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vaznettiThese aren't spoilery for specific events, but are very much so for the S4 setup. And they are not uncritical, although as I note below the problem may be with me not the show -- the execution is as usual very good.
Like everyone esle whose comments I've seen, I have been thinking that there was no option for the writers but to kill off George and Nina. But now that I think about it more I really, really wish that they had been sent into hiding, because now we are left with Eve, who is quickly developing a case of Television Baby Syndrome, known in our world as "neglect." Television babies only appear when it's convenient for the writers; real babies are nothing if not inconvenient. I'm sure it's just something hormonal, but every time she's in a scen I feel like shouting "pick her up!" at the screen, because she is spending far, far too much time alone in her carrier. She's already learned that there's no point to crying most of the time, poor thing. I do find it actively disturbing. In a show with vampire mythology etc, having newborn childcare being the point at which my disbelief comes crashing to the ground is probably a bit silly, but there you go. I guess it's because most of Eve's carers are onscreen most of the time, so I can't handwave that she's having lots and lots of offscreen cuddles with Annie and Tom.
This way we could still have the "chosen one" plotline, because a baby is small and defenceless and George and Nina would obviously have had to disappear to protect her. Annie and Tom could have had to keep up the pretense of their presence, with comic effects. They could have used Russell Tovey's willingness to do a little filming to have a few appearances by him, to reassure the viewers that Nina and Eve were still alive. And as an added benefit, there would be 100% less fridging to this storyline.
And as for Hal, our new vampire: I don't know, but I wish that there was some other character type for him to be. I mean, it would have been hysterical had their new vampire been the archivist guy from the first episode, rather than yet another earnest vampire trying to go straight and overcome his bloodthirsty past. I'm sure that they will come up with something other than "he has OCD!" to differentiate him from Nick Knight, and Angel, and Mitchell, and Stefan Salvatore, and all the other versions of this character, but I am starting to find the "vampire trying to stop killing" hero really, really dull. Even if Hal backslides, what will be new or interesting about it? The more I think about it, the more I wish Regus the Vampire Archivist was the new housemate; he would have been great.
Reading over this, I wonder whether I'm trying to shoe-horn the show back into the comic end of things, when the writers have more or less given that tone up (to the extent that some of the comic scenes feel out of place to me now, considering everything that has happened.)
Like everyone esle whose comments I've seen, I have been thinking that there was no option for the writers but to kill off George and Nina. But now that I think about it more I really, really wish that they had been sent into hiding, because now we are left with Eve, who is quickly developing a case of Television Baby Syndrome, known in our world as "neglect." Television babies only appear when it's convenient for the writers; real babies are nothing if not inconvenient. I'm sure it's just something hormonal, but every time she's in a scen I feel like shouting "pick her up!" at the screen, because she is spending far, far too much time alone in her carrier. She's already learned that there's no point to crying most of the time, poor thing. I do find it actively disturbing. In a show with vampire mythology etc, having newborn childcare being the point at which my disbelief comes crashing to the ground is probably a bit silly, but there you go. I guess it's because most of Eve's carers are onscreen most of the time, so I can't handwave that she's having lots and lots of offscreen cuddles with Annie and Tom.
This way we could still have the "chosen one" plotline, because a baby is small and defenceless and George and Nina would obviously have had to disappear to protect her. Annie and Tom could have had to keep up the pretense of their presence, with comic effects. They could have used Russell Tovey's willingness to do a little filming to have a few appearances by him, to reassure the viewers that Nina and Eve were still alive. And as an added benefit, there would be 100% less fridging to this storyline.
And as for Hal, our new vampire: I don't know, but I wish that there was some other character type for him to be. I mean, it would have been hysterical had their new vampire been the archivist guy from the first episode, rather than yet another earnest vampire trying to go straight and overcome his bloodthirsty past. I'm sure that they will come up with something other than "he has OCD!" to differentiate him from Nick Knight, and Angel, and Mitchell, and Stefan Salvatore, and all the other versions of this character, but I am starting to find the "vampire trying to stop killing" hero really, really dull. Even if Hal backslides, what will be new or interesting about it? The more I think about it, the more I wish Regus the Vampire Archivist was the new housemate; he would have been great.
Reading over this, I wonder whether I'm trying to shoe-horn the show back into the comic end of things, when the writers have more or less given that tone up (to the extent that some of the comic scenes feel out of place to me now, considering everything that has happened.)
