The Story of the Sheep and the Dog

I love the notion of your being sort of a narrative archaeologist, as you say. The show takes some these stories in different directions than the books do. That the sheep in this first episode, or the irish traveller and the dog in a later episode, are vastly different than they appear in the books. Those stories, how do you decide what will make it in and what won't, or how to alter the stories so they fit within the necessary framework that you've constructed? M we try to pull them together in terms of theme em and how they work the other stories and how they interact with our characters on going serialas for taking the iris traveller's story as an example