"I'd rather meet Harry Dresden than Harry Potter"

Now she tells me.

Jim Butcher's wizard-as-detective show The Dresden Files is also a series on Sci-Fi Network.

Something you who read this may or may not know about me: I hate television. I do not own a television, and have not purchased one since my first ex and I bought one (over my vehement protests) in 1984, said set going to teevee heaven in 2001 when said set just would not do for ex #2.

Of course, this means that over the years I've missed missed some really good shows -- one of them being Babylon 5, which is to epic space opera science fiction on TV as The New Yorker magazine was to popular magazines in the 60s, 70s and 80s -- "The best magazine that ever was, or ever will be." Bab5 was incredibly satisfying to me: part military campaign, part political thriller, part conspiracy theory, and all well-written, well-acted human drama. I eventually caught the entire series on DVD, watched the whole story from beginning to end, as it was meant to be watched. Another I missed when it originally aired was Firefly, a series that is every bit as downright awesome as Babylon 5. As with Bab5, I caught Firefly on DVD.

Now along comes The Dresden Files. The mage as detective bit goes back at least as far as the late Randall Garrett's Lord Darcry stories (which are terriffic reads). I'm still reading Storm Front, and it's terriffic. I'd love to see Harry Dresden on the big screen someday.

But even then, I'm not buying a teevee set. Not as long as my computer has a DVD drive!

Item number 27 on my list of reasons Iz Rocks: Harry Dresden.