there's a whole minute's worth of the JS&MN TV series out now!

[kate_nepveu]

Trailer. The AV Club says it starts airing next month on BBC One; no specific date on BBC One's website, nothing on BBC America about whether it will air simultaneous.

. . . I hate it. The frenetic music, the wizard-fu, the dull colors. I just about recoiled from the screen with wrong.

Of course I'll still watch it, but, ugh. I hope this is entirely unrepresentative.

Comments

[metaphortunate]

It is definitely from the Harry Potter school of Dark Blue Cinematography, but, IDK, I am more hopeful. Perhaps I am just charmed to see a fantasy with no superheroes in it. ;)

[kate_nepveu]

Everything is from the school of dark blue cinematography lately and I'm so tired of it. Yes, they didn't have artificial indoor lighting, but they also had more than one candle, you know!

I'm still hopeful, there are some things it would be great to see on screen, and yeah, it's very different and that itself is promising, but wow, I was super not impressed.

[jorriespencer]

Has it already played in Britain? I thought I heard complaints about it being too dark. (Well, unless I was confused and they were talking about something else. Perfectly possible.)

I liked some things, near the end, certainly enough that I plan to watch it. Though, like you, I plan to watch it anyway. Especially after the Tor reread!

[kate_nepveu]

Two episodes were played at a preview screening a couple weeks ago, so you may have seen comments about that?

[abigail_n.livejournal.com]

Watching the trailer made me realize how little I remember about the book. The general outline of the plot, the tone, the footnotes, yes, but I've completely lost the sense of what I'd expect an adaptation to be. I doubt I have the time to reread it before the miniseries comes out, but it might be worth doing so some time this year.

[kate_nepveu]

I found the Tor.com reread a really worthwhile project, so I'm curious to hear what you think on rereading!

[oracne]

*sigh* I got stuck partway into the book. It's still sitting at the foot of my bed, underneath a bunch of nonfiction.

[kate_nepveu]

How far did you get? I might be able to tell you if you should go on.

[oracne]

I do want to go on - I was enjoying it. Maybe it took too much brain for where I was at? I'm just past the first appearance of Vinculus, BTW.

[kate_nepveu]

Good luck finding your groove again!

[musesfool]

I don't think it's coming to BBC America until later in the summer. There was definitely an ad during Orphan Black, but I was FFing through the commercials and didn't stop.

[kate_nepveu]

Vex. Thanks.

(Apparently it is standard BBC practice to only announce air dates two weeks in advance?! What is up with that?)

[sovay]

. . . I hate it. The frenetic music, the wizard-fu, the dull colors. I just about recoiled from the screen with wrong.

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" was very nearly the worst music they could have backed it with and I continue to feel it should be filmed like an Austen adaptation, not a contemporary dark fantasy. (I would also settle for a Richard Dadd painting.) Otherwise, having heard almost nothing about the project until now, I am heartened by the casting of Eddie Marsan as Mr Norrell, Marc Warren looks almost exactly like the book's illustrations of the gentleman with thistle-down hair (i.e., absolutely nothing like my mental image, but at least arguably canonical), I don't recognize the actor playing Strange at all, and everything else I am reserving judgment on. The script had better have done well by Stephen.

[kate_nepveu]

like an Austen adaptation, not a contemporary dark fantasy

The text would definitely support that at least for the early parts (it compares itself to Gothic novels later on).

[damerell]

There are, at least, some frames in there which are not entirely teal and orange. :-/