Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
08/12/2014 00:00:00
Pretty sure it was never a book... It was always a play.
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KarkatTheDalek
Since: Mar, 2012
08/29/2015 00:00:00
Well, the play has been published in book form. I should know, I'm looking at it right now.
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Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
08/29/2015 00:00:00
As in a prose novel or as in a script?
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KarkatTheDalek
Since: Mar, 2012
11/06/2015 00:00:00
As a script.
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KarkatTheDalek
Since: Mar, 2012
11/11/2015 00:00:00
Though that said, having never seen it onstage, I think it translates pretty well to the screen so far.
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Better as a Book...
Honestly, this transferred poorly to the screen.
As a book, it's excellent, even if the mythology references and dialogue is more than a bit over the top.
The stage play did excellent justice to the book, if only because it inherently involves the audience in the character's actions and surroundings. Theater is indeed the proper medium for this work.
But the TV series....
It drags utterly. And all the mythological aspects come across as ridiculous. The lack of the audience also changes how we perceive the dialogue, where goes from inclusive in the theater, to preachy/overblown and hackneyed when that audience is removed.
I can honestly say: read the book, then see it in a theatrical production, even if you have the shorter version which roughly corresponds to the miniseries. It's simply not the same as a mini-series; in fact, it comes off as ludicrous rather than profound.
Sometimes, things belong in a specific medium. This is one of them.