witchking-jr reblogged
thinking about a new type of math problem that goes “the still-thankfully-nebulous concept of a Watch tv series” + “my love and loyalty for h. vetinari as a character and person” + “riz ahmed, a talented and underutilized british actor in his prime” + “the high likelihood that an old white man will play this character instead” = “extreme and unrealistic optimism with absolutely no basis”
I’m extremely here for this on several levels
- Riz Ahmed is extremely talented and smart and would be great
- Diversity is a Good Thing and we should have more of it
- Casting a non-white actor as Vetinari would give a whole other dimension to the kind of attitudes he holds in books like Jingo and Snuff, as well as the attitudes other influential Ankh-Morpork citizens hold about him
- Pretty boy, nice beard