The Dresden Files

Very nices series, to bad it was cancelled =/

Excellent series. Wish it had run a couple more seasons tho.

I enjoyed this series. I know it's a bit slow but it was fun.

Welp I haven't watched this since it first air back then I didn't know about the books and I was too young to consider there might be books I might be able to find and read. Since then the book series has rapidly become one of my favorites after binging books 1-17+short stories two years ago.

Since then coming back to this show I enjoyed as a youth and was sad to see it get cancelled, obviously I have thoughts. First of all this is a bad adaption. Not Wheel of Time bad but more Legend of the Seeker bad. That said as I've said repeatedly The Borne Identity has proven that a bad adaptation doesn't necessarily make bad media. Unlike The Wheel of Time I think the Dresden Files had room to grow. It has 12 episodes and a much easier plot to get into compared to WoT. The first few episodes kinda show this. They're nothing like the books. Honestly most of the series has nothing to do with the book except for general concepts. I could easily see the season being a big setup to get you invested in Harry and what he does in order to then start to filter in more book stuff. There's a lot of missing characters who would be perfect to show up. Mister is mentioned but Mouse is missing, as are Michael, Mac, and I think Marconne. But we do get some essentials, Karen, Morgan, White Council (via Ancient Mai), Bob.

I think it's a good enough show that could have found it's footing. The casting was perfectly fine. I liked the actors for Dresden and Karen and Bob was excellent. The show just never settled well enough to be comprehensive in anyway. It would have imo been better to try the monster of the week formula as a means of introduction. The final episodes at least did have some good emotional beats that felt earned at least.

Now being a reader of the books I do hope one day we get another stab at it though like Wheel of Time I worry about the scale. TDF starts off small enough focusing on a wizard in Chicago and the wizard things he does but after a while it starts to ramp up to such a scale that if I hadn't watched Supernatural I'd say would not be feasible on Television.

the first few episodes were extremely cheesy. after episode 3 I had doubts if I wanted to continue to bother with the other few or not.
1x05 is the only good episode in this series.

the biggest 'miss' in this series is that there is no proper pilot.
you just get thrown in there. no character build up, no red line in the series. just a number of stories or scripts based on a book line thats made into series....

too bad, there was some nice potential there, but it's really not surprising it got cancelled

Had potential but it was just too cheesy & the music was aggressively terrible.

The books may be good but this isn't and it didn't entice me enough to find out.
The characters weren't fleshed out very well, especially Bob. I know he was kinda explained but it's a blink and you'll miss it reveal.
The order of the episodes appears somewhat disjointed too.

Bad trip to old graphics and corny storylines. Way to much sideinfo, the eighties mumbo jumbo.

The actor who played Harry wasn't too bad. Having said that, this is disappointing if you're a fan of the novels. They changed a key character to be "ethnic" thus removing the humor in that character's appearance. I could go on. At least they didn't insist on putting a hat on Harry (fan joke). If you *haven't* read the novels and would like to, be aware that the show does have plot spoilers.

Upon rewatching the show, it is a disappointment. The writing is shoddy or worse. The casting isn't all that good. In some cases the casting is quite poor, but it is somewhat hard to tell with the bad writing.

Except for Terrence Mann as Bob, who was great.