"You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy."

I have just read, on Wikipedia of all places, that they (yes, They) have optioned Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books and are considering making a television mini-series out of them.

BLASPHAMY!!!

I adore this series. Anita is a no-nonsense, ass-kicking woman whom I would either really like or really hate if she were real. She has the same wonderful Catholic guilt complex that all of us recovering Catholics have. She's funny, occasionally self-deluding, and has a code of honor that she will stick to no matter what, even though it might not be exactally what people think it should be. I cannot see any actress actually being able to pull off this part. There is not a single known actor or actress that I can imagine playing any of the three main characters, and not only that but the budget of the film/series would have to be astronomical to be ablet to support the bevy of zombies, vampires, wereanimals, and magic that the series requires. There is a reason most sci-fi and the like works better in books.

I don't want to see them turn this wonderful series, that I love, into really crap films (like, sad as I am to say, the Harry Potter films. The only way you can be happy with them is that you haven't read the books, and also don't know what a good film is when you see one). Hopefully, that won't happen.