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Oh! *puzzled* OK, then. It's been a long long time since I read MP. Maybe that should be my next book on the list (again...) ;) I agree. There's something delightful in every entry in Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook. If you've read the books (and let's face it - if you haven't, why are you here? ;))...

...actually heard both those words from Pratchett books over the years and looked them up at the time. Para Mountain is referred to in Moving Pictures - it's one of the clickies companies, named, obviously, after the nearby mountain (and, yes, of course, referring to Paramount Studios in...

Moving pictures => Sam Vimes

Spigot, William => Moving pictures

The control books Callaway used were Moving Pictures (for PTerry) and Coraline (for Gaiman). Moving Pictures was published in 1990, the same year that Good Omens was published. Moving Pictures was the tenth Discworld book, and it was after Guards! Guards! I think it qualifies as a...

No, the sons of the Pyramid designer were Ptaclusp IIA and Ptaclusp IIB (aka 2B and Not-2B). iirc Sol was a relative of Dibbler in Moving Pictures. Sol => Lobsang Ludd

I'd have to say Detritus's dominant emotion in his budding relationship with Ruby in Moving Pictures is befuddlement. He starts with traditional troll wooing methodology, which Ruby, under the influence of Holy Wood magic, utterly rejects. When he attempts to satisfy her demands for "human"...

...hatred of troll narcotics dealers, his general disgust with Crysoprase and other troll mobsters, and his fatherly attitude toward Brick. (not to mention his relationship with Ruby, which I don't discuss because it's been so long since I read Moving Pictures I don't remember anything about it).

In the early books Vetinari is more of a reactionary, voicing his opposition to "innovations" like moving pictures and music with rocks in it, but more or less lets these innovations run their natural course. One could argue that, starting with Jingo!, Vetinari does become a very visible "mover...

...If I recall correctly, it was Terry himself who posted it as part of a discussion. In my opinion, Gaspode is the true protagonist of Moving Pictures. He is the only major character who goes to Holy Wood voluntarily, to find out what's going on. He is the agent of much of the action, nudging...

...movie' type of way. Mind you, both their personalities were quite similar. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Terry originally want Gaspode to die at the end of Moving Pictures? I believe it was the publishers that talked him out of it but I cannot remember where I heard or read...

...of next - but I had a think and decided that Gaspode might be a good one. We first meet Gaspode (like so many regular characters) in Moving Pictures where he suddenly gains self conscious. It comes as quite a shock to him, especially as he also seems to gain human eyesight in regard to...

...at UU. Granted the Bursar is quite competent in his field when on a proper dose of dried frog pills. I actually met the Ponder of Moving Pictures after I'd read of him in a couple of the later books. Based on his introduction in MP, I was surprised that such a callow student could make so...

This week's discussion will be about one of my favourite characters, Ponder Stibbons. We first meet Ponder as a minor character in Moving Pictures, where he gets a perfect exam result accidentally. I thought that would be the last we would see of him, but no. He turns up in Lords and Ladies...

...evolution over the series is he starts out as rather reactionary in terms of opposing progress. He is personally against things like moving pictures and music with rocks, although he does not strictly forbid these cultural phenomena from taking their natural course (usually to some kind of...

...of the early books, but even though you do see mixing of people from different places in some of the earlier books, I'd probably tag Moving Pictures and Men at Arms as the first books where meaningful interactions between humans and other species occurred. Detritus became the symbol of one of...

...him, and then he'll hit them with a clever one-two that will shut them up and let him do things his way. In that way, he reminds me not a little of Hercule Poirot. He did seem annoyed to start with. I must re-read Moving Pictures again one of these days. (I've read it three times by now...)

Ridcully strides into Moving Pictures as an almost fully formed character. I think it firmly knocks the idea of magical wars on the head and maybe that was what Terry was aiming at. The other wizards chose him thinking he'd be easy to control, only to find that they were wrong, and that was a...

...uses a real-world concept as the overacrching theme, like Maskerade, Soul Music, Witches Abroad, Feet of Clay, and to a lesser extent Moving Pictures) are some of Terry's funniest. I don't know why this is - maybe it's the challenge to catch all the little references to musical theatre, rock...

I had already seen some of his artwork but these other Discworld paintings are really good! I love the “Moving pictures” and the “Small Gods” one! ;) Mx