[UK People] The Dresden Files

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

OMG.

The Dresden Files starts tonight on Sky One! In about 10 minutes.

Sadly, I cannot acquire a satellite dish in 10 minutes :/, so I am currently canvassing my friends to see who can tape it for me.

Comments

[wereleopard.livejournal.com]

I hate to break it to you, but the first few eps.... well, suck. They monkeyed around something wicked with characters, plots, histories, hell, Bob is Terrence Mann (in all his physical body goodness) and the Blue Beetle is now a WWII-era Willies Jeep.

I was really disappointed with the adaptation, although at least the plots seem to be getting better. Good luck!

The Dresden Files

[logicalargument.livejournal.com]

The show is also available on iTunes, and can be downloaded at US 1.99 per episode, but I don't know if there are any restrictions on availability of episode downloads by users from the UK. There might be.

[slayra.livejournal.com]

I have yet to read the books (I am trying to find a bookstore that sells them here), but I've watched the series. I have nothing to compare, except that it doesn't seem to be following the books, as far as I can tell by reading the blurbs of the books. Still, it was ok. The third episode was the best. ^___^

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

I am a big fan of the books, and therfore expected to be disappointed with the series, especially with all the changes. But I was surprised to find that the show actually didn't suck. I'm just kind of looking at them as a seperate entity from the books--a really well-written fanfic almost, and so far I like what they're doing with things.

[lilian413.livejournal.com]

You can also download the episodes using Bittorrent (quite handy, considering I don't get SciFi). They are now up to episode 3 (which was so yummy, BTW. It was a guilty pleasure).

I actually liked the show a lot, but then, I haven't read the books. I liked the show enough to buy the first book even, so I guess that's good, right?

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the books either, so I won't know if they have tinkered with them. I'm just hoping someone can tape it for me!

[colddaye.livejournal.com]

Consider them a separate entity from the books and it's a pretty good show. A lot of fans went in expecting the identical twin of the books (hello - has X-MEN I, II, and the unspeakable horror III taught us nothing?) and so were disappointed. Jim's message board (www.jim-butcher.com/bb) explains the changes and why they happened. Think about it - talking skull in a book? Cool. On TV? So cliche it makes baby Jesus cry. [spoiler] Also, Terrence Mann makes a much darker and more cynical Bob. This isn't some air spirit, this is a dark wizard doing time for doing terrible crime(s).[/spoiler]

People who didn't read the books like the show and it's too bad some of the fans badmouth immediately rather than waiting to see it find its feet. The first three books of the series weren't exactly something to crow about either...

If you get the chance, dig up Iago's intro on the message board - he uses my new favorite word "nerdfurious" - about the fanboy entitlement flying around after the first ep. Comedy gold.

To bring it back to LKH, think of it as Anita being sold as one kind of book and Merry being sold as another kind. This is the Merry of Dresden without the eye-gouging porn and actual!plot.

[colddaye.livejournal.com]

Edit above:

badmouth should be badmouthed because on the message board at least one person had a whole thread about how the first episode made him cry. I'm either more masculine than I thought or more heartless, because my first thought was Heh. Pussy.

[sevariusjr.livejournal.com]

I'm no expert on the books, I've barely even begun the series, but objectively - coming at it from a perspective of not knowing anything about the book series - I would still be a bit underwhelmed with the series thus far.

But to be fair, it is only three episodes deep, and a lot of shows these days seem to take a few episodes to build steam.

For those who are big fans of the books, though, and who maybe have listened to the audiobooks.....would James Marsters have been a better Dresden? Seems a lot of Dresden fanboys wanted that. As a Spike fan, I can't say I would have minded.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even Jim said to look at the whole thing as a DF AU (here (http://www.jim-butcher.com/bb/index.php/topic,1906.msg36645.html#msg36645)) and I'm...choosing to just facepalm over all the people that are like, "OMG THEY SCREWED IT UP SO BAD! JIIIM WHYYY???" *angsthands* because I rather prefer to see the spirit of the thing captured rather than a carbon copy of everything.

Srsly,"nerdfurious" is the greatest. word. ever.

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

'eh. I don't think they even really captured the "spirit" of it either. The guy playing Harry seems to be more of a slightly colder jerk with no real wit (and he's also way too old, even if he is damn nice to look at), and it's so AU he lives in a building with electricity, aboveground. And sure. A talking skull is corny. But the guy who plays Bob is more of a moralist than Bob ever was, which seems to have spun the Harry/Bob relationship 360 totally.

It's enjoyable, but objectively so for me; the fan in me can't help but twitch constantly. It just isn't that great of an adaptation for my taste.

[world-of-eos.livejournal.com]

Yes! I hate visual adaptations that stick religiously to the book *coughcoughGuilty PleasuresHACKcough* I've read the book. I already have a firm visual in my head of each character and each scene.

Sure, there's some things that I don't like about the show, but overall I think they did a good job so far (ignoring the first episode, which was total weaksauce). I think they picked the perfect actress for Murphy, and I actually like T.V. Bob better than Book Bob. The only book element I'm really jonesing for is Mister - WHAT IS UP WITH THAT, SCI-FI? SHOW ME THE PUSSY.

Well, and Thomas. But that last one is just because you can never have too much pretty man-ass wandering around (unless you're LKH).

[dwg.livejournal.com]

OMG.

I now have hope that it'll come to Australia. *crosses crossables*

[dwg.livejournal.com]

. . . on dial-up? Surely, you jest.

[pandorasblog]

I'd have liked to have seen that, but I don't think I'll get the chance to keep up with it on a regular basis, so I'm waiting for the BBC2 repeats when things are more settled, or failing that, DVDs.

[safrialailo.livejournal.com]

Oh DAMN when are the repeates when are the repeats, i was so ...not there when this went down.

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

Someone very kindly posted this for me on another board:

The Dresden Files

* Thu 15 Feb
* 21:00-22:00
* Sky Two


The Dresden Files

* Mon 19 Feb
* 00:00-01:00
* Sky One

Sky Digital customers press red for mult-start.

also broadcast on Sky HD if anyone here has that

The Dresden Files

* Mon 19 Feb
* 21:00-22:00
* Sky Two

And another very kind soul is taping them for me. I won't get to see them until the tape is full, but I now know I am getting to see them :D