Comments on: The Dresden Files

By: GhostGirl

GhostGirl — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:42:58 +0000

He wrote an episode of Babylon 5. Neverwhere was a BBC TV series before it was a book. Movies: Stardust was based on his book, as will the upcoming Coraline by Henry Selick. He also wrote Princess Mononoke, Mirrormask, and Beowulf. Many of his scripts are in development limbo.

As for GOOD sci fi or fantasy TV shows: Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 version) Seasons 1-3 are amazing. Heroes season 1. Lost. Firefly. Jericho. Buffy the Vampire Slayer before Spike turned nice. XFiles. ALF (HAHAHAH Just kidding…)

I SWEAR the good stuff is out there. It’s just hard to find and usually ends up with a cult following and canceled.

Oh god am I a geek or what? (sob)

By: Ms. Theologian

Ms. Theologian — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:09:56 +0000

GhostGirl does have a good point about Neil Gaiman though, Comrade Kevin. He’s quite good, imho. Though does he have anything that’s based on his work on TV? Perhaps not.

By: Comrade Kevin

Comrade Kevin — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:41:10 +0000

All science-fiction/fantasy based shows and/or movies are legally required to be awful. Or at least most of them, I think.

By: Ms. Theologian

Ms. Theologian — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:54:00 +0000

So Joel liked the books better, GhostGirl liked the show better, and I’m still convinced it’s produced like Magnum PI, who I note also screwed up regularly.

By: GhostGirl

GhostGirl — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:02:00 +0000

And I am a bigger fan of the TV show than the books. I found the books too masculine for my taste. I quit halfway through book 3 (actually I threw it against a wall). I just thought the guy who played Harry is cute… I’m so lame.

Not the best show on the planet, but we enjoyed it. Then again, my taste runs heavily to the fantasy/SF side (Dresden is what they call “urban fantasy.”)

I enjoyed the fact that he’s not the most perfect kickass dude on the planet, he screws up, and I’ve always liked the whole “magical world under the surface that people don’t know about” thing–Neil Gaiman does it better.

By: Ms. Theologian

Ms. Theologian — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:12:49 +0000

You’re pretty funny….

I plan to compare Magnum PI and The Dresden Files side by side later.

By: Joel Monka

Joel Monka — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:59:31 +0000

I am a bigger fan of the books than the TV show, but the TV show wasn’t terrible.

It’s not a copy of Magnum PI. In the books, Harry is a bachelor, yes, but hardly a swinging bachelor- he went through a span of more than four years without getting laid. The “British guy” is, in the books, a skull that serves as the home of a spirit. The spirit uses American slang, and no mention in a dozen books of a British accent. I guess the TV producers thought a skull whose eyes light up when it speaks wpould have looked cheesey on film, so they changed it.

He’s named for Harry Houdini. His father was a stage magician, not a wizard, and he named his son for his heroes: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden.

Dumber? Except for Star Trek, every scifi/fantasy show ever made for television prior to 1989.