Do you want to see a picture of Angua and Cheery from the BBC new Pratchett adaptation?

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The program is called The Watch, from what I understand it’s a distillation of the watch novels. The blonde actor is Angua, the dark haired one is Cheery. I’m trying to wrap my head around the casting choice for Cheery, who in the books is spoiler alert a female dwarf who due to all dwarfs having beards is assumed to be male by her colleagues.

Carrot looks fine though. Assuming he will be ginger.

Carrot looks as though he's escaped from London fashion week. I don't know who that person is, but he is not Carrot.

And I like Richard Dormer, but he appears to playing Vimes as if Vimes was some mate of Rab C Nesbit.

I think he's ok.

Compared to the rest of the casting.

There are only about 4 photos and I'm pissed of with stuff in all of them. Small details like the chain on Vimes' badge, the plastic waste basket and electric fan in the Watch office....

Only Carrot's clothes look right.

Why couldn't Susan Calman play Cheery?

With a beard, obv.

I've never watched any Pratchett adaptations, are any of them any good?

Plastic waste bins? What the heck am I supposed to eat?

Sky made three adaptations, one which was a combo of The Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic with David Jason as Rincewind which is pretty dire. However they also made The Hogfather and Going Postal which are pretty decent. The budgets are low but the casting is sound, Charles Dance is brilliant as the patrician as is Ian Richardson as the voice of Death.

I am so glad to find that I am not the only one who thinks Guy Henry would be a brilliant Vetinari.

And I too want to know exactly who their audience is. All I can say is thank goodness the Harry Potter films have been done already. Imagine what these people would do to them if it were adapted now!

All I can say is thank goodness the Harry Potter films have been done already. Imagine what these people would do to them if it were adapted now!

There's always scope for a TV adaptation! 😂 I think JKR is more in control of the rights though.

Charles Dance is brilliant as the patrician yep shame the budget didn't run to a bottle of hair though. Vetinari is not fair haired!

This is shocking. I won't be watching. Pointless nonsense.

It gets worse. Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler is now a female called Throat.

Isn’t one of Carrot’s central themes that he was brought up by dwarves and feels that he is a dwarf (in spite of hints about who he really is) but is over six foot tall? Tall Cheery does away with that whole story arc.
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Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler is now a female called Throat

That's...disgusting. They've turned the work of one of the most scathingly rational of writers, a man with a very firm grasp on reality, a man who poked fun at basing your life upon make-believe, into a kinky, woke, pile of nitwittery.

Carrot is the victim of the societal pressures that he grew up with. He was gaslighted - albeit unintentionally- into being a transdwarf.

If the BBC wanted to make a faithful adaptation of a series of fantasy books which are very now they should have gone for Rivers of London (and left Pratchett alone).

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I love Cheery for the way she grows into her job, being quietly competent at forensics and generally being a copper. If they can’t even get that she is a Female. Bearded. Dwarf. there’s no hope.

And this is why I never, ever watch screen adaptations of Discworld. :-( Nothing can approach the vivid world inside your head or on the page and it's still relatively hard to recreate tricky fantasy characters like, for instance, trolls without it either looking like 1970's Doctor Who or a video game.

And now with an added dash of BBC Wokery - they've trans'd Cheery FFS. Well they can do one.

Discworld dwarves are much better as written- a binary sexed but genderfree species. And properly short and hairy!

I’d love to see Rivers of London adapted. Although possibly not by these people.

they've trans'd Cheery FFS.

And half the cast!

All wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.

Cheery needs a beard. And to be much shorter than what is shown in the photo. Angua has a thick, long, flowing mane of hair and is meant to be classically beautiful; neither of these actors fit the part.

I'm a huge Discworld fan and anything less than a very close representation of how the characters are described as in the books is always a huge disappointment.

• @Amortentia I didn't know that! I never watched the going postal adaptation as I heard pretty bad things*

I love the Moist Von Lipwig series and thought the GP adaptation was done pretty well. You can buy them on Amazon but if you've got somewhere nearby that sells second hand dvds I'd try there first as they can be expensive on amazon.

I've got an animated version of Wyrd Sisters (the Witches are my favourite characters). It's ok, but the accents are wrong. I love the voices used on the audio book and they should have stuck with them.

But, like many others have said, Pratchett books are hard to translate to screen. I think only the family & super fans could get close to getting the casting and script right.

The height isn't an issue, the actors who played the hobbits in the lord of the rings were not actually that height.

No but at least they were CGI'd to a 'representative' height. Same with John Rhys-Davies. This looks like a travesty. Grrrr. Buggritt, millennium hand & shrimp.