Blood ties

[sqbr]

oliverm was telling distantcam and I about "BloodTies", a show they've been watching at fangirling. He said that it was about a detective with a vampire sidekick and was ok but not spectacular, but that he had been reliably informed the guy in it was hot.

This intrigued Cam more than me(*) but regardless we watched the first two episodes.

First thing I noticed: the detective was a woman. "Awesome" thinks I, "not often you get a strong female lead who's more about intelligently solving problems than looking good"
Second thing I noticed: Hmm, the vampire guy really is very pretty.

And then I realised what I was watching. To Cam it was just rather inconsistently and oddly written with more soap opera than your usual genre show.

But I have read Anne Bishop, and Tamora Pierce, and Anne Macaffery and, most importantly Laurell K. Hamilton. To me it made perfect sense for the absurdly pretty morally ambiguous graphic novelist noble blooded vampire to be immediately drawn to the main character despite her fiery nature and strong willed refusal to believe in the supernatural or listen to his advice, and for him to alternate between being touchy feely and staring into her eyes, and being aloof and otherwordly and dangerous. For her to affectionately flirt with her concerned but stolid (in an attractive, old fashioned sort of way) ex boyfriend the cop but push him away when he tried to connect. For the show to take a good five minutes in closeup on the vampires naked torso and otherwise spend an awfully long time on all the "Hot guy showing interest in the protagonist" moments and rather less on the, you know, plot.

For this is fantasy written by and for women. I've just never seen it on television before :) A lot less graphic sex than I'm used to in the genre though(**). Then again, I haven't seen the rest of the show...

Anyway, I was explaining this theory to Cam and he thought it made some sense but on the whole just thought the show was crap. And then I googled the station it's shown on. So, it looks like tv executives have finally realised that we female geeks exist and are deliberately trying to tap the market with stuff a little less girly than Charmed. I, personally, do not have a problem with this :)

EDIT: A link with some more info and a picture. See? Pretty. Also kinda young, but hey, the character isn't :)

That said, I actually don't like your typical women's-fantasy as personified by the show so far (I am at best an ex fan of the authors I listed). But more variety in tv sff means more likelyhood of them showing the sort of stuff I do like. (Let me have my dreams of Lois McMaster Bujold-like tv sff ok?)

And yes, after my gilmore girls comments I realise I may have entirely the wrong idea of the show.

(*)Because he has a higher tolerance for crappy tv sff, not because of the hot guy :D
(**)Not a complaint, just an observation.

Comments

[alias_sqbr]

Hmm. I'll see if I feel like watching the rest of the ones we have, first, but thanks for offering.

[wolfhound.livejournal.com]

sure I have dresden files too