anyone watch it. i lasted 3 minutes. i love the bbc one and i just couldn't imagine gawking at the american vampire guy. bleck. fugly as hell!

order the original off ebay. aidan turner is gorgeous!!! and i adore his thick irish accent...

my fave vampire ever!

another remake? figures...

that station (I refuse to type/write the new 'tard spelling) has the worst programming..

Other than the Stargate shows and Battlestar Galactica, just about everything they do/have done sucks rancid arse it's embarrassing.....

yesterday they had a movie on called "Red: Werewolf Hunter"

The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal the family business as werewolf hunters. After he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.

why can't they play real [classic] Sci-Fi movies/shows -- a consolidate their budget so they can actually put out some new quality stuff (instead of all these lame, cheesy stupid little "movies") ??

PositivityNYC said:

yesterday they had a movie on called "Red: Werewolf Hunter"

The modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal the family business as werewolf hunters. After he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.

why can't they play real [classic] Sci-Fi movies/shows -- a consolidate their budget so they can actually put out some new quality stuff (instead of all these lame, cheesy stupid little "movies") ??

i hear ya there. well now they destroyed a great britsh show too. as if those terible scifi movies and how bad ghost hunters has been lately it's enough

PositivityNYC said:

another remake? figures...

that station (I refuse to type/write the new 'tard spelling) has the worst programming..

Other than the Stargate shows and Battlestar Galactica, just about everything they do/have done sucks rancid arse it's embarrassing.....

I didn't, really - COULDN'T even try those shows because that unnamed channel sucks so hard. It's an insult to something that I really love so I'd rather just pretend it doesn't exist.

i love being human!!

As 4 aidan turner...

Rivy said:

Me too! It's better than being a bug

Wow, a programme about vampires? How original.

whistle said:

whistle said:

Wow, a programme about vampires? How original.

no its about a vampire,ghost and werewolf living together trying to pass as normal humans.

one of the best shows EVER! well the bbc one at least

purplemookiebut said:

I've seen that one. It was called Twilight saga.

zaza said:

purplemookiebut said:

no its about a vampire,ghost and werewolf living together trying to pass as normal humans.

one of the best shows EVER! well the bbc one at least

I've seen that one. It was called Twilight saga.

there ain't go ghost in twilight. i'm not a twitard but i did see em. they are beyond terrible compared to being human. aidans my fave vamp ever even over every vamp movie i ever seen

purplemookiebut said:

Of course there are ghosts in Twilight..ghosts of old and amazing actors like Marlon Brando. They're crying throughout the whole movie because it's so bad

I watched the syfy version last night. (I didn't even know it was a bbc knockoff )

I kinda liked it. We'll see if the writing is good enough to keep my interest.

I agree with you about the Aiden actor...not cute.

Neither is the werewolf actor.

They both look short and kinda wimpy.

The ghost even made a reference to Twilight during the episode!

Speaking of BBC knockoffs...has anyone seen Episodes with Matt LeBlanc? It's all about America ruining great BBC shows.

purplemookiebut said:

zaza said:

purplemookiebut said: I've seen that one. It was called Twilight saga.

there ain't go ghost in twilight. i'm not a twitard but i did see em. they are beyond terrible compared to being human. aidans my fave vamp ever even over every vamp movie i ever seen

umm, Twihard, not Twitard (whatchoo tryin' to say? )...

and yes; no ghosts in Twilight...

no, I do not refer to myself as a Twihard

even tho I am Team Jacob (and I know that it is pointless... )

Cerebus said:

PositivityNYC said:

another remake? figures...

that station (I refuse to type/write the new 'tard spelling) has the worst programming..

Other than the Stargate shows and Battlestar Galactica, just about everything they do/have done sucks rancid arse it's embarrassing.....

