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Needed more blood maids.

Impressions:

Ah yes. The tortured loquacious pansexual vampire. Thank you once again for your absolutely wonderful contributions to vampire culture, Anne Rice. Also, I only assume that he’s pansexual because he keeps skimpily dressed explosive maids around. Occasionally in his blood. It admittedly did start pretty well. Any time you’ve got maids made of blood with oversized weapons for hands fighting against a Christian cyborg and you actually put a little effort into it, it’s probably going to at least not turn out horribly. Doubly so when the maids are sarcastic. That gave way pretty quickly to caressing of naked chests, lounging around in open shirts, waking up in bed together, showering together, and most distasteful of all, ten straight minutes of nothing more exciting than watching the cyborg surf the web. And don’t think that the imagery of the piston drilling into vampy while Cherryface was sucking him was lost on me.

So yeah, it peaked very early and the remaining twenty minutes was poor at best. It did peak at least, so there’s that. The only other fight in the episode happened almost entirely off-screen and cut right from Cherryboy on his heels to the little ice queen getting zapped and then to him having lost, I guess? It could have also stood to be a lot less dark during those later parts, especially when the camera began thrashing around. It would’ve been nice if the humor had stuck around too instead of becoming an utterly joyless tortured affair. There were also a few really bizarre direction shots that happened too infrequently to be called stylistic, but were too jarring to think that they were just a whim. Probably some page from the source that the director felt the need to keep.

So basically, first 5 minutes: decent enough action and even some humor. Remaining 20 minutes: fruity vampire, darkness, boring boring exposition. Oh well.