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[ebonlock]

You know it's really not fair that The Dresden Files just got interesting like midway through the season 'cause now I'm almost feeling reinvested in it. Yeah it's still ridiculously obvious how each episode is going to turn out about five minutes into it, but at least they're starting to get a little more coherent with the world, the characters in it and the rules of magic.

The problem is that it's so far off book that when the episode leaves huge holes that a little more fleshing out would have filled neatly I can't turn to the novels to fill them. What I need is some well written fanfic to round out each episode and give me the development I need to actually enjoy the show fully. I'd also like them to be a little less clumsy with the characters, in last night's ep you go from 12 year old Harry to 35 year old Harry in the span of a couple of flashback cuts and the audience isn't supposed to even blink. It was utterly jarring. And they had a beautiful opportunity to really flesh out the Bob character and they just chose not to. I can see why, I mean you've only got an hour and the main character is Harry. Fair enough, but there are deft ways to weave in a secondary character's development without taking away from the lead's face time. Sadly, "deft" doesn't seem like something this bunch of writers excells at.

I think I keep watching it (when I remember to) because I want it to succeed...because there is potential there. And because dammit I love Terrance Mann, and dude they hired the guy who used to play Jeffrey Spender on last week's ep and that just made me profoundly happy.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Yeah but the two shows are pretty profoundly different. I mean writing for Trek gives writers an established universe, they can short-hand a helluva lot because the viewers can fill in the blanks themselves. Also DS9 in particular was an ensemble show with an incredibly strong cast. Dresden is pretty much the exact opposite. So the writers might have flourished within one environment but are now helplessly being dragged along by the current in another.