I'm probably not going to reread the book before I see the movie this weekend, to facilitate not being outraged at any changes they made. Though I remember being singularly unimpressed with the BBC TVDT as a critical 12-year-old, so there's nowhere to go but up, really.

Yeah, I think I felt some of that "No he's not" too. Particularly since it'd been like 10 years since I'd first read the books at that point. I don't know, I know many people like the books for their vaunted Christianity, but I kind of feel that that makes everything just a potential allegory, which I do find annoying.