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Bad Alias:
I watched the show before I read the books and liked it. Now that I've read the books, the show is disappointing (and canceled).
The show did lead me to the books. I read the first chapter on Jim's site and didn't like it. Years later I read it again, and thought it wasn't bad. Then I read the rest of the book and series. I still consider the first 3 books to be the worst in the series. I'm not sure if I like Summer Knight or Ghost Story more, but I think if one was to plot the quality of the books on a line graph, it would look a lot like a line graph of the number of chapters in the books on a line graph. (An upward trend).
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on January 28, 2019, 01:51:43 AM ---Or if they managed to produce something good, cancel it right away.
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I consider that to be a sub set of "messing it up."
I'm not very familiar with the source material because I really don't like comic books as a medium, but until Game of Thrones, the only decent TV adaptations that I had seen were Fox's Spider-Man and X-men. Game of Thrones was the first decent TV adaptation I've seen that was not for children. TV adaptations have been like movie adaptations; some of them are good if you aren't familiar with the source material.
Anime might be an exception, but I'm not familiar with the source material, and it's arguable whether or not it's for children. The arguable parts being "for" and "children."
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: Dina on January 28, 2019, 04:11:42 AM ---I also liked Morgan and I definitely loved human Bob.
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That's one of those details I forgot, but I also liked. It was a different kind of Morgan. He still distrusted Harry but he was more reserved, he kept his fanatic side in check. It was an interesting take on the character and if the show had continued it was an element that could have been built on.
I think most people liked the human portrayal of of Bob. I think Terrence Mann did an outstanding job as Bob.
However, having said that, I highly recommend; if you can find it, the original unaired an hour and a half pilot of Storm Front where Bob was just a CGI skull (unfinished CGI, so not great quality) with glowing orange motes in his eyes. Though far from perfect, it was the closest the show ever got to doing something based on an actual Dresden Files novel, because when it was cut down to 42 minutes for the TV show, it was a bit of a mess.
(OMG - I just started re-watching Storm Front again and it's amazing; all the changes that were made from the novel, some major and some minor. Harry has already told Murphy about the Council. Harry knows his mother was murdered. Bianca and Harry had a prior romantic relationship, sort of. Ancient Mai is Harry's warden and Morgan is her henchman. Detective Carmichael is detective Karmani. Justin DuMorne is uncle Justin Morningstar. The spell that killed Tommy Tomm and Jennifer Randall is the same or very similar to the one Harry used to kill Justin. Harry still has a problem with tech but he can listen to records and has a jazz collection. The actress they got to play Susan Rodriguez was totally wrong. A white women with a whiny voice and dyed blond hair and her performance wasn't very good either. I did like the scene when Bob comes on to Susan and tells her she has great legs. The actress who played Bianca was hot, and she later starred in SyFy's Warehouse 13, which was pretty OK.)
Mira:
--- Quote ---I think most people liked the human portrayal of of Bob. I think Terrence Mann did an outstanding job as Bob.
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He was the reason I watched the show, and once I began to read the books, Bob was a huge disappointment.
Dina:
I remember how cute was to actually see Malcolmas a stage magician with little Harry helping him
morriswalters:
--- Quote from: JimButcher.com ---As of January 31st, 2019, the current draft of the novel is up to chapter 43. Progress!
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