But in all honesty alcohol is class "insert # here" drug. But not... legally stated I think ? Ben long since I read the subject. While there are few health benefits...it can drastically damaged/kill you over the years. Especially the liver let alone your brain. The alcohol thing was started by the mob...then the government took over! And rather than ban it they regulated it....I would like to see someone try to ban alcohol....you will be killed immediately
@@hokses Well, yes, it is a drug, just like nicotine and caffeine, and well, anything that directly affects your mind Putting a ban on it would be hard, since it's as old as our civilisation… and because a lot of people have the need to forget who they are every friday evening so that the don't jump out the window during weekend.... Also, from what I recall, US government tried to ban booze once and it resulted in thousands upon thousands of new moonshiners
@@fuckologic1202 Yup. It would be the same with all banned drugs. Ban it and suddenly a guy in a van next to you Goes: psssst you want to buy some beer? I can't think of any drug that 99% of the people will be happy to buy and adding:it better be chilled! When being secretly sold. Am telling you it will be worse than people randomly attacking shops and flipping cars when their team lost. Going into war...OK. Banning alcohol...The country is burning!!
@@hokses I've been reading a little bit about Prohibition and from what I recall hard liquors were mostly sold, because beer would be too hard to obtain and too expensive per %ethanol But yeah, you're mostly right my good sir
@@DaveDexterMusic It's an undead horse. Nothing special. Have you watched Parts 1 and 2 of JoJo? The zombies, vampires and pillar men sometimes stick foreign objects inside their bodies for later use.
And then the unblinded realist friend joins in and listens to what they both have to say and very calmly takes out his two krambit and puts them to both their throats while they ask why he's doing this. He pauses to look them both in the eyes as though they asked him for the time. He then pulls the small crescent shaped blades around their necks as he slits their throats. "You want to know why?" He gets up and walks out. Their questions were never answered and the only one who walked away was the one who actually did something instead of wasting so much time pondering and arguing about something unimportant while the rest of the world passed them by...
@@granziii12 Bahh...an all materialistic view in which the protagonist is somehow seen as better. Sadly, said protagonist is the only one left to make this judgement thereby eliminating any chance of debating said protagonists point of view. In other words...petty actions in a piss-drop of time to stroke ones own ego do not amount to any sort of success.
The animation loses something in translation. In the books how people react to Death is with a slightly worried air, like they think they may have left the stove on and would really, really like to be elsewhere right now.
“From the outside it’s blue, believe me” that line is both incredibly hilarious, absurd, and kind of terrifying. Really puts into perspective just how powerful death is, and where he stands as a being beyond creation.
@@connorschultz380 sorry didn't know the lore of discworld but read a bit. Only being stronger and abow is the great old ones. Azreal is his dad so to speak aparently
@@DarkAdonisVyers Really? Because from what I can remember on seeing it, THE INFINITE is white. Plain, dull, boring, empty white. ...It's kind of depressing to look at. Honestly, would it kill THE INFINITE to add a little color?
... probably, that's the point. In intro to those series there were words about getting personality is equal to end self. He got personality, therefore eternal existence becomes a greater burden.
Well, you constrain something with human traits enough and eventually it’s going to want to start drowning itself in alcohol! What’s the worst punishment the gods ever had to endure for their betrayals? To be human, with no power. It sucks to be human to them. It’s the worst fear and pain imaginable. No more immortality. Death is final! The bones will rot! The corpse will decay and become worm food! That’s probably why they don’t stick around us. Maybe they don’t want to catch death by association with us. No wonder Thanatos wants twelve whiskey sours.
@@thegrandnil764 fiction takes inspiration from real things, but that doesn't mean that fiction does have to portray thr "real things" exactly how they are, it is called creaticity and creative liberty, but yeah I am the idiot
I’m impressed that the animators put so much detail into the way the guru’s face shifts, and how much Death’s expression changes, even though they couldn’t have had a very good budget Dedication!
"Why does things have to be the way they are?" Because it took a whole lot of time and effort to get things the way it they are. And if you ever want to change it then you will need even more time and effort.
@@camerakitty8167 Actually it happens more then you might think. It is known as "crowdsourced problem solving" where you give the internet a problem and let them solve it. One great example of this was with a HIV Enzyme. Scientists spend over a decade trying to find out how nature managed to fold a protein chain into this enzyme. But when they made it into a game called Foldit as a way to crowdsource the problem it was solved in less then 3 weeks.
People always make the mistake of personifying death when its actually the other way around. Pratchet said often that this death has a fascination with humans of every other planet in the universe. Meaning he wants to know and understand what it is to be human but overall gets angered by them often.
@@davidjackson6150 Oh, no!! He hated Count Dracula!! Oh, dear, oh, dear... this is terrible, jus terrible... it's making me sound like a Chuckle Brother it's so terrible...
@@justinthompson6364 Yeah, it's described as sort of just appearing inside your head without any passage of sound, but it also says something about how it feels like something, sometimes like stone slabs sliding against each other.
Time is the path integral of all nows chained together. And it can be squashed or stretched when under the influence of gravity. Time in a black hole is like time driving under the influence.
