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Well that was... interesting.

posted 8 years ago by highpitchedpirates
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I barely made it through 30 minutes of the episode before I had to turn it off.

I was looking forward to this, it sounded interesting enough and I quite like Christopher Heyerdahl but what I saw was a complete mess.

Incredibly slow pacing and far too much exposition and that was just in the first 30minutes.

I couldn't believe that I watched a group of people dragging multiple bodies down a hallway to a trash chute, slipping and falling in the trail of blood, when literally a few feet behind them was a gurney/desk/something with wheels.

I also couldn't believe the nerve of blonde lady when she was 'interrogating' Vanessa.

Apparently instead of helping, blonde lady was standing outside of Vanessa's room and saw her get bitten? Even though the viewer saw her run up with everyone else.

When they got to the room, Vanessa was covered in so much blood that it would have been hard to tell if she had in fact been bitten also not to mention the fact that her bite wound had healed before that.

Why would blonde lady automatically assume that the reason they were attacked was because of Vanessa? Wasn't her group the ones beating down the door to the building thereby attracting lots of attention.

Also since when are the vampires able to run around in broad daylight and yet get taken down by a UV light?

Another weird thing, guns can now kill vampires? If so then how the hell did there become a vampire problem?

The shower scene... wow. Main dude thinks it's all good to crash a random woman's shower, his explanation was bull, they have enough power to run everything, including a dozen or so UV lights but not enough water for one woman to shower for five minutes.

It's a terrible start to a show when the viewer, or at least myself, notices the multiple inconsistencies and issues. If the scene is going to show obvious solutions to what the characters are doing and then have them take the most complicated route just because, it makes it hard to focus on anything other than the problems.

[–] fatality713 8 years ago

Well, California has enough power to runn everything but seems to be constantly lacking water adn that is in a fully functioning society so this seems plausible. Also, loots of places have co-ed showers. Just because you are a prude doesn't mean other people are. The guy has been giving her sponge baths for months so what is there left to see?

[–] highpitchedpirates 8 years ago

Not a prude and not my point.

They had plenty of time to waste on showing him very slooooowly closing a door plus another slow scene of him explaining to a vampire about his love of Subway and yet that same amount of time can't be used to explain to all these new people what the rules of the compound are.

Adding nudity just for the sake of having some nudity is pointless when you're missing other obvious and needed scenes.

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[–] highpitchedpirates 8 years ago

You presume wrong. And again the point has been missed.

Game of Thrones is far superior writing than Van Helsing, their story lines make much more sense and unless you say otherwise, they don't add nudity to Game of Thrones for the sake of it and ignore other important points.

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[–] Calimarina 8 years ago

You presume wrong. There's a reason people call it Game of Porn.

[–] TheBoz 8 years ago

California has plenty of water, but every-time those tree hugging green facists find an endangered guppy somewhere in a lake, they turn off the water resevoirs for hundreds of miles around, destroying farms all to ensure that the fish survives while everyone else suffers and pays a premium for it.

[–] imzz2012 8 years ago

I did not like that newcomers immediately began to speak out about what they like and dislike and almost dictate the rules. Very impolite.

Also since when are the vampires able to run around in broad daylight and yet get taken down by a UV light?

There was the story of the volcano, which obviously has damaged the Earth's atmosphere, so that vampires can walk during the day.

Another weird thing, guns can now kill vampires? If so then how the hell did there become a vampire problem?

Firearms with a sufficient fire power has always been able to kill vampires. For example, if the head of the vampire is damaged to the extent that nothing left. I can't remember vampire, who can run around without a head or were capable to grow a new one ;)

[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

Also since when are the vampires able to run around in broad daylight and yet get taken down by a UV light?

There was the story of the volcano, which obviously has damaged the Earth's atmosphere, so that vampires can walk during the day.

If they had just followed the lore of the Dracula novel (You know, actually reading...) which is where Abraham Van Helsing (her grandfather) was supposed to have come from, then the vampires would be able to go out by day, they're just weaker by day and cannot shapeshift by day (because God forbid anyone remember the vampires in Dracula could become wolves, bat, mist and summon storms...)

Honestly they wouldn't have needed such convoluted excuses if someone had just read the damned novel.

[–] Ithilfaen 8 years ago

Yeah it's terrible. I was expecting to be bad but not expecting it to be so boring and they take themselves way too seriously to be watchable

As for the shower scene, yeah that was even worse lol. I was telling myself they were trying way too hard to be good and there comes the shower scene, out of nowhere, for no reason and they even missed the mark because there was absolutely no chemistry, no sex factor, nothing at all.

Actually that scene pretty much sums up the episode: tedious, trying way too hard, and not accomplishing anything.

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[–] Deodra 8 years ago

So far, I'm finding this show really hard to get into. There's no connection to the viewer, no backstory thus far, no chemistry between characters, and the shower scene would have worked a lot better if there was chemistry or a bit of backstory prior. I'm not a big fan of nudity for the sake of it, but if it were on HBO, at least there would have been some sort of payoff for the viewer having to put up with a, thus far, lame show.

I hope it gets better. I'll give it a few more episodes to see where it goes and if it becomes a watchable series.

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[–] Carrigon 8 years ago

Fifteen minutes in and I was bored ten minutes ago. I was going to skip this show, but since it was on after Z Nation, I figured I'd give it a try. It's boring, lackluster. I doubt I'll be watching more of this. I hope Aftermath is better.

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[–] Deodra 8 years ago

Bingo. Hope it gets better. I really do. I enjoy the Van Helsing lore.

[–] pauli_gomez 8 years ago

Even when I didn't like the shower scene, I was actually happy with the lack of chemistry. In a post apocalyptic world, water is a commodity you cannot waste and it makes sense that you don't spend time with sexyness and stuff. Specially among two people who are not previously interested in each other.

[–] Deodra 8 years ago

You've a very good point. Nice.

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[–] draftdubya 8 years ago

Somebody at Gizmodo said the same exact thing after watching 3 episodes(blogger perk). I'm about 10 minutes and and really hate it

[–] justredi 8 years ago

The problem with this series is there is different writer and different director for each episode so the story is quite messy.

just look at the cast info, there is listed 5 director and 7 writer