Sir Terry Pratchett's "The Watch"

[kowalski655]

Coming on 3rd January, an adaption by BBC America of Sir Terry Pratchett's "The Watch". This is the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHCHMGSBQ0
Looks like 100% the opposite of what people imagined

[dukeboy749r]

That actually looks okay to me. It is making the viewer suspend what they think and just watch. I found the U.K. versions always jarred with how I imagined they’d look. And I didn’t rate them.

Prepared to give it a go.

[bstb3]

Certainly one way to deal with the issue of casting is to be so different to the source material that it avoids direct comparisons, which they seem to have achieved. Looks interesting, will certainly be giving it a go. It's a good story with strong characters, regardless of casting choices, so hopefully that comes through.

[pquinn]

Might be interesting but it looks like someone just made the thing they wanted to make and just waved the source material near it a couple of times.

Or maybe they did the casting with a dartboard.

Looks interesting enough but...

[CanAm]

I didn't read all 1,585 comments, but there wasn't a good word about it in the first 50 odd.

[SlimJim16v]

It looks like the fans are annoyed it'll be nothing like the books. That doesn't mean it won't be good. Never having read them, it looks good to me.

[Rumblestripe]

As a big Pratchett fan I found it so far removed from the books that I don't know why it is called "The Watch"?

Might be OK, might not but it isn't "Discworld" and it bears no resemblance to "The Watch" and the characters have only a passing resemblance to the descriptions in the books. Cynically, it is as though they came up with an idea for a series and needed a mythos with a fanbase to hang it on.

I'll give it a look but I expect to hate it.

[Ace-T]

What the actual fk have I just seen?

Hogfather was a mess because they didn't get a good editor. The Colour of Magic was not great because David Jason was way too old to play Rincewind. Going Postal was the best of the Discworld adaptations and quite fun. Good Omens was excellent.

The City Watch series of books has so much content, is so vibrant, and the whole point is Vimes is quite intelligent when he gets out from under the alcohol and does the right thing. In this, Vimes completely and utterly is not Vimes (bd son of Jack Sparrow anyone?), Vetinari (?) a woman (seriously?) and Carrot is way to small and weedy, to name a few wrong 'uns...

Nope card, played very hard on this. Such a shame.

[kowalski655]

I'd agree on the previous adaptations. Good Omens definitely the best
After seeing the Watch, there are to be more faithful adaptations
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/b...

[louiechevy]

I couldn't even get through the trailer! That was terrible not the Terry Pratchett I've known and loved since the colour of magic.

[Starfighter]

Rihanna has washed her hands of this adaptation. Recall a comment from Sir Terry about adaptations and he walked out when he was asked how they can make the whole thing more appealing the an American teenager.

From the look of the trailers it appears we now have that answer and I will be giving this a miss.

[Animal]

Ugh.

[hairykrishna]

Starfighter said:

Rihanna has washed her hands of this adaptation. Recall a comment from Sir Terry about adaptations and he walked out when he was asked how they can make the whole thing more appealing the an American teenager.

From the look of the trailers it appears we now have that answer and I will be giving this a miss.

Didn't they famously ask him to 'lose the Death angle' from Mort? The mind boggles. This adaptation looks like a total st show.

[Starfighter]

That wouldn’t surprise me. I had the privilege of breakfast with Terry many years ago. He was not at all complementary of the TV and movies people he had been approached by.

[JonChalk]

Hmmm.

Torn.

Preferred the US Sherlock Holmes re-boot "Elementary" to the UK "Sherlock".

Prepared to give it a (small) chance.

But.........as someone who has every Discworld novel, suspect I won't make it past episode 1, if that trailer is representative.

[Ace-T]

JonChalk said:

Hmmm.

Torn.

Preferred the US Sherlock Holmes re-boot "Elementary" to the UK "Sherlock".

Prepared to give it a (small) chance.

But.........as someone who has every Discworld novel, suspect I won't make it past episode 1, if that trailer is representative.

I thought I was the only one who liked Elementary more than Sherlock

Crucial difference is that although they changed Watson to a female, both characters represented Conan Doyle's characters pretty accurately. Plus having it set modern day didn't make the gender swap anachronistic.

[zb]

It's like those tts that stick M badges on their bog standard BMWs. If you know what it is, then this ain't it, and those who don't know don't care anyway.