Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Hogfather

Only caught the second instalment of this two-parter, and regretted not seeing the first - it wasn't perfect, but it was possibly as good as one could've hoped for, given the difficulties needed to be overcome in bringing a Pratchett to screen. It's pretty faithful to the book, though it inevitably loses much of the nuance and sheer joy - even allowing for Hogfather probably being one of his darker novels...a darkness which happily comes through in just about the right degree - and most of the characters look about right (Susan being particularly important, seeing as she's (1) the central character in this one and (2) one of my favourite Discworld characters, along with Vimes, Vetinari and (it goes without saying) Death). If they make more of these in a similar vein, I will be very well pleased.