A bit basic, but still more entertaining than the actual episodes (if only because it's over faster). Admittedly, those episodes have been lost so I have only seen the recreation, which consists of photographs and the audio recording of the script, but even so it went on forever. Not so the novelisation, which is over in 140 pages or so - about 20 pages an episode. And honestly, I struggle to see the point of novelisations that don't add anything to the original story. Oh, there are minor differences here, and Ping Cho gets a love interest who is not her ancient husband to-be, but mostly it's a paper-thin copy of a not-very-interesting run of television.