Watchmen and His Dark Materials are neighbors on HBO, but the way they treat their source material is miles apart.
. Both literary works are widely considered masterpieces of their respective genres, and both have proven famously resistant to screen transition, as evidenced by the widely derided cinematic attempts of the decade prior.is a relatively straight-ahead transposition of Pullman’s work; thus far, the only significant deviation from the arc of the trilogy has been to introduce the character of Will Parry much earlier than in the books.
And yet while Pullman himself is credited as an executive producer, what the show misses most is his voice. The books’ third-person narration is their most intoxicating element, wry and mystical and always inviting; it’s the engine through which Pullman so beautifully realizes the trilogy’s worlds and the inner lives of his characters.
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