In the third part of Night Watch<\/i>, Vimes goes on a trip. Sort of. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m now realizing that my previous review has got to be hilarious because all I wrote about was nostalgia and the possible dangers of obsessing over it. And this book was just about to LITERALLY send Vimes back to the time he adored and respected so much. LOOK, I DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW, TIME TRAVEL WASN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T EVEN REMOTELY ON MY RADAR. Vimes\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sudden trip back to the past\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be at least a couple decades ago\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis announced unceremoniously in a scene from Ridcully\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even thinking about Vimes being missing after the lightning strike; I was convinced that we were just seeing the damage from the point of view of one of the wizards, you know? And I also assumed that everyone was looking for Carcer, not Vimes, and then Carrot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s line completely upended me. WHAT THE FUCK, Vimes might have traveled through time<\/i>?<\/p>\n
And as soon as I realized that<\/i>, I knew that Vimes would HATE this. Oh, he would NOT PUT UP WITH THIS BULLSHIT AT ALL. Yet I misjudged the situation; Vimes inability to deal with bullshit was overshadowed by the sheer bewilderment of traveling into the past. Pratchett drops Vimes into this, but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that thing you often see in time travel narratives where it takes the character a long-ass time to figure out what has happened. Oh, Vimes is absolutely<\/i> confused for a solid length of time. He awakens in a lot of pain, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got an eyepatch, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a large slash on his face, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the presence of a much<\/i> younger Mrs. Palm from the Guild of Seamstresses. (Well, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mrs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d quite yet!) That reputation he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d gained over years of work with the Watch\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich we were reminded of in the first part of the book!!!!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis now gone. No one recognizes him. No one treats him like a duke or the head of the Watch or even a member<\/i> of the Watch. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s through this device that Pratchett strips Vimes of all the things he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gained over the course of the Discworld <\/i>series. And if Vimes does not posses any of these aspects of his life, then who is he? Who is he allowed to be?<\/p>\n
Initially, he just seems like an anonymous drunk who got in a fight with someone who literally<\/i> stole all of his clothing and his armor. After taking on a name that seems clearly fake to Palm, he tries to go to the Watch house in Pseudopolis Yard. Nope, not there. The Agony Aunts don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recognize him either. He rushes to Sybil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house, knocks out the butler he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recognize (THERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE VIMES I EXPECTED), and then sees Sybil\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as a teenager. Which means he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also lost all the privilege and prestige that comes with being married to her, too! He can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appeal to those people for help!<\/p>\n
Obviously, this is upsetting for more obvious reasons, but I suspect Pratchett was intentionally reference nostalgia at the start of Night Watch<\/i>. Vimes thought fondly of the past, so Pratchett immediately sent him there. And guess what?<\/p>\n
IT ALREADY SUCKS. Which means it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna get a lot<\/i> worse, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/A-B2K0wd4A0<\/p>\n
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