I read the book in primary school over 35 years ago and all of us would anxiously wait for the next chapter. The excitement, adventure and FUN that the book has in abundance is totally missing from this, horrid, typical modern/day re/working of a classic.
It's fine to introduce more diversity into a classic tale, it's fine to tweak aspects for TV/film, but why remove the base element of FUN? Why does everything on bbc have to be a social commentary?
Fogg is portrayed as almost cowardly. Not the organised, efficient English-gent that Verne wrote. Why would the bbc coward-like 'shell' man embark on such an adventure? Of course he wouldn't, but in this day and age we can't have a white, wealthy middle-class man be anything but cowardly, neurotic and slightly helpless.
It's fine to introduce more diversity into a classic tale, it's fine to tweak aspects for TV/film, but why remove the base element of FUN? Why does everything on bbc have to be a social commentary?
Fogg is portrayed as almost cowardly. Not the organised, efficient English-gent that Verne wrote. Why would the bbc coward-like 'shell' man embark on such an adventure? Of course he wouldn't, but in this day and age we can't have a white, wealthy middle-class man be anything but cowardly, neurotic and slightly helpless.