By all that is holy…oh hey, after waiting decades for my revenge, I’m going to stop, let you get up, scream and wiggle about a bit as the sun cooks you a little bit, and then run off. Swing my sword when I have you down and at my mercy?
Nosferatu secret society. It’s been done…over and over and over and…I thought perhaps they might be trying something new with the night watch, but no, just turf wars.
A new season of the insufferable Eph becoming the drunk insufferable Eph? Eichorst and the Master still unable to shoot back - oh hey, billionaire at my back and call who can probably get us state of the art weaponry, I can shoot these clowns from a distance, and no way will they recover like us? What’s the down side? Checks Vampyre rule book…
Absolutely. All they needed was some creepy backwards-sounding music and it would have been like Vampire Twin Peaks! :-) I agree that this show has the occasional super-creepy moment that really hits the nail on the head, it’s just too bad there is so much silly packed in between those moments.
I didn’t realize this was the season finale. What a let down! They totally had The Master, I was almost yelling at the screen “Stab stab stab!!!”. When both Satrakian and Eph just stood there not stabbing I thought for sure the kid would come up behind The Master and snick!, off with his head. But no, not only does The Master get away, but so does Herr Eichorst, goth vamp (who still won’t give up that wig!) and even vamp mom. You just know that the kid is going to end up having to kill her, probably to save drunken Eph at some point.
I was a little disappointed that the Daywalkers turned out to be the same old secret society of vamps we’ve seen a dozen times before. I was hoping they’d be rebels created and led by someone who was like Satrakian hundreds of years ago (vampire hunter) but who the Master turned but then couldn’t control. Nope, instead we get “the ancients”. Funny how The Master had to jump through dozens of hoops to get himself transported to and set up in Manhattan, and the Ancients and the Daywalkers apparently just chartered a bus or something. You would think if it was such a big deal to awaken the ancients they wouldn’t have brought them to NYC where the Master can get at them. Maybe they were there all along though, it’s not really clear.
The entire episode I was saying, “you moron, F. All along you’ve been telling people the vampires come back for their loved ones, and they kill them because the loved ones trust the vampires. You think the rules are different for your son? Keeping mom’s transformation a secret is going to get him killed, and you know that.” And sure enough, because F refuses to tell the kid the truth, kid thinks running to mom is a good idea at the end of the episode.
I strongly, strongly suspect the Ancients have been in NYC the entire time. It’s implied they’ve been hibernating for a long time.
It almost makes the Master’s tactics kinda-sorta make sense. I know I’m giving the writers too much credit here, but let’s assume the whole thing is about the Master making war on the ancients, who live in NYC. He needs to come in and convert a lot of people all at once, because if he does a few at a time, the ancients’ enforcer will wipe them out.
Under this theory, coming in covertly in a private flight is risky. Chartering a flight might get noticed by the undead powers that be. Stowing away makes sense, and converting the flight is the very earliest mass conversion opportunity he has. Sneaking into the city and converting a housing project is probably much smarter, though.
The main thing supporting this is that the enforcer clearly has good intelligence sources. He knew about the container full of zombie vampires, for example. He knew that Hispanic Thug drove the coffin in, and almost no one knows that.
Real let down for a season finale. I wanted some major character carnage, but everyone survived, Hunter and Vamp alike. Bleah. And I hate that Setrakian continues to suffer from Writer’s Convenience Dementia, the worst of all fictional character afflictions. WCD victims are brilliant except when it matters most. Then they let the villains win so that the story continues. It’s sloppy, horrible writing. And F falls off the wagon so that we have even more reasons to loathe him. Yay.
Whereas I was giggling uncontrollably as they all walked out backwards. Why not turn around and run if your master needs you? No, just walk backwards, bumping into things, falling down, slowly, slowly retreating.
I thought once the vamps started walking backwards, our heroes should have started shooting them… the vamps were obviously in a passive sort of mode. Would have been a smart move… oh yeah, our heroes aren’t terribly smart.
I was hoping hacker chick would be a casualty of the ending battle, since she seems the most disposable character.
The “climax” here, such as it was, echoed the book plot pretty much straight-on. The big reveal in the book is just as it is here - that they force the Master out in the sun to supposedly destroy him, and find out he can survive in the daylight.
The Ancients, the role of the Vampire Hit Squad, Rich Human Dude and Drunken Eph all play important parts in the next book/season. There’s also the exciting commerce subplot… you’ll be on the edge of your seat!
if you are curious, how the next book starts
Book 2 opens with the conflict over, the vampires have won, the humans are second-class citizens, society is back to a sort of normal and our merry band of heroes are fighting a resistance movement. Don’t ask me why the Master doesn’t send 10000000 vampire after them once he finds them.
The health secretary being tossed out was freaky as although expected. The two go to talk but they are still clearly seen in the background. That’s it, clear indication she is gonna die.
The closing says it’s only been a week since the plane landed. Show seems to be pretty sloppy about not showing this time sequence better. I don’t know maybe side comments like news reports saying how long Eph has been on the run, or something.
I watched all of season one but I have to admit it was a bit of a struggle.
The series starts off great and it definitely sucked me in, but as I got further into it, everyone decided to sit down and really get a good talk going. As if they were internally discussing where the hell they were going with all of this.
They introduced side characters and killed them off, then introduced a few more and I didn’t care about any of them.
They made the big boss quite scary in the beginning but then turned him into a plastic hobo clown who’s really not that smart at all.
For some reason they have long lingering stares at each other every 3 minutes. As if someone just said something profound and they had to stop to take it all in, except nine times out of ten it had to do with politely telling a stupid kid to stfu while they were debating whether or not to have another pointless sex scene.
And the acting ranges from competent to downright awful but I have a feeling that it’s really the script and the direction that is at fault.
There are just so many things wrong with this show that I have to wonder why I even watched it, maybe it’s the pulpy nature of it, so bad it’s good kinda deal? I really don’t know, but hopefully I’ll forget about it and not waste my time on S2.
generic vampires are bad dialoglong lingering stareroll credits
The bad acting is definitely not just due the the scripts and direction, although bad acting is a flaw that’s easier to tolerate when the writing is good.
For truly bad acting though, spend 5 minutes with z-nation (or, I suppose, any Sy-fy production). Strain has some weak actors (and sadly they have prominent roles, like FFFffff and his gal), but Z-nation has worse acting than porn movies. It’s as if they pulled people who were minding their own business at a bus stop and decided to pay them as actors.
I’ll give them a pass on this since we wouldn’t be able to recognize him without it. Look how they had to let Mom vamp keep her hair so that we (and obviously the kid) wouldn’t mistake her for just some generic vamp.
Possibly, but I distinctly remember Corey Stoll from House of Cards and I thought he did very well there. Maybe it’s the wig, like a reverse Samson when it comes to acting chops.
To be fair, I imagine it’s incredibly hard to portray deep, real emotion with chopped off head props and fake blood all over the place.
On another note; Why do these vampires only have one attack? They’re basically rendered useless by putting on a heavy raincoat. The master was snapping necks left and right and blinking all over the place but in the end he had forgotten how to do any of that stuff. I guess they screwed up his bed and maybe he was tired from lugging it around and trying to fix it.
Speaking of Corey Stoll, I’m watching him in the first episode of the current season of Homeland and he’s doing fine. Maybe he’s just not cut out to be a leading man.
