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**Chris** · 01-10-2013, 08:41

I'm pretty sure it will bed in nicely but the first ep was a little disappointing. They wasted an opportunity to actually show us some of the "I've never felt I fitted in" stuff. They went to the trouble of casting Mark Lewis Jones as the gruff uncle figure, and sticking them both on a boat somewhere, yet that establishing sequence lasted all of about 2 minutes. We should have had a first episode that was split maybe 50/50 between the 21st century and classical Greece, then all the weighty portentious stuff with the Oracle and the Minotaur in part 2. As it was, it looked like a 2-parter that got savaged in the final edit due to a last minute decision. In one or two spots the editing was extremely crummy. On a professional TV production you shouldn't even be aware of the editor's scissors.

Besides all that ... I have no doubt it will turn into a perfectly competent piece of Saturday night telly, even if I am tempted to whisper Meeerrrrlinnn in a John Hurt voice whenever the title screen comes up.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,140	Re: Atlantis I'm pretty sure it will bed in nicely but the first ep was a little disappointing. They wasted an opportunity to actually show us some of the "I've never felt I fitted in" stuff. They went to the trouble of casting Mark Lewis Jones as the gruff uncle figure, and sticking them both on a boat somewhere, yet that establishing sequence lasted all of about 2 minutes. We should have had a first episode that was split maybe 50/50 between the 21st century and classical Greece, then all the weighty portentious stuff with the Oracle and the Minotaur in part 2. As it was, it looked like a 2-parter that got savaged in the final edit due to a last minute decision. In one or two spots the editing was extremely crummy. On a professional TV production you shouldn't even be aware of the editor's scissors. Besides all that ... I have no doubt it will turn into a perfectly competent piece of Saturday night telly, even if I am tempted to whisper Meeerrrrlinnn in a John Hurt voice whenever the title screen comes up.