Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: If you were into Buffy......
.....have you caught Blood Ties on Living TV yet? It hasn't quite got enough regular characters to work absolutely properly yet - you need seven and it only has three major and three minor/occasionals - but a female private detective working wtih a very straight police detective and a vampire is a twist. I haven't read the books but apparently there have been changes - and unlike certain other shows it has been renewed.
I've been taping it, but haven't watched them back yet (I can never seem to find the time!! hehe). I have seen one episode (WOW! hehe) and what I saw looked very good (the fact that the guy that plays the vampire is buff, doesn't hurt, either! )
From a straight male perspective, the detective and her assistant are easy on the eye too. Not many women get to play glamorous characters who wear glasses but Christina Cox manages it - and I love the idea of Allison Crowley - very funny.
Interestingly, it is a Canadian show, like Forever Knight, which was about a vampire police detective.
I used to love Forever Knight (Geraint Wyn Davies is gorgeous!!). I shall have to look into the boxset (more stress on the piggy bank, I swear that I see him twitch whenever he sees me! ).
That was the one I was trying to remember! Cancelled, unfortunately.
Not enough characters.
Ever since Star Trek it has been clear to me - and I have given talks about it - that ensemble sci-fi/supernatural series need seven characters, relating to the characteristics of the seven classical planets. In Start Trek it works like this:
Solar hero - Kirk, Picard
Mercurial fixer - Scotty, Jordy
Venusian lovely - Uhuru, Troi
Lunar healer - McCoy, both female doctors in TNG
Martial - Chekov or Sulu, Worf
Jovial - Chekov or Sulu, Riker
Saturnine - Spock, Data.
Buffy often had too many regulars and killed some off or sent them away, as happened in TNG, where Tasha Yarr was killed off and the Vulcan female just seemed to vanish. DS9 played with the seven a bit, making the healer Jovial (randy) and originally trying a martial female until Worf was brought back, and Voyager never quite got it right, but Babylon 5 works. Have fun trying this yourself, but don't bother with Star Wars, which is deliberately based on the Tarot (Yoda=Yod=The Hermit and when Yoda first appears it is precisely as the Rider Waite Hermit, even down to which hands he is holding his lantern and staff with).
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hehe). I have seen one episode (WOW! hehe) and what I saw looked very good (the fact that the guy that plays the vampire is buff, doesn't hurt, either! 
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