US president’s threat to seize territory prompts intelligence briefings reminiscent of Game of Thrones patrol
The Danish government has set up a “night watch” in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Night’s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump’s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.
The night watch starts at 5pm local time each day and at 7am a report is produced and distributed around the Danish government and relevant departments about what was said and took place, the Politiken newspaper reported.
The position is understood to have been introduced in the aftermath of the diplomatic row between Copenhagen and Washington over Greenland this spring, when the US president threatened to take control of the Arctic island.
Why did people immediately connect Night Watch with GoT’s Night’s Watch, when there’s both a perfectly good book and TV miniseries by the name that seems much more apropos?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Pratchett_novel)
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Because GoT is more recent and probably more popular?
And Greenland is much more like The Wall than Ankh-Morpork
It should be… Ankh-Morpork is the US, not Greenland.
There’s a miniseries?!
I assume they’re refering to The Watch, but that’s less an adaptation of Pratchett and more an adaptation of that show runner’s pet project with the names of characters from Discworld overlaid to get funding.
That’s disappointing, but good to know. Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)
Thank you!
Thanks
Now I imagine Sam Vimes fighting ICEstapo.
for Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg
If only.