'His Dark Materials: The Complete Second Season': HBO's adaptation of 'The Subtle Knife,' the second book in Philip Pullman's award-winning fantasy series, continues the story of Lyra and Will as they travel between worlds and work to uncover the secrets of Dust. 'Percy Vs Goliath': Christopher Walken stars as a Canadian farmer who takes on Monsanto, with Christina Ricci as the lawyer helping him fight the corporate giant. But, as happens in detective fiction, a seemingly mundane assignment will expose deeper fissures, just as the sudden reappearance of an old friend turned enemy - Samuel Adewumni's Carcer Dun - will set Vimes on a new trajectory.' Sam Vimes (Richard Dormer), the Watch, whose ranks never swell here to more than five, has become largely irrelevant. 'Led, sort of, by an often inebriated Capt.

The show 'is a mystery story that involves dragons, a missing library book, and the administration of justice (or lack therof) in the city of Ankh-Morpork, where thieves and assassins have trade guilds and immunity from prosecution, as long as they stay within their quotas and leave a receipt,' Lloyd writes. In 'The Watch,' a group of these characters come together to help save their city. 'Unlike the magisterial Middle-earth of 'Lord of the Rings,' and its many imitators, everything here is a little shopworn, in various stages of decay and improvised repair - the characters as much as the world they inhabit.' 'The Watch: Season One': 'The setting for 41 novels, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, a flat Earth balanced on four elephants standing on the back of a turtle, where physics are powered by magic and collective imagination, goes the comic route,' writes Los Angeles Times critic Robert Lloyd in his review. A TV show inspired by the characters that populated the works of a beloved fantasy author tops the DVD releases for the week of June 29.

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