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Rating:  -
Good fun!! I wish there'd been more episodes, I wanted more!!! I can't understand why this series was cancelled.
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For any Dresden book fans who see the reviews here panning the T.V. show for its comparison to the books, just remember the impotent crybaby outrage over Peter Jackson's LOTR. The dozens of those folks vs. box office numbers. Seriously folks, it's just more Dresden, how could that be wrong.
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First, let it be known that I own and have read ALL of the "Dresden Files" books. Now when I heard that quite possibly my favorite book series was being made into a TV show I was excited. Then I heard it was being made by Sci-Fi channel and I immediately had doubts. As it turns out those doubts were well founded. Sci-Fi channel took a great thing and turned it into another piece of primetime trash. But enough bashing Sci-Fi and their grave mistake that has made me lose what little confidence I had left in them.
The TV show of "Dresden Files" has an innumerable amount of glaring problems. First and foremost they're with Harry, the sarcastic and ever cynical wizard-protagonist.
First and foremost with Harry is that his wizarding gear has been dumbed down into the everyday. He carries a hockey stick with engraved runes as his staff and a drumstick as his blasting-rod. Seriously, how much worse can it get? Harry's trademark duster has been replaced by an almost mundane leather jacket. The unstoppable warhorse known by "real" fans of the "Dresden Files" as the Blue Beetle has been replaced by a 1940's era ARMY surplus Jeep.
Second, Bob. Bob has been a source for hilarity since the beginning of the "Storm Front" novel. You don't get much more comedic than a sex-addicted air spirit living in a skull trading refuge from one of the Queens of the Sidhe for a repository of knowledge. He's the wizardly equivalent of a computer. In the TV series, Bob has been replaced by a former human wizard who appears occasionally talking in his stuck up English accent and fancy duds. Not a shred of the Bob that Jim Butcher readers have come to love.
Third, some of the extra characters in the story. Murphy is completely different than who she is in the book. Not the short, cute, blone tough-chick cop we know and love. She's replaced by this brunette single mom trying to be tough in a man's world, with wizards. Anyone else see the problem? Morgan, Harry's would-be executioner and rival (for lack of a better term) in the novels is described as a man with an almost Will Riker-esque look. Now "Affirmative Action" replaced him with a minority-Morgan who makes people feel better about themselves by making Harry's life a living hell. Billy the Werewolf and the 'Alphas' are not to be heard of. Ancient Mai, who only makes 2 real appearences in the books, is the one who's trying to get Harry convicted of black magic and killed (and in coincidently a very unsavory character herself). That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Fourth, I could go on and on about how watered down and bad the story is. However that would take up too much time and could probably provoke me into a rant. They screwed the story and watered down the plot until it was almost quite well unrecognizable.
If you're a fan of the book series of the "Dresden Files" then do yourself a favor and don't even bother to think about watching this series. It's a horrible flop that Sci-Fi's fans who don't have half a brain seem to clamour over. For those of us with intelligence, skip it.
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OK, look - this is not a true adaptation from the books - not by any means. But, so what? The acting is fun, the stories fine, and the series gets better as it goes along. Sure, a few more special effects would have been nice, and I miss some of the witty dialogue and "edge" of the books, but this is a fine job. I missed it when it first ran on TV, and seeing the series now - I can't understand why it did not get a second and third season - seems to have had really good potential. Get it, you won't be disappointed. No gratuitous violence, little blood, should be fine for anyone over 7-8 in my opinion.
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Harry Dresden wizard for hire fights the forces of darkness for the common good and the forces of the White Council.
The bad thing in the series is that everything has been toned down so badly from the books that you can't distinguish this from Supernatural or American Gothic or G. Vs. E or ten other shows that dealt with the supernatural.
The good things of the series are
1. Bob just looks cool
2. Its great to see Harry in action no matter the venue.
3. Morgan is not portrayed as an overzealous enforcer for the council just an other worked one
With a little more free reign this could have been a great show. Thanks anyway Scifi channel because if I hadn't caught this on one of the rebroadcasts I would never have looked twice at the books.
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