So, I've seen the first three episodes and,

[sarren]

Hey all you people who've been talking my ear off about The Dresden Files, you were right.



I'm totally shipping Harry and Heather, because she has fabulous hair and is cool and I have a bit of a girlcrush on her. I forgive her for the lame ending where she has to go fight her disease alone instead of, oh I don't know, staying with the guy knows her secret and who cares about her anyway and can actually HELP. *sporks the scriptwriters*



I read this review on IMDb...

Nothing lives up to the book, nothing is the same. The only common elements are the character names, and the fact that Dresden is a wizard. But all the key elements that make Harry what he is, an amazing and well written character, are not captured by this show. I do not in any way blame the acting.. I blame the writing. Harry's wit, tone, and feeling have been lost.

So, anyone read the books?

Comments

[mr-booboo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have the books.

It took me until book 3 to like him. He's a male chauvinist but then he gets better.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

They found a cure for chauvinism?


But are the books better than the show, is what i want to know.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Books!

[mr-booboo.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can borrow them if you like. I'm warning you now: it's all fluff.

[neery.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the show, but the books are fabulous. Fast-paced, funny, suspenseful good reading, with a beautiful use of magic.

Re mr_booboo's comment, I didn't find Harry all that much of a chauvinist. He likes those old-fashioned, gentlemanly gestures, and he realizes that he's being a little weird and annoying about that, which, okay, he is occasionally. But while he won't let Murphy (the female detective - I don't know whether she's in the show) open a door for herself, he'll trust her to do her job, take care of herself and have his back without a second thought, so if it's chauvinism, it's a really mild form that I can see as a minor quirk instead of a huge personality flaw.

[ascetic-hedony.livejournal.com]

I think his 'chauvinism' is really genre-appropriate. Despite the magic, Dresden's attitudes and so forth seem kinda film noir to me, which matches the PI angle of the books.

Umm, that was badly written. Basically PI/Detective fiction = gentleman v. protective of dames.

[ascetic-hedony.livejournal.com]

I didn't see it in the books, but the TV show has me happily shipping Harry/Morgan.