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[chronovore]

SciFi Channel is starting a TV series based on The Dresden Files? I had heard a mess of good stuff about the books, so I just picked up the first of them. I had no idea that they were getting their own show... The role of Harry is played by Paul Blackthorne, who did not particularly impress me as the main villain of season 3 of "24" - but that might have been the material, not his ability as an actor.

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[weezie13.livejournal.com]

I'll record it for you since it's on right before BSG. I've heard nothing about it at all except for a very small review in EW where they gave it a C+.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

That's a /really/ kind offer. If it's not a problem, that would be great. If it's in any way non-trivial though, don't worry about it. I am fairly adept at navigating the bittorrent highway to TV content at this point. There will likely be a rip of the show available within an hour of its initial showing.

C+ ? From the preview, that seems about right.

[weezie13.livejournal.com]

I ended up not being able to record it for you. Sorry! That being said, I watched about half of it and it was AWFUL! The acting was uniformly terrible, the story was pedestrian, and there was little to no cool supernatural drama. Think of it like the worst episode of Buffy combined with the worst episode of the X-Files.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mini-review. That's honestly about what I expected from it, though I will still probably seek out a P2P copy of it.

If the main character is terrible, I feel bad for him - the same actor started off with a reasonable presence in "24" Day 3, but by the end was reduced to almost caricature performance of insanity.