mayoraasei | Watching Going Postal

The plotline is very similar to the original with some minor changes presumably to trim the material down. Moist and Adora's relationship developed a lot faster - she actually rode with him to Sto Lat. And I've always imagined Sto Lat as a small town for some reason, but here it's got fortified walls and everything. The Sto Lat ride was one of the most hilarious in the book (especially the bit where he ran upstairs and whimpered and then had a long soak in ice water XDD) so even though the added scene where Adora takes Moist to where John Dearheart "fell" from the tower was sweetly done, I still felt a bit disappointed.

Stanley is awesome. He is so exactly like Stanley. He's even more nerdy and schizotypal than in the book...it is awesome XDDD Wasn't entirely happy that the perforated stamp idea was given to Stanley because the whole invention of the stamps (and following on from that, of paper money in Making Money) was supposed to show off Moist's artful and artistic skills.

By the time we got to the post office fire I realised....THERE IS NO MR TIDDLES. WHYYYYYYYYYY.

But before that...Moist's crime seems a lot more blown up than in the book. He killed 2.86 or something persons in the book, whereas in the movie it became 22-point-something. The forgery at the bank didn't get Adora fired - it led to the financial crisis of the clacks, which was then rorted out of them by Gilt, so basically it gave Moist a huge share in the crime and personally I wonder if it's a little too unforgivable.

The letters whispering has been changed to accusatory flashbacks, which annoys me a lot because then Moist goes and mopes about it. Part of his appeal in the book is that even though we do see the gradual change in character and principle, there's always that streak of impish criminality in him and he never really gives himself time to stop and angst. There are realisations, but as always I prefer it when it's not hammered into me.

There's no Walk of the Unfranked Man, though I'm not surprised. The conflict between Moist and Gilt escalates early - unsurprising again, given that it's for TV and non-readers need tension earlier - but I'm not too sure about Moist and Gilt calling each other names, particularly Moist's open and rather hamfisted accusation of Gilt as a murderer.

And Offler gave Moist the money...not Anoia T_________T BLASPHEMY TT_______TT

But LOL at the epiphany XDDDD

Adora has a bigger part with the Smoking GNU and Moist gets involved with them a lot earlier. What is it with comic roles always ending up in people with Scottish accents? =/ Their hacking code gets cracked really early >_>;

Adora's father got written off as dead Orz He's meant to be still alive. And staring at the wall unable to do anything. What happened to her mum and aunt anyway? The plot dispensed with most of the chairing committee of the clacks and killed Horsefry...=0=;;; I thought the whole point of Reacher Gilt is that he, like Moist, never dirties his own hands with murder while nevertheless managing to kill a whole lot of people by not killing them, anyway.

There's no Gladys TT____TT I want Gladyssssss TT____TT Mr Pump is cute though LOL.

The production is very smooth, although if one nitpicked then most of the set looked a bit flimsy even if very pretty. The acting and casting were close to the mark. I was worried about Vetinari, but he was good, if a little school principal-ish. Adora wags her head so much it gets a bit annoying. The only one whose acting really got on my nerves is Drumknott, who is irritatingly fat and smirky...and reminds me more of Pettigrew (or perhaps, in Discworld...of Colon?) =__=

Groat and Stanley are awesome as mentioned. Richard Doyle hits Moist's kiddish extravagance right, and he has the fortune of being just as immemorable...XD

The extras are great...you can actually see some Chinese costumes in there LOL!!! Not enough trolls or dwarves about unfortunately, but nice to see some colour in the cast, even if all of the main characters are white.

PS: It's nice to hear some of those names pronounced in the British accent...always hear them differently in my mind.
~ OO-ber-val (Uberwald)
~ Ve-ti-NAH-ri (seriously...I always thought this was "VET'nary")