No, not the deeply mediocre Matrix crossed with Blade rip off from 2006, I'm of course talking of the cult UK series from 1998. It is about UK special agents that deal with hunting down vampires with high tech gadgets and science. It's main lead, a young Jack Davenport, went on to a respectable B-list career (turning up in PotC, Flashforward and Kingsman) but it's of course Idris Elba who leaps out as being instantly recognisable. Both leads were excellent and so was Susannah Harper (form the original House of Cards) and Philip Quast, but sadly they had less successful careers than Elba and Davenport.
While the vampires getting vaporised by garlic pistols is rendered with amusing 90s CGI, the show as a whole actually dated fairly well and actually pretty similar in tone with 2007's Jekyll(both about monsters from 19th century literature meeting modern-ish tech). The mico camera attached to Solid Snake's SOCOM pistol to detect vampires rendered invisible on monitors stuck in my mind for many, many years. And on hindsight it makes sense that the vampires were making their aggressive moves in 1998 right on the cusp of the digital revolution and omnipresent surveillance really exploding (and vampires becoming known to everybody with smartphones).
Ultraviolet
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Big Orange
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Ultraviolet
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'Secondly, I don't see why "income inequality" is a bad thing. Poverty is not an injustice. There is no such thing as causes for poverty, only causes for wealth. Poverty is not a wrong, but taking money from those who have it to equalize incomes is basically theft, which is wrong.' - Typical Randroid
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'Secondly, I don't see why "income inequality" is a bad thing. Poverty is not an injustice. There is no such thing as causes for poverty, only causes for wealth. Poverty is not a wrong, but taking money from those who have it to equalize incomes is basically theft, which is wrong.' - Typical Randroid
'I think it's gone a little bit wrong.' - The Doctor
Re: Ultraviolet
Amusingly one of the more memorable vampires (Jack Davenport's friend who was turned in the first episode) was played by Stephen Moyer, aka Bill Compton from True Blood, minus the atrocious Southern accent.
I did enjoy this show. At the time the story of the high tech Vampire conspiracy trying to take over the world to keep humanity from wiping itself out and tainting their food supply was pretty novel.
I did enjoy this show. At the time the story of the high tech Vampire conspiracy trying to take over the world to keep humanity from wiping itself out and tainting their food supply was pretty novel.
Re: Ultraviolet
It is a great show. I cannot recommend it enough.
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Bernkastel
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Re: Ultraviolet
I have been meaning to watch this for quite a while. I'd suppose I can take this as a sign to go on and watch it already.
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Absolutely. Only six episodes, but brilliant.Bernkastel wrote:I have been meaning to watch this for quite a while. I'd suppose I can take this as a sign to go on and watch it already.