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Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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Ramble_Boba
Title: CR Emeritus: FF Northern UK
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May '02
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Date Posted:
3/17 6:24am
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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I just won't be able to get to grips with Rincewind as David Jason, to me he will always be Eric Idle because I loved the first 2 discworld games! But am looking forward to it
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Twinky_Stryder
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Date Posted:
3/17 2:03pm
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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I am really looking forward to this.
And if you wanted the authentic Discworld Game experience, shouldn't they have gotten someone who sounds like Jon Pertwee?
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LAJ_FETT
Title: Tech Admin, CollectingCCG/TCG/Boardgames
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Date Posted:
3/23 10:58am
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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It's about to start!
Remember, if you come in late and you have Sky via satellite, it is on multistart - just press the red button.
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jamierichards
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Date Posted:
3/27 12:44pm
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i vaguely remember reading a transcript of the first terry pratchett book 'borrowed' from the publishers by a mates dad...
i'd forgotten how good it was...
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Welshguy
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Date Posted:
3/28 10:52am
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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Am I the only one who thought the Hogfather was pretty much unwatchable?
Great design and production, but a story that is about as interesting and fun and a fungal infection.
Watched 20 minutes of The Colour of Magic and could tell it was going exactly the same way the Hogfather.
While its great that such a popular British story should get the small screen treatment, its just a shame that the stories are so bloody awful!
I'm sorry, but they're slow, dull, lack any real drama and suspense and if you took away the production design and famous "Discworld" name, they would be slated for being the poor TV movies that they are.
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LAJ_FETT
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Date Posted:
3/28 12:37pm
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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I actually liked Hogfather more than Magic. I thought the villain in Hogfather was especially creepy.
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Jairen
Title: Manager Emeritus
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Date Posted:
3/28 4:50pm
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RE: Terry Pratchet's The Colour of Magic
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This has always been the big problem, I think, with a Pratchett story being adapted for the screen. What makes the Pratchett story work so well in book form is the word play and literary techniques that he uses. It is very hard to transfer that to screen very well.
Their biggest issue here is that The Colour Of Magic is basically four short stories, with The Light Fantastic being an actual book length story. This was really clear in the way that the two episodes played out. The first half on Sunday was disjointed, half of the first book was missing, and it just did not flow well at all. The second half on Monday, that was mostly the adaptation of The Light Fantastic, worked much better for me, and even made me chuckle in some places.
I still feel that they need to re-look at the books that they consider adapting. Obviously Hogfather was chosen because they wanted to do a Christmas story, and then they went back to TCOM and TLF as that was the starting point of the whole series. But so many of them are just not really suitable.
Personally, I would like to see an adaptation of Guards! Guards!, as this one appears to be the closest to a classic 3-act story that could be converted into a film/mini-series.
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