Hogfather

First the bad. One, the exposition. The constant stream of exposition. Ok, yes not every viewer will have read the book(s). So some set-up I can understand. But it just didn't stop. Are people REALLY that stupid that they can't infer details from the story as is? Gah!

Second, no Death of Rats. They've got Quoth (and I like the bird like tics they gave him) but no Death of Rats. Boo! We demand adorable skeletal rats! Also no Catseye or Peaches. And they don't even attempt to show the Scissor-Man...

Third, the Auditors. Visually fine. But they gave them INDIVIDUAL VOICES. Which misses the whole damn point about them being only a THEM. Plus they tended to sound like annoyed petty clerks rather than just lifeless. And speaking of visuals, I didn't really like their depictions of the Bogeymen as just old guys with weird little giraffe like horns...

Fourth, any scene that wasn't in the books felt flat and pointless. Like with Mr. Whatshisface. The father that Susan worked for. They have him dressed as the Hogfather at one point to further hammer home the whole kids not believing thing. It wasn't needed and and didn't work at all...

Fifth, lots of scenes cut. The peasant and the king. The finale to the shower. The Good Cheer Fairy. Everything with DoR of course. The God of Wine getting the effects of the hangover cure. I know, the movie is already at three plus hours. Still...

As for the good. The actors were all pretty spot on. I especially liked Susan, Mr. Teatime, Twylla, Nobby and Banjo. Honestly the actors are the only reason I can see to watch it. Maybe it works better if you're not already a Discworld fan. I don't know, since I can't really judge it that way. But I was just disappointed for the most part...

Addendum - New Comics Day 5/21

Got down to my LCS earlier today and picked up the books I was shorted last week. Also grabbed on the Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius books I don't have. This one with Radioactive Giant Hamsters and Talking Turkeys...

From my regular pulls got #11 of The Programme. And with only two issues left, artist C.P. Smith actually gives me an issue light enough on the inks where I can distinguish characters. Yay for adequecy!

Dynamo5 then reveals Myriad secret origin. Which shakes up the team when they least need it. For some reason a group of super-powered half-siblings who learned the truth about their mutual parentage barely a year earlier have trust issues...

Then in G0dland everything is topsy-turvy. Welcome to Infinity City, formerly the island of Manhatten. And now the gigantic government city dedicated to the support of Earth's super-human Neela Archer. With her strange cosmic powers she defends the Earth from a constant barrage of alien threats. Of course her brother Adam, a low ranking military bureaucrat keeps having strange dreams and the feeling that Neela is lying to him about something. Something huge...

The mid-issue of volume two of The Damned continues with Morgan (Eddie's brother) fighting the goon's of demonic gangster Rourke. And Eddie, he's still in Hell searching for their mom...

And we end with a new Knights of the Dinner Table. Where Brian uses his massive rules-lawyering to get his character torn to pieces by zombies. No really, its what he wanted. Plus more gaming with Bob's niece and nephew. With young Hunter learning some of the "tricks" for Hackmaster quicker than Dave might like. Oh and a review of classic gamer movie Dragonslayer. Where the scrawny guy from Ally McBeal hunts down a giant fire-breathing lizard...