I didn't, really - COULDN'T even try those shows because that unnamed channel sucks so hard. It's an insult to something that I really love so I'd rather just pretend it doesn't exist.

how long have they been on the air? the only 2 things they ever got right...

zaza said:

purplemookiebut said:

no its about a vampire,ghost and werewolf living together trying to pass as normal humans.

one of the best shows EVER! well the bbc one at least

I've seen that one. It was called Twilight saga.

trust me folks, the twilight series is a lesser form of a currently popular theme that has been done to death by now.

if anyone wants to read a terrific vampire series, rich with intelligent, strong characters and cultural as well as historical details, check out this woman's work. a lot of people have copied her but none come close.

http://www.chelseaquinnyarbro.net/

XxAxX said:

My favourite vampire book is Salem's Lot and Dracula. These new books like Twilight and Vampire Diary or whatever it's called have nothing to offer.

XxAxX said:

zaza said:

purplemookiebut said: I've seen that one. It was called Twilight saga.

trust me folks, the twilight series is a lesser form of a currently popular theme that has been done to death by now.

if anyone wants to read a terrific vampire series, rich with intelligent, strong characters and cultural as well as historical details, check out this woman's work. a lot of people have copied her but none come close.

http://www.chelseaquinnyarbro.net/

OooOO - thanks!

I'm always looking for a good book!

CallMeCarrie said:

XxAxX said:

trust me folks, the twilight series is a lesser form of a currently popular theme that has been done to death by now.

if anyone wants to read a terrific vampire series, rich with intelligent, strong characters and cultural as well as historical details, check out this woman's work. a lot of people have copied her but none come close.

http://www.chelseaquinnyarbro.net/

OooOO - thanks!

I'm always looking for a good book!

i was very frustrated with twilight, could NOT relate to bella. right about the time her character sat through her entire science class while blowing off the lesson and thinking of nothing but edward.... i disassociated from her on the spot. in my opinion, this is a terrible character to pass off on young adult women (it is one of my PET peeves, the continuation of outdated, harmfully stereotyped behaviors women learn to perceive as 'romantic').

the stereotype is already that women are bad at math and science. why encourage young readers to believe that this is okay?? anyhoo, ms. yarbro's character is not like that

The books of the Saint-Germain Cycle combine historic fiction, romance, and horror and feature the heroic vampire first introduced in Hôtel Transylvania as Le Comte de Saint-Germain. In this initial novel, the character -- cultured, well-traveled, articulate, elegant, and mysterious -- appears in the court of France's King Louis XV. In order to convince the naive but intelligent Madelaine de Montalia that she is in danger, Saint-Germain reveals he is thousands of years old and drinks the Elixir of Life, blood. He also introduces her to the sensual pleasures of his vampiric embrace.

Yarbro intentionally sought to get as far away as possible from the traditional vampire trope "and still have a recognizable vampire," to use the "vampire as a metaphor for humanism," and establish the vampire's erotic appeal as a shared, mutual intimacy. Yarbro was the first writer to revise the stereotype so completely and mesh it so fully with romance. She also filtered it through a feminist perspective that both the giving of sustenance and its taking were of equal erotic potency. Although romantic and historical fiction, Hôtel Transylvania and consequent novels also belong firmly within the canon of modern horror: the mortal inhabitants of the natural world are the forces of darkness and the supernatural "monster" is the defender of sanity and morality. As the author has noted, "history is horror."

^^ Yup - I love books with strong, intelligent female characters.

Off topic from vampires, but have you read the Kushiel's Legacy series

by Jacqueline Carey?

Amazing (IMO)!

It's kind of an alternate world, fantasy series

with a wonderful lead character, who is part courtesan and part spy/action hero.

CallMeCarrie said:

^^ Yup - I love books with strong, intelligent female characters.

Off topic from vampires, but have you read the Kushiel's Legacy series

by Jacqueline Carey?

Amazing (IMO)!

It's kind of an alternate world, fantasy series

with a wonderful lead character, who is part courtesan and part spy/action hero.

thank you! i have not read that. wil check it out after i finish this (which, by the way, is fabulous):

XxAxX said:

CallMeCarrie said:

^^ Yup - I love books with strong, intelligent female characters.

Off topic from vampires, but have you read the Kushiel's Legacy series

by Jacqueline Carey?

Amazing (IMO)!

It's kind of an alternate world, fantasy series

with a wonderful lead character, who is part courtesan and part spy/action hero.

thank you! i have not read that. wil check it out after i finish this (which, by the way, is fabulous):

Thank YOU!

I'm adding this one to my book list, too!