Imagine Nancy Drew with a thermonuclear capacity and you've pretty much got the idea.
Moving plus a minor operation knocked me for a loop, but I'm steadily getting my writing/living legs back. Threw this together for something to do when the guys who were supposed to paint my new flat up and cancelled on me.
Never take advice or criticism from the kind of condescending weasel who say, "First the good". I promise you the sort of person who does this is never going to be invested in helping you, or even have the decency to just do their job. They want to establish either power or blame, with all the former and none of the latter.
Only four hours to go 'til New Year on this side of the pond, the links are down in the last blog I posted this in, and what the hell, this one of my favourite Spidey and Christmas stories, so here it is to mark the end of the year.
Couple of reasons I'm dropping this, gonna try to get to the big one in the new year because I found out a few holistic things that're just adorable and frankly you people need some good taste in your lives anyway*, but the reason this is coming today is, well, gonna be too busy tommorrow, obviously. So anyway, that one British Sonic the Hedgehog Christmas '96 story.
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An unexpected birthday discovery! This is done on an early '90s cam corder but still. Guards is just reliably solid, which is why I think it's one of the most constant Disc adaptions next to Wyrd Sisters. It's also just neat to see hangdog burnout Vimes before he became street hardened noirish bastard with a heart of goldish Commander Vimes.
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In general, Guards! Guards! is a special book in the Discworld line-up. For me at least, it felt like the transitional book where the trial runs of the earlier stuff gave way to the solid efforts of the "middle" (most of his 90s output). I think the fact that so much of it hinges on very strong fantasy archetypes helps (dragons, kings, and "princesses" for a given value of "princess" cough-Sybil-cough), but also how "cop noire" lends itself so well to a cynical fantasy city. The Watch act as a natural bridge between street life and broader politics. Plus, this is the one where Vetinari first shows how awesome he is.
A lot of goodness came together for Guards! Guards!
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I'd throw Wyrd Sisters in that category too. They're also probably the best for adaption, since they have all the series hallmarks and instantly-hook-you premises.
(Technically Equal Rites comes first, but y'know what I mean, a lot of Granny is refined by giving her Magrat and Nanny to play off of, along with fleshing out the world of Lancre, which helped give us Tiffany and her own menagerie. )
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Aw, but where does that leave poor lonely Pyramids?
I don't mind including Wyrd Sisters, though I think Witches Abroad is where that dynamic was fully codified (for one thing, Magrat seems a lot more assertive, and Granny and Nanny much more detached and hostile, in the former than in the latter). The villains don't seem as impressive in the former either, since a large portion of the story is given over to how the witches could remove them by force but merely opt not to, a big contrast to the more powerful villains of the witches' series in general (even Equal Rites gave Granny the twin problems of an uncontrollable Eskarina and the misogynistic hierarchy of the entire wizarding establishment).
Some people go further back and include Mort as one of the codifiers, though I think that still comes across as a trial run for Death's character that doesn't see full fruition until Reaper Man. Admittedly, this might be because Mort never grabbed me the same way it apparently grabbed other people (it feels a bit "there" compared with the later Death books, though still very good).
In very broad strokes (so ignoring exceptions): the first ten books are kind of a trial run, then we get to the really good stuff. That's how I see it.