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Tonight I watched a really cool programme on the BBC. Well, at least I thought it was cool. It was the TV adaptation of Robert Harris’s Archangel. It was really good and I was really impressed.
See, usually I hate TV adaptations, because they have a tendency to ruin the book. Not this time. The dialogue was right, the events were right, it had the right ‘feel’ which was the same as came from the book. The scenes were just how I saw them my mind when I read the book. And I loved the book in the first place.
With the Sum of All Fears (another one of my favourites) They completely changed the story. Aside from the basic ‘Nuclear weapon goes off in the United States’ and the bit about how the weapon came to be lost. It was totally different. It didn’t fit into the ‘Ryan-verse’. It was all out of sync (even with the previous Jack Ryan films) and it omitted some of the best bits of the book.
Which was why I was a bit dubious about Archangel. And I was very pleasantly surprised. I just hope that the second part is as good.