Hmmmm. Apparently we have dis-convergent tastes on some of these --- actually on all of the ones I've watched. I'll discuss what I liked, not that I expect you to share any of my opinions.
I really enjoyed "Blood Ties" and the young man who plays Henry (I thought he was too young at first, but he grew on me) quite a bit. It definitely diverged from the books, but there were some funny and cool episodes. I do not recommend the latter half of the season (season 2, here in the US) as the stories got much darker and it ends at an emotionally unsatisfying place for me. But I will say that the woman who played Vicki Nelson and the man who played Mike Celluci were quite spot on imho. (As they were in Tanya Huff's opinion.)
"Hogfather" -- we did watch it on tv when it showed, so the kids did watch it, too. They seemed to be okay with it, though they are definitely used to sf/fantasy being on screen. The plot was a bit confusing on screen even though it's one of my favorite Discworld books (hey, my NAME is in there! and I adore the department store appearance of the Hogfather) but they did an amazing job of it in terms of being about as visually close to the world as it's possible to be.
"Prince Caspian" -- okay, I admit it. I like Ben Barnes. I didn't recall how young Caspian was (14?) in the original book when we saw it, so I was okay with him being the age he was. I also figured that he was just a bit thick about his uncle's true colors (it could happen!) I really enjoyed the griffin scenes (I am a collector of good griffin scenes, for obvious reasons) and was impatient for Aslan's return. I wish they'd shown more of that, with Bacchus and all, too.
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Date: 2009-08-13 11:31 pm (UTC)I really enjoyed "Blood Ties" and the young man who plays Henry (I thought he was too young at first, but he grew on me) quite a bit. It definitely diverged from the books, but there were some funny and cool episodes. I do not recommend the latter half of the season (season 2, here in the US) as the stories got much darker and it ends at an emotionally unsatisfying place for me. But I will say that the woman who played Vicki Nelson and the man who played Mike Celluci were quite spot on imho. (As they were in Tanya Huff's opinion.)
"Hogfather" -- we did watch it on tv when it showed, so the kids did watch it, too. They seemed to be okay with it, though they are definitely used to sf/fantasy being on screen. The plot was a bit confusing on screen even though it's one of my favorite Discworld books (hey, my NAME is in there! and I adore the department store appearance of the Hogfather) but they did an amazing job of it in terms of being about as visually close to the world as it's possible to be.
"Prince Caspian" -- okay, I admit it. I like Ben Barnes. I didn't recall how young Caspian was (14?) in the original book when we saw it, so I was okay with him being the age he was. I also figured that he was just a bit thick about his uncle's true colors (it could happen!) I really enjoyed the griffin scenes (I am a collector of good griffin scenes, for obvious reasons) and was impatient for Aslan's return. I wish they'd shown more of that, with Bacchus and all, too.