Phoebe_Halliwell427,
Well I'm not a 'Hater'-I'm an "Irritable"-it had so much promise: Vamps are one of my favorite genres, so I like seeing them done well.
CHARACTERS:
RUPERT: Accent-As an American-I wish they'd have left him English-He traveled a lot! He could have picked up an accent along the way. It could have been slight-his trying the American one proved he was capable of toning down his British accent down. If they didn't want Buffy The Vampire Slayer comparisons-call him something very different-they should have let him have a mild Brit Accent & said he worked with American's so much he lost it mostly OR they should have intentionally given him a dialect different than Giles from BTVS, & made sure that even the characters said sounded different. So that audience members that never heard more than one British accent would know it wasn't a common English Dialect.
As for his character-sometimes he seemed to get into his role & he was enjoyable-but most of the time it seemed like he was thinking about adding shoe polish to his grocery list. He didn't have a lot to do other than scold everyone. It just seemed sort of sad. He's a really good actor.
LUC: He was really handsome-but other than that he seemed to be blinder than Mina-whom he couldn't tell was a Vamp. He couldn't figure out that Ruby loved him, or that Rupert was his father. He never 'read' anything he was supposed to-because he seemed too self absorbed. As far as Characters go-he's pretty damn annoying. But handsome & he should be annoying shirtless.
RUBY: Spends most of her time running about pining for Luc, being jealous of Mina, sort of having a crush on Rupert but also resenting & defying him, then trying to get his approval. All the while proving she's the only one that's actually capable of reading comprehention-she's the only one that actually reads all the 'homework' Rupert assigns Luc, but when there's a 'fight' she's the one that will freeze & scream helplessly & get captured endangering everyone.
MINA: Supernatural-Seer, Vamp...it's hard to say..I mean really. For a Seer-her powers should work better/more often. But it's like they forgot about them. If she's part Vamp-how is it, everyone keeps sneaking the hell up on her? It's just those bitty things annoy the snot out of me--but they're 'nit picky about the characters.
PLOTS: They could be good, but they're sort of generic-they're not building up a mytharc very well-especially not for people who aren't familair with the Van Helsing Storey.
They're coming up with bits of plot devices-but like red herrings, you think it's goind somewhere, but then the writers just chuck them.
They could have given a great flashback to Ruperts wife & what happened-it could have been a great mytharc told in 2 or 3 episodes. The 1st one would have been the set up of finding out the rat was back-then Mina saying that the Rat was responsible for Ruperts wife's death & Luc asking Mina how & Ruby asking Rupert how & them telling the 'kids'(for the 2nd episode-it would have been a flashback to young Rupert & Van Helsing Sr. & Ruperts Wife & Luc's Mom & blah blah blah w/ Mina)
Then the wrap up with what happened with Mina being knocked out in their hideout & Rupert & Luc almost drowning in the Maze/Trap.
So everyone got to find out background-character development, and then the Rat Villian could be more evil blah blah blah.
As it stands, most of the plots seem like rather thinly veiled P.E.T.A. P.S.A.'s. You've got the Rat Archnemisis that got away-Who's there to say-don't test on defenseless lab animals. & you've got Mina's son- 'People are like chicken's they don't have feelings--they're just stupid, I need to eat."
I wish they'd pick a few evil nemisis that they didn't whack-that could creep around after them. Not just drop dead nice and neat at the end of the program, that's just so very trite.
I don't hate the show. I just wish that they'd make it edgier, and if they do another Season for the US, SciFi channel that they make sure to have the writers have the dialogue crisper. I was really hoping that this was going to be like 'Primevil' (Not 'Torchwood' blithe..I didn't actually 'like' 'Torchwood', especially NOT the 1st season. I thought it was boring.)
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