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BLADE cancelled? - Mike Hanson - 09-29-2006
According to AICN, Spike TV has apparently cancelled Freshman outing BLADE the tv series.
I'm not surprised. It reminded me quite a bit of WITCHBLADE with the production and writing quality. Good, but never quite over the top.
I also felt that the lead was horribly miscast. Sticky, while admittedly a pretty-boy, had absolutely no charisma whatsoever as Blade, the lead character. IMHO.
BLADE cancelled? - neotank - 09-30-2006
Mike Hanson Wrote:According to AICN, Spike TV has apparently cancelled Freshman outing BLADE the tv series.
I'm not surprised. It reminded me quite a bit of WITCHBLADE with the production and writing quality. Good, but never quite over the top.
I also felt that the lead was horribly miscast. Sticky, while admittedly a pretty-boy, had absolutely no charisma whatsoever as Blade, the lead character. IMHO.
Well, I caught the first couple episodes, and enjoyed them. I liked the girl character. I will probrably watch the rest of them on dvd or reruns. Too bad they cancelled it.
BLADE cancelled? - Mike Hanson - 10-01-2006
neotank Wrote:Well, I caught the first couple episodes, and enjoyed them. I liked the girl character. I will probrably watch the rest of them on dvd or reruns. Too bad they cancelled it.
I have a gut feeling that they will recoup any and all ad/revenue losses with DVD sales. The show seemed a natural for DVD release.
I agree that the female lead Jill Wagner (who played the character Krista Starr) was not your usual female lead and/or fem fatale. She had twice the gravitas of the lead (Sticky Jones) and she was attractive in a grounded way, with unconventional features. I just wish they had amped up her military background more. It was there in the Pilot, but seemed to disappear later on.
I think what turned off a lot of fans was the poor casting of Blade himself (Sticky Jones has about 1/10th the charisma of an actor of Wesley Snipes' ability), and the fight choreography realization of Blade on screen, i.e., in the movies he was an army of one, he had to be, in order to survive one-on-twelve or more confrontations at a time. Yet it seemed in the TV show that every other close-quarters-combat one-on-one that Blade was involved in, he barely managed to survive. It was like they downgraded his fighting ability 50% for the TV show. Weird.