by this writer. Because people need to know how hard September 11 made his life;

https://twitter.com/Glamrou/status/1304438317262479361

He'd have a fair point about this 364 other days of the year and random baseless discrimination is unnecessary. On the other hand doing it specifically on that date is utterly tasteless.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Looks like things are getting lolworthy;

https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1305507935787900928

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFDRhxNnsh0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Long story short the writer opted to post an instagram that first mangled a Pratchett line then provided a shout out to some of those whose "fingerprints can be found somewhere in the half million frames." They opted to at no point name Terry Pratchett. Classy. Admittedly I'd say Pratchett's daughter calling this out is also begging for attention but still.

I don't have Instagram so no sight of the comments, based off Twitter sounds like there may be some unkind words.

Here's the writer's Twitter, no repeat of the Instagram post there but it looks like a few of his other Tweets might be getting comments on them about it;

https://twitter.com/mrsimonallen?lang=en

And a bonus I never expected, one of the other people involved in the project was recently retweeted by this writer. Because people need to know how hard September 11 made his life;

https://twitter.com/Glamrou/status/1304438317262479361

He'd have a fair point about this 364 other days of the year and random baseless discrimination is unnecessary. On the other hand doing it specifically on that date is utterly tasteless.

Fuck her. She's the one who got tight arsed about any new Discworld content post-Terry and now having refused to do what I personally think he WANTED her to do, and continue the series she's bleating that others are doing a shit job.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Fuck her. She's the one who got tight arsed about any new Discworld content post-Terry and now having refused to do what I personally think he WANTED her to do, and continue the series she's bleating that others are doing a shit job.

Well, she's not wrong, though. But how did these clowns get the rights to make this drivel? You'd think the Pratchetts would have some influence on what their IP does.
I guess they sold it to some idiot at BBC, who's into whiteshaming and misandry and now wonder where this shit comes from.

Thank fuck I am burned out on feeling bad over IPs being ruined by politically motivated scumbacks, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Well, she's not wrong, though. But how did these clowns get the rights to make this drivel? You'd think the Pratchetts would have some influence on what their IP does.
I guess they sold it to some idiot at BBC, who's into whiteshaming and misandry and now wonder where this shit comes from.

Thank fuck I am burned out on feeling bad over IPs being ruined by politically motivated scumbacks, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do.

She's super woke and would only sell it to equally woke people. Now it's woke.

 

[ddlloo]

https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1305622013747367936

Interesting, I always assumed Terry had some control over it before it went into development hell.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Fuck her. She's the one who got tight arsed about any new Discworld content post-Terry and now having refused to do what I personally think he WANTED her to do, and continue the series she's bleating that others are doing a shit job.

I thought he wrote in his will to have his notes and such burned so that people couldn’t continue it.

God knows the newer McCaffrey stuff by her son sucked, there’s loads of articles complaining about Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, just let the series rest. Enjoy that you got as many books as you did.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

I thought he wrote in his will to have his notes and such burned so that people couldn’t continue it.

God knows the newer McCaffrey stuff by her son sucked, there’s loads of articles complaining about Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, just let the series rest. Enjoy that you got as many books as you did.

No he wanted his unfinished work destroyed, but he didn't want the Discworld to vanish with it. If you read his work a lot of it is centered around life, death, legacies and the continuation of things afterwards. It would be odd for somebody who places such importance on things like that to want his legacy to vanish. I don't think he wanted her to 'finish' his novels, but I do think he wanted the Discworld property managed, properly.

 

[potato fan]

poor Terry, his creations seem to have no luck with movie adaptations
I know a lot of people liked it, but I thought "Hogfather" movie adaptation was terrible, and I don't even know why, it was bad in a weird way, but I couldn't even finish it.

 

[Polyboros2]

poor Terry, his creations seem to have no luck with movie adaptations
I know a lot of people liked it, but I thought "Hogfather" movie adaptation was terrible, and I don't even know why, it was bad in a weird way, but I couldn't even finish it.

I think Good Omens was handled well(and it seems like Narrativia had some sort of a hand in it), it however was also written by Neil Gaiman who is still alive and well to work with it.

Hogfather has good moments, but overall isn't very good. It's something I'd show to kids to get them into Discworld, not something I'd recommend to adults.

The other adaptations reminded me of BBC's attempts at live action Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the association deterred me from giving it a shot.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I think Good Omens was handled well(and it seems like Narrativia had some sort of a hand in it), it however was also written by Neil Gaiman who is still alive and well to work with it.

Hogfather has good moments, but overall isn't very good. It's something I'd show to kids to get them into Discworld, not something I'd recommend to adults.

The other adaptations reminded me of BBC's attempts at live action Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the association deterred me from giving it a shot.

Even though the animation sucks, the cartoon movies are pretty neatly done and the VAs are pretty good, too.

 

[Judge Holden]

Looks like things are getting lolworthy;

https://twitter.com/rhipratchett/status/1305507935787900928

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFDRhxNnsh0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Long story short the writer opted to post an instagram that first mangled a Pratchett line then provided a shout out to some of those whose "fingerprints can be found somewhere in the half million frames." They opted to at no point name Terry Pratchett. Classy. Admittedly I'd say Pratchett's daughter calling this out is also begging for attention but still.

I don't have Instagram so no sight of the comments, based off Twitter sounds like there may be some unkind words.

Here's the writer's Twitter, no repeat of the Instagram post there but it looks like a few of his other Tweets might be getting comments on them about it;

https://twitter.com/mrsimonallen?lang=en

And a bonus I never expected, one of the other people involved in the project was recently retweeted by this writer. Because people need to know how hard September 11 made his life;

https://twitter.com/Glamrou/status/1304438317262479361

He'd have a fair point about this 364 other days of the year and random baseless discrimination is unnecessary. On the other hand doing it specifically on that date is utterly tasteless.

Ya know I hate to use a mayme from as shitty a show to criticise a shitty tv show but jesus fucking christ what an unbelievable sack of shit hackfraud this specimen is.

 

[Naamaleipuri]

Let my favorite author rest in peace, without pissing on his work. Please.