i'm going to say pratchett's humor doesn't translate well to tv. the funniest parts in his book aren't the events that happen, but the way pratchett describes them. unless there's a narrator on the show i don't know how they would accomplish that. oh, and the tv minis have been butts
Two things. First, I seem to be in the minority, but I really liked all the Discword adaptations. TCOM was the weakest, but I loved Hogfather and thought that Going Postal was pretty well done as well. Could of been better, to be sure, but to make it into a 4 hour miniseries, gotta cut something. And I can't wait to see the series. I do wonder if they're going to have all new stories or for like, the first season, use versions of the books.
Second, random question about "Interesting Times". This has always bugged me, but was Lord Hong really as good as he said he was, or was everyone just saying, "Oh yes, you're the best!" to prevent themselves from being killed?
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despite seeing everything that happened coming from a long distance away
Small Gods and Going Postal are definitely my favorites. I have Thud! and Mort waiting in line behind the biography of Theodore Roosevelt I'm reading right now.
I also bought The Last Hero for my future child. That should be real fun.
My favourite moment in any Discworld book... well I actually can't remember which one it was from, but it was one of the witches books. Anyway, Granny Weatherwax had been built up to be the most powerful witch in the world, but there hadn't really been any evidence of that. Smartest witch? Absolutely, no contest. But most powerful?
Then some guy goes screaming past her in a horse and carriage and comes an inch from running her down, and Granny just goes >:[ and shoots a bolt of lighting out of her hand and blasts one of the wheels off the carriage.
So awesome.
she may or may not be the most powerful
it's implied that maybe she is
she is, however, the most intimidating
she essentially bends magic to her will by scaring it
While it is somewhat ambiguous as to whether or not Granny's the most powerful Witch, she's definitely in the top two, along with Nanny Ogg, who is frequently alluded to as being possibly more powerful than Granny, but she doesn't want Granny to know.
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I very vaguely remember Nanny Ogg doing something Granny either couldn't do or really struggled with, easily and then being like "Don't tell Granny *wink*"
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I very vaguely remember Nanny Ogg doing something Granny either couldn't do or really struggled with, easily and then being like "Don't tell Granny *wink*"
The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
Is this a thread for the sharing of stories where we acted kind of like those Nac Mac Feegle chappies?
One time I was helping out at a stable, where some friends of my mum keep their horses, and much though I don't like horses overly much I tried my hand at getting to know one of the larger beasts, at which point it promptly headbutted me.
As a Scotsman, I took this to be a challenge, and so grabbed it by both ears and headbutted it right back.
P.S. I think Pratchett's complaint about the sword is that he could be arrested for carrying it around, even though he's a knight, and how the hell is he meant to slay dragons and save maidens if he's not allowed his sword?
back in highschool a couple of my buddies set up a hog trap at one of their girlfriend's house because they had hogs tearing up their yard
sooooo one day after our football practice we gotta trap full of hogs and as we're moving the trap to transport the hogs one of the feisty fuckers lunges through the top, busts loose, and starts trying to snap at everybody carrying the trap
at which point i promptly punched it between the eyes and dropped it, and then we didn't have a problem with it again
uppity animals, man.
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My favourite moment in any Discworld book... well I actually can't remember which one it was from, but it was one of the witches books. Anyway, Granny Weatherwax had been built up to be the most powerful witch in the world, but there hadn't really been any evidence of that. Smartest witch? Absolutely, no contest. But most powerful?
Then some guy goes screaming past her in a horse and carriage and comes an inch from running her down, and Granny just goes >:[ and shoots a bolt of lighting out of her hand and blasts one of the wheels off the carriage.
So awesome.
Well in carpe jugulum she
gets about as bad ass as it gets.
I love the discworld stuff, so many great characters..