That Guru is so pretentious, which was probably the point. For example, if he has not seen the Infinite, because it cannot be seen, as he himself said, how does he know it is black?
Look up into the sky at night on a cloudless night. Look to the space between the stars. That's the infinite. When you look out there, you're seeing to the end of the universe and beyond. The infinite has stuff in it, but it is mostly empty. The infinite is mostly black *because there isn't enough light to illuminate it all.*
@@FirstLast-cg2nk it's actually mostly black because, as I recently learned, most of the light that reaches us has redshifted out of the visible spectrum over the vast distances it travelled to reach us. If light did not redshift the night sky would be extremely bright.
The only thing about adaptations…is that the inside of my imagination is way cooler than any movie or cartoon could be. That said, the voice of bill door was pretty epic here. I’ve always thought of him kind of speaking *into* peoples heads, like Gaspode 🖤
I have been under the impression that Gaspode speaks normally, but people lack the First Sight and Second Thoughts to realize a dog just spoke. It's so bizarre and paranormal that their brain just glossed over it and pretends that it's their own intrusive thoughts.
I cannot help but be a little amused when Death mentions that the Infinite is 'blue', considering his eyes/orbs are blue, themselves...then again, you could argue that Death himself is Infinite...until the End of Time, that is...I think? Might just be an odd little thing/detail, but I still think it's funny. Also, thinking about, no matter how 'wise' a mortal 'sage' like this guru may be (even calling Death 'my son...really?), he may only have lived 1 lifetime, whereas Death has seen, experienced and observed and 'lived' countless ones, so, in a way, him keeping his sanity for as long as now is a walkin', freakin' miracle when you think about it! (Also, sorry for prattling on, I am writing this while quite tipsy).
@@CocoandZee Pretty much explained in many volumes Death is never invisible, nor is he incorporeal. He's just infinite and because human mind cannot comprehend that and at the same time don't want to know death is there they usually picture him differently, usually as a tall man (but they vary person to person). He can go through objects and walls because they, at one point, weren't there or won't be there. But cats can see him, so he likes cats. And wizards... wizards can see him (as they see things as they really are)... but he dislikes them as they always interrupt him when he's doing something interesting or another.
when you're an anthropomorphic personification of an eldrich concept that is autocontradictory, seeing the infinite from the outside should be a relatively simple task.
@@Yal_Rathol Death is Eternal as it is Nightmarish...He's also a smug bastard but that's unrelated to his occupation. (Looks up at the sky...) Great pick Big G...Great pick...
And yet he's up there with Death of the Endless from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic as one of the most sympathetic Deaths of all time. Then again Gaiman and Pratchett did get along quite well...
@@kemanorel3110 That kinda makes a whole lot of sense because, In a way Death has a lot in common with the reader; Both Death and the reader have an outside perspective on the Discworld.
"I've seen the infinite. It's nothing special." This sounds like my kind of cartoon. I always wanted to believe that the afterlife, God and all the spiritual stuff is likely very anti-climactic. I'm able to make strange peace with things being neither as bad or as good as we often believe them to be
Depending on how you look at it, even the resurrection of the bible is anticlimactic since once we come back the earth is still wreckt but we have to fix it
Maybe things and the universe aren't as special from the outside, but it's the value that us, sentient beings, give to them that actually make them special. That's a big perk of being alive and conscious.
@@clayxros576 If you consider colonizing Mars or men walking on the moon anti-climatic, because there is daily life involved, then I suppose you would have a point. The Simple OP is likely to feel disappointed, however, as there is going to be much in this world that is very climatic, for him and everyone else.
It's funny that the hindi guru claims the infinite is black while Death claims its blue, when commonly the infinite is represented as blue in hindi culture, as the ocean and sky were the most infinite things.
I once asked God to show me everything. Everything. Why everything is the way it is. And he showed me. The veil was pulled back and for a moment, I understood. I understood why things were the way they were. Then the veil was closed and the reasons were too complicated for me to understand or remember... but I know there's a plan. I saw it. I just can't remember it and I don't think I'll see it again in this life.
@@arielulloa4146 I doesn't come from a song; I suspect it comes from a sound library that people used in the 90's. The notable songs I remember it being used IN are the Lego Island credits and the intro to a series of VHS tapes called "Britannica presents".
"Things *don't* have to be the way they are - that's why there's a difference between the past, present, and future; because we can change the way things are, which makes it different from what it was, and who knows what it might be later." "Humans forget things because the brain is an imperfect medium of storage - as the flesh renews itself, things we don't deem to be important are discarded to make room for new things, or to maintain space for old things being rewritten onto the new parts of it."
Death (rather Fate): I am having existential crisis. What should I do? Sindri Myr: Change the ways! Bend the fates! Through distortion that Chaos creates. To rule the world - if you decide The eight arrows shall be your guide!
The voices are impressive and the animation is surprisingly detailed. Off-putting is the complete lack of light and shadows. Everything has the same brightness. I want this film inked and colour-graded, NOW! Avaunt!
I just bloody got it. Death did lose his memory after imbibing a large amount of alcohol, but it wasn't the alcohol that did it. He was drunk, and got thrown into the Ankh river. And the Ankh river is considered a "magical river or other". So Death accidentally drank from it when he was thrown in, and lost his memory.
