The story is all here, but none of the magic.
To take one particular example, I watched the entire thing to see how they would handle _The Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ only to see that they handled it in the saddest way possible -- omitting the entire episode! That's what I mean -- all the magic drained.
There's something about children's books that means they should not be adapted by people who did not feel their power as children. I see something similar with Narnia adaptations -- if your heart does not thrill to the term _The Wood Between the Worlds_, if you don't consider that the most arresting image in the entire Narnia canon, then you have no business being any part of a Narnia movie/TV series/Broadway musical!
To take one particular example, I watched the entire thing to see how they would handle _The Piper at the Gates of Dawn_ only to see that they handled it in the saddest way possible -- omitting the entire episode! That's what I mean -- all the magic drained.
There's something about children's books that means they should not be adapted by people who did not feel their power as children. I see something similar with Narnia adaptations -- if your heart does not thrill to the term _The Wood Between the Worlds_, if you don't consider that the most arresting image in the entire Narnia canon, then you have no business being any part of a Narnia movie/TV series/Broadway musical!