The long, hard slog

[lizbee]

The final half of season three of Star Trek: really painful. So painful that I put it on hold and started watching the Sky adaptation of Going Postal. Since Hogfather made me want to eat my own eyeballs, I wasn't expecting anything remotely good, but so far it is BRILLIANT. Man, I could just watch Claire Foy all day. She hereby goes on my list of potential Romanas.

Anyway, yes, Trek's downhill run. I got to "The Way To Eden", which is both hilariously reactionary and distressingly true in the way it's about dumb, privileged kids running off to find meaning through cultural appropriation, and running the risk of maybe sort of accidentally wiping out indigenous aliens with their Future Diseases.

Also, "inciting discontent" appears to be a crime in the Federation, and while it's probably just a variation on encouraging mutiny talk, it amuses me to think that negative talk about the Great Federation Lifestyle is seditious.

Do I really have to watch the rest? I've become desperate to watch The Motion Picture, just for a change of pace. (Insert your own "Motionless Picture" joke here.)

Comments

[jaythenerdkid]

I loved Hogfather. D: Susan was so awesome, and I thought it was a good adaptation of the book, even if it did drop some of the subtler bits. Going Postal, though, is possibly EVEN MORE BRILLIANT in that it has Adora and Angua and Moist being clever and ~*VETINARI*~, which really made the whole thing for me. If they do a Making Money adaptation, I will be over the moon with glee.

[lizbee]

It's my favourite Discworld, and they turned it into a story about Teatime instead of Susan. Plus, I didn't find it funny.

ON THE OTHER HAND, GOING POSTAL OMG. The way the clacks loom over everything! Charles Dance as Vetinari, being exactly how I always pictured the Patrician ONLY GINGERER! Adora's Olive Oyl hair! I would totally do Moist, too.

The only weak bit for me is the appearance of the Golems, and, y'know, I can live with that.

[jaythenerdkid]

I did like the Susan bits much more than the Teatime bits. (Though the first time I watched it - before I'd read the book - Teatime terrified me.) And I liked the Death and Albert bits, too. The Teatime parts were probably the least interesting, I think.

How perfect is Vetinari? :D He's exactly like I pictured him too (except, like you said, MOAR GINGER). And if I hadn't been a bit mad about Adora already, then movie!Adora would have done it. YANA.

I didn't really have a set mental picture of what the Golems looked like, so I could forgive the slightly dodgy CGI.

[tree_and_leaf]

The only bit I really enjoyed about the Hogfather movie was the meta-joke where Death says "You might very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment."

[spintheiryarns]

Oh dear :( I am a bit behind you on Trek, and I loved "The Enterprise Incident" but the first three episodes of s3 were just cringeworthy. I can't wait to see how it can get worse from here :|

[phosfate]

You have to watch the rest. We've all suffered for Star Trek, and now it's your turn.

[gominokouhai]

I loved Hogfather. Teatime was weaksauce, but Michelle Dockery was incredible. And it had Ian Richardson in it.

Try to get the director's cut of The Motion Picture---it really does make a significant improvement.

[fyrdrakken]

I remembered to torrent Going Postal a few weekends back but haven't gotten around to seeing it, what with the NCIS marathon and then catching up on other things I missed while that was going on. Should move that up on my viewing queue, though. (I liked Hogfather, so I'm clearly fairly easily pleased by Discworld adaptations.)

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Going Postal and particularly Foy's turn as Adora Belle, but then I reread the book and realized just how little of her awesomeness in the book actually makes it to the adaptation. There's none of this 'headstrong woman needs sensible man to enable her vengeance' nonsense in the original, nor any 'woman falls in love with man who destroyed her family and forgives him because he's changed' guff.

[chocolatepot]

I'm so glad you liked Going Postal :DDDDDDDDD I thought it had some wrong bits, but overall I loved it, especially compared to Color of Magic.