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2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 0 replies · +1 points
2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 0 replies · +3 points
2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 0 replies · +4 points
Ouch. That one hits harder on hindsight. :( Though no doubt Pterry chose that word deliberately.
2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 0 replies · +4 points
2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 2 replies · +5 points
2 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Going Po... · 0 replies · +6 points
That said, I don't think I'm quite as enthusiastic about it as Mark seems to be. For one thing, the main characters aren't quite so well adapted, IMO. ShireNomad has already done an excellent analysis above of how Moist is depicted, so I have nothing to add to that. As for Adora Belle ... I think she's softened up a bit too much and essentially 'chickified'. Part of the problem is the casting, I think - Claire Foy is an excellent actress, but she looks, well, too adorable. IMO, Adora should look the exact opposite of her name - with much more angular features and an overall more severe look.
On the other hand, Charles Dance as Vetinari is so perfect that I'm willing to forgive pretty much anything else. The side characters are all done well too.
3 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Colo... · 0 replies · +10 points
But of course, the show-runners didn't want to actually make a Discworld TV show - they wanted to make the generic humorous fantasy show that they had written, but they clumsily stuck on Discworld character- and place-names just to attract millions of fans of the series. What they don't seem to have realized is that fans of the series aren't fans of the names, they're fans of the actual characters. A character who is called 'Sam Vimes', but who looks like an off-brand Jack Sparrow and who literally sticks his middle finger up at the ruler of his city, has no connection whatsoever with the Sam Vimes we know and love (who figuratively sticks his middle finger up at the Patrician quite often, but never literally).
3 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Colo... · 0 replies · +3 points
3 weeks ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'The Colo... · 1 reply · +4 points
Ugh, there's no way I'm going to watch this atrocity. It's not even worth pirating. :(
10 weeks ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Stone ... · 0 replies · +6 points
The other reason was that I liked Nassun's story a lot in this book (actually, I liked it in The Obelisk Gate as well), and the descriptions of the places she travels through. The Syl Anagist chapters were good too, at least until they turned into yet another morality tale about how Oppression Is Bad.
Essun's story was the only one in this book that felt a little flat to me. It wasn't bad, though, and it wound up satisfactorily.
In fact, 'satisfactory' is a good word for this book. Not in a negative or faint praise sense, but rather, it felt good when the various story threads left dangling in the previous two books came together and were tied off neatly in the last few chapters of this one. So many authors fail to stick the landing in the final book of their series (*cough*Deathly Hallows*cough*). Or even when they manage to write a decent ending, they wind up losing almost everything that made the series interesting in the first place (*cough*Mockingjay*cough*). The Stone Sky was one of the few final books in a series where I felt that the author had done justice to their own work.