Re: Anybody Watch or Record The Dresden FilesOriginal Pilot 3AM-5AM EST

jayembee wrote:
> "Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Just wondered what people thought of it.
>
> I'd downloaded a cap of the airing on Space from January via
> BitTorrent.
>
> It's hard to compare, since I don't have the DVD set, and haven't
> seen the shorter version of "Storm Front" since it was first on a
> year ago. But storywise, it was pretty much the same as I remember
> from the shorter version. The only element that seemed unfamiliar
> to me was that Dresden had a re****ter kinda-sorta-girlfriend. I
> vaguely remember someone of that sort from the shorter version,
> but it seemed obvious here that she was intended to be a regular
> character but was dropped for the series.
>
> The pilot was also filled with backstory exposition about Dresden's
> past, all of which seemed familiar, so I expected that it was all
> footage that was used in other episodes.
>
> I thought it had all of the typical weaknesses I tend to find in
> pilots, especially 2-hour ones. They tend to be unfocussed as
> they try to juggle an interesting plot and character backstory.
> Rarely do they integrate the backstory *into* the plot.
>
> Other than all of the continuity glitches from airing the episodes
> in the wrong order, I actually think it was better to do it the
> way Sci Fi ended up doing it: get the character up and working,
> and *then* fill in the backstory.
>
> -- jayembee

Being a 2-hour pilot, I was hoping it'd be closer to the book (faithful
to the book plot and characters, toad demon, scorpions, etc.), although
if they'd had the toad demon and scorpions in the original pilot, they'd
have used then in the 1 hr. version as well.

-- 
Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"The Dresden Files" (2007)
Harry Dresden: [re. Bianca] What is it about bad girls?  They lie,
cheat, won't suck your blood even when you beg them to, and for some
reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.