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]

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.