Rite of Ash’Kente , I think - only 3cc’s of mouse blood required. But High Energy Magic dept doesn’t turn up until after Moving Pictures, I think (or at least that’s when we first meet Ponder Stibbons).

There's a difference between changing a few things so it will fit better on live action to just taking names, dialogue and setting and then writing a completely different script.

I’m still partial to Hogfather, thanks to Michelle Dockery’s Monster-Slaying Nanny Susan, and the late Ian Richardson’s Voice of Death.

You know, that might work for that one character that kept trying to impersonate The Patrician. Can’t remember his name or what book he was in, but he had that machine to train his face so he could raise one eyebrow super-high like Vetinari. Seems something like a lisp he couldn’t get rid of would make him even more…

Really, I enjoyed the first two Moist von Lipwig books the best; there was something about Raising Steam that I just didn’t like.

I’m still planning on watching at least an episode to see if it’s for me, but yeah.

To be fair, I’m fairly certain these showrunners barely read the Discworld Wiki, much less any of the books

Well, for that to have happened, you see, the folks making this show would have had to read that or at least remembered they read it, and based on that still of their version of Vimes... I am not sure that actually happened in any fashion at all.

Yeah expressing an idea in less than a sentence and then talking about how it’s hard to express in a couple of quick lines is interesting to say the least.

Yeah, this doesn’t seem difficult to get across quickly, ~at all~. You don’t need to get into the minutiae of it, just the broad strokes that guilds control everything, including thievery. You even get a Thieves’ Guild guy saying how proud they are of their records keeping department, how every alleyway, highway,…

Pratchett’s approach to thievery in Ankh-Morpork—i.e., legalize, regulate, and tax the thieves—is a hard thing to express in a couple of quick lines.

Yeah, that was...a choice. :/

For sure, and any changes made uplifts the material in a smart way. With The Watch, none of this feels like it made it into this adaptation- it looks like the plot was relayed to the writers via the game of telephone, and they filled in the gaps with no knowledge of the classic Pratchett vibes. Hopefully this works…

It’s very much a polite (aka British) way to disavow.

hand-waving about wizards stealing technology from our world,

...dragon-wielding terrorist Lady Sybil Ramkin...

“Lara Rossi is undeniably charismatic as dragon-wielding terrorist Lady Sybil Ramkin”

This is what she stated:

Here’s the tweet I was thinking of and I’d say in hindsight me saying she disavowed it was a bit too harsh to describe what she said.

IIRC, didn’t Sir Terry’s daughter basically disavow this show and say she’s working with the people who made Good Omens to adapt their own Discworld shows?