I've Watched & I've Read

[ithildin]

Jen loaned me her Blood Ties books, and I've read the first one, and have also now watched the first two episodes. I have to say, as a besotted Forever Knight fan, it is extremely weird seeing the establishing shots of Toronto, especially as it's a vampire show too. The other weird thing is a TV show that has the same title as my Forever Knight/Highlander fic series. Keeps making me do a double take. Henry doesn't look anything like I visualized from the book, but that's not to say he isn't extremely and totally cute. It isn't a bad show over all, though it's very much like Dresden Files in some ways. It's strange how you have zero TV in this vein, and now you have two of them, with others on the horizon. Feast or famine, I guess.

The upshot is I'll start watching the show, and read the rest of the books.

Comments

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

It may be older, but for me, it's the newest...

*Nods.* I got that. I just wanted you to know what order they came in. I mean FK and Dresden may be the older TV shows, but they aren't the older series, and whether or not they where directly influenced by the Blood books they were influenced from the stand point of the Blood series being one of the supernatural, ah, investigator series that was popular in the early 90's wave of that kind of fiction.

Never even heard of the books till recently. Had heard of the author, and she wrote something to do with vampires, but that was it.

I think the first book series I got into in that late 80's/early 90's wave was Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde series, followed by P.N. Elrod's Jack Fleming books, and Tanya Huff's Blood books. I was a fan of each of them from the beginning. Laurell K. Hamilton and her Anita Blake were really late comers not debuting until '93 after all those other series, the Buffy movie and Forever Knight. Lackey's Andre Lebrel, Elrod's Jack Fleming, and Huff's Henry Fitzroy are all on my Top Ten Favorite Vampires list over here (http://beccadg.livejournal.com/77585.html). While there are two vampires from the Anita Blake books there, there aren't any vampires from Buffy or FK on the short list. :D

All I know about Dresden Files is from the TV show...

I've read 7 of the 8 books that have been published in the series so far. A vampire from the books is also on my short list. I'm so disappointed by the TV show I hope he doesn't turn up on it.

I doubt any of these series will ever compete with either FK or HL for my heart, but it's nice having fantasy shows on the telly regardless.

Heh, the book series may have FK beat, but the only vampire who's made it past Methos on my FP list over here (http://beccadg.livejournal.com/10234.html) is Jean-Claude. ;)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm one of those people that starts a book by looking at the publishing information, so I knew how old a book it was [g] But I'm strange that way!

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

But I'm strange that way!

*Giggles.* Not sure I'd have used strange, rare or unusual maybe, but not strange. ;) I've run into too many people who don't so I'm paranoid about people not appreciating what came first. :o