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

[BarkandCheese]

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.

In LotR a lot of the time with the dwarfs it wasn’t even CGI making them look shorter, it was camera angles and basic stuff like having multi levels so the actors were standing lower than the human characters, or having the actors kneel. It’s easier with dwarfs than with other small non human beings because dwarfs aren’t smaller than humans, they’re just shorter, so you don’t need to reduce body size only height.

But female dwarves are non-binary! That was Cheery's problem - she wanted to embrace the binary.

You have summed Cheery and dwarfs up perfectly.

I take back my very first post in this thread following that second picture...

Angua looks just wrong! Not sure what the actress was aiming for in that second pic, but she just looks odd.. fearful even, which given in this random timeslip, she's the one supposedly in charge of Carrot, wtf is going on?

@landoflostcontent you beat me to it!

Looks utterly wrong. I’ve come to expect absolute shit from the adaptations. I mean, David Jason as Rincewind was a complete joke. Something to fall asleep to on a Sunday afternoon.

she just looks odd.. fearful even

She has the same expression in a still where she is with Vimes. It leapt out at me too.

I loved going postal and as has been mentioned Charles Dance IS Lord Vetinari.

It's all
Dreadful. I honestly feel very upset for a wonderful author who shared a world with us and expected us to keep it intact.

I'm trying to avoid it completely. It's not Pratchett so it's not happening.

I haven't managed to watch any other adaptations after being scarred by the Hogfather.

Is Going Postal any good? The mention of Charles Dance has interested me as he was scary and sexy as Tywin Lannister and I've always had a thing for the Patrician.

That Hugh doesn't look like Carrot in my head at all.

I like Richard Dormer but I don't know if I can see him as Vimes!

That's the problem with a long running, much loved book series, so easy to fuck it up.

@PomBearWithAnOFRS Susan Colman would be amazing as Cheery!

@CornedBeef451 - I really enjoyed Going Postal (the only one I have enjoyed) and probably a lot was due to Richard Coyle being perfectly cast as Moist.

Maybe Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Angua, she was a wonderful warrior in GoT and is scary enough to be a werewolf.

@SmiteTheeWithThunderbolts I really liked Richard Coyle in Coupling, I cant imagine him not being Welsh! I'll have to give it a go somehow.

@CornedBeef451 That actress would be great as Angua. She has the look and is a believable warrior in Hardhome. I can picture her with a glorious blonde mane

It looks absolutely bloody awful. It's apparently a "punk rock thriller" inspired by the watch books, not actually based on them , set in a city in which all crime is legal. Lady sybil is a skinny vigilante, cheery is a non binary human, no Nobby, Colon or Detritus. Good Omens was fantastic, because it respected the much loved book it was based on, this pisses all over it and sets it on fire. There's electricity ffs. Absolute bollocks.

Why would you take a much loved, well crafted set of books and butcher them so badly they're unrecognisable? Just write your own bloody story set in your own bloody world! Dicks.

Barkandcheese I am terribly torn on whether they should adapt the Rivers of London books. One the one hand, they are amazing books, but then would it work without Peter's 'voice' and snarky views on everything. Like the way he quietly notes and analyses the racism he encounters and forms his own opinions about the person without ever saying a word.

I didn't even like the RoL comic Body Work because I missed reading what Peter thought about everything (plus Nightingale looked all wrong).

I've bailed on all the Pratchett adaptations despite loving the books and casting The Watch in my head more than once (Ken Stott is so much my mental image of Vimes that the first time I saw him on screen, I yelled, "That's HIM!"). I'm definitely going to give this one a swerve too. Loving Good Omens, though.

no Nobby, Colon or Detritus

how the heck can you have The Watch without them (esp Nobby and Colon)?

I hardly dare ask what they've done with the swamp dragons...

I think Pete Postlethwaite is "my" Vimes. Obviously not going to happen given he died in 2011 but he has the right look for me.

Barkandcheese I am terribly torn on whether they should adapt the Rivers of London books. One the one hand, they are amazing books, but then would it work without Peter's 'voice' and snarky views on everything. Like the way he quietly notes and analyses the racism he encounters and forms his own opinions about the person without ever saying a word

You have to listen to the audio books, the actor who does the voice is perfect. Actually, he would be fantastic as Peter in a tv adaptation.

Ugh, just ugh. The books are fantasy and have a cast of thousands. If only there had been a couple of fantasy books with a cast of thousands recently adapted for tv. But then I guess game of thrones went the same way. But I didn’t like the game of thrones books. They never made me cry. Who is Vimes? Who? Because if it’s someone young and beautiful I’m not watching.

Took forever to type so I see it’s Richard Domer. He better be wiry and not have a posh accent.

The amber spyglass! They buggered that up too.

@ChiefClerkDrumknott I think she'd be great.

I don't know who I'd cast as Vimes. He needs to be worn and grubby but strangely attractive, maybe they've got it right?

Could Jason Isaacs be Vimes?

Peter Capaldi would make a good Vimes.

If there's no Sergent Colin or Nobby Nobbs and I'm not watching it though.

Sergent Colon. Damn autocorrect.