The Watch (2020)

Watchseries; I was looking forward to this, even though I was aware it wasn't going to really follow Terry's books. I figured if they were going to go their own way they must have a great story idea. I guess I was wrong, it's terrible, and what's with pantomime style acting!? Surely these actors can actually act? I can only presume they were given direction to act so badly, the bizarre affectations of Vimes make him difficult to watch, closely followed by Angua, almost equally as bad. The only character I've liked so far is Lady Sybil, which if this was a true attempt at a Terry Pratchet book would offend me that they'd changed the character so dramatically.

I was looking forward to this, even though I was aware it wasn't going to really follow Terry's books. I figured if they were going to go their own way they must have a great story idea. I guess I was wrong, it's terrible, and what's with pantomime style acting!? Surely these actors can actually act? I can only presume they were given direction to act so badly, the bizarre affectations of Vimes make him difficult to watch, closely followed by Angua, almost equally as bad. The only character I've liked so far is Lady Sybil, which if this was a true attempt at a Terry Pratchet book would offend me that they'd changed the character so dramatically.

The Watch watchseries. I don't really know where to begin with this one. The original story was charming, funny and coherent, this is none of those things. It's a hopeless mess of fantasy, punk and industrial landscapes, possibly intended to be edgy but really just cheap and ugly. The acting is terrible, particularly Richard Dormer who is hamming it up as a low-rent, Jack Sparrow wannabe with all the charm of a freshly-filled adult diaper. The whisper thin story jumps around aimlessly and arbitrarily, with very little connecting the various interactions. It's just woeful and sad and tragic.

Get the rights for the Disc world books about the Watch , then decide that Terry Pratchett's version was rubbish and you could do it better !! Why ?? Take the names and storylines from various books , completely change the personalities & background stories and get Richard Dormer to Chanel his Alex Higgins as Vimes !! Avoid !!

One of the things I keep hearing about this show is that it is not a direct interpretation of Sir Terry's phenomenal discworld, but it is inspired by it. I don't buy it. I think someone somewhere decided that they would cash in on one of Pratchett's most fleshed out segments of the novels, the city watch, in name and name alone, and totally missed the mark. I didn't expect it to be a love letter to Pratchett or fan service, but I did expect the characters to still at least have the same core that made them such treasures to read. Sam Vines is not Sam Vimes, it's true..."That's not my cow." At least not after the first episode. Same goes for each and every character from Angua to Detritus to Carrot to good old Dog botherer. I don't even care about the gender swap. Just give me the impression that there's a Machiavellian mind that's twelve steps ahead of everyone else working its magic behind the scenes, and I'll be happy. But here is where it really stings. You can tell that everyone really is trying. The performances for the most part are committed, albeit misinformed, the production value is decent, aside from Detritus's distracting appearance. And the punk vibe could have actually made for an interesting twist, but it just comes off as forced and therefore, pointless and shallow. I can only hope it gets better.

After watching some good discworld adaptations like Hogfather and Going Postal I figured... yeah lets give this one a chance.

The word for this thing is "NO"

No discworld is not some weird steampunk land No that's not this character No that not this character either No that's not what this character wears or does you're confusing them with... No, No, NO!

And that's BEFORE you get to gender swap mess they have. The aesthetics are ugly. The characters are that in name only. Their actions make no sense UNLESS you've read the books. If you've read the books your head will start throbbing because again these actions make no sense for this character in the current context.

The people who've made this clearly have no love for Pratchett's work or any consideration for the fanbase.

In The books we are introduced to Vimes piss drunk in the gutter. Literally that's his intro and yet that was far more dignified an introduction than what he got here.

How dare BBC America create this abomination and declare it is based on anything Sir Terry Pratchett wrote, the screenplay for this was clearly written by some imbecile who had never seen a Discworld novel before let alone ever read one.

This is written, produced and directed by the same people that Terry Pratchett lampooned in the discworld series of books calling themselves the "CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL HEIGHTS" a group of Humans who claim to be campaigning on behalf of the dwarves (Clearly because they felt so superior to dwarves that the dwarves themselves were incapable of campaigning on their own behalf) yet caring little to nothing what the dwarves themselves might have to say about it).

If this mention of Sir Terry was supposed to get Sir Terry Pratchett's millions of fans on board they have clearly missed the target by at least three Dimentions and a whole Universe.

This abomination stands as testiment that the people who have assumed the mantle of "GUARDIANS OF ENTERTAINMENT" for themselves in the discworld they would be "THE CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL HEIGHTS" have any sense of humour or even a base knowledge of IRONY (No it doesn't mean having the properties of IRON).

The title and the line "Based on the characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels" promises the Pratchett fan a cornucopia of Discworld feasts (See Nanny Oggs Cookbook) but delivers a dogsh__ sandwich.