Flights of Fanciful Fandom: Ultraviolet
Sep. 25th, 2023 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhodrymavelyneIt’s hard taking flight in fanciful fandom when reality is biting with a painful sting.
I remind myself that I did get to discover and indulge in an old love before sickness invaded our home. My husband got me Ultraviolet, a 1998 vampire series on DVD for our fifteenth wedding anniversary.
To think Stephen Moyer played Vampire Jack ten years before he played Vampire Bill on True Blood. They’re such different series, yet I can see a crossover element in the synthetic blood. The vampires of Ultraviolet were trying to create it. The vampires of True Blood had succeeded in doing so, allowing vampires to come out of the coffin and mainstream.
The undead had far more sinister motivations for the synthetic blood in Ultraviolet or perhaps one could say environmentalist?
I realized that vampires who loved humans and vampires who loved toying with humans might find common ground in opposing these particular undead scientists. Neither would want to give humanity up. A sadistic master vampire and their estranged human-loving fledgling might be united in opposing a threat to humanity, even within their own ranks.
It’s an interesting thought.
I remind myself that I did get to discover and indulge in an old love before sickness invaded our home. My husband got me Ultraviolet, a 1998 vampire series on DVD for our fifteenth wedding anniversary.
To think Stephen Moyer played Vampire Jack ten years before he played Vampire Bill on True Blood. They’re such different series, yet I can see a crossover element in the synthetic blood. The vampires of Ultraviolet were trying to create it. The vampires of True Blood had succeeded in doing so, allowing vampires to come out of the coffin and mainstream.
The undead had far more sinister motivations for the synthetic blood in Ultraviolet or perhaps one could say environmentalist?
I realized that vampires who loved humans and vampires who loved toying with humans might find common ground in opposing these particular undead scientists. Neither would want to give humanity up. A sadistic master vampire and their estranged human-loving fledgling might be united in opposing a threat to humanity, even within their own ranks.
It’s an interesting thought.
