They stopped showing Lynley after about the fifth or sixth case, which - I thought - was a shame, because it's a wonderful series. It is a shame. I definitely ship Lynley and Havers, and take her side on most things, because she's so feisty, and with the class issues, it has a touch of Golden Age detectives about it, and it is always pretty on the eye.
And the reasons you listed were exactly the same I had to not read the books. (I didn't read the Dark Angel books either.) Yeah it just feels as if it'd change my vision of things too muc, and I suppose I feel guilty, because the original vision is Elizabeth George's, and I normally take the writer's side when adaptations are made (apart from on Michael Mann and James Fenimore Cooper. Ahem.)
The Dark Angel novelisations are different, I think, because they're meant to complement the TV seies - they book end it, being a prequel and two sequles. It's meant to fit in with the same vision as the show (and it does, to a large extent, well, as much as any tie-in novel of this sort does.) Though I can understand why you'd rather stick to fic/your own imaginings and the original text.
So, what do you think? Would it be worth it reading the novels? I mean, do they contain stuff or explain things that I might benefit from when trying to write DA fanfic?
They're not too bad for tie-in novels - but in every one of them there's an extrapolation of development that I struggled with.I was talked into accepting them as grey canon, but, like I said, it was a struggle. The trade off being that they widen the background detail, which is good from a fanfc writer's point of view: it's definitely richened the post FN world that I write about. From a M/A perspective, there isn't much, though Alec is treated decently. But then, 'Before the Dawn' which is set before the tv series, and desn't feature Alec, is my favourite. Worth getting hold of a borrowed copy maybe although that's probablydifficult.
And the reasons you listed were exactly the same I had to not read the books. (I didn't read the Dark Angel books either.)
Yeah it just feels as if it'd change my vision of things too muc, and I suppose I feel guilty, because the original vision is Elizabeth George's, and I normally take the writer's side when adaptations are made (apart from on Michael Mann and James Fenimore Cooper. Ahem.)
The Dark Angel novelisations are different, I think, because they're meant to complement the TV seies - they book end it, being a prequel and two sequles. It's meant to fit in with the same vision as the show (and it does, to a large extent, well, as much as any tie-in novel of this sort does.) Though I can understand why you'd rather stick to fic/your own imaginings and the original text.
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