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has there been a telly thread this week? there is now.
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Massive Pratchett fan here so I’m giving the new series of Good Omens a go, and I don’t know why I keep subjecting myself to TV Pratchett adaptations.
There’s the odd giggle, and I like the actors, but three episodes in it just goes nowhere, it’s just a series of skits with Aziraphale and Crowley.
They’re only one component of what made the book great, but I get the feeling that the production crew have gone “Tennant and Sheen are great, the show is now only about them”.
Huge Pratchett fan also, so quite disappointed as I’ve been saving that for this weekend. Still give it a go as I’m much in the same boat as you with regards to Tennant and Sheen.
Edit to add - have you given the Long Earth series a go that he did with Stephen Baxter?
I guess I’d caveat that I’ve never really enjoyed any of the TV adaptations, but they keep making them, so someone must be enjoying them!
The Long Earth series is brilliant, I really enjoyed it. It doesn’t feel very Pratchetty but it scratches an alternate universe sci fi itch in a very satisfying way.
I'm with you I can never get away with the adaptations. I think they just feel kind of empty because his books were always like he was personally there telling you the story and making side jokes, so without that extra presence it's just weird.
As this is a telly thread I got all excited and wondered if someone had created a TV series of the Long Earth books ... but you just mean the books don't you?
I'm not the person you wrote that reply to, but I definitely enjoyed them, but then I'm almost as big a fan of Stephen Baxter as I am of Terry Pratchett.