When he said "You don't know, do you?" 🤣 Poor guy is asking questions he knows that no one can answer for him, but he's trying and looking for insight in places he might have missed. Relatable
The Death of Discworld is probably one of Sir Terry Pratchett's most iconic takes on the [Anthropomorphic Personification]. Also one of my favorite characters. GNU, Sir Pratchett
How does someone not believe death when he speaks? XD Death seems pretty cool, he's still got a threatening feel to him but he's able to have a discussion and argument.
The mind has a filter when it comes to really anomalous shit in the Diskworld books. A non magician or witch rarely notices dogs that talk or death him self.
the simplest answer that I can think of to Deaths question is: We are born imperfect. We age, we get sick, we forget, we die. And but howcould we be anything else? It is our STRIVE for perfection, to be better, to do things greater than we should be able to, that makes us who we are as a species. We forget, because we are human. Because it is something that defines us so that we can learn to be BETTER.
CJ Moore That dosent do death any favors Death is sad about the deaths of his daughter and apprentice, he gets better and saves the world from music with rocks in
I'm uploading you because you are actually this thing and trying to answer if you ask me what death was asking I wouldn't know not that I can't answer. just that I wasn't paying attention.
Am I the only one who thinks that, in this day of Netflix et al throwing huge amounts of money at well produced shows with expansive universes, Discworld is really ripe for some worthy adaptations? I know there have been quite a few in different forms, but I'd like to see it taken to the next level, a truly Game of Thrones level of production and scope.
Alchohol doesn't actually make you forget anything. It only represses things. The only actual way to forget anything is to age. Depending on who you are this could take a whole lifetime. It is in a way the best part of growing old. So that when you die you truly die without regret.
Alcohol disconnects parts of your brain, which means memories can become unretrievable, but because of the non-localised nature of memory it mostly just makes all your memories fuzzier. Alcohol basically has terrible aim. There are several other ways of forgetting, but the healthy ones I am familiar with all revolve around remembering and then doubting the parts of your memories. You see, whenever you remember something what you store afterwards is a new version of your memories, so if you can make it fuzzier, then it will be weaker. Repeat that often enough and the memory will be gone. Then there is the unhealthy option of trauma: While it is true that trauma often strengthens memory, if you break a mind thoroughly enough by repeated application of varied traumas, then you can make them completely forget who they are, and once you've done that, getting them to forget everything else is easy.
I love the Discworld portrayal of Death. Only thing I don't like is that his mouth doesn't move when he speaks though I think that's how it was in the books.
It’s definitely odd. In some cases his mouth is open a bit, but it’s mostly closed with it shaping to match the expression he’s feeling. It’s odd but I do enjoy it.
Its actually quite brilliant on the animators side, because it hammers home the fact that Death is very *Very* much not human. It cements the fact that Death is utterly inhuman... Which is kind of ironic if you've read the books.
“Are you seeking the secret of existence?”
“That will do, for a start.”
Everything you need to know about Terry Pratchett in two lines.
@nexus169 Thats basically an insult to all three parties, exept for Monty Python and Tolkien.
@@titanuranus3095 ... what?
@@SpiderandMosquito They are saying that the description insults Terry Pratchett.
Funny how he doesn't have a whole day.
Rince wind is my favourite character
"Alcohol debilitates the body and is a poison to the soul"
"Sounds good to me"
But in all honesty alcohol is class "insert # here" drug.
But not... legally stated I think ? Ben long since I read the subject.
While there are few health benefits...it can drastically damaged/kill you over the years.
Especially the liver let alone your brain.
The alcohol thing was started by the mob...then the government took over! And rather than ban it they regulated it....I would like to see someone try to ban alcohol....you will be killed immediately
@@hokses Well, yes, it is a drug, just like nicotine and caffeine, and well, anything that directly affects your mind
Putting a ban on it would be hard, since it's as old as our civilisation… and because a lot of people have the need to forget who they are every friday evening so that the don't jump out the window during weekend....
Also, from what I recall, US government tried to ban booze once and it resulted in thousands upon thousands of new moonshiners
@@fuckologic1202
Yup.
It would be the same with all banned drugs.
Ban it and suddenly a guy in a van next to you
Goes: psssst you want to buy some beer?
I can't think of any drug that 99% of the people will be happy to buy and adding:it better be chilled! When being secretly sold.
Am telling you it will be worse than people randomly attacking shops and flipping cars when their team lost.
Going into war...OK.
Banning alcohol...The country is burning!!
@@hokses I've been reading a little bit about Prohibition and from what I recall hard liquors were mostly sold, because beer would be too hard to obtain and too expensive per %ethanol
But yeah, you're mostly right my good sir
Red your post mere second that the line came up in the clip. .... freaky
Everyone's obsessed with the horse's name but nobody mentions how Death's scythe is foldable for travel
A practical man, he is.
A switchblade scythe if you will. And perhaps a knod to Piers Anthony On a Pale Horse: Book one of the Incarnation series.
