Thread: TV Adaptation of "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell"
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Old 05-18-2015, 07:12 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
I enjoyed the first episode too. However it did suffer slightly from me having just started reading the book the day before so I was very aware of all the changes. Nothing major, some necessary compression of the plot, a few dialogue changes and additions. My biggest gripe so far is that
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Vinculus is a lot less cryptic on screen than in the book. So a couple of things I only suspected (still not halfway through) were confirmed. Plus it feels like the subtlety is being removed. But then there's time for multiple repetitions of the prophecy in the book which there aren't on screen I guess.
I agree with your comments, but when you're compressing a very large book into a 6h TV series, cuts and changes are inevitable.
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