I was excited hearing about this because TV seems such a natural forum within which to adapt the novels - you can get right into the characters and the situations and extract all the juice. But this was terribly disappointing.
Episode one gets things off to a poor start. There's countless tracking shots (cranes, steadicams) and montages and no scenes of the characters actually interacting, no dramatisation. Was this how it was originally scripted or was it re-cut? The acting is poor from the young kids. Those playing the invaders put on accents like in they're some Monogram war film of the 1940s. I've read the books and I found it hard to tell who was who.
It improves as it goes along, but not by much.
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