The main issue for me is changing the characters and their motives. Write your own story If that's your thing. Don't mess with Dickens. I didn't take issue with Estella being a woman of color, but the actress is charmless in the role. Pip also starts out too old and no longer wants to be like his uncle. Now he wants to be a gentleman. It makes Pip so much less likable to give him that motive as a boy.
The violence in the series made it feel like a Guy Ritchie movie to me. Unnecessary and dark. Since Dickens got paid by the word, I'm sure he would have loved to throw in all the F bombs and Pip repeating "sh$$" constantly but he didn't, and it comes off as weak writing here. As a lover of the classics, I know each generation needs to make the story its own, but this is a different story. I'm two episodes in and I won't finish.
The violence in the series made it feel like a Guy Ritchie movie to me. Unnecessary and dark. Since Dickens got paid by the word, I'm sure he would have loved to throw in all the F bombs and Pip repeating "sh$$" constantly but he didn't, and it comes off as weak writing here. As a lover of the classics, I know each generation needs to make the story its own, but this is a different story. I'm two episodes in and I won't finish.