Did anyone watch SciFi's The Dresden Files last night?

[LibertyLover]

Any thoughts?

[LeftCoast]

1. I liked it

It felt more like the 2nd or 3rd episode rather than the 1st though...

I'm going to watch for at least a couple of episodes before I make up my mind completely about it, but it was enjoyable even though I felt like I didn't quite understand what was going on.

[LibertyLover]

2. I know what you mean

I'm glad that I've read the Dresden File books so that I sort of understood who was what. It will be interesting to see how it develops. I must say that they handled Bob a bit differently than I had pictured him.

[LeftCoast]

3. I haven't read the books, but the TV show has gotten me interested in them

I think I may have to read one. :)

[ccjlld]

4. Bob was different than I pictured

and I'm also not sure about the way they handled Murphy. I liked the show and am curious to see how they handle the vampires and the faerie court.

[hedgehog]

5. I like both the books and the series.

Clearly the books were adapted when it went to television simply because television is a different medium. For example, the Blue Beetle has been replaced with a jeep; probably because of the cost of finding and filming a Blue Beetle! Candles have given way to light bulbs, probably for the same reason!

Murphy is the real disappointment. Too bad they didn't cast the woman who plays the blonde FBI agent on Heroes!

[mcscajun]

6. I'm disappointed, but still going to watch (for a while) and see

what develops.

So far, too, too many changes that lighten the tone. Too many concessions, IMO. Where's the basement? Mister? The duster? His staff? His problems with technology? His pentacle, for Bob's sake? (I can only surmise that TPTB didn't want to catch any flak from the same religious extremists that try to ban Harry Potter books for promoting Satan worship.) For the first minute or so, I thought the blond talking with Harry was Thomas, not Bob. Way to confuse people, guys!

The only practicing wizard in the city of Chicago isn't just "anybody"; odd looks from those around him is par for the course. A hockey stick instead of a staff? Cut me a piece. :( The duster HIDES his staff and blasting rod; that's half of its Point! I'd give some seriously odd looks to someone walking around N.Y.C. wearing a leather jacket and carrying a hockey stick and no gym bag, myself.

I don't care that he's driving a Jeep instead of a Bug, but I do care if they're stripping out all of the personal elements that made Harry unique, and giving us yet another Charmed/Angel/Buffy P.O.S. This should be Harry Potter meets Sam Spade, not The Rockford Files marries Charmed. Ugh.

I'll watch a couple more episodes, probably as far as the episode that Should Have Been First (airing them out of order, THAT'S a way to introduce characters, yeah. Right. NOT) which is the reworked, cut-down leftover of the two-hour unaired pilot "Storm Front". If I haven't seen good things by then (and by good things I mean the usual hard time that Harry has in every book, plus a good healthy dose of the occult) I'm gone.