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Jun. 25th, 2008 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13Hm, for as much as Blood Ties doesn`t try to invent the genre anew, it did something I have NEVER seen in any vampire show/story. At least not that I can recall.
You usually have the tortured vampire and a human - female - partner of some kind. And at some point said vampire will drink said partner`s blood and it will be a moment of great drama. See in Blood Ties`own Pilot where Henry is "mortally" wounded and Vicky gives him her blood. The music swells and the scene goes to semi-slow-mo and everything. See also Angel feeding off Buffy, Nick Knight feeding off forget-her-name and I`m guessing Moonlight will either have it or not have gotten around to it.
Fast forward several episodes and at the end of an episode we have a scene where Henry and Vicki are in an elevator. He grumbles that the night is soon over and he hasn`t fed yet, she thanks him for something he did for her, then basically he asks "do you mind?" She says no and he casually leans over and sucks her blood. While she keeps standing there just as casually. No swelling music, no amped-up cinematorgraphy, no nothing. It`s like she let him have her coffee. And it`s not a habit that`s developed between them either.
Somehow I adored it.
Okay, the territorial loner-vampires is something of a novelty too. And hee that "noone ever claims Detroit". Probably an in-joke I don`t really get but it cracked me up nevertheless.
You usually have the tortured vampire and a human - female - partner of some kind. And at some point said vampire will drink said partner`s blood and it will be a moment of great drama. See in Blood Ties`own Pilot where Henry is "mortally" wounded and Vicky gives him her blood. The music swells and the scene goes to semi-slow-mo and everything. See also Angel feeding off Buffy, Nick Knight feeding off forget-her-name and I`m guessing Moonlight will either have it or not have gotten around to it.
Fast forward several episodes and at the end of an episode we have a scene where Henry and Vicki are in an elevator. He grumbles that the night is soon over and he hasn`t fed yet, she thanks him for something he did for her, then basically he asks "do you mind?" She says no and he casually leans over and sucks her blood. While she keeps standing there just as casually. No swelling music, no amped-up cinematorgraphy, no nothing. It`s like she let him have her coffee. And it`s not a habit that`s developed between them either.
Somehow I adored it.
Okay, the territorial loner-vampires is something of a novelty too. And hee that "noone ever claims Detroit". Probably an in-joke I don`t really get but it cracked me up nevertheless.
