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[mothwing]

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[lordhellebore]

Looks fascinating. I haven't seen Hogfather or The Color of Magic yet, but I sure will watch all three soon.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Even though I love Susan, I wasn't too fond of her rendition in the movie. The Colour of Magic I did like, but that might be because that is one of the three Discworld-novels which I have only read once and really don't care about at all.

This one... I have high hopes so far, though wtf did they do to Angua noooo not another human wolf-thing. -_-

[lordhellebore]

Yeah, as if Lupin wasn't disappointing enough already. What part of "turns into a wolf" don't these movie people understand? At last fandom is smarter - I've never once read anything in which he or Angua turn into such a creature; they're always wolves.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

It was especially ironic in the HP-verse, considering the point that Snape makes of teaching the kids the subtle differences you need to know to tell werewolves apart from real wolves.

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

Watch Hogfather if you have a bit of time to kill you really, really hate so much you absolutely need to see it dead.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Oooh. I am sort of excited, but a little sad that they didn't get Jeremy Irons to play Vetinari again.

Moist is perfect, though! And ahaha, I just looked him up and he's JEFF. That's why he's familiar! How perfectly wrong.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Not...at all my mental Angua, though.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Had to google who Jeff is, as I've never gotten past the first episode of Coupling, that's not surprising (can you recommend it?). I like the look of him, though.<3

And Angua - given what they did to Lupin I should probably count my blessings because she's at least got fur!

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Coupling is...kind of like Friends, but actually funny. I enjoyed it, although it has some annoying aspects and some of the characters are rather irritating (Jeff is...um, wow, I don't know how to describe Jeff. Utterly sex-obsessed and clueless and kind of horrible, but in a somewhat endearing way?). It's a particular kind of humor.

I'd give it a few episodes.

I think I have a fairly specific mental image of Angua as being--pretty and statuesque, but in a kind of unstudied outdoorsy way that's sort of overshadowed by the more intimidating aspects of her personality. Also, wavy hair, but I dunno where that came from and it may even be contradicted by the books.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Ok, that is fairly specific. I don't think we know whether her hair is wavy or not, though. We do know it's blond and shiny (due to Willard's "Good Girl" Flea Shampoo). I only picture her vaguely as a muscular and outdoorsy blonde with a rather threatening smile, but I never really managed to get a fixed image of her.

I'll try to give it a few episodes, then.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Also, isn't her wolf form sort of blond-ish? Anyway, I guess the Angua in the preview looks a bit more polished than I imagine her.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a heads-up on Coupling: one of the characters is bisexual and also pretty much bonkers (in a fairly annoying way). The association really frustrated me at times.

[crocky-wock.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!

On a completly related note: Dear filmmakers, could you start making adaptations of Terry Pratchett's books that feature his other one-thousand awesome, kick-ass female characters, too? Not just the love interest(s)?
Not that I don't like Angua, of course. *loyally waves little werewolf flag*

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Silly, who'd be interested in watching a movie about old women kicking ass? It wouldn't work, there'd be no discernible hero, since there wouldn't be a guy in there. It'd be total horror vacui for the viewer!