Going Postal

[Nevix]

I am not sure what would be the best way to fix the introduction to Discworld. At this point in the series the books are rather self-referential. Which is a great thing when you have read the most of the series, but I wondered what a new reader thought of the inside jokes. On the other hand, print is a medium where one can get away with that as you have more space to explain things, a screenplay is does not have that luxury.

The early Discworld that realls starts the good stuff, like Mort, and Guards Guards! Although dropping into a later book can be good too. I read Thud as one of my first few Discworld books, and I ended up buying most of the main series, and the Tiffany Aching side series too.

This adaptation does a real disservice to Adora Belle, I think. Not only the scene where Moist Drove Her To Take Up Smoking Oh The Horror, but the nonsense where Reacher Gilt invokes the rom-com mid-point misunderstanding at the restaurant and she's stupid enough to fall for it. And then there's the other smoking-related bit at the end of part two, which, no. Adora Belle Dearheart smokes because she enjoys it, it is not a symptom of her tragic past or something that needs to be ~cured by the love of a good man~. Adora Belle Dearheart does not need to be fixed.

Plus the Wraith is killed by the angry mail, instead of the Impossible Sorter made by BS Johnson. And a number of little changes that take away from the "Is Adora Belle Anoia?" subplot.

Not sure if it apocryphal or not, but I believe that years ago there was an adaption of Mort planned, but Pratchet pulled the plug when the people producing it wanted to write Death out of it. Regardless of what you think of the changes in this Going Postal adaption (and the adaptions of Hogfather and Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic by the same people) I'm sure we can all agree they're trivial compared to wanting to write Death out of a story whose premise is a kid becoming Death's Apprentice!

I keep hearing that one, and it's just crazy enough to be something an actual producer/exec would do.

I also hear similar stories about The BBC wanting control over a TV series adaptation of the City Watch, and that desire for control torpedoing the production.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

You know, I rented this two-parter from my local library. I had loved the book.
The point where I gave up on it was when Moist forced Adorabelle to dance with her and hoisted her onto the horse like a friggin kidnapping victim, which, she sort of was.

[The Romulan Republic]

Edit: Yeah, because sexual harassment is funny/romantic, apparently.

And also Presidential, these days.

Why are there two massive stone lions in Lord Vetinari's office? Ankh-Morpork's national animals are hippos!

You know, at this point that's a pretty funny meta gag/shout-out, perhaps more so because I don't believe that it could possibly have been intentional, based on the timeline.

Seeing as how the actor who plays Vetinari, Charles Dance, is now best known for playing Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, who's heraldic symbol is a lion.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Edit: Yeah, because sexual harassment is funny/romantic, apparently.

Right. And if he tried that nonsense with book Adorabelle Dearheart, he'd end up with a significant reduction in his ability to count past ten. Cripes they even made a point of it in the dialogue.

Because if I can dance with you and still have ten toes left, my dear, anything is possible!

[MattII]

IMO nothing that was just cut from the story can make up for the screw-up of changing how Gilt got his hands on the trunk.