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Old 11-11-2019, 13:44   #25
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Re: His Dark Materials

Given that it’s meant to be a story for upper primary/lower high school kids, it’s doing pretty well so far. It is suffering slightly from having been written by a high school English teacher who obviously has a very clear idea what a classic children’s story is supposed to be like, and has very deliberately set out to write one; it’s suffering further by being dramatised by people who grew up watching classic children’s literature being serialised by the BBC in the 1970s and 80s. Sure, it’s fantastical, but once you get used to the admittedly superb CG creatures that follow the main characters around there are long passages when it looks a bit ordinary. A lot of creeping up and down corridors. The occasional, grand-scale CG settings, like the university crypt, are the equal of Potter or Middle Earth as seen on the big screen, but scenes like that are, so far, few and far between. I’m hoping they’ve saved the budget for the crazy stuff still to come “up north”. We’ll still be watching it anyway as my youngest loves it, and to be fair she is the target audience.
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