I'm sure it'll be good, but why are they so pretty and so well dressed. It's freaking Discworld, they have a city with a semi solid river and there is a character with an odor that's another character entirely. Very different from what I expected.
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First look at BBC's Discworld "The Watch" series
- Thread starter Tiny Chihuahueño
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I'm sure it'll be good, but why are they so pretty and so well dressed. It's freaking Discworld, they have a city with a semi solid river and there is a character with an odor that's another character entirely. Very different from what I expected.
I remember hearing that they'd cast Beric Dondarrion as Vimes and I thought it was amazing casting. That said he doesn't really look how I expected, but I think once I see some footage it'll come together.
Carrot looks spot-on, too. I've found the live-action Discworld adaptations pretty hit and miss over the years, but I'm definitely looking forward to this one.
Carrot looks spot-on, too. I've found the live-action Discworld adaptations pretty hit and miss over the years, but I'm definitely looking forward to this one.
Interesting take. I can see it going down badly with some of the fans, but I'll wait until I've actually seen it before judging it.
This is a big WTF though.
This is a big WTF though.
They're not really flattering photos. Reminds of a video game like Fallout 4's Diamond City or another WRPG.
I know the worlds of books are up to interpretation and sometimes you need to keep an open mind, but just going off what I see, this feels too slick and trying to be cool.
I know the worlds of books are up to interpretation and sometimes you need to keep an open mind, but just going off what I see, this feels too slick and trying to be cool.
For those wondering about the characters shown on the pictures:
I'm trying not to be a fanboy here, but...nah, this looks like trash. The Watch novels are my favorite in the Discworld series and they're *so easy* to directly adapt. It's just a police procedural in a fantasy universal, not...this. This feels like a Final Fantasy: Spirits Within situation.
I hope I'm pleasantly surprised when it debuts.
I hope I'm pleasantly surprised when it debuts.
Also there's one more picture that isn't in the tweet itself but in the linked article
Huh, that's supposed to be Sybil.
I'm going to wait to see it in motion. While I do love the content of the books and the characters, Discworld's artwork is sometimes pretty bad, especially on characters like Angua. I think I'd be pretty bored by a straightforward fantasy treatment on it.
So I'm not too discouraged by the look, I just think the tone has to be right, and I need motion and sound for that.
I have a thread with all the current cast members.
Eh, Paul Kidby's art is a little boring, but there are lots of places to go with "vanilla" Fantasy. And even if they were going to do a radical style change, I dont really care for what they chose here.
You're right, though, we'll see how it looks in motion.
This looks terrible already. I'll probably watch the first episode then drop it. Already looks too far away from the books.
I thought the "straightforward fantasy" treatments of Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music were fantastic btw
This looks like it'll be the latest in a long line of awful live action adaptations (although this isn't so much an adaptation I guess).
This looks like it'll be the latest in a long line of awful live action adaptations (although this isn't so much an adaptation I guess).
I never imagined morpork as a fantasy city. more like a very late 19th century newyork/london with magic stand ins for a lot of weird stuff. im down for a slightly more modern take.
I don't even care, I love the books and I can't wait for this either :) Please be a good take on the stories!
I'm not so sure. I don't trust anyone being able to write Vetinari or any other Discworld characters like Terry Pratchett did.
I got the same feeling watching Dark Materials. There's something about how its made, but while stuff on Netflix and Amazon make prestige TV that feels like long-form cinema, BBC shows still just have a regular old TV feel about them.
Yeah, it doesn't look very good. Zip jackets and freaking Picatinny rail on that crossbow, what the fuck.
Terry Pratchett's post-apocalyptic Discworld. This looks to be well-made and it might very well turn out to be a good show, but... it's awful and I don't get why they deemed such a drastically different take on Pratchett's work necessary. That doesn't look appealing to me at all, sadly.
It's seen in studios where each production has the same layer of sheen or grading to put a stamp on it. All the Sky productions have it, even the Alan Partridge stuff so it comes off as slightly wrong.
Yeah this bothers me too. The whole point of Cheery isn't that she's non-binary, it's that *all of dwaven culture* is non-binary, and very conservatively so. It's funny because she's rebelling against that conservatism by borrowing behaviour from conservative human culture, but can't quite leave the beard behind. It's clever satire.
This actually looks kinda cool. I like that it has it's own style. I feel like they could do another series that's animated and inspired by the style of the books' covers. I really need to keep reading some Discworld, I read Guards! Guards! but then went to the start of publication order and only made it to Sourcery. May just go through the witch and city watch series and then maybe the death ones.
People bitching about this hardcore on the Twitters but damn, I love the look. The POINT of the books were how this traditional fantasy world had tons of anachronistic moments and technology.
I mean, fuck, one book is about opening a movie theater in a village and the dead make up the audience
I mean, fuck, one book is about opening a movie theater in a village and the dead make up the audience
This actually looks kinda cool. I like that it has it's own style. I feel like they could do another series that's animated and inspired by the style of the books' covers. I really need to keep reading some Discworld, I read Guards! Guards! but then went to the start of publication order and only made it to Sourcery. May just go through the witch and city watch series and then maybe the death ones.
Such an incredible book.
Imagine what people are going to do when they find out that Vetinari is a woman in this. And CMOT Dibbler too!
Personally while I would have preferred a straight(er) adaptation in terms of setting and something a little closer to the fantasy-adjacent nature of the books, I'm willing to give it a go as long as it retains some of the Discworld charm. Especially as they're saying this is more inspired by the books and less based on them. Bear in mind that as Pterry developed the world in later novels Ankh-Morpork drifted away from the swords and dragons fantasy and more towards an industrialised setting partly because, as he said, at at some point you have to stop burning the city down. A lot of this is going to rely on how well the actors sell their characters, so I'm happy to give it a fair shake as an "elseworlds" version of the Disc.
Personally while I would have preferred a straight(er) adaptation in terms of setting and something a little closer to the fantasy-adjacent nature of the books, I'm willing to give it a go as long as it retains some of the Discworld charm. Especially as they're saying this is more inspired by the books and less based on them. Bear in mind that as Pterry developed the world in later novels Ankh-Morpork drifted away from the swords and dragons fantasy and more towards an industrialised setting partly because, as he said, at at some point you have to stop burning the city down. A lot of this is going to rely on how well the actors sell their characters, so I'm happy to give it a fair shake as an "elseworlds" version of the Disc.
Vimes and Carrot look great, but everything else looks pretty bad. Especially Sybil as, I guess, some kind of trim badass in a trenchcoat performing acts of "chaotic vigilantism" in the back alleys? Huh?
I'll never understand what's so difficult about more direct adaptations, especially of these Watch stories. Did they go this route because it's too expensive to have a dragon?
I'll never understand what's so difficult about more direct adaptations, especially of these Watch stories. Did they go this route because it's too expensive to have a dragon?
I'm hoping this isn't nearly as gritty and edgey as these images sorta suggest. I like it being grimey, but Discworld was never cynical--in a bad way--and these sorts of images make me think of how a 13 year old would interpret The Watch. Willing to give it a shot!