No-one is mentioning how he stowed the folded scythe inside Binky
@@DaveDexterMusic I think that's because there's supposed to be a sheath for the scythe in the saddle. We just can't see it from this angle.
@@DaveDexterMusic It's an undead horse. Nothing special. Have you watched Parts 1 and 2 of JoJo? The zombies, vampires and pillar men sometimes stick foreign objects inside their bodies for later use.
Christopher Lee was the perfect choice for the voice of Death.
If the personification of death were to have a voice I could only imagine Christopher Lee
He sounds like Death, but at the same time, he keeps his good humor throughout the whole thing.
Christopher Lee was the perfect choice for everything.
I just looked him up, he's dead now, so maybe a little too perfect.
@@medexamtoolscom :C
European mythology meets eastern mythology is like your downer goth friend meeting your stoner friend.
its just the best.
That would explain certain attitudes I have seen in eastern lands. Namely the ones with the call centers.
@Thor Odinson Then that makes me the downer goth... kind of expected
I'm a goth stoner.
And then the unblinded realist friend joins in and listens to what they both have to say and very calmly takes out his two krambit and puts them to both their throats while they ask why he's doing this. He pauses to look them both in the eyes as though they asked him for the time. He then pulls the small crescent shaped blades around their necks as he slits their throats.
"You want to know why?"
He gets up and walks out.
Their questions were never answered and the only one who walked away was the one who actually did something instead of wasting so much time pondering and arguing about something unimportant while the rest of the world passed them by...
@@granziii12 Bahh...an all materialistic view in which the protagonist is somehow seen as better. Sadly, said protagonist is the only one left to make this judgement thereby eliminating any chance of debating said protagonists point of view. In other words...petty actions in a piss-drop of time to stroke ones own ego do not amount to any sort of success.
I like this version of death... funny and still a touch intimidating.
I still prefer Grim from Billy and Mandy
The animation loses something in translation. In the books how people react to Death is with a slightly worried air, like they think they may have left the stove on and would really, really like to be elsewhere right now.
@@Zergonapal The guru does look like that by the end.
And with the amazing voice of Christopher Lee.
@@JPLOWMAN2 I am a megadeth fan because of them
“From the outside it’s blue, believe me” that line is both incredibly hilarious, absurd, and kind of terrifying. Really puts into perspective just how powerful death is, and where he stands as a being beyond creation.
And there are beings above him too
What beings are those?
@@haylongwang3002 the ones who fired him that one time
@@connorschultz380 sorry didn't know the lore of discworld but read a bit. Only being stronger and abow is the great old ones. Azreal is his dad so to speak aparently
@@haylongwang3002 i don't either just found an animation about one of the books, apparently hebwas fired for having too much of a personality
I love how THE INFINITE being described is boiled down to
“It’s blue”
“It’s black”
“It’s BLUE”
“IT’S BLACK!!”
“From the outside it’s blue, believe me”
Given that it's human feeling, I can see why it can be both black and blue.
@@DarkAdonisVyers Really? Because from what I can remember on seeing it, THE INFINITE is white. Plain, dull, boring, empty white. ...It's kind of depressing to look at. Honestly, would it kill THE INFINITE to add a little color?
@@Mu91c14n technically it has ALL the color. That's the problem.
@@Mu91c14n and open a window or crank the ac
To be fair, Death has glowing blue eyes, so perhaps everything he sees is blue.
You can almost see where the guru starts to pick up on who he's talking to.
When do you think that happens?
@@satanbrony9235 I think maybe 1:24
Not really. He just got caught in his bullshitting and tried to bullshit himself out of it again. There was no fear or respect toward death
@@shogunpug4071 well, he shouldn't fear death,but he definitely fears looking like an idiot 🤣.
Hence the bull shitting
he did not recognize him.andit makes me wonder. the professions of magic would see death as death. witches and wizards
I love the attention to detail on his scythes blade, the edge so sharp you can see through it is straight from the books
I didn't notice that thank you
And yet Death tapped him with the tip off it without slicing his arm off.
Nano atomic edge .so sharp it can split an atom.
In the books he sometimes cut letters in 2, just hilarious
Tá amarrado em nome de Jesus Cristo
The Infintie is blue when you see it from the outside, and Death has Blue dots for eyes! Just saying
+Colin MacLaughlanWeir When you look in the eyes of death you see infinite?
+Michał Wodzicki From what I get, Pratchett pretty much said that. When someone looks into Death's eyes, they feel like looking into the infinite.
And this guy he was talking to said it was black, and he has black eyes.
wow that's romantic
I always thought of it as if you take all of time and space and put in a box, that box would be blue. It would also say Police Box on it.
I imagine that if Death was anything like Discworlds version we'd all gladly go without fear; especially if all talks with him are like this.
Unfortunately for most of us he tends to show up after the fear has occurred.
he's probably like that. you just have to ignore his reputation
@@michaelbootes4822 I mean.. it's not like he's satan. better meet death than hell.
@@larrytherustyboii7442 Especially if he has you play him at chess for your life.
@@JamesDavy2009 Try to Battleship instead or Twister.
"You might be a king or a lowly street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the Reaper!"
“Why do things have to be the way they are?”
Asking the real questions here.
cringe
AkaiAzul Answer: They don’t.
