Why Watch The Watch?

I heard some of the controversy about the infidelity of BBC’s “The Watch” to its Discworld source material. Even Terry Pratchett’s daughter stepped in to say such. I was totally prepared to be bemused by another fairly rote police procedural adapted from a wonderfully quirky property dear to my heart. Then I watched the trailer. And …

Well, it’s not exactly that. It’s not feeling like Discworld, which gives more credence to the complaints I was hearing. But it doesn’t actually look entirely bad? It looks like something vaguely intriguing that could stand on its own merits, bolstering the opinions of those who question why they bothered to attach it to Pratchett’s legendarium in the first place. Beyond the dollars of course.

But yeah. I do so love Discworld, and this is not going to hit that spot, but maybe it’ll miss by a margin wide enough to make it land in a place I might enjoy for completely unrelated reasons. Like crashing a plane to Hawaii in Spain or something.

Bonus Question!

Best disc?

Aten, aspect of the Egyptian sun god Ra!