>> What an excellent series it is. Watched another recorded episode earlier tonight.
If I can get to the end I might come to a kinder view, but I find it very one-dimensional. It seems to have very little humour or humanity in it (there is a bit, but it seems to have been pasted in and doesn't touch most of the characters). I thought at one point what a wonderful story it would have been had Patrick O'Brien written it, how much more depth there would have been to the characters and historical context, and how much less dreary the dialogue would be. The episodes aren't very long but they seem interminable because so little happens.
I was really expecting something much better, perhaps that's the problem.
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