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Those words ring true, even to this day.

both did a good job, but you have to count that they are playing complete different people . first books vetinari feels a lot darker. in my brain the patrician looks a little younger

I really think there's a huge opportunity for Netflix or Amazon or someone to properly fund an extensive series of Discworld adaptations. No guarantees it would actually turn out to be good, but... if they stuck to the source material and did it well, it could be brilliant.

Did you see the travesty that was the BBCs adaption of The Watch? In this day and age of talentless agenda pushing hacks posing as writers I think we should just leave it well alone.

So much in this sentence

Indeed gov'nor.

GNU Terry Pratchett

He is still riding the clacks

Asha Greyjoy I always imagined him with black hair, but Charles Dance is pretty much perfect for the role. Dance doesn't quite exude the physical strength Vetinari has, but that was always a relatively minor part of Vetinari's character. Everything else about this representation is spot on.

@@8Rincewind I rather suspected that Vetinari was understated overall, as a character. His intellect and his wielding of it was his greatest strength, and the greater part of that left others askance, off balance.

I mostly saw him as a mixupp of the depiction of him in the books, and a small hint of Jeremy Irons, and with the tone of the audiobook reader for the series. and i do belive he hass fully gray hear in the books, in the colour of magic i think they hadd the aperance down to a t, just with less of the lisp that Jeremy Irons used in the voice tone

I've always imagined him as like Ian Richardson - who was *very* patrician in some of his roles (the original House of Cards - first broadcast over the time of Thatcher's downfall for added humour, I remember it well, and a friend charging into our 6th form common room to announce her going)

I always imagined him as an amalgamation of the book cover art and computer game sprites but now whenever I read a Discworld novel he features in I hear his dialogue in Charles Dance's voice.

He is better :) Tywin Lannister would never plan to be locked in his own dungeon and therefor design it for maximal security and Comfort ;)

The Patrician is more intelligent and calculative.

@@andreashort310 calculating

@@AntiochosMegas Security indeed.

Tywin Lannister probably wouldn't start a post office just to undermine the power of The Grand Trunk.

TamaNostre Irons is equally brilliant. I also think Irons was better able to represent the physicality of the Patrician and how dark he is. Dance is great but I think Irons is slightly better suited for the role.

I liked both actors in this role, but I will say that, while Dance had more time to work with the character, Irons took his few minutes of screentime and went all the way, making his scene my favourite in the colour of magic! (also, Irons voice was so perfect)

Three years later, still the same :)

6 years later still going strong without a down vote!

There is one thumb down. I shall find him.

@@cursedgeorge939 when you find them... let us know!!

@@-Pam_Guti No one's found him yet. Still, a 1000:1 ratio is pretty good.

He is very much a villain.

He is a tyrant but the one the people need, not deserve

Actualy, Vetenari is what would be classified as: "the benevolent dictator" in every facet of the stereotype, he realy does care for Morpork, he is kind and helps thous he can. But most do not see that under his elaboratly crafted pokerface and demure. Vetenari is pbobably the most abrurd realist the discworld has ever seen/will see.

@@gampie13 Some of his predecessors had names like "homicidal Lord Winder", "Mad Lord Snapcase". I sometimes imagined that, after his departure, he'd be remembered as "Sane Lord Vetinari". Not "sane" as in "normal" but (as Pratchett wrote of another character) "clearly stark, staring sane".

@@ugolomb Actually Vetinari is completely knurd at all times. An uncomfortable state of existence... I think I need another glass of wine...

Now that you mention it, Rickman would have been almost perfect for the Vetinari that I always imagine. Oh well...

If we could get the look of Irons with the acting of Dance, i think we would have a 99% version of vetenari in the books

i think the overacting is fitting, considering the first two books have a complete different tone

Trampadoo to what were you referring?

Ivaloinen I think they're both excellent and in some ways Irons is superior. Vetinari is kind of a "good" person but he's positioned in the books and to the world as a necessary evil. He still comes across as dark and dangerous while tinging his words with a bit of humour or irony. I feel Irons can better pull off this duality, where as Dance is either threatening OR human. Though that might be the particular story he's placed in. Also Dance doesn't quite pull off the physicality of Vetinari.

Oooh... Yeah, he'd have been perfect.