This is more like it! Tonight's episode of The Dresden Files pretty much ticked all the boxes.Updating a film noir standard with a black magic twist, Soul Beneficiary featured some of the the best uses of magic so far seen in the series, as well as solid dialogue, a hot villainess (who will return ... please), and references to past episodes ("skinwalker") giving the series a sense of continuity, as well as finally letting us in on ghostly Bob's "big secret".
This makes two A grade episodes back-to-back. Has The Dresden Files finally turned a corner and morphed into the show it always had the potential to be? This was, at least, more X-Files than Charmed, which has to count for something.
Of course, it still wasn't perfect: Bob made reference to electrical items malfunctioning in Harry's presence (a mainstay of the books), but we haven't actually seen any evidence of this potentially devastating side effect in the show. In fact, the other week he was watching DVDs on a laptop with a girlfriend!
This was the first episode that really felt like it was part of something bigger. Let's hope it is ...
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