I hope the sky adaptation do it justice. It's mainly because sky adaptation of Going Postal is so ..... mediocre! I worry Maurice adaptation will be condescending because it's children's book subseries among the Disc, but Pterry is never condescending to children and that is why it is so fucking Doctor Who (x)

I didn't realise it was published the same year as Thief of Time, that explains why these two have the overlap of the emerging of the concept of a self, a Me, that sets you as an individual apart from a ... distribution. A state of safety only because you don't perceive danger and possibility and choice and all the stuff you could not do unless there is a self.

And then it goes to the theme of after discovering you are sth more, how to not descend to the basics, how to ... balance the basics and the higher ... let's say dreams. Rules that set you apart from beasts - oh then this is part of Night Watch concepts too.

Then it goes back to the hard work of peacefully building a co-existence through talk and organising, like in Small Gods. And manipulation and compromising, like Vetinari and Vimes. Pterry really did believe his methods I guess ...

Then it goes to a bit of the Going Postal showbiz, of selling illusions to comfort the public, yes manipulation, yes lying. And at the same time, some of them are just very aware of using stories (c.f. Witches Abroad). I think here in Dangerous Beans, he went from believing the dreams to realising the reality is not like the dreams, and then to it's not the same but there's no reason to stop making the reality approach the dreams ( in a realistic and ambiguously moral way ). And this I suppose is a often recurring theme in his books (Hogfather, Nation, Small Gods).

It's just hard. In a way ... maybe Pterry does calm me in my working, in that 'it's not perfect but it works, let's see this through one day at a time' and 'it's normal to feel lost and worried and scared and in danger and blaming yourself when you are looking at/leading into this unknown future'.

(but why David Tennant as Dangerous Beans! I feel he suits Maurice best. But Hugh Laurie is good for Maurice too, that I admit. I just feel ... Aziraphale is more Dangerous Beans. Crowley could be Darktan maybe? oh! David Tennant should be Sardines! (((((