Monday, January 29, 2007

Dresden Files on TV, Take 2

Yesterday's episode saw some definite improvement. Bob the Skull still isn't quite himself, but they got Harry and Murphy's characters mostly right. Murphy was tough and annoyed with Harry and she didn't know what to believe for most of the episode. That's just about right for Murphy in the early books. Harry's tactics also seemed par for the course. Harry escalates the situation and things get worse. Then he makes the villain so angry that the villain screw up. Oh and the ghost seemed to break a lot of tech when she became active, also a good sign from the books.

Of course the devil is still in the details. Murphy is a police Lieutenant, yet she has a cubicle? Harry is a wizard means he should break high tech equipment just like the ghost, yet he still seems to do ok around his client's computer. Oh and the shield bracelet didn't work right. Harry isn't Wonder Woman. He doesn't deflect things with the bracelet itself, he uses it as a tool to create a force field around him. But it's a detail.

But it was a pretty good episode and I'm pretty happy with it.

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