The Watch

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I'm actually rather enjoying this series.
Despite the detractors and purists.

[jimduncanuk]

And, 'The Watch' is?

[Raider4]

(Off to Wikipedia to find out what's going on here)

Okay, not encouraging, but I have an open mind . . .

Where might we watch this?

[jimduncanuk]

Could be a Terry Pratchett offering.

Maybe a Dutch painting.

Or a police program.

Who knows.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's on t'Iplayer.
Based (loosely) on Vimes et al

[jimduncanuk]

Kept that one quiet!

[Heedless Horseman]

Loved Pratchett books. Never really felt inclined to watch or listen to. Too much 'investment' in my imagination... AND the book 'Art'! lol.
From what I've read... not really 'true' to the books... mmm, maybe someday.

[Raider4]

Okay . . . this is definitely not the Ankh-Morpork I remember reading!

[Steve J]

Well the trailer was visually excellent and a bit of Plastique Bertrand helps too! Will check this out and see what the family thinks.

[Techno II]

Okay . . . this is definitely not the Ankh-Morpork I remember reading!

Or me !

From that clip, I couldn't decide whether it was based on 'Guards, Guards', or the 'Night Watch'......Does look spectacular, though

Recently bought the Terry Pratchett BBC Radio Drama collection......That's not bad, at all !....Especially the two stories mentioned above.

Cheers - Phil.

[Big Insect]

As a huge (early) Pratchett fan I shall give it a trial, thanks for pointing it out

[Raider4]

Okay, watched the 1st episode - it's certainly a different take on things. Am intrigued and will continue watching.

2 problems though:
1) Occasionally find the dialogue hard to follow. Too quiet? Too low down in the mix? People speaking too fast? Dunno, but it doesn't just affect this program. Maybe I'm just getting old . . .
2) Getting a bit tired of all the gurning the actor playing Vimes is doing. But don't think that's going to go away.

Plotwise, there's certainly 'Guards, Guards' in there, but bits from other books as well.

[mmcv]

I've been sceptical of it, pretty much everything I've read on it in the past couple of years leading up to it has been largely negative given how far off track they went from the source material. Regardless, I probably will watch it sometime with a "this is not actually Pratchett" mindset to see, but not hopeful and as I understand the Pratchett estate (primarily his daughter who was involved early on then left) has distanced itself from it. Indeed they stopped mentioning Pratchett in a lot of the promotional stuff.

Though at the end of the day, it won't take anything away from the books, and if it encourages a few people to take the dive into the books and discover all the joy and fun to be had there, all the better. I think the intention was to draw from a few different plots and mix them up a bit to fit into the new world they came up with.

In other news, there is apparently to be a Good Omens season 2, with Neil Gaimen still involved so hopefully potential to be good. (He also didn't have much nice to say about the Watch...)

[Ithoriel]

Via Reddit

[mmcv]

 

Apparently Neil and Terry had thrashed out a plot for Good Omens 2, but with other commitments and the distance between them they never found the time to write it.