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Last night Chelsea and I wanted to watch a movie

kehrli would have hated-- Keffy being away at Rainforest. Unfortunately, all the obvious choices (Keffy suggested a Sleepless in Seattle/You've Got Mail double feature) were rejected because we hate them too. Meh.
So we ended getting The Dresden Files and Full Metal Yakuza. Much to my dismay, the latter DVD didn't work. ~>:(
The first episode of the Dresden Files (which was originally the third, because execs are dumb like that) was pretty blah, but later ones were better. There was a bunch of changes from the book that didn't bug me too much. Bob's a ghost who takes human form rather than a disembodied voice. I can see how a person is more interesting to watch than a voice. The change that bugged me the most was his ginormous apartment, but they always do that in tv shows. How the hell do tv characters afford them? They didn't have the fact that technology breaks down, which bugs me because even though the magic vs technology thing bugs me too, I liked the things Harry had to do to bypass it.
And dude, he hasn't blown up anything yet! Granted, their special effects budget is obviously pretty low, and maybe they want to be different.
The worst thing was that, despite a few short voice-overs, we never get saturated with Harry's personality like we do in the books. Lots of the secondary characters have more personality than him. They did have Butters show up for a second, which makes me love them. Just a guy in the morgue wearing a barely visible "I love Polka" t-shirt under his lab coat. I think he had maybea few lines, but Chelsea, who had no idea who he was, got the impression he was a main character.

Ultimately, it makes me pissed off that I'm not getting my copy of Storm Front until July, when Justime Musks book comes out. Book 1 will be the last Dresden book I read!!!