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["Discword"]
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I'm sorry, the fuck
poodle chaser
Oh no
poodle chaser
Well known zany punk rebel Sam Vimes
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how! does! this! keep! managing! to! get! worse!
Molly is tired✨
UHM
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just
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what
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I didn't plurk about this bc I was like "I FEEL I HAVE BEEN TOO NEGATIVE ON PLURK LATELY" which is why I am glad to bitch about it HERE lmfao
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IT'S
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SO
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BAD
Tentessee
i just want to enjoy things
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I had serious doubts based on some of the initial casting choices and descriptions and they just keep managing to become worse.
Tentessee
but this is testing me
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I think it's pretty telling that pratchett's daughter has been openly disapproving of the whole project
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Rob, too.
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today she even tweeted Look, I think it's fairly obvious that
TheWatch
shares no DNA with my father's Watch. This is neither criticism nor support. It is what it is.
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like... rubs face
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the other discworld adaptations have been imperfect but largely keeping In The Spirit Of Things but this.................................... high budget low quality.
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I can't imagine how dismayed she must actually be.
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god, right?
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I just had a horrible realization
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Of what that trailer reminds me of and thus what I think what its 'actual' inspiration is closer to.
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they hollowed out the Watch and stuffed Harry Potter fandom aesthetic/ideas in.
Zita
oh my god you're right
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This isn't for Disc fans, this is the showrunners sidestepping Rowling to get HP fans.
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god. you're so fucking right.
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we all remember how much chatter there was for the longest about what if a live action aurors series! etc! modern day Harry! etc
Tentessee
is punk band vimes our leather pants draco
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yes.
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eyeliner!Vimes is just... so...
Throck
that is just
Throck
so bad
Throck
I'm not actually like... not-okay with vimes' actual casting like that sort of wobbling on his feet in between one disaster and another thing actually kinda works for beginning vimes but what the fuck is up with all the punk stuff and the...everything of everything
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Yeah, some of the casting choices I'm totally fine with but
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my big red flags were NB human Cheery and skinny young Sybil.
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I've also been a little suspicious of f!vetinari
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yeah. with f!Vetinari at least in that trailer this seems to literally just be their take on Verinari except played as a woman and not changing references to be 'ma'am' et al.
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yeah I'm just like
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[ DISTRUST ]
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but it's not like I"m intending to watch it anyway so
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Yeah.
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I went from adoring the idea way back when it was first announced
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Especially when Rhianna and Rob were on board and involved.
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And then the moment the casting was announced with the character descriptions and then they were yeah we're not involved anymore'
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WHOMP
Throck
their many mistakes can be distilled to one very easy mistake
Throck
Not getting that the world, the city, and the tone are all the most important characters, alongside like...the actual ones
Throck
MORE IMPORTANT because you can change and adapt and not include some of the others and still make it work
Throck
As long as the setting and tone stuff is right
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But they decided to go with weird quasi-gritty fantasypunk.
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They Suicide Squad movie'd the Watch.
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This also makes me remember the one part of the trailer that really aggravated me, actually, and implies to me they don't respect the original material or Pterry.
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https://images.plurk.com/1K3qCordd5LUbGgKYly8Bj.png
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Sybil carrying around and using a tiny dragon as a fucking gun
Throck
there's a whole book about that
snowbogan
sybil has never been so insulted in her goddamn life
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The shown treatment of crossbow as gun in there is also eyebrow raising.
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But that's at least, you know. Crossbows are a Thing.
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Their takeaway from the books is 'Sybil used a dragon all of once for desperate self-defense means it would be cool if she regularly wields one like a pistol'
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