#bbc watch

[threi]

Book! Vimes: you will marry sybil you will have beautiful son

TV series!vimes, crying: I WILL MARRY HER WE WILL HAVE BEAUTIFUL S-SON UUUUGGHHHHHHGGUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[datsderbunnyblog]

[thenardiers]

GREAT take from stephen briggs on why the bbc’s recent book adaptations have been fucking terrible (link in source)

[zhuzhka]

You know what bothers me about BBC America’s “The Watch“ (I mean, aside from 5 billion other things)? What they appear to have chosen for the tagline:

And here is it again in the infamous Instagram post by the show’s excreter creator:

On the surface level it seems alright, it is an iconic “Discworld” quote and all. But the problem is, it has nothing to do with the Watch, it’s referring to the Disc itself.

If only there was a brief, snappy and also iconic quote that came from one of the Watch books and was related to the Watch itself. If only...

[seiya234]

What if we made death really pissy and also do a cackle?

[larathia]

There’s only one thing about the BBC’s take on the Watch that I don’t really have a problem with, and that is the casting for Vimes.

This is because Vimes is described, quite often, by other characters in ways like this:

“It seemed that every description of Vimes would start with the word ‘badly’. As in

-dressed,

-spoken,

- in need of a drink.”

And as far as I can tell, in that respect they’ve cast Vimes perfectly.

....now, the scripts, and every other member of the cast, and all the rest, looks like a trash fire. But in this one, single respect....they don’t seem to have fucked up.

[barkilphedros-hat]

Just saw the trailer for The Watch

....it’s a lot.

[eretzyisrael]

A BBC tale of two cities, two mosques and one country, by Hadar Sela

On May 31st a report headlined “Coronavirus: Famous mosques reopen in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem” appeared on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page

The status of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive and complex issues of the entire Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Its status is dependent on a final agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Between 1949 and 1967, the city was divided into Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem and Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem. But Israel currently claims sovereignty over the entire city, and claims it as its capital, after capturing East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 War. That claim is not recognised internationally and East Jerusalem is considered to be occupied territory. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state of Palestine.

The BBC does not call Jerusalem the ‘capital’ of Israel, though of course BBC journalists can report that Israel claims it as such. If you need a phrase you can call it Israel’s ‘seat of government’, and you can also report that all foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv. This position was endorsed by the findings of a BBC Trust complaints hearing published in February 2013.”

In other words, the core of the BBC’s editorial policy on Jerusalem is that while it insists that its staff “should say East Jerusalem is ‘occupied’” by Israel, it refuses to define what went before as occupation by Jordan and instead employs the euphemism “Jordanian controlled”. Absurdly, the corporation apparently believes that such an editorial policy is “not politically loaded”.