Perhaps I'm wrong about the series Perhaps I'm too fickle and transient in my affections  and can't stay loyal to something for all its flaws Yet whilst initially I was truly bewitched by this BBC adaptation of the monolithically-long novel  and in admiration for how it was capturing a sprawling narrative concisely without losing complexity  I started to sense the  well  magic fading significantly in the hurried  frantic last two episodes of this splendid adaption  and here I think is the main reason why - the very complexity meant that despite seven hours of material  so much was left skin-deep