Dresden Files 1x01, "Birds of a Feather"

[kate_nepveu]

The TV series based on Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series has started on the SciFi Channel. Harry Dresden is Chicago's only professional wizard; in the first episode, a kid seeks him out based on his ad in the Yellow Pages, saying that monsters are out to get him and his mom.

I've only read the first of the series, though I fully mean to get

Comments

[rysmiel]

My understanding is that this was intended as episode 3, and that the original series premiere/pilot, which is a stripped down Storm Front in an hour, is now airing fifth. SciFi Channel appear to have made the decision to reshuffle at an executive level, I think because some implementation details were changed between pilot and series go-ahead [ animating a talking skull convincingly is just out of their budget range, for one. ]

As I may have said before, while I like the series a lot, it really shifts up a level in general tightness and skill in book 3, and it's doing interesting things with long-wavelength plot stuff that both build very well as it goes along and make the earlier books read more strongly in the light of seeing what they were setting up for [ am rereading the whole series over the next few months preparatory to the next one coming out. ]

[kate_nepveu]

I'm not sure animating a talking skull is a good visual idea regardless of budget, so I was perfectly happy with a slightly misty full-body actor as Bob.

[kate_nepveu]

I really don't know that much Chicago-ness comes through, but that may be my own lack of familiarity.