Ok, I'll preface this with I will watch this once it airs - will give it a go.
BUT to advertise it as "Van Helsing" is extremely pathetic - yes, her character name is "Vanessa" - so why not call the series "Vanessa Helsing". I understand that they're trying to be tricky and shorten Vanessa to Van......but really?
Seems like a very poor attempt to attract those who are keen on the original male character and series......
They can't name her Vanessa Helsing as van must go with Helsing in dutch naming way, hence it should be Vanessa Van Helsing. Van Helsing itself is a surname.
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But the idiot character has already dropped the "Van" part of her surname. This isn't the first show to do that to the Van Helsing name as if Dutch cultural heritage is non-existant.
So true, lack of research and bad general knowledge of them...
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Sadly it was done in Hellsing where the spelling was also changed to fit the pun in the anime's climax. Gustav Helsing loses the "Van" in the 1990s Dracula The Series (though that was a fun show). People don't realize that it's like taking an Irish name like O'connor and disregarding the O part for the sake of Americanizing.
It's call an alias. Van Helsing would get you noticed preaty easy. Helsing wouldn't so much.
Also it would be less Sexist to not obscure it being a female character.
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shareI read it as them attempting to be entirely too clever for their own good. They seem to believe as in the original book (I doubt they read) as Van Helsing was a man, that everyone would think the main character is a man and we would all do a double take and thing.... geez this show must be edgy because I thought it was gonna be a he but it is a she.
Ever noticed hollywood/the movie industry loves characters that are in the public domain like Dracula or Macbeth but hates allowing their own things to go into the public domain??
The copyright rules got extended so now movie makers just reuse the same characters instead of inventing new ones it is why there is so many damn sequels and remakes they don't need to try as hard.
Because then it would be even more comparable with "Wynonna Earp" which got a one season headstart on this show.
shareYou're absolutely correct.
It's an anti male reboot, disguising itself with a false title in VERY poor attempt to attract those who are keen on the original MALE character (it was a film, not a series... but good try, you obviously never watched it)
Feminism has such a lack of creativity it boggles a sane mind as to why anyone would ever use it in the creative industry of film making and story telling...
it's impact faded over 30 years ago when this type of re-framing males (ALWAYS as weak, clueless, or pure evil--especially if they're white; then they're extra clueless) wasn't considered the wide spread sexism it's become today, but it was considered 'fresh' 'new' thinking.
That was 30 years ago, in the 90s...
It's 2016, and telephone (a child's game, if anyone can recall how it works) once demonstrated to me how easily a simple and obvious message gets completely distorted the more people pass it on, the longer it's passed on. When do we let grandma and grandpa rest in piece, and stop rebooting their personal issues and bias perceptions of a world long dead, into our own minds?
50 years since feminism
70 years since the original women's movement that mutated into feminism
What has feminism mutated into now? Are we even brave enough to look at it with unbiased eyes, or are we so WEAK from empowering EGO that we can't accept we're still human, still doing it wrong--and only one step closer to doing it right, not actually doing it right now by surrendering everything to the 'almighty' vagina, in everything we do?
Why not call the series Vanessa Helsing?
probably because that would be THE worst title ever for a tv show.
How about Mini Van Helsing?
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Err because nobody would watch even 1 episode. They are hoping you will watch at least 2 before you realise how poor the show actually is.
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