Night Watch

[tealin]

Mount the barricades and don the lilac! Part one is here!

I've only just started listening to it and while it's not as awesome as a Dirk Maggs production, I am pleasantly surprised by their Vimes.

... and Colon. Wow, Colon sounds exactly like I imagined.

... ooh, but not Vetinari. Is it that hard to bring in Stephen Briggs?

I just realized how incredibly NOT suited to radio this story is. And part one only goes to the conversation with Lu-Tze? How many parts is this, again?

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh, Dirk Maggs hasn't done anything Pratchett as far as I know, but I love his renditions of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the last couple volumes of the Hitchhiker's Guide 'trilogy.' he brings some real cinematic sensibilities to the radio play medium and is really good at timing, which I think is the weak point in most Pratchett radio plays.

[fani.livejournal.com]

Well I think this is the first time I listen to a radio play. Um... is it not supposed to have background music and ...it seems to just want to plow through the pages like crazy? Is that normal?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty normal .. radio plays have a much smaller budget than movies (obviously) so if they get music at all it's usually really bad synth stuff. And with a limited running time, you kind of have to cut down the book to what's really important for the plot. Big chunks of narration go because it's primarily dialogue-driven, which brings down the page count significantly, especially in the exposition-heavy opening chapters (or lack of chapters, as the case may be). I never realized how incredibly visual this book is ... they do as well as they can with supplying necessary information another way but I feel like I'm missing more than half the story as opposed to the 'theatre of the mind' that most radio plays are.