@@SuperDachshund u reply to Akai but im the one getting the notification
This Yellow Face yay TH-cam.
@@SuperDachshund here let me do it for you
This whole series showed death as a tragic figure. Unable to forget and actually showing death is more human than even he realizes.
... probably, that's the point.
In intro to those series there were words about getting personality is equal to end self.
He got personality, therefore eternal existence becomes a greater burden.
Well, you constrain something with human traits enough and eventually it’s going to want to start drowning itself in alcohol! What’s the worst punishment the gods ever had to endure for their betrayals?
To be human, with no power. It sucks to be human to them. It’s the worst fear and pain imaginable. No more immortality. Death is final! The bones will rot! The corpse will decay and become worm food! That’s probably why they don’t stick around us. Maybe they don’t want to catch death by association with us. No wonder Thanatos wants twelve whiskey sours.
I love how the sage responds to Death's proclamation of having seen the infinite and being nonplussed by it with "Don't be daft"
They completely misrepresented everything about eastern mythology.
@@thegrandnil764 Well, that would be because it's a satirical work.
@@thegrandnil764 well most likely because it doesn't represent eastern mythology in first place. It is a work of fiction...
@@xhawkenx633 Fiction represents real things
@@thegrandnil764 fiction takes inspiration from real things, but that doesn't mean that fiction does have to portray thr "real things" exactly how they are, it is called creaticity and creative liberty, but yeah I am the idiot
I’m impressed that the animators put so much detail into the way the guru’s face shifts, and how much Death’s expression changes, even though they couldn’t have had a very good budget
Dedication!
"Category: Sports."
Ah, mind games.
Why is this animation showing gordis
Mental gymnastics
...Did Death just say he wants to get shitfaced?
I would If I had his job
“I need to consume vast amounts of alcohol.”
About 5 to 7 shots of good quality Tequila with an Everclear chaser should do the trick.
And he does.
Some good ole fashioned brandy on the rocks can help
"Why does things have to be the way they are?"
Because it took a whole lot of time and effort to get things the way it they are. And if you ever want to change it then you will need even more time and effort.
I like how it's a person on TH-cam who can answer these questions 😂
@@camerakitty8167 Actually it happens more then you might think. It is known as "crowdsourced problem solving" where you give the internet a problem and let them solve it. One great example of this was with a HIV Enzyme. Scientists spend over a decade trying to find out how nature managed to fold a protein chain into this enzyme. But when they made it into a game called Foldit as a way to crowdsource the problem it was solved in less then 3 weeks.
Things don’t ‘have to be’ the way they are. They just are the way they are. If they were different, they wouldn’t be the same things. It just ‘is’.
The first thing I thought of was: Why would they be anything else?
As the auditors continue to prove
The Final Hour
Terry: Was I good at discripting you?
Death: No
Death: You were the best
.
R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
Kemot300 also Christopher Lee
The onion ferrie is at it again.
Around here we say "GNU Terry Pratchett"
@@girla9480 especially if we're smoking?
@@girla9480 GNU Terry Pratchett
People always make the mistake of personifying death when its actually the other way around. Pratchet said often that this death has a fascination with humans of every other planet in the universe. Meaning he wants to know and understand what it is to be human but overall gets angered by them often.
The perfect voice casting for DEATH - R.I.P Sir Christopher Lee
So he met his interpretation 🤔 ironic.... Rip what a great actor
Christopher Lee: Was I good in voicing you?
Death: No. (beat) You were the best.
one of the few that could do a death voice without 3 hours in a good radiophonics toybox of aftereffects and reverb
"Alcohol debilitates the body and is a poison to the soul!"
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME
I could listen to Christopher Lee talk all day. *Sob* Too bad the only way to do that now is on recordings!
That's the only way you'd be able to do it anyway.
He did play Dracula a lot. Maybe he's method acting not being dead.
@@davidjackson6150 Oh, no!! He hated Count Dracula!! Oh, dear, oh, dear... this is terrible, jus terrible... it's making me sound like a Chuckle Brother it's so terrible...
Yeah people talk about morgan frreman but christopher lee had hos own kind of beautiful voice. too bad he's been dead for almost 8 years
Dunno why everyone's so mopey, AI can reconstruct his voice so well you can't tell it isn't really him
For all it's comedy worth, wisdom of Discworld is breathtaking. You know, cause it's Death asking the questions?
God, I imagined he sounded like this in the books!
Krow From The Krow's Nest I kinda imagined his voice is kind of loud and booming. But I love his voice here though!
@@bobblob6220 I'm sure it can be, in the right surroundings. :)
@@hansolav5924 Death's voice probably isn't affected by the surroundings... it's described as not exactly entering through the ears...
I imagined him sounding like Samuel Ramey, the guy who voiced the Beast in Over the Garden Wall
@@justinthompson6364 Yeah, it's described as sort of just appearing inside your head without any passage of sound, but it also says something about how it feels like something, sometimes like stone slabs sliding against each other.
“Forever is composed of nows.”
- Emily Dickinson
Forever is (eternally) composed of (infinite) nows.
Or, rather, a never-ending amount of everything to count.
