Oh don't get me started on TV!Murphy and book!Murphy, name changes and physical differences aside, I LOATHE tv! Murphy while I greatly respect book!Murphy. I think any difficulty in melding the two murphies likes with the crap writing on the tv show. Cause you know a woman can be strong without being a bitch. No nonsense without being dismissive and insulting. And I think Jim pulls it off with book!murphy, but it ends up being butchered (ha) with the tv!version.
I have a lot of issues with the tv show, mostly because every time I watch it all I can think is YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! I am admittedly a canon whore but I also understand that it isn't always possible (or feasible) to follow everything to the letter. But I could do better, I KNOW I could do better and it just irritates the hell out of me to see them RUINING something.
As for TV and book!harry: I agree with you they can meld easier than the versions of Bob (oh man even I haven't totally figured that one out in my personal canon). My biggest complaint with tv!harry and subsequent characterizations there from extrapolated is that they make Harry look like an idiot. He's not stupid. I wonder if it's a reaction to writing Bob; if you have one character who is a walking encyclopedia then obviously the other who isn't must be less (or appear so) intelligent.
Er, sorry for going off in your journal. I don't have any fannish friends who are into Dresden files so I never get to vent about this stuff.
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I have a lot of issues with the tv show, mostly because every time I watch it all I can think is YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! I am admittedly a canon whore but I also understand that it isn't always possible (or feasible) to follow everything to the letter. But I could do better, I KNOW I could do better and it just irritates the hell out of me to see them RUINING something.
As for TV and book!harry: I agree with you they can meld easier than the versions of Bob (oh man even I haven't totally figured that one out in my personal canon). My biggest complaint with tv!harry and subsequent characterizations there from extrapolated is that they make Harry look like an idiot. He's not stupid. I wonder if it's a reaction to writing Bob; if you have one character who is a walking encyclopedia then obviously the other who isn't must be less (or appear so) intelligent.
Er, sorry for going off in your journal. I don't have any fannish friends who are into Dresden files so I never get to vent about this stuff.