Social distancing has made the British House of Commons feel a bit more like Dáil Éireann - a sparsely populated, echoing, business-like chamber in which the members are spread far and wide.
This has drained it of the special atmosphere that normally makes Prime Minister's Questions a box office event for political nerds (and set an artificially high bar of expectation for all other parliamentary debates around the world).
So what could have been a raucous occasion - the returning Boris Johnson facing his first Prime Minister's Questions from new Labour Party leader Keir Starmer - was turned into something rather different.