there need to be regular 'breaths' when we are taken from the high drama of the wild night on the Goblin to something completely different.though it works perfectly well in the book, for modern children used to 'mild peril' right up to the end, the comfortable journey home with 'Daddy' at the helm could be something of an anti-climax after all the excitement. The Amazons and Captain Flint) are absent instead the Swallows are more-or-less on their own some of the favourite characters of other books (e.g.most of the action takes place across one night in a small boat in the dark.There are also a number of key challenges: There is genuine peril, and a claustrophobic atmosphere with great cinematic potential: the four heroes trapped in a small boat (the Goblin) and surrounded by a ferocious sea the arrival at the strange foreign port, hoping that the Dutch harbour pilot will not realise there are only children on board, etc. Given a strong script and strong performances, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea has the potential to be the most dramatic and exciting of all the Swallows' stories when adapted for screen or stage. (These were some notes I wrote some months ago, which I was asked to turf out by contributors to Tarboard - I hope they are of interest!)
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