He actually co-authored the book with the late Terry Prachette. They had plans for a sequel, but that didn’t pan out as PTerry was afflicted by dementia.
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CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 1 year agoI think I’m out of the loop. Did he have a writing partner for the first season but not the second?
weecious@monyet.cc 1 year ago
cendawanita@monyet.cc 1 year ago
The first season is based entirely on the book that’s cowritten with Terry Pratchett. How you feel about the second season that’ll be entirely from him and despite early assurances there won’t be more, depends on how you think he is as a writer. I think he’s matured, but certainly the book was a favourite that counted him as a writer because he had Pratchett to humanize and bring down the stakes to what I consider to be his storytelling tics to be clever and a bit grand.
cendawanita@monyet.cc 1 year ago
(that said, despite my issues with the series, for a lot of reasons, it’s probably the best adaptation of a Pratchett story because on the other hand his characters don’t seem to survive transition to visual media, e.g. the Discworld shows)
CassowaryTom@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Oh my goodness. I’ve read that book 3 times but somehow I totally forgot that he wrote it with Pratchett. Embarassing. I really did enjoy the first season, though. I have high hopes for the second.
DJDarren@beehaw.org 1 year ago
The second season was co-written with John Finnemore, so I think we’re safe. Finnemore has a similar vibe to Pterry.
cendawanita@monyet.cc 1 year ago
tentatively crossing fingers Gaiman has gotten better at breaking a long form story as well, so we’ll see