Dresden Files

Watched the pilot last night. Our clan are all pretty much Dresden fans, having read all his books. It's always a bit iffy when they introduce a movie or series based on books, there's no way they can capture the nuances of imagination that readers have built in their own minds. That said, however, I think they did a pretty good job.

Just the right flare with the screen play, doing things screen play does well but which is difficult to orchestrate in text. They didn't really start at the beginning, but at least they didn't butcher the context the way they did with Firefly. They also took a few tangents from the book. Murphy has a kid, from a previous marriage. A little discrepancy about Harry's uncle; in the flashback they held to the book line about him killing his uncle in self defense, but then it seems like he was still implicated as orchestrating the events with the skinwalker. Harry was ok as Harry, that was my biggest concern. Think they could have done a better job on his duster though :-) But, overall I'm pretty happy and looking forward to the next episode this coming Sunday. So now I have, lessee, all of one show to watch on TV for a while.