If your someone that can watch a remade film or series without consistently thinking it should replicate the original or the book, you may just find some enjoyment out of this delightful adventure series.
It's nothing like the original by the already mentioned too many times, but....
It's an engaging story if you give it a chance with a great cast.
Admittedly, pacing is pretty poor at times and more so in episode one. I was close to switching off at this stage because it seemed the writers had originally planned an 80 episode series, changed there mind and edited the first ten episodes badly into episode 1. If you can get past this rather disappointing start, there's an exciting story to be told in the next 7 episodes and yes, they do get better and better. The characters grow and you slowly get hooked on a completely different story to what one may call original, but who the f cares.
Give it a chance, there's far worse than this getting churned out constantly on Netflix and Amazon, it was actually refreshing to see a different take on this story. I'm a huge fan of phileas fogg, having seen all the films and series from the past, it takes nothing away from the latest take on a great adventure story.
It's definitely a grower.
It's nothing like the original by the already mentioned too many times, but....
It's an engaging story if you give it a chance with a great cast.
Admittedly, pacing is pretty poor at times and more so in episode one. I was close to switching off at this stage because it seemed the writers had originally planned an 80 episode series, changed there mind and edited the first ten episodes badly into episode 1. If you can get past this rather disappointing start, there's an exciting story to be told in the next 7 episodes and yes, they do get better and better. The characters grow and you slowly get hooked on a completely different story to what one may call original, but who the f cares.
Give it a chance, there's far worse than this getting churned out constantly on Netflix and Amazon, it was actually refreshing to see a different take on this story. I'm a huge fan of phileas fogg, having seen all the films and series from the past, it takes nothing away from the latest take on a great adventure story.
It's definitely a grower.