Bug Squash posted:

I don't think anyone who is transphobic or liable to complain about gender swaps would go anywhere close to a Discworld property.

I do complain about the most recent adaptation though, since it misses a lot of the point of the characters. A female vetinari is perfectly fine (although no-one is ever going to top Charles Dance's Vetinari), but the Cheery we got manages to spectacularly miss everything central and important about her character. Not to mention that 5 minutes after we get the story of the pathos of Carrot being a human sized dwarf we get another human sized dwarf and it apparently wasn't an issue for them.

Just a confused production all round. It feels like they just stuck a Discworld skin onto an unrelated steam punk show they couldn'tget greenlit.

Mr Phillby posted:

I thought it was pretty okay too. I was suprised how much i grew to like the portrayal of vimes in particular.

It had its issues but I liked it a lot more than the Sky adaptations and less than the cosgrove hall cartoons. Stop motion Truckers remains the best pratchet tv adaptation imo.

Also i can attest that my terfy sister was in fact super, super mad about Cherry's portrayal, naturally she didn't watch the series at all though.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I made a conscious decision not to compare it to Discworld at all and enjoyed it hugely. Weirdly I think had they tried to make it more like the books it would have been much, much worse for it because it would have run into the literary equivalent of the uncanny valley - I certainly liked it far more than any of the other attempts to film Discworld.

StarkingBarfish posted:

'Saville row: Sir Keith mishandled suits'

Epic High Five posted:

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1485701877396295681

*Daytona USA voice* ROOOOOOLLIIIIIIINGGGGG STOOOP

I think that's just one example of them programming to allow the sort of law breaking people are used to instead of, well, anything that would make cars being actually autonomous possible. Pure lifestyle poo poo

Aipsh posted:

Bobby Deluxe posted:

He starts the show by saying "You're here to see an edgy comic right?" and specifically says at one point that he wants to get cancelled. That rung alarm bells so massive Boris was trying to get me to bung a bob to have them bong for brexit, but I'm trying not to be too humourless about politics especially when watching TV with the wife, so I tried to give it a fair shot.

I watched it because I used to enjoy a lot of his older shows, but this is just sad. It's a hollow structural copy of the bit he used to do where he'd sit and say a few edgy jokes that were deliberately pushing the envelope, and then go back to the anecdotes and crowd work. Only this is the entire show, and the 'jokes' aren't funny.

The one good line he has is adressing an antivaxxer in the crowd saying that the spread of the virus is determined by the density of the population, and some of the population *nods at heckler* is pretty loving dense. Apart from that it's just uninspired bigotry and leftward punching.

I feel like he must have lost or fired the last of his funny writers because like I say, he was funny and the shows used to have an enjoyable atmosphere. But there's something very hollow and cynical about this show.

Of course since Rachel Riley shared a stage with him, she must of course do the decent thing and retire from public life immediately.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/NetopiaEU/status/1489735177907712008

Threatening messages I can't see any issue with, but 'knowingly false'....?

Wouldn't that criminalise nearly every MP who has a twitter account?

sebzilla posted:

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1491548685909569548?t=onMSyWc9FGmZjErOfWch1w&s=19

The Labour Party does not negotiate with terrorists Unions

Prole posted:

"👏More 👏Women 👏Corruption 👏Police 👏Commissioners!"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-misogyny-that-led-to-the-fall-of-londons-police-commissioner

suck my woke dick posted:

speaking of weak performative bullshit


https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/durham-university-returns-wartime-flags-to-japan-in-decolonisation-drive-dq62qp07l

the university claims this is part of decolonialisation. If you read into it it's sending a family memento to some next of kin which is fair enough but Durham instead claim it's somehow decolonialisation.

Hell no it's not decolonialisation, Japan was just a loving awful wannabe-empire trying to displace a slightly less awful but still terrible existing empire, and the end result of Britain fighting Japan in the Pacific was a contribution to weakening empires all around. The idea of "decolonialise the university by returning imperial Japanese war trophies" should be answered by "lol no we shot some bad guys and took souvenirs, die mad about it"

Darth Walrus posted:

https://twitter.com/chrisgiles_/status/1493481619360989185?s=21

Yay!

sebzilla posted:

Corbyn is a podcaster now.

https://twitter.com/corbyn_project/status/1493271161676996610

Praxiscast team, you know what must be done

quote:

What Putin has in common with Hitler, however, is a mystical belief in a nation stretching beyond his country’s current borders.

Dabir posted:

The issue is that Russia's spent the past decade at least funding these separatist movements and pushing them as hard as possible. It's like saying "If the UK suddenly wants to leave the EU, what's the problem" without giving any thought to where that sentiment came from.

E: Not saying Russia was responsible for Brexit. I'm sure they're not unhappy to see it and might have chucked some cash in its direction, but home grown disaster capitalists and lunatics were responsible for Brexit.

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1496945666643267584