The book is unreadably bad. What are you talking about?
The book is unreadably bad. What are you talking about?
@TACJ Not in any way arguing that the dialogue in the book is good. Just that it's incongruous that they made a TV show about a book aimed at/about smart people and made the dialogue very dumb.
@StuartJRitchie Many such cases. I live in horror of someone taking Stephen Baxter to television. Although - as you imply - you would think major production companies could afford to pay someone to touch up the dialogue.
@TACJ Like, literally, I will do it. For free! I've never done anything like that before and yet I'm certain I could make the characters sound more like normal human beings within about 30 mins.
@StuartJRitchie I had the same thought with the Prometheus film. Amazing that they had all that money for special effects and actors and literally none of it was spent on writing good dialogue.