History Series / TheWatch2021

* SchizoTech: Ankh-Morpork has computers, electricity and security cameras but, on closer inspection, these are often operated by imps, magic, or are pilfered wholesale from somewhere called "Round World". The Watch still use crossbows and assorted medieval weaponry.

** The Alchemists' Guild are depicted as drug dealers who control (most) of the city's supply of [[FantasticDrug Slab]], wheras in the books they are infamously [[StuffBlowingUp explosion-prone]] [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]].

* CantSpitItOut: Carrot and Angua and Vimes and Sybil. They're clearly attracted to each other, but seem unwilling to actually say it out loud.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Detritus dies early in the series even though he survived through all the books. Possibly for budgetary reasons, since he's made of animate stone]].

''The Watch'' is a British fantasy, comedy, police procedural series, inspired by the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels of [[Creator/TerryPratchett Sir Terry Pratchett]]. The show depicts the Watch, an incompetent, ragtag, toothless police force, located in the city of Ankh-Morpork, in a parallel universe to our own. The Watch, led by the depressed alcoholic Captain Vimes (Richard Dormer), is tasked with protecting the city from a mysterious new threat: a ginormous dragon, summoned by Vimes's former (and supposedly long dead) friend Carcer Dun (Sam Adewunmi). He is joined by dragon enthusiast and vigilante Lady Sybil Ramkin (Lara Rossi), and the rest of the Watch: Newbie Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson (Adam Hugill), the cynical werewolf Corporal Angua von Überwald (Marama Corlett), Troll Sergeant Detritus (Ralph Ineson), and the Dwarven forensic expert Corporal Cheery Littlebottom (Jo Eaton-Kent).

* RunningGag: The Arch Chancellor of the Unseen University cannot swear without being censored out by an unseen choir of singers.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Angua and Cheery are already established Watchmen when Carrot arrives and joins up. In the books Carrot was introduced before either, being a Lance Corporal when Angua joined and a full Captain by the time Cheery arrived.

* LoopholeAbuse: Used to avoid being murdered by the Assassins Guild, the Watch [[spoiler:use their newly acquired Musicians Guild membership to grant themselves immunity from attack, as members of a guild. When Dr. Cruces points out that Sybil, who wasn't there when they tried out for the Musicians Guild, is therefore fair game, they point out that as members they can give a tryout to whomever they want, and after some really terrible singing on Sybil's part, she's a member too]].

** Lady Sybil Ramkin witnessed [[spoiler:her parents' assassination]] as a child and it still haunts her. Nothing of the sort happened in the books. No doubt the idea was show the very real personal effects of the city's licensed crime policy.

* ObliviousAdoption: Carrot didn't know he was adopted until his parents told him at 16.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: All iterations of Sam Vimes. So much so that even "the worst version" of him that the Observers could find in all the multiverse, who's been in prison for decades, [[spoiler:still won't kill Sybil, despite the threat of being returned to prison]].

* InNameOnly: The show has been described as inspired by the Discworld novels rather than based on them and it takes a great deal of liberties with the source material. Sir Terry Pratchett's daughter [[Creator/RhiannaPratchett Rhianna]] and his long time collaborator Creator/NeilGaiman have both pointed out that the show shares very little common ground with the original novels.

* LaughWithMe: Dr. Cruces has to instruct the Assasins to laugh when she makes a joke. Problems befall the new girl when she laughs ''too hard''.

* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Vetinari's cell in the Watch's dungeon... isn't a cell. It's more like a lounge. Funnily enough, all the locks and bolts are on the inside, so she can remain there to her heart's content, and if anyone starts investigating, she just wanders up to the door and moans a little to reassure them.

* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Vetinari's cell in the Watch's dungeon... isn't. It's more like a lounge. Funnily enough, all the locks and bolts are on the inside, so she can remain there to her heart's content, and if anyone starts investigating, she just wanders up to the door and moans a little to reassure them.

** Cheery's range of knowledge and general savvyness is far wider than in the books, to the point that she is now TheSmartGuy of the Watch. She is the team healer, comes up with most strategies, usually has a piece of knowledge that will help them find the next clue, and eventually [[spoiler:comes up with the way of defeating the Noble Dragon]]. In the books, she is the medieval equivalent of a forensic expert and a grows into being a very good cop, but never displays such a range of skills.

** Sally behaves mostly as a stereotypical (albeit loopy) vampire, while in the book she was reformed and ultimately proved a decent addition to the Watch.

* AdaptedOut: Sergent Colon and Corporal Nobbs do not appear nor are referenced in any way. In the books, they had been members of the Watch for almost as long as Vimes (even longer in the case of Colon).

* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler:Dr. Cruces and Alice try to kill Sybil after everything's wrapped up, and wind up being dropped down a shaft in her house.]]

* CompositeCharacter: Cheery takes elements from both her book counterpart (a Dwarf seeing herself as female in a OneGenderRace) and [[TheIgor Igor]], as the team medic and TheSmartGuy.

* CrazyPrepared: There's one cell in the Watch's basement which has long been rusted shut, and they never found the key. Vetinari, naturally, has it. [[spoiler:So she can lock herself in if the need ever arises.]]

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Played with. Both Carrot and Cheery are dwarves, though Carrot only via adoption. Both are upwards of six foot tall, with Cheery's explanation that dwarves "come in all shapes and sizes". Carrot doesn't have a beard, and Cheery initially keeps hers shaved off, though later regrows it. Cheery presents as female with dresses and makeup. Cheery also has a phobia of the dark, making her ill-suited for mines. Later, it is revealed [[spoiler: that her local Dwarven culture demands homogeneity to the point where they all wear beards, dress identically, and use he/him pronouns regardless of gender. The dwarves literally try to be all the same.]]

* ReducedToDust: The final fate [[spoiler:Carcer]] when the Observers erase [[spoiler:him]] from reality.

** Lady Sybil Ramkin witnessed [[spoiler:her parents' assassination]] as a child and it still haunts her. Nothing of the sort happened in the books.

* CompositeCharacter:
** Cheery takes elements from both her book counterpart (a Dwarf seeing herself as female in a OneGenderRace) and [[TheIgor Igor]], as the team medic and TheSmartGuy.

** In the absence of Nobby, it's Angua who takes Carrot on his first patrol.

** Angua is even more resentful of her werewolf heritage than in the books, especially since her family staged for her to [[spoiler:kill her human friend while in wolf form to prove that humans and werewolves could not live together]].

** Cheery's dwarf song consists in the word "gold" repeated over and over (at least in the subtitles - [[LanguageEqualsThought the word seems to be different each time she says it]]). In the books a RunningGag is that the dwarves' most popular songs are "Gold, gold, gold" or "Gold, gold, gold".