I read the book years ago and I enjoyed the Richard Chamberlain /Mifune series.
Came across the Disney offering with great anticipation and began watching episode 1. My initial thoughts:
Yes it's lavish and looks good, but (the big BUT)
The story telling is poor and unnecessarily long winded (presumably to milk the story for the longest possible time)
The central character Blackthorne, with his 'put on' English 'Dick Van Dyke' cor blimey Mary Poppins accent, I found intensely irritating (being English) and this detracts from the story in addition to the tediously slow story
The Japanese actors with subtitles, all look good and play their parts but it's just too 'talky talky talky' that is frankly boring.
Not a patch on the Mifune/Chamberlain version, which used a bit of narration to explain context and set the background.
Yet another streaming series designed to milk a story to death (and thereby ruin it) 6.5/10 for the first episode .
Doubt i will bother watching much further.
Came across the Disney offering with great anticipation and began watching episode 1. My initial thoughts:
Yes it's lavish and looks good, but (the big BUT)
The story telling is poor and unnecessarily long winded (presumably to milk the story for the longest possible time)
The central character Blackthorne, with his 'put on' English 'Dick Van Dyke' cor blimey Mary Poppins accent, I found intensely irritating (being English) and this detracts from the story in addition to the tediously slow story
The Japanese actors with subtitles, all look good and play their parts but it's just too 'talky talky talky' that is frankly boring.
Not a patch on the Mifune/Chamberlain version, which used a bit of narration to explain context and set the background.
Yet another streaming series designed to milk a story to death (and thereby ruin it) 6.5/10 for the first episode .
Doubt i will bother watching much further.
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