Yes, likewise. I'm skimming for worldbuilding in this reread, basically, which includes denizens of London Below. (Thus Door, the Marquis, and... everybody who isn't Richard, basically.)
Though I think part of it may, as someone (Sandry, I believe) was saying to me recently, be the fact that it's a book that was adapted from a television script. It doesn't seem to have been adapted enough, because it takes "show, don't tell" TOO far -- there's very little under the surface of Richard's thoughts that isn't shown anyway by what he says. And that's one of the things I find most annoying about him: the fact that he keeps on saying "I don't get it" and making dumb assumptions aloud even after he should have had it proven to him that none of his assumptions are likely to be correct. I don't mind him making them based on prior understanding of the world; I mind that he doesn't know how to stop making himself stand out as not only a Topsider but an idiotic one, and that he's apparently the world's slowest learner. And I think some of that may be because internal monologue gets you precisely nowhere on tv, unless you've got an actor with very eloquent facial expressions, and there wasn't enough adaptation to make Richard work for the book as well.
Mind, I haven't actually seen the show, so possibly he's just as irritating there.
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Date: 2007-06-08 03:12 pm (UTC)Though I think part of it may, as someone (Sandry, I believe) was saying to me recently, be the fact that it's a book that was adapted from a television script. It doesn't seem to have been adapted enough, because it takes "show, don't tell" TOO far -- there's very little under the surface of Richard's thoughts that isn't shown anyway by what he says. And that's one of the things I find most annoying about him: the fact that he keeps on saying "I don't get it" and making dumb assumptions aloud even after he should have had it proven to him that none of his assumptions are likely to be correct. I don't mind him making them based on prior understanding of the world; I mind that he doesn't know how to stop making himself stand out as not only a Topsider but an idiotic one, and that he's apparently the world's slowest learner. And I think some of that may be because internal monologue gets you precisely nowhere on tv, unless you've got an actor with very eloquent facial expressions, and there wasn't enough adaptation to make Richard work for the book as well.
Mind, I haven't actually seen the show, so possibly he's just as irritating there.