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Originally Posted by alansplace
If you attempt watching the TV show again try to keep in mind that if the producers actually were attempting to follow story lines from the books they probably would botch the attempt so badly you'd be constantly criticizing them. But what they did instead is take the basic premise (Wizard who lives in Chicago) and developed a show around that premise, occasionally borrowing a character name, plot point etc. Much better than botching all the already written stories to fit in a TV show format. Of course this would be a lot easier for you to do if you only hadn't already read the books. Oh well.
The above is my personal opinion.  |
Agreed. Adaptation from books to screen isn't just a matter of transcribing the dialogue and passing it out to actors--the people making the show have to have their own vision if they're going to invest anything in the work. In the case of the Dresden books, there's no way to translate the stories anywhere near directly. There's too much going on in each volume for one episode, and too little for a season, and even spreading them out over two or three episode arcs would run through the existing novels pretty quickly.
That said, the novels definitely stand out more among genre books than the TV series did among genre shows. It was enjoyable, but a B- effort at best.