Just watched the first episode of the above. Does it get any better?
Clearly they have thrown a lot of money at it and to be honest, I can't really remember what the original TV series was like – other than nothing like it had been attempted.
A lot has happened in the last 40 years.
Feels like the first episode was designed to set up the facts around there being an established African culture over and above the old school (and totally wrong) image of all Africans living in huts like a 1930's Tarzan movie. Also the complicity of Africans in the slave trade itself for local tribal/political gain.
Not at all sure I remember that from 1977!
A small thing that really got on my nerves was everyone talking English with some African accent or the other, which for me just jarred.
The old trick of speaking a native language for a few lines and then switching, didn't really work when everyone sounded like Eddie Murphy in "Coming to America".
Whats wrong with the real language and subtitles for one episode?
worries about not losing his rules stuff.
