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* FridgeBrilliance: There may be a reason why the animals treat sapience and the ability to talk as the same thing. It's often speculated that the reason humans are so much smarter than other species is our ability to talk, since it's hard to communicate abstract concepts without language.
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* JerkassWoobie: You've got to feel sorry for Hamnpork, despite his JerkAss tendencies.
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* JerkassWoobie: You've got to feel sorry for Hamnpork, despite his JerkAss tendencies.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Terry Pratchett puts into practice his thesis in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' that a good children's story ought to be ''really'' dark.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Terry Pratchett puts into practice his thesis in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' that a good children's story ought to be ''really'' dark.
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* AdaptationDecay: The 90-minute BBC radio drama simplifies the story a bit, particularly in the ending where it completely avoids the RealityEnsues parts and plays the fairytale ending straight. [[spoiler:It also removes (or at least doesn't acknowledge) Maurice's SympatheticMurderBackstory, treating his ability to talk as an effect of just having lived at the garbage dump near the Unseen University. His refusal to eat anyone who can talk is kept, though in this case it doesn't seem to be fueled by guilt the way it is in the book.]]
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* AdaptationDecay: The 90-minute BBC radio drama simplifies the story a bit, particularly in the ending where it completely avoids the RealityEnsues parts and plays the fairytale ending straight. [[spoiler:It also removes (or at least doesn't acknowledge) Maurice's SympatheticMurderBackstory, treating his ability to talk as an effect of just having lived at the garbage dump near the Unseen University. His refusal to eat anyone who can talk is kept, though in this case it doesn't seem to be fueled by guilt the way it is in the book.]]
* JerkassWoobie: You've got to feel sorry for Hamnpork, despite his JerkAss tendencies.
* JerkassWoobie: You've got to feel sorry for Hamnpork, despite his JerkAss tendencies.
