Variety is offering a look at the new Batwoman costume.

Lovely to see Timothy Olyphant in The Mandalorian.

That was a treat.

I'm enjoying thinking of it as an attempt to get the Judge from The Good Place interested in Star Wars

-t, I keep looking for the “laugh” react button.

Timothy Offwithhispants (as he is called on Extra Hit Great) is not getting any less hot. Gracious.

I am here because y’all will not think me weird for yelling The Mandalorian s2 costume designer’s first name like we were old friends when I saw it in the credits (It’s Shawna Trpcic).

Every time I think I am grown immune to The Child, he tilts his head and coos and I giggle.

Timothy Offwithhispants (as he is called on Extra Hit Great) is not getting any less hot. Gracious.

Truth.

My DP (Dear Partner) was impressed when I "Awww"d her (Shawna's) name and then told him why.

The Mandalorian s2 costume designer’s first name like we were old friends when I saw it in the credits (It’s Shawna Trpcic).

Will you think I am weird for thinking about getting Disney Plus back, even though I am not a Star Wars person, simply because of the costume designer. She also did a commentary on the firefly episode where Kaylee had the big ball gown, and Inara wore her old wedding dress, and it was my favorite commentary (also included Jane Espensen, I believe).

I was reminded talking to my brother that I forgot to watch the final season of The 100, so I started catching up on Netflix. I had forgotten SO MUCH of what happened in S6 but fortunately there's enough exposition that I'm able to keep up.

The Watch is bad.

WHY is adapting Terry Pratchett and Discworld so hard?

To be fair, this particular adaptation took an especially odd and difficult to pull off approach. But I do feel like there is an intrinsic obstacle and would like to think about that some more.

And trying to listen to both at once is likely to give you the same headache you’d get if you were jamming “Where Is My Mind?” in one ear and a half-remembered lute tune in the other.

IJWTS this is exactly the kind of shit my brain tries to earworm me with

I think that there are a few levels of things that make it hard.

First is that, while on first glance, it looks like fairly standard fantasy, plus funny! (Which has to be like catnip for tv/movie developers, especially when also looking at the popularity of the series) but there are things that are fundamentally incompatible with Standard Fantasy Adaptation and will piss your fan base Right Off if you fuck them up. Cf, the casting of Lady Sibyl. These also vary by faction of reader.

I think the narrative structure also trips people up. I know that every time I read a Pratchett, it feels like it's about to be done, with a third of the book left to go. Possibly-relatedly, it's very easy to slightly change the story (generally in ways that make it better fit narrative tropes) that completely undermine the whole damn point of the thing. This often involves simplifying plot elements to streamline the story. Cf Going Postal...which almost worked, but then said kind of the opposite of the book.

But if you try to include everything, then it drags and gets bogged down in detail cf Hogfather (still my favorite, but I think there's at least 10 minutes to be cut).

So, that's my basic theory.