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Default Hogfather-What did you think? (Mild spoilers of film) - 01-04-2007, 18:21

I think this poll should have had more options than "Good", "Bad" or "Didn't see it" - it should have been graded.

Generally it was good, but certain things did annoy me (Spoilers):

Susan was just too insipid - her generally barely suppressed anger at the universe for not getting it right didn't come through.

Apart from Ridcully and Stibbons, the Faculty were effectively indistinguishable from one another - how can one recognise the Dean, for example, if he doesn't look as though he had "swallered a bed" or can "sit on two chairs at once" (both Ridcully quotes)?

One of the group of thieves was written out and his fear of the Scissorman transferred to Sideny - I can see no reason for this.

The sequence with the Canting Crew was omitted - I was waiting to see Foul Ole Ron and the others.

Nobby - giving him a set of false buck teeth (at least, I hope for the actor's sake that they were false) goes nowhere near representing the total Nobbyness of the character.

Other dropped sequences - Susan and the Oh God! at the Y.M.P.A - the Good King Wenceslaus bit - and of course, no attempt to incorporate the footnotes.

However, I think Teatime worked well - the voice was just so irritating as to fit with the character.

On the whole a good try - I just hope any further ventures have enough budget to do the whole book - running time should not have been a constraint since it was intended to be done in episodes - another episode could have been added.

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