* What Vimes and the gang find in the Unmentionables' dungeons. At least we know he eventually gets better. * Just take a second to imagine what must have had to happen to the sweet, optimistic, puppy-dog young Vimes to turn him into the bitter, self-loathing, apathetic alcoholic that we remember from “Guards! Guards!”. But from now on, those who know Vimes well won't see it solely as a day to be mourned, because it's also Young Sam's birthday. * In a rare case of Fridge Heartwarming, consider that Vimes and his Treacle Mine Road allies have spent the last thirty years feeling somber every 25th of May. Plus, it justifies how he was able to observe the final events of Vimes' sojourn in the past without Vimes noticing he was there. As the Patrician he wants to be highly visible. Fast-forward to his Patricianship, and he is noted for ONLY wearing black clothes. Black actually makes his fellow assassins stand out like a sore thumb. He realises that wearing black-only clothes, as is the Guild policy, makes one MORE visible, and that animal-inspired colour and pattern are more effective at creating camouflage. Vetinari 'gets' invisibility more than the other assassins. * There is lot of play around visibility and invisibility in Vetinari's storyline (and in the novel in general, actually). finished re-reading "The Wee Free Men", "Jingo", "Going Postal" and now "Night Watch".
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |