Yeah! Although my favorite Discworld book is actually either The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents or Night Watch, Granny Weatherwax is far and away my favorite character.
Vimes out Weatherwaxes Weatherwax, really. And he feels less like a deus ex machina.
Actually, I take it back. Soul Music was the worst book.
Not the worst Pratchett book.
Just the worst book.
I've read both of the Susan books twice each. Not because I like them, but because I'd completely forgotten that I'd ever read them after finishing them the first time.
(although, that's kind of appropriate, come to think of it...)
Also: the animated version of Soul Music is really terrible.
Soul Music was terrible on every level that a creative work can be terrible.
Moving Pictures was worse.
No, actually, Moving Pictures and Soul Music were basically the same book. Look! Modern [music/movies] in the Discworld, under vaguely fantasy-style names! Oh, how we laughed.
I'm just watching the Hogfather made for TV thing, and damn, it's kind of ass. The only good part so far has been Susan, who is perfect, but everything else is just bleh. Jingly ass music everywhere. And it all looks cheap. Not a big enough budget to make it look real good like.
the curse of Discworld books is that they will never be good as films or cartoons or TV shows until the directors realize that the stories are comedies not dramas.
There are so many funny scenes that are absolutely butchered by dry and slow delivery.
Vimes would rather stab himself in the eye with a handy assassin than be patrician. I can't believe you guys get the sense of him winding up in that position from the books.
Really, it's the final thing Vetinari can do to piss him off.
Plus, didn't Vimes get taken off the assassin's guild listings, an 'honour' shared only by Vetinari? So even one of the major guilds thinks he's the only person as important as Vetinari is to running the city.
Or they got tired of trying to kill him, whatever.
I'm just watching the Hogfather made for TV thing, and damn, it's kind of ass. The only good part so far has been Susan, who is perfect, but everything else is just bleh. Jingly ass music everywhere. And it all looks cheap. Not a big enough budget to make it look real good like.
the curse of Discworld books is that they will never be good as films or cartoons or TV shows until the directors realize that the stories are comedies not dramas.
There are so many funny scenes that are absolutely butchered by dry and slow delivery.
I haven't read Pratchett's work yet, but I absolutely adored Sky One's adaption of the Hogfather. I thought it was fairly great, witty and even touching. I didn't know what exactly looks "cheap," but I suppose I have a greater threshold for lower budget effects than most when it comes to low-tech special effects
I'm just watching the Hogfather made for TV thing, and damn, it's kind of ass. The only good part so far has been Susan, who is perfect, but everything else is just bleh. Jingly ass music everywhere. And it all looks cheap. Not a big enough budget to make it look real good like.
the curse of Discworld books is that they will never be good as films or cartoons or TV shows until the directors realize that the stories are comedies not dramas.
There are so many funny scenes that are absolutely butchered by dry and slow delivery.
I haven't read Pratchett's work yet, but I absolutely adored Sky One's adaption of the Hogfather. I thought it was fairly great, witty and even touching. I didn't know what exactly looks "cheap," but I suppose I have a greater threshold for lower budget effects than most when it comes to low-tech special effects
I watched part 2 tonight and it wasn't awful, but they did kind of murder the pacing. and then they resurrected it using the black arts only to off it a second time, just to be sure. It got a bit painful.
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".
Yes, I am aware of this. But this is actually the first i heard of that fact and I figured that doing it like that would express my feelings on the matter quite clearly and would also make much more sense than say...
I watched part 2 tonight and it wasn't awful, but they did kind of murder the pacing. and then they resurrected it using the black arts only to off it a second time, just to be sure. It got a bit painful.
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Vimes out Weatherwaxes Weatherwax, really. And he feels less like a deus ex machina.
(although, that's kind of appropriate, come to think of it...)
Also: the animated version of Soul Music is really terrible.
No, actually, Moving Pictures and Soul Music were basically the same book. Look! Modern [music/movies] in the Discworld, under vaguely fantasy-style names! Oh, how we laughed.
the curse of Discworld books is that they will never be good as films or cartoons or TV shows until the directors realize that the stories are comedies not dramas.
There are so many funny scenes that are absolutely butchered by dry and slow delivery.
Or they got tired of trying to kill him, whatever.
I haven't read Pratchett's work yet, but I absolutely adored Sky One's adaption of the Hogfather. I thought it was fairly great, witty and even touching. I didn't know what exactly looks "cheap," but I suppose I have a greater threshold for lower budget effects than most when it comes to low-tech special effects
I watched part 2 tonight and it wasn't awful, but they did kind of murder the pacing. and then they resurrected it using the black arts only to off it a second time, just to be sure. It got a bit painful.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO FUCK NO!
"NONONONONOFUCKNO!!!"
... would have.
Agreed?