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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 3397767" data-attributes="member: 8447">So far, I have been very disappointed with the tv show.  I really liked the books (at least up through book 5 -- after that, they sort of lose steam for me, albeit with a few excellent scenes).  The many changes in the characters have really bothered me -- a semi-embodied Bob didn't bother me at first, but he's not snarky enough nor does he have his obsession with romance novels and visiting sororities.  Murph just isn't.  Harry is basically fine, although at first he felt too "psychic" (not at all a strong trait in the books) with far too little actual magic -- and his ability to work with hi tech in the first few episodes really, really annoyed me.  Besides, I keep waiting for Mister to show up...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think the show is trying to figure out where it is going and how closely it is going to adhere to the books.  It feels as if they are developing the writers' bible as they are going along, rather than coming up with some canon ahead of time.  I'm not sure how Jim Butcher feels about the series, but so far I have been underwhelmed.</blockquote>