The witches, the watch, the patrician, death, the wizards..
articulating what i didn't like about a book is hard for me, but i'll try
the moist books seemed like all flash and no substance. it was the first time i felt a discworld book was too by the numbers i guess? like they had hired a ghost writer to ape pratchett's style
and moist is just a poorly conceived character. not compelling at all
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I know it doesn't match his description in the books at all but I always imagined Sam Vimes to look like John Marsten from Red Dead Redemption, with just a tiny twinge of his accent
Making money was pretty much exactly the same book as going postal. In fact I have trouble separating them in my mind. Kinda feels like he had a books worth of characters and plot development, couldn't decide whether to set it in the mint or the post office and just went 'fuck it, two books, bam'.
I really like Making Money, and really like Moist. I dont understand what you dont like.
He's a step ahead of everyone but Vetinari, who dances around everyone and hes so charming, but still a rogue at heart.
yeah he's a little bit too perfect
like a character out of a fanfiction
Too perfect?
He's an asshole. A charming asshole, sure, but the books remember that he's a con man and he makes his living by stealing from people, a lot of whom don't deserve what happens to them.
Also, Vetinari plays him like a fiddle, the golem manages to trounce him when he tries a run, and on and on.
I very vaguely remember Nanny Ogg doing something Granny either couldn't do or really struggled with, easily and then being like "Don't tell Granny *wink*"
That might have been during the witching duel between Granny and Diamanda, when Nanny Ogg tricked one of her little grandsons into walking into the magic circle to allow Granny to win the duel.
Or it might have been when she went to get the King of the Elves involved, which Granny would never have done due to her pride.
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If he were 20 years younger I'd say it would have to be Tony Robinson.
Sounds like someone who's about to messily commit suicide.
Second, random question about "Interesting Times". This has always bugged me, but was Lord Hong really as good as he said he was, or was everyone just saying, "Oh yes, you're the best!" to prevent themselves from being killed?
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Small Gods and Going Postal are definitely my favorites. I have Thud! and Mort waiting in line behind the biography of Theodore Roosevelt I'm reading right now.
I also bought The Last Hero for my future child. That should be real fun.
While it is somewhat ambiguous as to whether or not Granny's the most powerful Witch, she's definitely in the top two, along with Nanny Ogg, who is frequently alluded to as being possibly more powerful than Granny, but she doesn't want Granny to know.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
his books were completely terrible
flying
how long have you been saving that
back in highschool a couple of my buddies set up a hog trap at one of their girlfriend's house because they had hogs tearing up their yard
sooooo one day after our football practice we gotta trap full of hogs and as we're moving the trap to transport the hogs one of the feisty fuckers lunges through the top, busts loose, and starts trying to snap at everybody carrying the trap
at which point i promptly punched it between the eyes and dropped it, and then we didn't have a problem with it again
uppity animals, man.
Not as badass as it gets. Very close.
Why I fear the ocean.
genuinely sorry you have this opinion.
Teee-ah-Tiii-mah
What spring does with the cherry trees.
the moist books seemed like all flash and no substance. it was the first time i felt a discworld book was too by the numbers i guess? like they had hired a ghost writer to ape pratchett's style
and moist is just a poorly conceived character. not compelling at all
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He's a step ahead of everyone but Vetinari, who dances around everyone and hes so charming, but still a rogue at heart.
Also,
This man speaks my mind
yeah he's a little bit too perfect
like a character out of a fanfiction
What spring does with the cherry trees.
death at least
also, the luggage owns
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Too perfect?
He's an asshole. A charming asshole, sure, but the books remember that he's a con man and he makes his living by stealing from people, a lot of whom don't deserve what happens to them.
Also, Vetinari plays him like a fiddle, the golem manages to trounce him when he tries a run, and on and on.
And yes.
Night Watch is the best.
Why I fear the ocean.
"You're hurting!"
"You know, you're right there, Carcer!"
That might have been during the witching duel between Granny and Diamanda, when Nanny Ogg tricked one of her little grandsons into walking into the magic circle to allow Granny to win the duel.
Or it might have been when she went to get the King of the Elves involved, which Granny would never have done due to her pride.