Thud!/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

** Actually, ''every'' scene where Vimes is with his son, or even thinks about him and his own feelings and responsibilities as a father, could qualify. Seeing my favourite ex-depressed drunken hard-boiled misanthropist being all awed by this new-found happiness makes me beam each time.

** Carrot {{spoiler|considers the resulting traffic jam worth the price of making sure that Vimes gets home in time to read to Young Sam}}.

** Related to this is the way Vimes thinks about his wife and baby son, and how he loves them so much and is so happy with them and with the way his life has turned out that he's afraid the universe will do something cataclysmically awful to him in order to balance the books. It's typical of Vimes to be so cynical... but think about the worst catastrophe you can imagine in your life, and then realize that he considers his home life to be the exact ''opposite'' of that, because he loves his family ''that much'', and it swings right back into CMOH territory.

** The rendition near the end just before they reach Koom Valley with everyone gathering around and joining in was a particular crystallizer of pretty much every bit of heartwarming in the book. "Show Of The Year," indeed.

* The bit when Brick, the junkie, the lowest of the low, raises his hands in a gesture which implies the whole universe was against him. "Well, Detritus was on his side now. That evened the odds a little bit."

* Another Brick one:

* The cavern under Koom Valley, and the kings' message on the Device.

* Vimes notices you can tell when Carrot is walking down the street by the way Angua looks at the door.

* Also when Sally says everytime Angua sees Carrot her heart skips a beat.

* It's weirdly moving to see such a clear representation of the fact that Vimes isn't kidding when he answers the "Who watches the watchman?" question with "Me." He means that absolutely literally, every moment of his life.

* Heartwarming, violent troll style, because it's always nice to see that the Watchmen are as loyal to their Commander as he is to them.

* From the first scene where Vimes reads to Young Sam, mention is made that the family's pet, VERY elderly, toothless, raggedy-winged dragon pads up the stairs every night and takes up position beneath Young Sam's crib. No one seems to know why. Quite heartwarming for a pet-owner.

** At first I thought it was a missed [[Chekhov's Gun]] during the scene when Vimes was looking for a weapon in Sam's room, that the old dragon still has fire to protect its family. Damn.