I suppose this is where John Wagner's famously terse scripts don't help. But where the listener could do with a bit more description,a bit more atmospheric noise, we don't get very much at all. In the comic they have to be short, because you don't want to obscure all the artwork with boxes and balloons. The narration is particularly brief, pretty much reading the captions. Here and there we get the sort of description which probably works better as narration rather than character speech. Relying mainly on the spoken word, one can't help but hear the flaws in the dialogue - which in the first three episodes, based as they are on something more than 40 years old, is going to sound a little stilted. Problem is, since this is sound-only, one doesn't have Brian Bolland, Brett Ewins, Robin Smith, and Cliff Robinson's visuals. I can understand wanting to preserve as much of John Wagner and Alan Grant's original script as possible, not wanting to add too much and definitely not wanting to take anything away from it. I think it might be because they were trying for too close an adaptation. (edited to remove a couple of points which, on a second listen, I figured were a bit unfair of me and to add something about the five-minute episode format) I'm not sure what I expected, going in. Faithful adaptation, but a little unsatisfying.
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