Time is the path integral of all nows chained together. And it can be squashed or stretched when under the influence of gravity. Time in a black hole is like time driving under the influence.
That Guru is so pretentious, which was probably the point.
For example, if he has not seen the Infinite, because it cannot be seen, as he himself said, how does he know it is black?
From the inside it's black
@@spyrofan9681 Bᴜᴛ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴜᴛsɪᴅᴇ. Iᴛ's ʙʟᴜᴇ! Bᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ!
Look up into the sky at night on a cloudless night. Look to the space between the stars. That's the infinite. When you look out there, you're seeing to the end of the universe and beyond. The infinite has stuff in it, but it is mostly empty. The infinite is mostly black *because there isn't enough light to illuminate it all.*
@@Phireo fro. The inside anything can be black.
@@FirstLast-cg2nk it's actually mostly black because, as I recently learned, most of the light that reaches us has redshifted out of the visible spectrum over the vast distances it travelled to reach us. If light did not redshift the night sky would be extremely bright.
i like how he plays atrick by appearing in the opposite direction as he asks"i was told you know everything"
First time that TH-cam give me an excellent recomendation. 👍
Old fans of this guy's books must be so exited to see the spike in popularity of his work recently!
People are coming out of the craze that eclipsed him for awhile. That book series about the Commons kid who gets to become a Lord, basically ...
Nah. Pearls before swine are still pearls.
Love how Death is wearing the Omega letter to symbolise the End of all things.
resistance , ending the spark
Death's grand adventure to get shitfaced
Yeah, and on the way he met two goofy teenagers from the Eighties...
zakfett92 and spent a lifetime contractually bonded to some kids
You mean, to get wasted to death? :J
The only thing about adaptations…is that the inside of my imagination is way cooler than any movie or cartoon could be. That said, the voice of bill door was pretty epic here. I’ve always thought of him kind of speaking *into* peoples heads, like Gaspode 🖤
I have been under the impression that Gaspode speaks normally, but people lack the First Sight and Second Thoughts to realize a dog just spoke. It's so bizarre and paranormal that their brain just glossed over it and pretends that it's their own intrusive thoughts.
I cannot help but be a little amused when Death mentions that the Infinite is 'blue', considering his eyes/orbs are blue, themselves...then again, you could argue that Death himself is Infinite...until the End of Time, that is...I think?
Might just be an odd little thing/detail, but I still think it's funny.
Also, thinking about, no matter how 'wise' a mortal 'sage' like this guru may be (even calling Death 'my son...really?), he may only have lived 1 lifetime, whereas Death has seen, experienced and observed and 'lived' countless ones, so, in a way, him keeping his sanity for as long as now is a walkin', freakin' miracle when you think about it!
(Also, sorry for prattling on, I am writing this while quite tipsy).
I don't think the sage knew who he was talking too.
@@CocoandZee Pretty much explained in many volumes Death is never invisible, nor is he incorporeal. He's just infinite and because human mind cannot comprehend that and at the same time don't want to know death is there they usually picture him differently, usually as a tall man (but they vary person to person). He can go through objects and walls because they, at one point, weren't there or won't be there. But cats can see him, so he likes cats. And wizards... wizards can see him (as they see things as they really are)... but he dislikes them as they always interrupt him when he's doing something interesting or another.
The time has indeed its own DEATH.
The clock is ticking and when it will have done one whole turn, the time will die.
The Infinite is definitely blue. Frequency 528 - that of God and love.
Reincarnation is a thing in Discworld, so it's safe to say the guru has been around for a while as well.
Welp Death has seen the infinite... from the OUTSIDE!
when you're an anthropomorphic personification of an eldrich concept that is autocontradictory, seeing the infinite from the outside should be a relatively simple task.
@@Yal_Rathol Death is Eternal as it is Nightmarish...He's also a smug bastard but that's unrelated to his occupation. (Looks up at the sky...) Great pick Big G...Great pick...
I mean it makes sense. As Death, he is beyond the infinite
"It is obvious this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Infinite...
but by our skills, at getting S**t-faced!"
This was a great animation and wonderful conversation. Deaths voice was such a good pick. Had that base to set that fear.
Best portrayal of death, he looks scary AF.
And yet he's up there with Death of the Endless from Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic as one of the most sympathetic Deaths of all time.
Then again Gaiman and Pratchett did get along quite well...
@@paireon3419 It's funny (and most definitely intentional on Pratchett's part) that Death is the most relatable character in Discworld.
@@kemanorel3110 That kinda makes a whole lot of sense because, In a way Death has a lot in common with the reader;
Both Death and the reader have an outside perspective on the Discworld.
Why are these voices so soothing? Both of them. I love this
"I've seen the infinite. It's nothing special."
This sounds like my kind of cartoon. I always wanted to believe that the afterlife, God and all the spiritual stuff is likely very anti-climactic. I'm able to make strange peace with things being neither as bad or as good as we often believe them to be
Depending on how you look at it, even the resurrection of the bible is anticlimactic since once we come back the earth is still wreckt but we have to fix it
Maybe things and the universe aren't as special from the outside, but it's the value that us, sentient beings, give to them that actually make them special. That's a big perk of being alive and conscious.
