Terry Pratchett's The Watch

[jet_noise]

Zirconia said:

Yeah, yeah, call it lazy typing. I know how it is spilt.

Have you read Guilty of Literature?

[Zirconia]

jet_noise said:

Have you read Guilty of Literature?

Not yet, had a break in the books for a while. Should I?


There are more paper backs for Sir Terry of Pratchet behind the column on the left and a few audio books I don't have a paper version of. Lets just say I like his style.

[marcosgt]

jet_noise said:

While he has many skills I don't recall animal illness being one of them

You may think that, I couldn't possibly...

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[jet_noise]

Zirconia said:

jet_noise said:

Have you read Guilty of Literature?

Not yet, had a break in the books for a while. Should I?


There are more paper backs for Sir Terry of Pratchet behind the column on the left and a few audio books I don't have a paper version of. Lets just say I like his style.

Yes, Amazon page (other book vendors are available).

[Halb]

Halmyre said:

Isaacs would be more suited as Vetinary, surely. I think Terry imagined Vimes as resembling Pete Postlethwaite.

He did.

[DeejRC]

jet_noise said:

DeejRC said:

Ive pretty much modelled my entire working life and career on Sam Vimes.

There ARE a line of dents in the whiteboards on our walls in the conference room that my Boss uses to judge how pissed off I am.

Any opinions on boots?

A man should be able to read through his boots...

[jet_noise]

DeejRC said:

A man should be able to read through his boots...

[Zirconia]

I would disagree with Sam there though, vibram over cardboard.

[Halb]

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[Ace-T]

Halb said:

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I am not impressed with the casting of this so far. Vimes - too young, Lady Sybil - too young, too skinny, Cheery - too millennial.

Arse.

[Rumblestripe]

Lady Sybil looks far too young and far too thin. The rest I can just about live with because there is going to be (I would expect) some prosthetic augmentation and make up. It's annoying because it could be a cracking part for an actress. I see Lady S as a substantial lady who in the past might have been portrayed by Margaret Rutherford (a "Dreadnought with Good Manners")

[Halb]

Love Margaret Rutherford.

I think the original she-devil, would have been a great fit.

[LordGrover]

Couldn't have got Cheery more wrong!

[RizzoTheRat]

Ace-T said:

Cheery - too millennial.

I dunno, Cheery is pretty millennial, the whole female in a male world, challenging gender norms, etc.

Agree about Sybil though, I've always pictured her as more of an Operatic lead.

They all look too young though.

[Halmyre]

I have heard of none of them! Must be an age thing...

Hugill possibly looks the part.

Corlett not blonde enough. More vampire than werewolf.

The whole point about Cheery is that all dwarves look, well, male.

Rossi will play Lady Sybil Ramkin, the last scion of Ankh-Morpork's nobility, who tries to fix the city via vigilantism.

What?!?

[Halb]

https://discworldmonthly.co.uk/terrypratchett_thew...

[slopes]

So it’s nothing like the books then, just using thecharacters.

Think i’ll pass

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Halb said:

Love Margaret Rutherford.

I think the original she-devil, would have been a great fit.

Although Julie T Wallace is a commendable suggestion, I've always thought of Geraldine James as being the archetypical Lady Sybil.

In fact, in the TV adaptation of Blott on the Landscape, she essentially plays Lady Sybil.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 2nd February 23:31

[Getragdogleg]

"inspired by"

Sod that.

[DeejRC]

I would be depressed, but I’ve just started listening to the Watch series on audiobooks. It’s like rediscovering an old comfy jumper.

So this lot can go do one!