The BBC has had “complete creative control”, she has said, and she has not been involved “for years”. Rhianna Pratchett had previously called out the showrunner of The Watch, Simon Allen, for failing to thank her father in a message to the show’s creators, and has been clear that the show is “inspired by”, rather than based on, the City Watch books. It’s not Batman if he’s now a news reporter in a yellow trenchcoat with a pet bat”. Fans, he pointed, out, like the source material, “so if you do something else, you risk alienating the fans on a monumental scale.

Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote Good Omens with Terry Pratchett and shepherded the recent adaptation as showrunner, added his voice to hers. But Vimes is never anything less than sharp.” I see vigilantism (which Vimes ABHORS) being justified … I see Vimes as some kind of funny, incompetent seeming policeman, and that is NOT what Vimes is about. “I see absolutely NOTHING of the books in the trailer. you cannot take the core of what makes the story, remove it, and then change every single character and still call it the Watch,” said de Bodard. “I’m a big fan of remixing things and adapting them, and I don’t expect any adaptation to be faithful in the sense of rigidly following books. “I feel someone took my teenage years and just repeatedly trampled them while setting them on fire,” she wrote on Twitter. De Bodard said she was “super disappointed”, and would not be watching the adaptation. The award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Aliette de Bodard was one of many to criticise the new trailer. It is what it is,” wrote Rhianna Pratchett, a game designer and author, on Twitter. “Look, I think it’s fairly obvious that The Watch shares no DNA with my father’s Watch.

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