Any thoughts on Kindred: The Embraced?
I've never even heard of it before. 20 minutes into it, my experience is:
C Thomas Howell? How did that guy ever get a role? Dialogue. Really crappy. Casting, cool.
Does it get better?
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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beekaytee - Dec 03, 2004 12:04:01 pm PST #6656 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Kalshane - Dec 03, 2004 12:14:56 pm PST #6657 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
It's been ages since I watched it, but I seem to recall it getting a little better, but not remarkably so. It helps when they lay off the the exposition and can stop quoting the game books.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 03, 2004 12:26:19 pm PST #6658 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Stacey Haiduk turns in an effective, moving performance as Lily Langtree. And Brian Thompson surprises with some depth in one of the later episodes, though he's not around much after that.
It's best to fast-forward whenever Howell is on the screen.
beekaytee - Dec 03, 2004 12:50:24 pm PST #6659 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
It's best to fast-forward whenever Howell is on the screen.Check. I'm getting that.
It helps when they lay off the the exposition and can stop quoting the game books.
This explains the, so stilted it pricks you till you bleed, dialogue. Aha.
Expectations duly lowered.
And I always like Brian Thompson. Just cuz.
Thomash - Dec 03, 2004 1:41:20 pm PST #6660 of 10001
I have a plan.
Any thoughts on Kindred: The Embraced?
None that I left unblocked. Didn't like it at all.
Beverly - Dec 03, 2004 2:02:15 pm PST #6661 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Um. Jeff Kober. Liked his Nosferatu-esque character.
Hah. The blonde in the later episodes--she's who Kate on Angel reminded me of. And the actress who played Virginia also had a role. And um, that guy, the guy from The Zeppo, with the car? He was in it, too.
Wow, it's been a long while since I saw K:TE
Anne W. - Dec 03, 2004 2:36:40 pm PST #6662 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I blame K:TE for some of the more irritating bits of vampire fanon in BtVS fanfic.
Atropa - Dec 03, 2004 2:42:23 pm PST #6663 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Any thoughts on Kindred: The Embraced?
That White Wolf was insane to go along with it?
Connie Neil - Dec 03, 2004 2:43:31 pm PST #6664 of 10001
brillig
That White Wolf was insane to go along with it
That show killed the game, because suddenly the kids who played it were no longer noir and cool but wanna-be's imitating a TV show.
Atropa - Dec 03, 2004 2:47:02 pm PST #6665 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That show killed the game, because suddenly the kids who played it were no longer noir and cool but wanna-be's imitating a TV show.
The kids that played it thought they were noir and cool at some point? (I say this having played it myself, you understand.)
Edit: Ooooh, fear me and my number of evil! *Now* I'm cool and noir, oh yes indeedy.