Check out the books, they are amazing.
Discworld is a fantastic series.
Start with any book, they all can stand alone
@@clayxros576 If you consider colonizing Mars or men walking on the moon anti-climatic, because there is daily life involved, then I suppose you would have a point. The Simple OP is likely to feel disappointed, however, as there is going to be much in this world that is very climatic, for him and everyone else.
"Things don't have to be the way they are. They are because that is what we have chosen."
I love that at the start, the guy Death is talking to is completely unphased by Death. Like he's going "Oh, a skeleman? Right on, what's up?"
"Infinite from the outside is blue"
It took me a while to realize he was talking about the sea and/or the sky.
Nah. He was talking about the infinite at large.
Death tells his horse to go home. Even Death knows not to drink and drive.
Never read one of the diskworld books but i love this clip, the way he tells him that he remembers everything is haunting
I CAN'T STOP REWATCHING THIS
Honestly some of the most clever writing I’ve ever heard
0:24 That head movement tho.
If I find out that Death is like this when I die...I'm totally okay with it!
It's funny that the hindi guru claims the infinite is black while Death claims its blue, when commonly the infinite is represented as blue in hindi culture, as the ocean and sky were the most infinite things.
I want to watch this series again right from the beginning with adult eyes. Watched some of it as a kid way back when.
Was Death voiced by Christopher Lee? Sounds like it. Definitely suited to the role! Amazing performance.
3ThreeHeadedMonkey it was
God bless Terry. There will never be another like you.
In the books, Death's voice is written in a different, sharper font
The same is also true for Christopher Lee
As far as I remember Death speaks in Capital letters and Bold font.
And like you say, somehow Christopher Lee managed to do the same.
Jack of blades meets the chakra master from Avatar.
Discworld was the first ps1 game i ever played as a kid.
I love the lore of the stories, game, and other media
Discworld has a game?!
I only literally just started reading one of his books but it might be worth checking out. Too bad I don't have a PS1
Aw man, they left out the part where Death says that the Infinite is duck egg-blue. Or possibly eaux-de-nil.
I dig this. Ripping away mysticism for a simple understanding.
Gods.. Sir Christopher Lees performance is mezmerizing.. I need to watch all of this.. but where?
Can we take a moment to appreciate that death tapped him on the wrong shoulder with his scythe to get him to look the other way lol
I love that this guy's arguing with death itself about the universe
Grim when he gets free time away from Billy and Mandy. Lol
Billy and Mandy's Death is Jamaican, not British.
@@TheStormMage Yeah, the accents pretty much gave that away
Anything else that's painfully obvious that I should know?
@@superzilla784 Death is dead
Evan as a comic figure, Deepak Chopra is sprouting gibberish.
1:14 we don't... we just try to put it away but we never forget.
Then he goes on to join the klatchian foreign legion, this is sould music right? if I'm not remembering it wrong.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld Soul Music
This is the book before soul music
@@TheHumanEwok no, this is Soul Music. The previous novel is Men at Arms a Nightwatchmen book.
AND gets really drunk, or tries to.
Seems like Reaper Man, imho.
Gotta say death's reaction to him trying to tell him not to drink is hilarious xD.
I once asked God to show me everything. Everything. Why everything is the way it is. And he showed me. The veil was pulled back and for a moment, I understood. I understood why things were the way they were. Then the veil was closed and the reasons were too complicated for me to understand or remember... but I know there's a plan. I saw it. I just can't remember it and I don't think I'll see it again in this life.
Today on "Samples I didn't Expect to Hear"...
Hey can you tell me tje song tjat sampled this please?
@@arielulloa4146 I doesn't come from a song; I suspect it comes from a sound library that people used in the 90's.
The notable songs I remember it being used IN are the Lego Island credits and the intro to a series of VHS tapes called "Britannica presents".
i quite like the way the sythe fades
Terry pratchett is brilliant
"Binkry...there is something I must do..."
Next scene is death at a 24 hour liquor store filling a shopping cart.
Bless Terry. Sorely missed.
"Things *don't* have to be the way they are - that's why there's a difference between the past, present, and future; because we can change the way things are, which makes it different from what it was, and who knows what it might be later."
"Humans forget things because the brain is an imperfect medium of storage - as the flesh renews itself, things we don't deem to be important are discarded to make room for new things, or to maintain space for old things being rewritten onto the new parts of it."
Death (rather Fate): I am having existential crisis. What should I do?
Sindri Myr:
Change the ways! Bend the fates!
Through distortion that Chaos creates.
To rule the world - if you decide
The eight arrows shall be your guide!
The voices are impressive and the animation is surprisingly detailed.
Off-putting is the complete lack of light and shadows. Everything has the same brightness.
I want this film inked and colour-graded, NOW!
Avaunt!
Can confirm: the infinite is indeed blue. A slightly uncomfortable shade of dusky cobalt blue.
Frequency 528. God’s love.
I just bloody got it. Death did lose his memory after imbibing a large amount of alcohol, but it wasn't the alcohol that did it. He was drunk, and got thrown into the Ankh river. And the Ankh river is considered a "magical river or other". So Death accidentally drank from it when he was thrown in, and lost his memory.
infinite is blue - the sky during the day; infinite is black - the sky during the night
I had never thought of it that way. This makes sense.
