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By Jonathan Klotz | Published
Star Trek fans can feel that they are being tortured with new franchise tickets that barely resemble the utopian future created by Gene Roddenberry, and Star Wars fans cannot agree on what the franchise should be, but there is another Suffering fandom that is still waiting for an adaptation to do the justice of the series. DiscWorld, the long fantasy satire of the author’s mind Terry Pratchett, has had some decent television films, included Go to postcard and ScratchyBut the biggest attempt to give life to the strange world transported by elephants in the back of a giant turtle was so wrong that fans pretend that it does not even exist. The clockA BBC series about the guards of the largest city in DiscWorld, Ankh-Morpork, finally escaped from the hell of development in 2021, but lost the point completely of what many consider the best series of Pratchett books.
The clock offends DiscWorld fans
The clock He tried to adapt Guards! Guards!, The eighth DiscWorld and the first about Samuel Vimes, the head of drunkard of the Ankh-Morpork City watch, by default, really, and his anthill that tries to maintain peace. Richard Dorer, who performed being Beric Dondarrion of the Brotherhood without Banners in Game of Thrones, It was a casting choice inspired as Vimes, but that is one of the two good decisions made to give life to the series. The second was to turn the magical city more than one Steampunk environment, which not only helped keep it within the BBC budget, but should have helped the most fantastic and capricious parts of the largest city in DiscWorld in something digestible For those who had never read the novels.
For those who read DiscWorld novels, The clock It was as immediately offensive as Section 31 It was for Star Trek fans. The dear favorite characters of the fans were completely altered, from the little things, such as the Large Man who was in control of his “affliction”, to those who fundamentally changed the point of the original novel. It is assumed that Lady Sybil, the eventual Mrs. Vimes, is a rich noble woman with a sense of class and dignity, but in the series, she is a guard, and the only thing that the two characters share is a name.
Perhaps the only change that is remotely defensible is the change of fantasy to Steampunk, which brings coats, microphones and a higher level of technology along with the fashion of absolute punk rock, but curiously, that part works. The clock It could have been a series of direct fantasy, but the turn to the configuration of the world of the album seems something that Pratchett, whom Zig loved when readers expected a zag, retired to himself. It is a pity that the series also lost the full point of the original satire.
A series that is wrong everything
Terry Pratchett was a brilliant satirical who used his novels to make fun of everything in modern life, from cell phones and safe, but also used Vímes in Guards! Guards!to give the most succinct and precise treaty on economics. The clock It becomes a favorite part of fans of the entire DiscWorld series, the “economic theory of Vimes of Boots”, in which Vimes explains that the rich can pay the boots that last more, while the poor constantly pay to replace their Boots of poor quality and spend more about the long race, in a whore. It is exactly the opposite of how Pratchett intended and is the unique and atrocious example of what the series fundamentally based on DiscWorld.
It is not surprising that The clockDespite being the most ambitious discWorld project to date, it was a complete failure when it was issued. Instead of being the creative, Csi-inspired The adaptation that Terry Pratchett originally imagined, is a soulless disaster that can only say that it is “inspired by Terry Pratchett characters” instead of selling as a direct adaptation. The only worse than any great adaptation is so bad that millions of fans around the world decide to pretend that it was never done first.
If you want to see how not adapt a series of beloved novels, The clock It is available on Amazon Prime Video for $ 19.99, but it is better to take that money and buy Guards! Guards!, Men in the armsand Thud!The three are still among the best DiscWorld novels ever printed.
