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POLL: End Game Opinion of the Series
FlaggerX:
Question: Does SciFi own the rights to the Dresden Files?
I mean why should the show be stuck there? Surely there are other venues, and frankly some shows have survived because of good DVD sales.
Why not look elsewhere?
Benchleyfan:
Overall, I thought the show had potential. My main problem with Bob wasn't so much that they turned him into a ghost, but it seemed like the actor was channeling Tim Curry most of the time. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it made me wish Tim Curry was playing Bob. sigh. I'm sorry that there won't be a season two.
Darkling:
--- Quote from: Benchleyfan on June 18, 2008, 05:42:50 AM ---Overall, I thought the show had potential. My main problem with Bob wasn't so much that they turned him into a ghost, but it seemed like the actor was channeling Tim Curry most of the time. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it made me wish Tim Curry was playing Bob. sigh. I'm sorry that there won't be a season two.
--- End quote ---
That was Terrence Mann playing Bob. If you're a fan of Broadway theatre you probably know the name. He's the original Javert on Broadway's Les Miserables, in Cats he was Rum Tum Tugger, in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway he was Beast / The Prince, in Scarlet Pimpernel he was Chauvelin and the list goes on... He's on all those plays original cast recordings too. He has an incredible voice for singing. It's strange that they never exploited it for the show.
What he did with Bob was the sort of character he tends to lean toward. In fact there was an old poll years ago where people thought he and Tim Curry had been separated at birth. When they were younger they actually looked identical. Of course today Tim Curry dyes his hair and put on some weight, drifting toward TV guest spots while Terrence Mann went silver and for the most part stuck to theatre.
Tim Curry and Terrence Mann know each other, by the way. Terrence Mann is the younger of the two by about seven years. In fact in 2001 Terrence Mann took on the Broadway role of Dr. Frank N. Futter for The Rocky Horror Show (I was there for one performance) while Tim Curry was in town doing A Christmas Carol as Scrooge (which I went to twice). There's a picture of them together from that year.
That's Sebastian Bach as Riff Raff, Tim Curry as himself, and Terrence Mann as Dr. Frank N. Futter.
The funny thing is they criss-crossed that year. From what I've read, Terrence Mann had been Scrooge over five years earlier and Tim Curry was taking over the role and Tim Curry had been the original Dr. Frank N. Futter and Terrence Mann was taking over the role.
I love Terrence Mann's work. It's such a shame they didn't do more. I completely agree with Micky that Hrothbert of Bainbridge (Bob) was probably the best change they made from the books to the show. I adored him. The one thing that bothers me most about the show ending is we didn't get to see more done with the show's version of Bob.
Maybe someone should ask Robert Wolfe to team up with Terry and do a spin off. :P I wish Scifi would consider a mini series or made for TV movie to tie up all the unfulfilled issues of the show.
OrangeWolf:
Hey there all,
I guess it's been a bit since anyone replied to this particular thread, but as I only stumbled upon the TV show recently I figured I'd pop in after the fact to leave a comment or two.
First of all, I want to say that I appreciate the effort that went into the show. It was a genuine attempt to make a kickass series of books into a TV show. Personally I couldn't get into it as much as I could the books, but I know that it did turn a lot of people onto the Books and I know that a lot of people loved it, so it clearly did something right. I won't say it wasn't good, because for what it was it wasn't bad at all.
I love the books. I guess the way I would explain it would be to say that in the books, Dresden is a Wizard who makes a living as a Private Investigator (well, of some sort, even if some of his duties fall under other venues). In the show, Dresden strikes me as more a Private Investigator with the knowledge and capacity to use magic. It's a sort of subtle difference I suppose, but I can't think how else to phrase that. Just had a sort of different "feel." Murphy also didn't strike me as the same Murphy from the books, but then her attitudes changed from Storm Front to Turncoat, so it could just be me being stupid because it's been a while since I read Storm Front. The more minor things, such as the Jeep vs Beetle, Hockey Stick vs Staff, Bob being more than a talking skull, etc. don't bother me. In fact, I thought what the show did with Bob was bloody brilliant. In the books things worked as they were, but it seemed like in the TV show we needed someone to talk to Harry so we can see what he's doing/thinking without making him talk to himself. Bob fills that role beautifully, and he's damned cool.
I did enjoy the TV show more as it went on than I did at the start. I'll agree with the first poster on this thread who said that he felt like things were starting to really hit their stride before it was cancelled though, definately had a lot of potential. Again, it's not that I felt the show was bad, just that it wasn't something I would have watched past the first few episodes if I wasn't such a huge fan of the books. That was the selling point for me, but hey, it worked. Pity there isn't more to watch -- For some reason it's Bob that I'm the most sad to lose.
Then again, I am pretty sure I watch less TV than most of America's population, so I'm pretty picky about what I dub worth the time to watch. Before checking out the Dresden Files last week, I think it had been about 2 months since I turned the TV on to watch anything.
Cheers all, and thanks to everyone involved with the show for making it.
fyrefay52:
Dear Everyone,
I am very sorry the series is no longer on the air. I got to see it via YouTube, circumstances making it difficult to see the shows as they aired. I think the science fiction channel made a mistake in canceling the series. They didn't even give it a proper chance.
For which I give them a resounding BOO.
I am comforted with the books, but I really hope that Jim and Mr. Wolfe will at least try for a miniseries or a film based on the books. It would be wonderful.
Thanks for listening, and have a wonderful day.
Peace,
Tina
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