Agree 100% on Jessica Jones and I, Claudius, both amazingly good adaptations of the comic / book.
For some reason I don't quite have the same feeling for the Sandman stories - they're good, but Gaiman's work throughout the series was so good that they didn't especially stand out for me. Incidentally, have you seen the 2016 BBC adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Russel T. Davies? It's a lot of fun.
West Side Story - saw it when I was maybe too young, 9 or 10, in the early 1960s in a double bill with Carmen Jones, don't think I've seen it since. I do seem to remember a lot about it - some of the tunes especially - so it definitely made an impression on me. I remember a lot more about it than the later 1996 Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, which I think is the most recent I've seen, but that really isn't surprising.
Don't know Black Ships at all, I'll have a look if a copy comes my way.
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For some reason I don't quite have the same feeling for the Sandman stories - they're good, but Gaiman's work throughout the series was so good that they didn't especially stand out for me. Incidentally, have you seen the 2016 BBC adaptation of Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Russel T. Davies? It's a lot of fun.
West Side Story - saw it when I was maybe too young, 9 or 10, in the early 1960s in a double bill with Carmen Jones, don't think I've seen it since. I do seem to remember a lot about it - some of the tunes especially - so it definitely made an impression on me. I remember a lot more about it than the later 1996 Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, which I think is the most recent I've seen, but that really isn't surprising.
Don't know Black Ships at all, I'll have a look if a copy comes my way.