The Colour of Magic (BBC)

[lurkerwithout]

It wasn't just re-casting Twoflower as an "American". I mean that was a big part of why this adaptation felt so off. But it wasn't just that. Though I did enjoy the brief moments of Jeromy Irons as Vetinari. Even though the threats made by the Patrician are pretty clumsy for the character, especially as they were meant to be coming from someone

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[scarybaldguy]

Pterry himself said he was OK with Sean Astin as Twoflower because he never specified Twoflower's ethnicity in the books. Fair enough, but Paul Kidby drew Twoflower as very very VERY generically Asian, with Pterry's approval.

'sides Sam Gamgee != Twoflower, dammit.

[thekamisama]

Twoflower as an American seems slightly less racial to me, if he had to be a stereotype then changing it to a American tourist instead of an Japanese tourist seems the less offensive path to take and I can understand why they did it.