izzy.vrm
[discworld] speaking of, are any of the visual adaptations any good?
izzy.vrm
i know there have been some movies, and that the Watch BBC series was underwhelming
izzy.vrm
but i want to know what people think if they've seen 'em
xyzzy
there was a not bad movie of Going Postal
xyzzy
BBC's The Watch was... among the worst things I've ever seen
Snake-Kun
Going Postal and Hogfather aren't terrible
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And there was an animated movie of Wyrd Sisters that apparently has a LOT of personality
Rogal Dorn
I'm still mad about the watch 
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Do Not Watch The Watch
izzy.vrm
i just peeked at the trailer
izzy.vrm
who the fuck are these people
izzy.vrm
This Is Not My Vimes, said izzy
Phas|DippedOut
Hogfather is pretty good as adaptations go
izzy.vrm
though i am here for whatever the fuck vetinari has going on
xyzzy
in BBC's The Watch, Episode 1, Vimes pees on a dog and Detritus gets murdered so they don't need to pay for the effects
izzy.vrm
no...........
izzy.vrm
:C
bird time
I've seen the animated Wyrd Sisters, it is pretty solid! Got all the personality and so forth in it
bird time
The live action Hogfsther is ok
izzy.vrm
the going postal trailer seems much more accurate
LOVE & PEATH
Going Postal is I think the same people as Hogfather but Hogfather's better
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Hogfather is like
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okay both books are A++ material
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Hogfather miniseries/movie is like a solid B adaptation
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Going Postal I'd give a C-
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they changed a lot more and normally I don't consider that the metric of an adaptation's quality
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but like. unsurprisingly they could not come up with better material than Terry Pratchett
Lightning Bolt
I really enjoyed hogfather when I watched it
Lightning Bolt
and it was understandable enough even for my family who knew nothing about discworld
Princess Emily
I heard great things about BBC's The Watch,
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/immediately taken out back and shot
Vehrec
we don't shoot people for that
Vehrec
we just send them to a re-education camp where you have to harvest wheat
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we make them watch it Clockwork Orange-style
izzy.vrm
fuck it. we make our own. discworld watch in the gumshoe engine
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hang on
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I think I might have something
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but this is an extremely perilous maneuver
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be kind to me if I can't stick the landing
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Guards! Guards!: Unofficially, A Roleplayinggame of Discworld
izzy.vrm
that's awesome, actually
ʟɪʟɪᴍ ʜᴀʀʟᴏᴛ
yeah hogfather's good, going postal is... okay
ʟɪʟɪᴍ ʜᴀʀʟᴏᴛ
i can't stand looking at the 90s bbc animated things
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but they're good otherwise
Hazard Kitten
the Colour of Magic is okay, but it's heavily streamlined
Hazard Kitten
The Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music animation - the adaptations are good the actual animation is kind of not great, and there's some dodgy voice acting but much more faithful to the source material, and Soul Music you can tell the animators had fun with the music sequences
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I think the animation itself is probably fine but they're just
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the artstyle, the deliberate choices about how it should look
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is RADICALLY ugly
Hazard Kitten
yeah there were some choices
izzy.vrm
update: i think The Truth deserves a film in the style of Spotlight