![]() 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. This feels like a show made in that darker timeline. 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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