A Near Vimes Experience

With their accents, I couldn't understand probably 10-20% of what they were saying, and CC didn't work, so it was mostly impossible to follow what was happening.

So, if they wanted to create a series that had nothing to do with Terry Pratchett's Guards stories, why call it a Terry Pratchett adaptation? Why pretend that it has anything to do with the beloved Discworld stories and characters that are so poorly represented here? And why pretend that it's funny when it isn't?

Great start to a series. Having read all the books myself, it's nice to have a new take, as well as, updates on characters. The inclusion of minorities to show representation, that Pratchett was in support of, is wonderful. I can't wait for more.

Not having read the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. I effectively went into this with no prior knowledge.

At least the first episode succeeds in being quirky and offbeat. I get a little jaded with sci fi/fantasy that tries too hard to be po faced.

There is an irreverent feel about The Watch. Especially by the performance of Richard Dormer as Captain Sam Vimes.

He is the intoxicated and jaded police captain. In flashbacks he feels responsible for the death of gang leader Carcer Dun.

It turns out Carcer Dun is alive and has not aged a day. He also seems to be sore at Vimes.

The series is inspired by the Discworld novels and not slavishly based on them. There was some grungy worldbuilding going on in the first episode which made it rather uneven.

If you expect this to be like the Discworld books, you'll be sorely disappoionted. I think the people behind this show found a list of characters from the Discworld series, did a very quick google search about them then decided to see how poltically correct they could make the casting and spat out a show. The characters share names with the books' characters, but little else. Cheery is not a dwarf but a transgender woman, and Lord Vetinari is now a Lady. The only character that comes close to the book is Carrot. I have no idea why the creators of this show veered so far from the characters' creator's vision.