Anyone else watched it?
I've seen the first 3 so far and am in two minds about it.
I'm liking Tom Sturridge. He's certainly got the look of Morpheus down. When he relaxes and stops over-enunciating every word, he's pretty much spot on, which is no mean feat
There's something about the general tone of it that just feels a little too in awe of it's source material (like Synder's Watchmen), and there's an air that its extremely keen to emphasis how grown up it is by parachuting in the odd bit of tactical swearing. It reminds me a little of "Angel" at times.
It's following the order of the comics very closely (basically an episode per issue so far) which should in fairness mean that once it gets past the opening issues which were fairly traditional (hero embarks on quest to regain powers and show audience what his character is) and into the interesting stuff post "The Sound of Her Wings", it could really take off
The decision to set it in a non DC universe is a good one (but then keeping Cain and Abel seemed fairly pointless for an audience not familiar with DC lore.).
I hope it does well as it's obviously had a very large amount of money and love poured into it.
I've seen the first 3 so far and am in two minds about it.
I'm liking Tom Sturridge. He's certainly got the look of Morpheus down. When he relaxes and stops over-enunciating every word, he's pretty much spot on, which is no mean feat
There's something about the general tone of it that just feels a little too in awe of it's source material (like Synder's Watchmen), and there's an air that its extremely keen to emphasis how grown up it is by parachuting in the odd bit of tactical swearing. It reminds me a little of "Angel" at times.
It's following the order of the comics very closely (basically an episode per issue so far) which should in fairness mean that once it gets past the opening issues which were fairly traditional (hero embarks on quest to regain powers and show audience what his character is) and into the interesting stuff post "The Sound of Her Wings", it could really take off
The decision to set it in a non DC universe is a good one (but then keeping Cain and Abel seemed fairly pointless for an audience not familiar with DC lore.).
I hope it does well as it's obviously had a very large amount of money and love poured into it.