Exactly. Understand that it’s a micro-budget webseries that only can only afford one set and one camera angle per season, and maybe a few special effects, then enjoy what they manage to pull off under those limitations.
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I find CARMILLA incredibly addictive. The episodes are like blood-flavored potato chips; you can’t watch just one.
Didn’t see the movie coming, but . . . yay!
Well, if you don’t want to read all fifty-two issues of the comic book, the novelization is pretty much the Readers Digest version. :)
No offense to Maggie, but part of me is still rooting for Kate and Renee, probably since that was a big part of my book years ago.
Somewhere CLEOPATRA 2525 is weeping . . . .
Good point. I guess I couldn’t resist taking a cheap shot at humans.
Because he is the Devil’s pawn, you know. The Lawgiver said so. :)
When it came to making the main villain a vicious chimp . . .yeah, the Burton movie got that right.
Perhaps, but I’d be “amazed” if io9 wasn’t on everybody’s mailing list for review copies.
Why are you still insisting that they “clearly” haven’t read them? Again, that’s what columnists and books reviewers do. They read advance copies, supplied by publishers, and write about them.
Just like movie reviewers attend advance press screenings so that they can write about movies that haven’t been released yet…
The ending of BATTLE is (I think) deliberately ambiguous. But, yeah, the original APES movies were not exactly known for their upbeat endings.
Which, in retrospect, makes it all the more ironic that they’re the pacifists in the original movies.
It’s funny. I grew up on the original movies and love them dearly, but, boy, does that imaginary ape society bear little resemblance to what we now know about primates. The idea that the chimpanzees are the pacifists and that the gorillas are violent and war-like turned out to be pretty much the opposite of the way…
“I don’t think they’ve read any of them, since they haven’t come out yet.”
To repeat: book reviewers and major media outlets get advance copies well ahead of publication. Hell, I’m editing a Tor book that’s not coming out until next fall and I’m ALREADY sending out advance copies of the manuscript to prominent…
How do you know they haven’t read them? Just because they haven’t been published yet?
That doesn’t mean anything. Publishers routinely send out Advance Reading Copies and bound galleys to book reviewers and media outlets weeks and months before the official pub date, in hopes of generating advance publicity and…
And this where I shamelessly point out that the first of the new LIBRARIANS novels, based on the TV series, comes out in October, too.
“V’Ger seeks the Creator.”
In Van Helsing’s defense, he’s the guy who figures out what’s going on and has all the answers on how to beat Dracula. He’s not a kick-ass vampire slayer, but the other characters are pretty much flailing around in the dark until he comes along and takes charge of the situation.
He’s Professor X, not Wolverine. …
Exactly. I said it was a thankless part, not that it attracts bad actors, But I’m impressed that Private Smiley knew the “Harker” from HORROR OF DRACULA by name. I love that movie, but would’ve needed to look his name up.
As Goakes said, Van Eyssen may have had a distinguished career, but when it comes to HORROR OF…
This show has nothing to do with that movie . . .just so you know.
Jonathan Harker is a thankless role. You’re doomed to be eclipsed by Dracula AND Van Helsing.
Quick! Who played Harker in the Lugosi version? The Hammer Films version? The Langella version? Etc.?
Nobody remembers. Nobody cares. The only Harker anyone remembers is Keanu. . . . and not favorably. :)