We have a new picture of the cast together, including our first looks at Detritus and Lady Ramkin.
According to the article linked to at the end of the Tweet this is going to premiere in January of next year.
I'm still not sure what to make of this.
That just cements how much of a mess it is. The dwarf that looks like bloody legolas, is *not* cheery. That is *not* lady Sybil. I won’t even go near the pseudo modern setting, as that is so far down the list of problems with it. It just looks insultingly awful, and missed the point so hard it’s in a valley. And not koom.
It’s kind of upsetting, because I firmly believe the DiscWorld brings a lot of light into our world, and the kind of wide audience a TV show would attract would be an absolute net positive to humanity, let alone the fandom.
But hey look...they have managed to actually sacrifice progressiveness, actual positivity, on the altar of whatever the heck they think they have done. This is now a story in which so many big and small stories that could have made a real positive difference won’t happen
Edit: and just in case the auditors of wrongthink turn up, the Chef! Doctor in Doctor Who recently would have made a fine Lady Sybil. So, that should see the Ali G type accusations off. As to cheery...fuck it. Just read the damn books and see why that doesn’t work, even with the backstory transplant from Carrot. Everything *important* about the characters they have changed has been stripped away.
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There is now no framework for...off the top of my head...Equal Rites or any of the witch books to make sense, no Tiffany Aching either. Now, maybe that’s ok, because this is just the watch...but all the dwarf/troll/human stuff is broken, The Truth...broken, Lady Margolotta...broken, Unseen Academicals..broken. Every last piece of text or subtext to do with race or gender, broken, which is just so many of the stories being worked from it renders the whole show almost pointless. Monstrous Regiment could have been an astonishing piece of television with as much weight and heft as the recent Watchmen series, but now has no framework in the setting of the show. *this is a terrible idea*
On the plus side, the extant Team Pratchett members seem to have rather obviously distanced themselves from it as much as they possibly can. Which is kind of good. I mean it won’t give us a different version any time soon, but it should prevent too much of schism in the fandom, which is something that can easily follow such an occurrence.
