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Nov. 7th, 2011 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsWe're up to Wyrd Sisters! REAL GRANNY WEATHERWAX, how glad I am to see you!
Obviously I have an enormous love for Wyrd Sisters just by virtue of the theater and story meta . . . and also, okay, just by virtue of lulzy Macbeth parody, except when it's really effectively creepy Macbeth parody. (I am actually really sad that we never see Tomjon and the Dysk theater again in the books; I want to know how fake Shakespeare is getting on!) That aside, I had forgotten that this book is not just our introduction to Discworld theater, but Granny's introduction to it, and her determination not to let the power of glamorous stories win out over the power of things that are true is something that's going to be a common thread throughout all the witch books going forward. It's especially interesting because that's sort of the opposite of the standard fantasy trope, which is ALL HAIL THE POWER OF STORIES. Writers want to believe in the power of fiction! But as usual, Granny Weatherwax takes many stances that are sort of the opposite of what most of us would think, and makes us love her for it, because she is the biggest badass on the Disc.
. . . and now I really want to make someone write me Granny Weatherwax vs. Drosselmeyer. BUT ANYWAY.
What's also interesting is seeing the sort of awkward dynamic between the three witches here. This is a Magrat who doesn't know Granny and Nanny very well, and even Granny and Nanny aren't the team that they will be later in the Disc books. That's something that's sort of starting to build throughout the story here, which is pretty cool . . . even if what they do with it is move their entire town forward in time without asking anybody a;sljkdfds. NOT OKAY. It is also pretty nifty how, even though Magrat is the obvious protagonist for anyone to identify with (youngest witch coming into her own!) really I think she and Granny are pretty much co-protagonists. (Nanny is awesome, but she has it much too together to be a protagonist.)
But maybe I'm wrong! Actually I bet everyone has a different favorite Discworld witch, so I will throw the question out to you guys over at the LJ crosspost.
Obviously I have an enormous love for Wyrd Sisters just by virtue of the theater and story meta . . . and also, okay, just by virtue of lulzy Macbeth parody, except when it's really effectively creepy Macbeth parody. (I am actually really sad that we never see Tomjon and the Dysk theater again in the books; I want to know how fake Shakespeare is getting on!) That aside, I had forgotten that this book is not just our introduction to Discworld theater, but Granny's introduction to it, and her determination not to let the power of glamorous stories win out over the power of things that are true is something that's going to be a common thread throughout all the witch books going forward. It's especially interesting because that's sort of the opposite of the standard fantasy trope, which is ALL HAIL THE POWER OF STORIES. Writers want to believe in the power of fiction! But as usual, Granny Weatherwax takes many stances that are sort of the opposite of what most of us would think, and makes us love her for it, because she is the biggest badass on the Disc.
. . . and now I really want to make someone write me Granny Weatherwax vs. Drosselmeyer. BUT ANYWAY.
What's also interesting is seeing the sort of awkward dynamic between the three witches here. This is a Magrat who doesn't know Granny and Nanny very well, and even Granny and Nanny aren't the team that they will be later in the Disc books. That's something that's sort of starting to build throughout the story here, which is pretty cool . . . even if what they do with it is move their entire town forward in time without asking anybody a;sljkdfds. NOT OKAY. It is also pretty nifty how, even though Magrat is the obvious protagonist for anyone to identify with (youngest witch coming into her own!) really I think she and Granny are pretty much co-protagonists. (Nanny is awesome, but she has it much too together to be a protagonist.)
But maybe I'm wrong! Actually I bet everyone has a different favorite Discworld witch, so I will throw the question out to you guys over at the LJ crosspost.
