I'm pissed. I went to the grocery. Purchased a copy of WWN and when I got home, it wasn't in the bag. I didn't even read the article while standing in line because I wanted to savor it at hom.

Feh.

Does anyone else think that Mr. Bennet loves his adopted daughter more than his wife? Mayhaps, with all the mindwipes, Mr. B. lost his wife a long long time ago, as a casualty to his mission? Mayhaps Claire is all he has left of a family (not counting his son, who is not currently an obsession of his).

eta that it's wife_ a, not wifea

I'm a woman posessed. I didn't cook dinner or wash dishes for a week! I'm so unhealthy when it comes to reading, and I couldn't stop! White Night is on pre-order.

I was like that (only, you know, not a woman) when I first started reading the books. I read Storm Front, then promptly ordered all of the books that were out the instant I finished. Though I think at the time Death Masks was the most-recent (and I think is my all-time favorite, with Dead Beat a close second. The Denarians are such a great group of villians, plus we get more Michael action, a good look at the Carpenter family, Shiro and Sanya, the Archive, Kincaid, our introduction to Butters, and some nifty Marcone stuff. Its only real drawback, IMO, is the porn. Dead Beat, on the other hand, has zombie hordes, which you can't help but appreciate. And, you know, the whole Sue thing.)

Speaking of Butters, did you catch the "I love polka" shirt on the friendly medical examiner in this episode?

Me? I hope they stay the hell away from the books after Storm Front, because I enjoy the show when it's its (grammar!) thing, and have to wait and digest and prybar apart any influence from the books. I can more easily deal with an alt-universe Dresden Files where Everything is different than something that not only takes a characters name, but tidbits from a story and completely twists it. If they do the first thing, then it's like twice the Harry.

I can understand that. On the other hand, I wonder why adapt the books in the first place if you're only going to pay them lip-service.

I've got nothing against the TV series doing it's own thing, it's just annoying when something is much more interesting in the books than what we get on the screen and it's not a needs of the medium sort of change like Bob is.

Personally, my dream Dresden TV series (which is what I was hoping for when it was first announced) would be a lot more faithful to the books, beginning with a two hour movie version of Storm Front to kick it off. From there, the episodes focus on the day to day cases Harry works between the books with elements of the books forming the season-long arc. Finish each season by closing out the story arc for that book (or maybe even do a two-parter that extends into the next season premiere.)

Of course, this would take a major budget to do. Still, I'd love to see the climax of, for example, Summer Knight on my TV screen.

I think that Nathan has never actually met Claire so if he saw the picture it wouldn't be recognition so much as the thing his mother mentioned. He didn't want to look because if she became real to him then he'd really want to take care of her.

I think that by sending Heather away to learn how to control her wolfiness (shades of Oz!) - they're leaving a door open to have the other werewolf tales.

Also, I totally rewatched BSG to be sure to see the Viper Mobile and now I want one!!

(I watched the rest of the Toy Group after Heroes and seeing the Pom made me feel bad for Mr. Muggles all over again.)

I think that Nathan has never actually met Claire

Did he not meet her post-Homecoming? When he went to get Peter out of jail and whatnot? Wasn't Claire there?

Good episode tonight! As someone above said, they made Jessica and Matt much more interesting. I loved that he could hear Niki because, of course, it's all in their head.

I'm not sure that Claire was there by the time that Nathan arrived. I know that Peter met her. . . but I am not certain that Nathan did. I thought that Peter met her and then her father hustled her away.

Claire doesn't have to tell HRG the Haitian betrayed his trust, does she?

She can be all "my brain regenerates, too."

And the thing is -- it just might do that.

I read TWOP's recap of the episode post-Homecoming. . . and Nathan never meets Claire.

(I mean the episode that takes place after Homecoming -- it's actually the second episode after the Homecoming episode.)

Its only real drawback, IMO, is the porn.

Butcher has a fascination with sponge baths and sex...

Dead Beat, on the other hand, has zombie hordes, which you can't help but appreciate. And, you know, the whole Sue thing.

I cheered out loud when I realized what Harry was up to with Sue!

Speaking of Butters, did you catch the "I love polka" shirt on the friendly medical examiner in this episode?

I cheered again!

I can understand that. On the other hand, I wonder why adapt the books in the first place if you're only going to pay them lip-service.

To get a pre-existing fan-base?

Finish each season by closing out the story arc for that book (or maybe even do a two-parter that extends into the next season premiere.)

I was thinking that as well, but then soon realized that the show would have to run for twenty years to do that.

Heroes: ah, damn, I had misremembered Nathan being at the station the same time Claire was. Darn it!