When he said "You don't know, do you?" 🤣
Poor guy is asking questions he knows that no one can answer for him, but he's trying and looking for insight in places he might have missed.
Relatable
The Death of Discworld is probably one of Sir Terry Pratchett's most iconic takes on the [Anthropomorphic Personification].
Also one of my favorite characters.
GNU, Sir Pratchett
Isn't "Omh Nae Padme Hum" (Bad spelling from me there) The Buhddivista seal that sealed Son Wukong under a mountain for 500 years
Spyro Fan it's the great compassion mantra.
I know where this clip is from; "Soul Music".
Thank you.
Rip Christopher Lee
"From the outside its Blue." And death's eyes are blue. Oh. OH.
when Saruman calls you out on your shit you know you fucked up.
How does someone not believe death when he speaks? XD
Death seems pretty cool, he's still got a threatening feel to him but he's able to have a discussion and argument.
Plus, it looks like he will indulge in alcohol.
The mind has a filter when it comes to really anomalous shit in the Diskworld books. A non magician or witch rarely notices dogs that talk or death him self.
Because it's Discworld. Folks there probably see ten things just as horrifying/mystical before breakfast
@@SpoopySquid
Not to mention they seem to be aware of rules of narrative.
He then tries to rise *above* death and while calling him "my son" and explaining to him. The Guru is not used to someone who actually has answers.
"From the outside, it`s blue. Trust me."
Wait...his eyes are blue...
Forever is inside deaths eyes.
The way they ominously zoom in on his face before he asks, "Do you understand?" you can tell he's making this guy nervous.
For a floating man claiming to know everything. He doesn't seem to know much.
Funny you should say that, considering their understanding of evil is a variation of ignorance and lack of true wisdom.
@@SirBelmerD I'l have to take your word on that. I'm going through the books now, but they haven't much talked about evil yet.
the simplest answer that I can think of to Deaths question is: We are born imperfect. We age, we get sick, we forget, we die. And but howcould we be anything else? It is our STRIVE for perfection, to be better, to do things greater than we should be able to, that makes us who we are as a species. We forget, because we are human. Because it is something that defines us so that we can learn to be BETTER.
Except he does not age, does not get sick, does not forget, does not die... poor guy. Truly, he needs the simplest answer.
Utrilus well he almost died in reaper man
Then, he cut his succesor with extreme prejudice.
"No crowns, only the harvest!"
CJ Moore
That dosent do death any favors
Death is sad about the deaths of his daughter and apprentice, he gets better and saves the world from music with rocks in
I'm uploading you because you are actually this thing and trying to answer if you ask me what death was asking I wouldn't know not that I can't answer. just that I wasn't paying attention.
Am I the only one who thinks that, in this day of Netflix et al throwing huge amounts of money at well produced shows with expansive universes, Discworld is really ripe for some worthy adaptations? I know there have been quite a few in different forms, but I'd like to see it taken to the next level, a truly Game of Thrones level of production and scope.
Alchohol doesn't actually make you forget anything. It only represses things. The only actual way to forget anything is to age. Depending on who you are this could take a whole lifetime. It is in a way the best part of growing old. So that when you die you truly die without regret.
Alcohol disconnects parts of your brain, which means memories can become unretrievable, but because of the non-localised nature of memory it mostly just makes all your memories fuzzier. Alcohol basically has terrible aim.
There are several other ways of forgetting, but the healthy ones I am familiar with all revolve around remembering and then doubting the parts of your memories. You see, whenever you remember something what you store afterwards is a new version of your memories, so if you can make it fuzzier, then it will be weaker. Repeat that often enough and the memory will be gone.
Then there is the unhealthy option of trauma: While it is true that trauma often strengthens memory, if you break a mind thoroughly enough by repeated application of varied traumas, then you can make them completely forget who they are, and once you've done that, getting them to forget everything else is easy.
The sage is me when explaining things to juniors.
I remember seeing this exact episode as a kid and no other
I love the Discworld portrayal of Death. Only thing I don't like is that his mouth doesn't move when he speaks though I think that's how it was in the books.
the mouth never moves, the words appear in the subjects head and it's usually very disorienting
It’s definitely odd. In some cases his mouth is open a bit, but it’s mostly closed with it shaping to match the expression he’s feeling. It’s odd but I do enjoy it.
Its actually quite brilliant on the animators side, because it hammers home the fact that Death is very *Very* much not human.
It cements the fact that Death is utterly inhuman... Which is kind of ironic if you've read the books.
The infinite: splits itself into many to experience all its potential
"Enlightened" man: we must go back!
Death is one of the funniest characters in Discworld.
His daughter died a few days before... So sad.
I think that was what he wanted to forget, his memory of her, the cause of his pain.
I haven't seen this in over 15 years so i could be wrong.
@@faolan1686 also he knows when his grandchild dies he knows when all the people he cares about die.
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Stefano Pavone Try being the Patrician
Stefano Pavone I don’t have a Sam Vimes unfortunately