![]() We'll always have dozens of great Discworld novels, I know, but it's sad we couldn't get a good Watch TV series as well. As an adaptation? Offensive, tone-deaf and nightmarishly bad. Am using fmovies.wtf can find uploads of most series within 24 hours and a domain of swatchseries by the looks of it - just found it. Also, how do you ruin the running joke of the huge Carrot being an adoptive/honorary dwarf? Why, you cast other tall actors as dwarfs! It takes some special kind of anti-genius to mess this up. Was wondering myself the past week or two. Nearly every member of the Watch has been tinkered with in similarly deplorable ways, to say nothing of Sybil. Vimes - who is, with Granny Weatherwax, one of Discworld's most complex, nuanced characters among so many memorable ones - was, pre-development, a broken, depressed drunk, not a goofball. Some of the actors could have been fine in a proper adaptation, like Dormer as Vimes - if the iconic character had not been turned into a punk Jack Sparrow. but when setting, plot, tone and pretty much all characters are unrecognizable, you should just create your own original work instead of bastardizing someone else's. I'm no purist when it comes to adapting books to screen. Imagine if someone was planning an on-the-road sci-fi/comedy and, by some dark miracle, managed to get the Lord of the Rings license from the Tolkien Estate: cue a LOTR version where a bunch of stoner hobbits and an insane cackling Gandalf ride speeder bikes towards Mordor through a cyberpunk Middle-earth Aragorn is a woman, Galadriel a dude, Gollum a politically-minded revolutionary and everyone else is missing. Maybe the producers were making their own steampunk cop show and decided to slap Discworld names on it as a marketing afterthought. Below, you can find the full list of all the new shows, new seasons and new episodes you can stream online on 44 streaming providers in the US. And that why JustWatch created the New Timeline. This feels like a show made in that darker timeline. Keeping track of all the new shows added to streaming providers is a hassle. There is a moment in one of Terry Pratchett's brilliant Discworld novels where the protagonist's "organiser", a magical device reminding the owner of his daily appointments, breaks, so it starts reciting the schedule from an alternate universe where the characters made the wrong choices with awful results.
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