cakesandfail:

july-19th-club:

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

1. Riz Ahmed is extremely talented and smart and would be great
2. Diversity is a Good Thing and we should have more of it
3. 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
4. Pretty boy, nice beard