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

3. Gods, Divine And Awful

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Easy to understand and far too easy to interact with, these divine beings are as powerful as they are incompetent.

With figures like Blind Io, your typical God of Thunder and Thunder-Related Things, The Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth and his (reformed) followers, living Gods, dead Gods, Gods of Small Administration and one particular God of Things Stuck In Drawers, the presence of divine entities is felt in almost every story set on the Disc.

Ankh-Morpork is a city devoted to the Gods - all of them in fact, in a desire to not upset anyone with an itchy thunderbolt hand. Though the Watch doesn't necessarily involve itself with religious matters, it isn't always a case of volunteering, and no doubt the presence of at least one divine figure will be seen. Or at the very least, we'll get an earful of their devotees.

Overall the very literal presence of Gods in the Discworld makes for a dynamic rarely seen on TV.

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