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Guess what Discworld fans, your tired and problematic old white-male penned books have FINALLY gotten a progressive update for currentyear television!
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And I know yall are just desperate to see the first pictures of this stunning and brave new series, and so your cuddly uncle holden will share them with you right now and I will even tell you just what characters have been adapted and given woke improvements for this series
- Karen Hair Angua and Richard Spencer hair Carrot, the latter of whom will no doubt have to face up to his toxic masculinity and cultural appropriation -
- The new Carcer who has been changed from a fucking white male into a persecuted man of color trying to clear his name of crimes he did not commit -
- the aforementioned Karengua and the most stunning and brave choice yet, a beardless explicitly non binary Cheery, now adwarf I have just been informed she is infact not a dwarf in this, just a troon....of color with a stunning and brave nose ring, because beards have unfortunate connotations in currentyear -
- and I have saved the very best for last, sybil vimes reimagined from an icky old white woman into a thin woman of color with dyed red hair who is the vigilante badass responsible for fighting crime in the city -
No need to thank me for sharing this wonderful new addition to progressive cinematic canon with you. Now let us celebrate with the traditional kiwifarms ritual of uncontrollable screaming and sobbing for the next twelve hours.
EDIT: I have just learned of a brand new excitingly brave casting choice...
- meet the brand new and improved CMOT Dibbler -
BBC America has revealed first-look images from new series The Watch. Comprised of eight episodes, The Watch began filming in Cape Town, South Africa in September and is part of BBC America’s 2020 slate that includes the Emmy®-nominated Killing Eve, Jodie Whittaker’s second season of Doctor Who and Seven Worlds, One Planet, presented by Sir David Attenborough.
Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized, The Watch is a genre-busting series that follows a group of misfit cops as they rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Uniquely anarchic and thrillingly entertaining, the character-driven drama follows several of Terry Pratchett’s best-loved creations from his “Discworld” novels on a riotous and emotional odyssey. The cast includes Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer as Captain Sam Vimes, Adam Hugill as Constable Carrot, Jo Eaton-Kent as Constable Cheery, Marama Corlett as Corporal Angua, Lara Rossi as Lady Sybil Ramkin and Sam Adewunmi as Carcer Dun.
Dormer stars as Sam Vimes, Captain of The Watch, disempowered by a broken society that’s reduced his department’s jurisdiction to almost nothing. Jo Eaton-Kent is Constable Cheery, the ingenious non-binary forensics expert, ostracized by their kin and finding a new home and identity. Adam Hugill plays Constable Carrot, the idealistic new recruit, raised by dwarfs, but really a human abandoned at birth. Marama Corlett is the mysterious Corporal Angua who is tasked with Carrot’s training and keeping the rookie alive. Lara Rossi plays the formidable Lady Sybil Ramkin, last scion of Ankh-Morpork’s nobility, who’s trying to fix the city’s wrongs with her chaotic vigilantism.
BBC America previously announced that Brian Kelly (Outlander) and Emma Sullivan (Doctor Who) have joined Craig Viveiros (Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None) as directors for the series. The show’s lead writer is Simon Allen (The Musketeers). The Watch is set to premiere in 2020.
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And I know yall are just desperate to see the first pictures of this stunning and brave new series, and so your cuddly uncle holden will share them with you right now and I will even tell you just what characters have been adapted and given woke improvements for this series
- Karen Hair Angua and Richard Spencer hair Carrot, the latter of whom will no doubt have to face up to his toxic masculinity and cultural appropriation -
- The new Carcer who has been changed from a fucking white male into a persecuted man of color trying to clear his name of crimes he did not commit -
- the aforementioned Karengua and the most stunning and brave choice yet, a beardless explicitly non binary Cheery, now a
- and I have saved the very best for last, sybil vimes reimagined from an icky old white woman into a thin woman of color with dyed red hair who is the vigilante badass responsible for fighting crime in the city -
No need to thank me for sharing this wonderful new addition to progressive cinematic canon with you. Now let us celebrate with the traditional kiwifarms ritual of uncontrollable screaming and sobbing for the next twelve hours.
EDIT: I have just learned of a brand new excitingly brave casting choice...
- meet the brand new and improved CMOT Dibbler -
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