The really infuriating thing about their take on 'wokeness' is that the source material contains a lot of pointed observations about things like power structures in the first place, so when you randomly start gender / race swapping characters you completely miss the point of the message.
Like, ankh-morporks ruling elite in the books are regularly shown to be - with the exception of the patrician - a bunch of doddery out of touch stupid old men, regularly abusing a privilege they never earned.
So making all of the ruling elite now women shows... women are shit in positions of power?
That this fantasy city that people in show are regularly complaining about being inequitable for 'the little guy' is visibly portrayed as a super progressive meritocracy where anyone of any class, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity has an equal opportunity to become a part of the ruling elite?
Doesn't that, you know, massively undermine the fucking satirical point of the source material, and just make the 'little guy' whiny greedy lazy self-absorbed assholes because if a black woman can be the height of the aristocracy via bootstraps, why cant anyone else?
The main bad guy Carcer in the books is a stone cold psychopath, but with a faux-cheeriness, that evokes something like the Krays, and his skin colour is never mentioned, but he's assumed to be a white dude. He's a Joker type anarchic nihilist. His motivation is to fuck shit up, because he likes pulling the wings off flies.
But for the TV show they make him a... chip on his shoulder angry at the system black man, who - again, in show - is proven to be 100% A Bad Guy who is Wrong? What's the message there?
