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POLL: End Game Opinion of the Series

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Aluroon:
I'll be honest, when I started watching the show I was a hardcore book fan and was appalled by the changes. I was one of the people wishing the show would just die so that maybe, just maybe it could get rebooted at the real Dresden Files. I found myself asking how ti could be called the Dresden files when almost nothing seemed the same (including the Hockey Stick and Drum Stick). Eventually however it started to grow on me as the show got more settled into what it was, developed its own world, and so forth. By the end of Second City I was begging for more. Sadly there won't be anymore. :'(

Oh well, thanks for the 12 episodes, I'll hang them on my shelf of great shows that never got a chance next to Firefly.

MonaLS:
Well so far I've watched 10 episodes in the last 2 days, pretty cool!

KoshN:
GREAT show. Loved it. AND it turned me onto the books.  :)

Magus_Jasonius:
I liked the show. There were many aspects of it I liked or preferred, such as the office and the apartment being the same building, the hockey stick, etc.

Lord of the Helm:
In general, I enjoyed it. I saw the show before I read the books, so I didn't have the problem of having to compare them, and in retrospect, it differs significantly enough from it that I can dissassociate the two from one another without a problem. I really liked the actors, and the dialogue was excellent. I LOVED TV Bob, an excellent rendition of the character. I didn't mind the hockey stick, and I still picture Harry's blasting rod as a drumstick whenever I read the books (though, granted, it was more like a sonic screwdriver in the series  :P ).

That said, there's a few things that I didn't think were that well-handled. I was mostly irritated that Harry just didn't seem to use enough magic - he seemed more like a paranormal private eye who casts the occasional spell now and then than an actual wizard. That, and I found the friendly neighborhood vampires and infecting-bite anthropomorphic werewolves a bit generic even before having read the books. Oh, and I couldn't help but think "What ever happened to that Susan", who came out of nowhere in Storm Front and was nowhere to be seen after.

All in all, an enjoyable series, and it got me into the books, which are the most enjoyable and engaging ones I've read in years.

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