gingergargoyle

Okay just a few quirks for myself here - if you are making a story of the Norse gods don't you think that at least one of the actors would have had a Nordic accent?? And the acting ... well it was good for the dialog, I suppose it could have been worse although I don't know how. I have to wonder if at any time during the production why no one went to the writers and demanded a rewrite. Now if you are going to make a story about a rich mythology, I would hope that someone at sometime would have done at least a little research about it ... I wouldn't be as upset except they made a point of using the name of every god or goddess they could muster - if it were a random bunch of Nordic names it would be one thing, but it was fairly obvious that these characters were meant to BE the Norse gods-- c'mon, get the attributes correct! Its like someone was playing Quake and wrote down all that happened and made it into a script. This is a movie that every Heathen will regret. Pass it by.

First I will acknowledge up front that I have not watched this show and from what I've seen of previews it is a poor mingling of several shows already seen in the market (and is more proof that Hollywood has no original ideas) ... this show is a cross between "Angel"(1999), "Kindred"(1996), and "Highlander:the series"(1992) to name a few. One scene I've seen is almost directly lifted from a scene involving Buffy & Angel ... and very similar to a scene in 'Kindred'.

If you want to see an **original** vampire series try to locate 'Kindred:The Embraced' which was supposed to be the launching of a new television series but the series was canceled when the main star died in an automobile accident - it truly gets into vampire lore, including explaining why there seems to be some disagreement of vampire lore.

If this was an attempt to carry out the original plan to have a 'kindred' TV series - from what I've seen they've failed miserably!