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Posted about 18 hours ago

Whoever canceled this

whoever canceld this show should be fired ! This was a great show and I would have loved to have seen more , why do they always cancel the good shows and keep the bads ones like danceing with stars --YUK!-- I hope they bring this back ,

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Nightling

Posted about 1 month ago

140 of 142 people found this review helpful

Why is there no season two!?

The Dresden Files was a fantastic show with a brilliant cast. I simply adored Terrence Mann's portrayal of the snarky yet tragic ghost, Bob AKA Hrothbert of Bainbridge. This was an incredible show. Why were there only twelve episodes? It had so much potential. Canceling this after only twelve episodes is as much a sin as it would have been if WB (now CW) had canceled Buffy The Vampire Slayer after it's first season. The show and it's story lines were only just beginning to unfold. Sure this was a different universe from the original novels that it was based on but that is what made it exciting and enticing. The stories were fresh and new and you did not know what was going to happen next. And many of us fans of the original novels were actually pleased about Bob's transformation from the two dimensional talking skull comic relief of the books to the intelligent and cleverly crafted ghost character portrayed by a great Broadway icon for the show.

Instead of telling the truth the Scifi Channel allowed people to believe that Paul Blackthorne (Harry Dresden) had left the show and that's why it was canceled even though Paul Blackthorne only found new work when the announcement of if the Dresden Files would continue or not was delayed by three months. They never corrected rumors of low ratings even though The Dresden Files ratings were really very close to those of the flagship show, Battlestar Galactica. Right now on an amazon poll for the Scifi channel store has a poll in which The Dresden files is in the far lead as the number 1 spot for best show on the Scifi Channel. Someone even "misinformed" Variety magazine that The Dresden Files was the Scifi Channel's biggest commercial failure. They seemed to conveniently forget about Pain Killer Jane and Trash... I mean Flash Gordan. That statement in Variety magazine earned that particular article more negative online comments than any other article published by Variety that year. The DVD sales for The Dresden Files are still going great. Robert Wolfe (one of the main forces behind the show) had great plans to develope the Hrothbert of Bainbridge / Winifred story line in season 2 and many fans were very eager to see this unfold. The Dresden Files message board on the Scifi Channel official website is STILL more active than many other discussion forum on that site.

Right now there's a huge trend of wizard based TV shows such as Wizard's of Waverly Place on The Disney Channel, the new show, Wizard's first rule, and on BBC (soon NBC) Merlin.

So why is there no season two of The Dresden Files? Who was foolish enough to discontinue this show just as the seventh Harry Potter book was hitting store shelves and wizard fever was at it's zenith? There were so many mysteries of unfolding plots not yet resolved. How did ending this show make sense at all? Why do they bring back the likes of Scare Tactics but not The Dresden Files?

The Dresden Files was the first truly great fantasy creation of The Scifi Channel. Thanks to the appearance of Doctor Who (thought somewhat cut down for commercials) and The Dresden Files I had thought The SciFi Channel was improving but with the loss of The Dresden Files I have again lost faith...

We want The Dresden Files!

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RemHalcyon

Posted about 1 month ago

54 of 54 people found this review helpful

On before it's time.

This show was phenominal back in the day. Quite a waste it got shuffled into obscurity. With the likes of Heroes, and other such recent pioneers in sci fi television, this show could have similiarly blossomed better if it had better exposure. While gritty, it has its own moments of offhandedness one would expect of magic shows. A great show that mixes modern noir private investigators, with new age mysticism.

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dayanth

Posted about 1 month ago

50 of 51 people found this review helpful

With such potential, it's a shame it got cancelled

I remember back when this came on the Sci-Fi channel that it was something new and different from what they normally were showing (Nth Season of Stargate: SG1).

This show had all the intensity and life of any other popular show they had on Sci-Fi at the time. Sure, they jumbled up the first few episodes and you can tell visually how it matured to a solid show. It hit all the marks for the mixed genres it wanted to niched into, Magic, Mystery, and just enough action to keep everyone entertained.

I'm glad it came back on Hulu. So many good shows like this got dropped due to corporate executives looking at numbers, and not the show quality.

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Mcoffey

Posted about 1 month ago

46 of 47 people found this review helpful

Over too soon

It's a terrible shame that high-calibur shows like The Dresden Files are cancelled before they can even begin, while reality TV continues to be shoved down our throats. I was a fan of the novels before I watched the show but it was easily able to stand on it's own merits with a talented cast and fantastic writing.

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jcoffey42

Posted about 1 month ago

36 of 37 people found this review helpful

Where's my cloak of invisability?

I think this is an excellent blend of crime mystery and magic that can give Harry Potter a run for the money. I hope that Sci Fi will add more episodes. They stopped just when the story was beginning to have depth.

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revatman

Posted about 1 month ago

33 of 35 people found this review helpful

this was a good show...

I downloaded the premier episode for free from the iTunes music store last year and thought it was a lot of fun. A hard-boiled detective show with supernatural elements. It'd be a shame to not make more episodes.

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skip3d

Posted about 1 month ago

28 of 28 people found this review helpful

Good Show

Well acted, interesting stories and great scenery. It was canceled because those things violate the rule that only crap should be shown to the mindless multitudes. I am glad I had a chance to see some quality and sad that it is no more.

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Season:Episode	Title	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
Season 1
12	Second City	43:48	04/15/2007
11	Things That Go Bump	43:48	04/08/2007
10	What About Bob?	43:47	04/01/2007
9	The Other Dick	43:32	03/25/2007
8	Storm Front	43:47	03/18/2007
7	Walls	43:37	03/11/2007
6	Soul Beneficiary	43:37	03/04/2007
5	Bad Blood	42:59	02/25/2007
4	Rules of Engagement	43:42	02/18/2007
3	Hair of the Dog	42:42	02/11/2007
2	The Boone Identity	42:42	01/28/2007
1	Birds of a Feather	43:42	01/21/2007

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