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Jen loaned me her Blood Ties books, and I've read the first one, and have also now watched the first two episodes. I have to say, as a besotted Forever Knight fan, it is extremely weird seeing the establishing shots of Toronto, especially as it's a vampire show too. The other weird thing is a TV show that has the same title as my Forever Knight/Highlander fic series. Keeps making me do a double take. Henry doesn't look anything like I visualized from the book, but that's not to say he isn't extremely and totally cute. It isn't a bad show over all, though it's very much like Dresden Files in some ways. It's strange how you have zero TV in this vein, and now you have two of them, with others on the horizon. Feast or famine, I guess.

The upshot is I'll start watching the show, and read the rest of the books.

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I'm really enjoying both shows.

While I'm really enjoying Blood Ties I'm deeply disappointed by The Dresden Files.

I take the idea that the shows are alternate universes from the books.

It isn't just that The Dresden Files isn't enough like the books to suit me, I'm also not happy with it as an alternate reality to the books. I love Paul, but I've described watching an episode as giving me some of the feeling I just spent an hour watching Harry in a bad dream he didn't even realize was a bad dream.

Especially when the original authors are happy with the shows.

While I'm happy for the authors that they are happy with the series it doesn't change how I feel about the TV series. I know for instance that Jim has said he'd be happy to see Will Smith play Harry Dresden, but that idea just makes my head hurt.

It's interesting, the latest episode of Dresden was probably the first pilot show...

It was the remains of the original two hour pilot chopped down into a one hour show with filler that was shot to string the pieces together, and tie it into what's already been shown of the series.

...it had a glimpse of the 'Blue Beetle' and 'Mister'. Harry's home looked different and his basement work room was there to.

I was glad to see the things in the original pilot that should be a part of the show, but aren't.

But it didn't have Bob.

The version of Bob for the original pilot was different from the one they've been using, and rather than make and include scenes featuring Terrance Mann they simply cut the original version of Bob out and left him out. I'd have liked to have gotten to see the original version of Bob for the series as I understand he was closer to book Bob then the version they settled on instead of it.

So for reasons unknown to us on the outside there were some changes made.

They dumped Susan because they weren't happy with the actress who played her. They dumped the original version of Bob... *tries to remember* ...I think partly because they didn't think it worked very well, and partly because they wanted to make Bob more human. I don't like him "more human" but I didn't have any say in the matter. They use a jeep instead of the Blue Beetle because they can get more shots of Harry in the jeep. I don't know why the set change or no Mister.

I guess I'm lucky that I never had a clear picture in my head of what the Blood characters looked like. I think Kyle is yummy.

I've got a very distinct image of Henry in my head. But I still think Kyle is making a good effort to play Henry, and he is yummy, just not the image of Henry in my head.

I like that Vicky is not a great beauty, but dose look like a 31 year old cop.

I like the casting of Vicky. It's my favorite casting on the show in terms of her being the closest to the image of Vicky in my head. Kyle's my favorite in terms of being the one who makes me drool. :D

Mike...well he's handsome in a classic way, but doesn't look Italian, and doesn't have the curl on his forehead that Vicky was forever pushing out of his face.

The casting for Mike is the casting I find the most jarring, but that isn't to say I don't like show Mike. Because the writing is good and the actor has been playing the character well for me I can at times forget that he doesn't fit the image of Mike in my head. I just spend more time wishing he was taller and more Italian than I do wishing Henry was shorter with red hair. ;)

We have a lot of Northern Italian descendents living in this area, so Mike actually works for me with the lighter colouring. Didn't really have a clear mental vision of either him or her yet, only Henry.

We have a lot of Northern Italian descendants living in this area, so Mike actually works for me with the lighter colouring.

*Nods.* I think part of it for me is picturing Henry and Mike as strong contrasts. Henry being 5'6" fair skinned and red haired. Mike being 6'4" swarthy and brunette. ;)