YggiDee posted:

All the big Terminator references were in Feet of Clay, this is just throwing in one or two extra.

Arist posted:

Moving Pictures can't be the worst because it introduced Ridcully.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

I think Feet of Clay is my favorite Watch book and I'm due for a re-read.

Camrath posted:

Bit worried by how young the actres they've picked for Sybil is. She's meant to be a matronly type in (I'm guesing) her 40s.

narm00 posted:

From the press releases, it looks like they're taking bits from across the Watch books, including Night Watch. E.g.: we've got a newbie Carrot joining a disempowered Watch (Guards! Guards!), which has Angua and Cheery (who joined in Men at Arms), with Angua as Carrot's mentor.

That said, there's distinct implications of messing with time as the main plot.

Beachcomber posted:

Depends what she's mentoring him in

Avalerion posted:

That’s already the case in the book I feel, here they just switched the roles.

Epicurius posted:

I could be wrong, but I'm getting the impression that this thing is going to start with Carrot joining an already expanded City Watch.

Epicurius posted:

I think all of those things are true. Carrot is a, at the same time, a nice man, a good man, very clever when it comes to dealing with people, and not afraid to kill somebody if he figures he needs to.

Rand Brittain posted:

I assume this is also why Carrot ceased to be a major character, because you just can’t keep using him for that long without opening the box and knowing what’s inside.

e X posted:

Well, it's obviously just my opinion, but I am admittedly kind a biased against Carot. A lost kind king who literally has the devine, or narrative, right to rule just doesn't sit well with my stoutly republican rear end.

Trin Tragula posted:

I for one will just absolutely never get bored of pondering exactly what the hell is going on in Carrot's head.

Men at Arms posted:

Carrot often struck people as simple. He was simple. The mistake people made was thinking 'simple' meant the same thing as 'stupid'.

CoolCab posted:

carrot for sure has magical charisma, the books call it out several times.

that a king was in the city, fully realizing his claim and still choosing the life of a humble civil servant was always the point. carrot has all the abilities and characteristics of fantasy monarchs - he's brave, selfless, heroic, powerful, his rhetoric and nature can turn people to his side, his infinite sense of noblesse oblige that means he cares about literally every creature in anhk morpork to the point he learns everyone's names. devotion to the law, strong sense of justice, love of tradition, etc etc.

carrot is the ideal of a fantasy king - the inversion is he's lacking all the characteristics of actual kings - ambition, ruthlessness, greed, a superiority complex, incompetence, predilection to violence, etc. because of this the fantasy king can see that there shouldn't be kings and as such leave the business of running the city to people who are good at it. he only uses his unwanted power for emergencies and to act as a check on legitimate authority.

angerbeet posted:

Lady Sybil Ramkin for those who didn't click through. Apparently.

angerbeet posted:

Cheery now seems to be that Gothabilly hacker girl from NCIS or whatever.

This seems a significant deviation w/r/t character.

SirSamVimes posted:

Still lmaoing at young skinny hot vigilante Sybil Ramkin.

Sam Vimes posted:

There's lots of people will help you with the alcohol business, but there's no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, "My name is Sam and I'm a really suspicious bastard."

T-man posted:

biiiiiiiiiig difference between having that knee conversation with her in the room vs not in the room. (admittedly, i'd probably know they were going to have a conversation like that from the whole kilt thing, but at least cherri doesn't hear it in the book)

Stroth posted:

angerbeet posted:

Well the first episode leaked and I am finding it difficult to describe how bad this is.

Devorum posted:

Yes. Her parents got assassinated by assassins so that Sybil can have a motivation to oppose assassins and a bad Key Plot Item that allows her to sneak into the Assassin's Guild because they're also the Clown Guild in that they have unique, individual masks.

The_Doctor posted:

I’d do The Truth as an All the President’s Men style thriller.

El Fideo posted:

I did not enjoy Planer. Very poor comic timing, and really bad voices.

Jedit posted:

It's just been announced that to celebrate 50 years since Pterry first published fiction, there will be 40 new audio versions released in 2022 with Hogfather coming next month as a taster. Cast includes:

Bill Nighy as the Footnotes
Peter Serafinowicz as Death
Andy Serkis, Indira Varma and Sian Clifford as narrators.

CommonShore posted:

And speaking of digging up mouldering arguments about Terry Pratchett, I'm half way through The Truth right now. What's amazing to me is how the watch looks entirely different from the outside in. Not so much "copaganda," especially when read back-to-back with The Fifth Elephant.

Trin Tragula posted:

Do wolves ever look back?

CaptainRat posted:

Moving Pictures is one of Pratchett's few...it feels sacrilegious to say the man had misses, but it's definitely not better than a foul. He does weirdly pluck Gaspode from it a number of books down the line though. But yeah, they should only get better from there if you're going in order. And it's super awesome that your kid is growing up with Discworld, that's a top five parenting decision right there imo.