Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal' on Sky 1

[Buleste]

I went to a stage play of Guards, Guards! many years back in Hull. The bloke who played Vimes was the chap from Blake's 7 who turned out to be a baddy - he was Brilliant!!

Do you mean Paul Darrow who played Avon (he was in Emmerdale last year and was terrible)?

[Hilary B]

I want to see some kind of production of Guards Guards, purely for the password scene!
There were bits of plot-adaptation in Hogfather, and even more so in Colour of Magic, that I found mildly annoying, but I accept that putting things on screen somehow always gets amended.
For anyone wanting to read 'just one' and see whether they want to get addicted, I would recommend either Small Gods or Pyramids, because they do 'stand alone' rather better than most, but once you start, you WILL be hooked, unless it just isn't your thing.
The brilliance of his humour is, most of the things he makes fun of, you already KNOW how daft these things are, but you've been ignoring it!

[kirsty b]

The password scene is brilliant

[Buleste]

What about Sargent Colon's attempt to hit a dragon in it's voonerables?

Nobby put his head on one side.

'It looks promising,' he said critically. 'We might be nearly there. I reckon the chances of a man with soot on his face, his tongue sticking out, standing on one leg and singing The Hedgehog Song ever hitting a dragon's voonerables would be . . . what'd you say, Carrot?'

'A million to one, I reckon,' said Carrot virtuously.

[Jeanied]

I'm a big fan of sapient pearwood myself...

[kirsty b]

Gotta love the luggage!

[Buleste]

Gotta love the luggage!

It's the only pitter-patter of tiny feet I want to hear!

[OverWyreGrower]

I'm so jealous of you all!! I've never seen a TP adaptation on stage, as none of the theatre companies etc are ever anywhere near me....

Oh well, I'll just look at my letter from TP on Discworld headed paper!!

[Flummery]

It WAS Paul Darrow - and he had just that air of long-suffering, world-weary, alcohol-soaked loeveliness that is our own Sam Vimes. Fantastic.

As to Passwords, we stayed at Durham Castle recently (university re-union) and there was a wonderful scene where those of us who are TP fans patted our pockets and chanted, 'Would you believe it, it must be in my other Jacket' etc for five minutes before entering!

[Hilary B]

It WAS Paul Darrow - and he had just that air of long-suffering, world-weary, alcohol-soaked loeveliness that is our own Sam Vimes. Fantastic.

As to Passwords, we stayed at Durham Castle recently (university re-union) and there was a wonderful scene where those of us who are TP fans patted our pockets and chanted, 'Would you believe it, it must be in my other Jacket' etc for five minutes before entering!

Great!
The thing about the password bit in Guards Guards is what I always call 'pulling the switch'. He does it in Light Fantastic too, with the description of Great A'Tuin, a long slow build-up, then "actually the philosophers have got it all wrong".