10 Things We’re Hoping To Get From BBC America’s The Watch

6. Groups Of Interest

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The adversaries of the Watch are many and varied, with more popping up the better they get at their job.

From the eternal clientele of petty criminals (the vandalisers, loiterers, public urinators, and robbers not licensed with the Thieves Guild) to the psychopaths who threaten wholesale destruction and carnage, The Watch faces just about everything that the Disc could throw at it.

Such groups of interest range from evil cults (who seem to be the big-bad of this first episode), to fanatical Dwarves building an under-city in secret, rich people who consider themselves above the law, war agitators (both local and outsourcing), organised crime, disorganised crime, demons, football hooligans, bands of geriatric barbarians intent on killing the gods, and of course government auditors.

In the breadth of the Discworld and the fullness of time, any of these adversaries could show their faces. If we're looking for a series with variation in its enemies, The Watch holds immense promise.

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