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Did you discover the books because of the TV Show?
Rock Me Asmodeus:
I liked Eureka, but I'm always at work when it's on, so I rarely get to see it. If they'd put Eureka, Doctor Who, and Dresden Files on together on Sunday, I would be a very very happy fan. In fact, I might change the quickname I have in my hotmail address book for the Sci Fi channel from "Pinheads" to something a little more flattering. (I emailed them steadily for about a week once upon a time to get The Chronicle back). I don't watch much TV these days. I catch Dresden on Sunday and whatever half hour anime catches my fancy on Saturday. That's pretty much it.
Spectacular Sameth:
I record everything I watch to watch at a later time. I usually don't watch The Dresden Files until Monday night.
RedLocque:
Hello all...
As a matter of fact, I did! ;D
If you live in Spain, as I do, the chances of your obtaining quality material to read in its original version, be it English or some other language, and at a affordable price are slim to none. However, you are well off in comparison to how utterly down the gutter the TV programming is. Can you spell "cruel and unusual punishment of the mind"? So I am unashamed to say I am indebted to all those wonderful people who record and post good TV series on the net for the entertainment poor and underprivileged such as I.
I have to admit I am more of a scifi reader who treads very, very carefully in the printed world of magic. It is a subject which, IMHO, has sadly been very poorly handled in the past.
Harry Potter is palatable, and I do admit I have all the books. I am sure Rowling slips a mickey into the pages to make you crave it, or maybe we are all rooting for Empire. God Save the Queen, and so forth...
As to magic in television: Well, after (what is it?) nine years of Buffy and the absolute devaluation and defacement of the vampire as a creature capable of inspiring fear, and an equally excruciating long time of Charmed, which relegated the eternal fight between good and evil to the level of your everyday, street corner drugstore hold-up and whose only enticement was Alysa Milano's cleavage and the occasional (or not so occasional) glimpse of thigh... is it any wonder I approached "The Dresden Files" with a healthy amount of dread?
But, 'lo and behold!; the show is good. Amazingly so. Good character development, solid stories and the action is never over the top (although the dragon was tiny). We have a winner! If you add to that the fact the show is based on an actual literary series, how can you lose? So yes, I just recently found out about the fact there were books involved in this whole "Dresden" affair, and my discovery of the author's identity is even more recent. A couple of hours ago, in fact. And since I don't like forming an opinion on something without all the facts, I am in the process of procuring the last eight books in Jim Butcher's "Dresden" series. As soon as I read them I'll be able to comment on his writing prowess.
Ta-ta!
Ramones:
I found the books from a friend as could be described as a Psycho JM fan. I fell for the books since it has so many of the elements I love in a great brain candy book, detective, mystery, Chicago, supernatural and the tall everyman hero.
I started to watch the show after about the 3 or 4th episode. I was afraid to watch because I loved the books so much for fear it may change my mind's eye of who Harry and the others are but have to say even with the slight changes made I really have become a fan of both books and TV show.
FooDog:
I like both the show and the books. But you have to view them as two different universes. Adaptation from novel to film is a difficult thing to accomplish in a one hour show or a 100 minute movie and still get all the nuances. A TV show needs to hook an audience as quick as it can and then slowly feed the rules of that magical universe to the audience. It's when they violate their own established rules that I walk away from that show.
I'm sure many of you may have read Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice? There are at least 3 adaptations of the novel to film available on DVD, and none of them are exactly the same. They just try to capture the spirit of the main characters for the film, but play a little loose with the plot details for time. They were all enjoyable, but none of them had the depth of the novel.
I think the TV show captures the essence of the characters of Dresden, Murphy, Bob and Morgan pretty well. They played a bit loose with Ancient Mai and Bianca. I think the reasons we like the books better is that there is more background in what are the limits of power of each character in the Dresden universe.
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