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POLL: End Game Opinion of the Series

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Terrormaster:
The TV series wasn't too bad for the most part. I had seen about 3 or so episodes before it got cancelled. The DVD was on my Christmas wishlist but I ended up buying it myself this year from Amazon (I try not to buy too many DVDs from BestBuy since they closed all our local Suncoast stores and it was the ONLY place that caried it local retail).

In the interim it had gotten me interested in the books which I haven' been able to put down since I started reading them this year.

After buying the DVD I made the mistake of going back and watching the two episodes that were based more directly on the books (Hair of the Dog and Storm Front) which I had missed when they aired. The rest of the series wasn't bad at all and I liked even the alternate universe thing. But those two episodes should not have been made.

I really didn't mind that their was stuff different from the books and that worked for me because there wasn't any adaptations of the stories from the books. But those two killed that for me. I'm actually having trouble getting myself motivated to watch the 3rd disc with the last 4 episodes.

That aside I still imagine Paul Blackthorne as Dresden and hear Terrance Mann snarky voice in my head whenever I read Bob's passages.

Considering Jim's anime influence I would LOVE to one day see a faithful anime adaptation of the books - especially in a Cowboy Bebop or Trinity Blood style seriousness with just the right amount of anime humor.

-TM

purenightshade:
I quite enjoyed the series. I generally enjoy things that Robert Hewitt Wolfe has worked on. I do one day plan on reading the books and buying the DVDs, but where I live this isn't an easy thing to do. It was hard enough to find episode downloads of the show. Those have earned themselves a permanent place on my hard drive until I have the DVDs.
I admit, I'm having a really hard time getting myself to watch the last episode. It's showing on TV tomorrow night on Space and I'm just dreading it. I know it'll be good, but I can't bear to watch the end knowing that it's the end.

*sad*

Freylin:
My wife and I are huge Dresden fans, have read all the books and can't wait for what comes next after Small Favor.  So, with this in mind we decided to rent Season 1 of the tv series.  Extremely disappointing.  I suppose if you had never read the books it might be okay, but after having read the entire series twice, we have definite mental pictures of all the characters and locations, Harry's mannerisms, his home, Bob, etc. 

The series fell way short of matching anything.  We will not be renting anymore of the series needless to say.  About the only thing we really enjoyed about it was picking it apart and pointing out the glaring inaccuracies.

Amoracchius:
So about 8 percent of the people in this poll found the television series to be somewhat lacking. Not a surprise when you consider that most of us here are longtime fans of the books. The bottom line for me was that even though it was different from the books, it was better than 90 percent ( and I'm being generous ) of the shows on the Sci Fi channel. Wish it had a chance on one of the regular broadcast channels because I still believe it would have garnered all of the former Buffy fandom plus lots of other non-fannish folks who enjoy a good detective story and would find the magical aspects novel and entertaining.

hkjakkie:
Add Monk fans and Psych fans. I saw the ad on T.V when I was watching Monk.
I grew up reading science fiction and mysteries. Add comedy and I usually will watch it
at least once. Then there is Reaper and Chuck.

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