Hogfather (Sky One)<\/p>\n This was a 4 hour adaptation of the book starring a host of luminaries from the British acting community. While the art direction lovingly recreated the Discworld, the piece as a whole managed to suffer from poor pacing, confusing editing and a total lack of humour. Hogfather Terry Pratchett I’m a fan of Pratchett’s writing. The man is frighteningly good. However not every one of his books is a masterpiece. Witness Hogfather. This book is part of the Death\/Susan sequence, which is not my favourite one (only Mort is superb). I’ve never really loved a Susan book, even though on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,41,13,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-books","category-comedy","category-fantasy","category-rated","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hogfather\"](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/hogfather.thumbnail.jpg\")
<\/span>I’m a fan of Pratchett’s writing. The man is frighteningly good.
\nHowever not every one of his books is a masterpiece. Witness Hogfather.
\nThis book is part of the Death\/Susan sequence, which is not my favourite one (only Mort is superb). I’ve never really loved a Susan book, even though on the face of it she should be a really appealing character.
\nThe plot involves a plan by the Auditors of Reality to have the Hogfather (Discworld analogue of Santa Claus) inhumed by a crazed member of the Assassin’s Guild.
\nI can say that I found it mildly diverting, no more. Which marks it out as rather poor in terms of Pratchett’s output.<\/p>\n
\nUnfortunately the thing was done with rather too much reverence for the source material and not enough of an eye on what would make entertaining television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"