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• "Blade" Tv Series - Tvguide.com Review (buffy mention)

  26 June 2006 19:29, by nmcil

  Pity we could not have gotten "Spike Blade Vampire Hero" instead - Guess I will just have to make some manips instead. - nmcil

• "Blade" Tv Series - Tvguide.com Review (buffy mention)

  29 June 2006 20:07, by Action movie/series fan

  First of all, the Blade Movies are much better than the Buffy show. Probably not to people who prefer a highschool teen as a Vampire hunter(yes "Hunter", because "Slayer" sounds lame) over a tough, cool, combat machine such as Blade(Snipes would have pulled the Master’s head of and beat Angelus and Spike into an oozing pulp), but then again we all are interested in different things. Some like teen girls drooling over vampires, while some like vampires getting crushed in professional manner.

  Now having said that, the Blade series was a watered down version of the movie. After the season premier on Spike TV, I later on watched a re-run of Angel(when Darla became human and they showed Flashbacks of Darla, Spike, Drewcilla and a new Souled Angel), I realized that the Angel show, and even Buffy show was better than the Blade Series Pilot. Now Angel is a better show than Buffy, but still, the Blade Pilot was not impressive.

  First of all, the actor Jones who plays Blade does not a very good job like Snipes. Snipes does a very convincing and impressive Blade, while Jones seems more like a rap artists who took beginners classes in Martial Arts(like most rap artists, he can’t fight). Snipes did sharp and well executed techniques, in a speed and quality that made the movies such a success. Then again, Snipes is a Martial Artists. One has the impression that if Snipes would have been in the series, he would have killed every Vanpire on the show in the first 15 minutes, while bitch slapping the new guy to fix the problem with the UV gadget bomb.

  While the story line itself seems o.k and going somewhere, it would have better fit in a 60 minute time span, and not 2 hours. The Director tries to mimic Goyer, and thats not a good thing. Norrington and DelToro had a much better style, and Goyer(who I think is the producer of the series) realy wants to milk that human refrigerator concept. Either create your own destingt style, or mimic Norrington. But don’t have a Goyer typ film...which will probably unavoidable with him as the producer.

  Now to the good parts. The series has potential, and I still prefer it over another Reality TV show, Game show or Crime Drama. The weak contemporary shows on TV make me still want to watch Blade the series. While Smallville and Supernatural are X-File clones, Blade the Series will bring something different to the TV scedule. All they have to do is get a better fight coreographer and make Jones train alot more(the shamelessness of that guy bragging about his phsyical skills in an IGN interview. Don’t brag what you don’t have.) Plus the Directing should get improved to make it more fast paced and aesteticaly interesting. This afterall is still the Pilot, so if things improve from here on, we all might see a very good show developing.

• "Blade" Tv Series - Tvguide.com Review (buffy mention)

  25 February 2007 03:40, by Doug

  First off, Blade was a comic book character going back to the early 1970s. I liked him. He was always called "Blade the Vampire Slayer" back then. His origin was similar except he was not a vampire. He was a human with some qualities of a vampire, say some strength and speed. Joss Whedon even admits he got part of his general idea for Buffy from Blade.

  That said, I only watched the first Blade movie and never had any desire to see the others because the first one was just an action fest with fast camera angles and at the end, I was going, "Was there a story there? Were there any actual characters in this movie?"

  "Buffy" was about characters. Of course if that is not your thing or you just don’t like a teenaged girl as the main character, or if your idea of a great character is a guy that just bulks around in black leather making grunting sounds as if he wouldn’t be macho enough if he had any characterization at all, then you’ll think Blade is better. If your only criteria is who can be more macho, I think Buffy loses by default. Is there really even a debate here?

  Truth to tell though, I watched a few episodes of "Blade the series" and I rather liked the basic story. The problem is that the biggest weakness of the series was Blade himself. He is still a non-character, just a big stick figure with the word "macho" stamped on him. But the whole series did rather give me a "stock character" feeling as if I was watching another attempt to turn "Vampire the Masquerade" into a tv show. But it might have worked but not with the tv guy or with Wesley Snipes. Cast a real actor and write the character to be able to take advantage of that and then Blade might be interesting.