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[andrewducker]

34 Year Old Man Realises Nothing Will Ever be as Good as Necromunda (tags: games life funny ) The BBC are making the Gaiman/Pratchett novel "Good Omens" into a TV show. I really hope it's not shit. I haven't been able to bear any of the Discworld dramatisations.
(tags: bbc tv terrypratchett neilgaiman ) The new Logan trailer looks just as good

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Wasn't there a radio adaptation of Good Omens fairly recently? (Well maybe about 5 years ago.)

[momentsmusicaux]

(These days everything feels like 'recently', unless it's 'ages ago'...)

[andrewducker]

Possibly - I don't listen to the radio*, so I'm not really aware of that kind of thing.

*Well, I listened to all of Cabin Pressure recently, after Jane introduced me to it. That was pretty awesome.

[momentsmusicaux]

R4 sometimes has some excellent comedy on in the evening. Some of the sitcoms are dire, but there was one called Double Science ages ago (10 years?) which was ace.

[seraphicwing]

Damn it, Meitu... :(

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[cartesiandaemon]

Although for contrast, see Matthew Garrett's opinion: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/46266.html

A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes your p

[cartesiandaemon]

I guess, it's partly "how much do you consider the things you want to fix part of your personality". And people kind of go back and forth on that: in some ways, yes (they certainly make you very different when they appear), in some ways no (you feel more like your true self without them). Like, to a certain extent, "yes, that's the point".

RE: A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes your p

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I wouldn't want to object to therapy on the grounds that it changes you. As you say, that's rather the point.

[danieldwilliam]

What didn't you like about the Discworld adaptations?

[andrewducker]

They have always felt like pantomime to me. Much like the Hitchikers Films, they seemed to be cobbled together from one-liners that the fans had become attached to, and scenes which they couldn't bear to cut, lacking the intelligence of the original books.

[octopoid_horror]

This is how I feel about the later Discworld books to be honest. It's mostly established characters doing their standard schtick and overstating obvious jokes, lacking the intelligence of the earlier ones.

[andrewducker]

Unseen Academicals felt that way to me, and it very-much felt like the way the Wizards books in the series went.