[Oliver_W]

I've been looking forward to/hoping for a series of the Watch books for well over ten years, and now it's in development ... and it's gonna suck

They've taken such liberties with most of the characters they may as well have just invented their own show. It's just soo disappointing.

Richard Dormer stars as Sam Vimes, Captain of The Watch, disempowered by a broken society that’s reduced his department’s jurisdiction to almost nothing.

Yeah sure. That's not too far from the books, I guess. When he's just the Night Watch Captain anyway.

Jo Eaton-Kent is Constable Cheery, the ingenious non-binary forensics expert, ostracized by their kin and finding a new home and identity.

Um, no. Cheery isn't nonbinary - the whole point of her character is that she's a female, and proudly so! The first openly female dwarf! Obviously it's fine that she's being played by a man, as all dwarfs look male, but he's really tall. Unless he's just providing the voice for a CGI character, is he even playing her as a dwarf?

Adam Hugill plays Constable Carrot, the idealistic new recruit, raised by dwarfs, but really a human abandoned at birth.

Pretty much.

Marama Corlette is the mysterious Corporal Angua who is tasked with Carrot’s training and keeping the rookie alive.

Um, no. Carrot was the one who trained Angua! She was basically smirking behind her hands while the Sergeant was trying to train the new recruits and making fun of him to his face, but she was also more than capable of taking care of herself. Also, she was a werewolf! Why wasn't this mentioned?

Lara Rossi plays the formidable Lady Sybil Ramkin, last scion of Ankh-Morpork’s nobility, who’s trying to fix the city’s wrongs with her chaotic vigilantism.

BIG NO! Lady Sybil is a kind-hearted woman who only notices what's going on outside her dragon barn when she's attending the various "High Society" events. She has a big social conscience, but uses the influence she has among the other toffs, rather than being a "chaotic vigilante" ...

Sam Adewunmi is the wounded and wronged Carcer Dun, out to hijack destiny itself, take control of the city and exact a terrible revenge on an unjust reality.

No! Carcer is meant to be a broken person, an unhinged psycho. He's not been "wronged" by society, the only wrong society has done when it comes to him is letting him constantly evade justice.

Set in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, where crime has been legalized

Ish. Assassins and thieves have their own Guilds, but outright murder and muggery are still illegal.

Just ... urgh

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