Blade: The Series - How is it?

[C.W.Richeson]

So I've caught two episodes of this series and really enjoyed what I saw, but I'm not yet ready to invest the time into watching it from the start (or picking up the DVDs). So, Xenagia, tell me more about this series!

[Quasar]

I quite enjoyed it. Of course it only lasted one season so many plotlines were left dangling which might bother you. Certainly worth a rent.

[Savre]

Better than it had any right to be with a very, very good villain. Sadly prematurely cancelled.

[C.W.Richeson]

And I had been wondering why I hadn't seen ads for a second season...

Thanks for the recommendations!

[Emprint]

It's not bad. The cast is good (particularly evil boss vampire Van Sciver) and the ideas are consistently entertaining. Mostly, the early episodes just suffered from being early episodes. The actors were just beginning to figure out who the characters were, and the action was just beginning to develop its own style. Blade is a solid example of the trenchcoats-and-katanas subgenre, and a very different one than Angel.

(It also got some of the older Blade comics reprinted, which made me very happy.)

[Des]

I enjoyed it quite a bit. It had a bit of the kindred: the embraced melodrama, but I thought they did a good job of making almost all the characters interesting. I particularly liked that they didn't dwell excessively on blade, but fleshed out a lot of the rest of the cast; in many ways blade is even more of an ensemble show than say whedonverse stuff.

And yeah, it was sad that it was cancelled. From some comments posted on RPG.net, it sounded like it may have been due to the demographic; apparently they were shooting for the male 18-25 demographic, and instead got a very high female demographic; it got good ratings overall, but apparently not in the areas they wanted it to.

[Jack]

Better than it had any right to be with a very, very good villain. Sadly prematurely cancelled.

That's pretty much my take.