Binge watched this weekend. I'll try not to mention too many spoilers.
In my opinion very well done. They stayed fairly faithful to the comics and the plot deviations I didn't mind too much although i'm not sure why they felt they needed to in some cases. Was a bit disappointed with how Hector Hall was not the DC/classic Sandman, instead he had a different role.
The "Cereal" convention and the episode with John Dee in the cafe were both well done.
Most of the casting choices I'm pretty fine with with a couple of exceptions.
Lucien both gender and (kind of) race swapped. The actor is a good actor, but they just are not Lucien. I'm not sure why they couldn't have found a better actor who could portray Lucien better.
Cain and Able.- well actors are decent enough but its their shapes. Cain should be tall and thin, Able short and fat. Instead they made them both almost identical. Also, Cain didn't quite come across as being psychotic enough for me.
The Endless. Their skin simply isn't white enough. It should be alabaster white. Even Dream wasn't white enough. This isn't even a matter of the skin colour of the actor, because nobody has that colour skin in real life.
On the flip side, Lucifer being gender swapped (if you can call it that) is a non-issue, since angles are not specifically meant to have genders, although some in the comics are portrayed as favouring one gender or another, although that might be more in Mike Carey's work rather than Niel Gaiman's. Anyway, Gwendolyn does a good job here.
Stephen Fry as Fiddler's Green was... well, was there any other possible actor who could have played the role?
Overall: Fantastic series and well worth watching.
Be curious to see if season 2 gets greenlit and how far they can take it. Would love to see it get taken through to the last book in the series.
And after that? Maybe Lucifer can get a proper TV adaptation? I mean, i enjoyed the Lucifer TV series for what it was, a supernatural buddy cop drama, but its not the comicbook Lucifer and story.
In my opinion very well done. They stayed fairly faithful to the comics and the plot deviations I didn't mind too much although i'm not sure why they felt they needed to in some cases. Was a bit disappointed with how Hector Hall was not the DC/classic Sandman, instead he had a different role.
The "Cereal" convention and the episode with John Dee in the cafe were both well done.
Most of the casting choices I'm pretty fine with with a couple of exceptions.
Lucien both gender and (kind of) race swapped. The actor is a good actor, but they just are not Lucien. I'm not sure why they couldn't have found a better actor who could portray Lucien better.
Cain and Able.- well actors are decent enough but its their shapes. Cain should be tall and thin, Able short and fat. Instead they made them both almost identical. Also, Cain didn't quite come across as being psychotic enough for me.
The Endless. Their skin simply isn't white enough. It should be alabaster white. Even Dream wasn't white enough. This isn't even a matter of the skin colour of the actor, because nobody has that colour skin in real life.
On the flip side, Lucifer being gender swapped (if you can call it that) is a non-issue, since angles are not specifically meant to have genders, although some in the comics are portrayed as favouring one gender or another, although that might be more in Mike Carey's work rather than Niel Gaiman's. Anyway, Gwendolyn does a good job here.
Stephen Fry as Fiddler's Green was... well, was there any other possible actor who could have played the role?
Overall: Fantastic series and well worth watching.
Be curious to see if season 2 gets greenlit and how far they can take it. Would love to see it get taken through to the last book in the series.
And after that? Maybe Lucifer can get a proper TV adaptation? I mean, i enjoyed the Lucifer TV series for what it was, a supernatural buddy cop drama, but its not the comicbook Lucifer and story.
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