Well that's the first episode and it was rather better than I'd been led to expect.
As something of an expert on the novel (I studied it for four long years at school and can still recite most of it from memory) I actually don't mind a bit of licence being taken. I might've preferred the retention of somewhat more of Dickens' marvellous and often highly comic dialogue but, in general, so far I find the production quite respectful of, and in keeping with, the original.
My main beef is simply, why? We already have so many screen adaptations of Great Expectations and there are plenty of other classic novels deserving of attention.
I do feel that anyone giving a one-star review should declare whether they have actually read the novel or whether, instead, they are basing their ire on some idealised notion of the tale from some previous screen adaptation.
Perhaps they could also let us know whether they were also furious about black elves in Amazon's Rings of Power.
As something of an expert on the novel (I studied it for four long years at school and can still recite most of it from memory) I actually don't mind a bit of licence being taken. I might've preferred the retention of somewhat more of Dickens' marvellous and often highly comic dialogue but, in general, so far I find the production quite respectful of, and in keeping with, the original.
My main beef is simply, why? We already have so many screen adaptations of Great Expectations and there are plenty of other classic novels deserving of attention.
I do feel that anyone giving a one-star review should declare whether they have actually read the novel or whether, instead, they are basing their ire on some idealised notion of the tale from some previous screen adaptation.
Perhaps they could also let us know whether they were also furious about black elves in Amazon's Rings of Power.