6/3/2023 0 Comments Noughts and crosses ian rankin![]() ![]() It airs late and features too much swearing, violence and politics for a young audience, while perhaps not being brutal enough for an adult saga with such a strong premise. Television tends to make the characters in YA dramatisations older, because the genre’s habit of placing teens in shockingly adult situations would seem inappropriate on screen in a way that it doesn’t in print.įailing to pull this transition off is what kills Noughts + Crosses as a drama. On the page, the twin protagonists are kids, 13 and 15 as the story begins, who have a simplicity of worldview and expression that is movingly at odds with the extreme horror of the events they are entangled in. Malorie Blackman’s books – this second TV series is based roughly on the final few chapters of 2001’s Noughts + Crosses, with some of the 2004 follow-up, Knife Edge, mixed in and numerous changes made – are young adult novels. ![]()
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