Thatâs not right.
If anything, AM is supposed to be Dickenzian.
Oh well, at least there are 327 other Discworld novels left to adapt for screen.
It went from medieval to early-victorian over the series, but yes, the early age of steam and no further!
With a bit of Georgian London, Tudor/Jacobean/Commonwealth London, Renaissance Florence, and Lankhmar thrown in.
This seems to be a trend. âAdaptationsâ of books that bear very little resemblance to the source material, because the TV seriesâ writers and directors want to put their stamp on the source material. And theyâre never as good at writing as the original author was, unsurprisingly enough.
Once i saw Pratchettâs own daughter had wiped her hands of it i knew it was badâŚ
This is depressingâŚ
But from the article, at least we got this gem:
âOh, you thought this was Discworld? Sorry you read that wrongly, itâs actually set in Dicksworld, a generic sci-fi universe entirely populated by dicks,â
That would be the wood rocket porn parody of DiscworldâŚ
Filmed at Effing Forest 
There actually was a wooden rocket in a real discworld story.
Leonard of Quirm designs and builds one, so that Rincewind, Carrot and Leonard himself (along with the Librarian as a stowaway) can orbitally slingshot around the Disc and make it to the peak of Cori Celesti in time to prevent Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Hoard from blowing up the gods and which would subsequently destroy the Disc. (âWe canât steal fire from the gods. Itâs already been done! So weâre going to give fire back to the gods.â)
(thereâs also a bronze âspacecraftâ in The Colour of Magic, but itâs much less successful and is launched by means of being pushed off the edge of the Disc)
I know⌠Iâve read it.
Whatâs unfortunate about this sort of thing is that if someone reckons they could make a âbetterâ adaptation, they donât necessarily have the rights to do so.
I recently read Thudâ the one about the Battle of Koom Valley, and there were some âpunkishâ elements.
(My favorite Vimes novel is probably Night Watch.)
Iâm sorry to have gone off on a tangent about that.
No worries! Terry Pratchett is imminently tangentialable! Itâs hard NOT to go off on a tangent with regards to the late Sir Terry.
Terry Pratchettâs books about Ankh Morporkâs City Watch have been adapted into a âpunk rock thrillerâ
Tangents belong in the footnotes [1].
[1]: not the endnotes, which serve to remind the reader how many puns, digressions, and other witticisms might have been put off til later, and have suffered for it.
Maybe they were also inspired by the graphic novel adaptation of Gaimanâs Neverwhere? Not that Iâve had the chance to read it yet.
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