Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 21:02:39 GMT
I quite liked it. I thought it kind of muddled its own message, though.
Early on at least, it was doing the X Men thing - making Vampires a repressed minority, disliked and distrusted by the mainstream. AKA gays, blacks, etc. They didn't push the minority analogy all that hard as the show went on, but they pretty much always stuck to the idea that we should be treating Vampires as equal to everyone else and anybody who didn't was just a plain old bigot.
But you can't really do that... and then go on to show that the oppressed group are a bunch of evil murderers! Every single Vampire we ever saw on this show was up to no good. Every one of them used their hypno powers against people constantly. Pretty much every one of them murdered people - even the Vamps we were supposed to think of as "good guys" like Bill and Jessica. From everything they showed us, people were absolutely right to distrust Vampires, and the terrible religious bigots trying to murder them were the actual good guys!
Still, it was a fun show. I always enjoyed watching it, I liked their sense of humour and I liked all the splashy gore. I'm glad I watched it.
Early on at least, it was doing the X Men thing - making Vampires a repressed minority, disliked and distrusted by the mainstream. AKA gays, blacks, etc. They didn't push the minority analogy all that hard as the show went on, but they pretty much always stuck to the idea that we should be treating Vampires as equal to everyone else and anybody who didn't was just a plain old bigot.
But you can't really do that... and then go on to show that the oppressed group are a bunch of evil murderers! Every single Vampire we ever saw on this show was up to no good. Every one of them used their hypno powers against people constantly. Pretty much every one of them murdered people - even the Vamps we were supposed to think of as "good guys" like Bill and Jessica. From everything they showed us, people were absolutely right to distrust Vampires, and the terrible religious bigots trying to murder them were the actual good guys!
Still, it was a fun show. I always enjoyed watching it, I liked their sense of humour and I liked all the splashy gore. I'm glad I watched it.