Ultra-Violet?

POSTED BY: VisitingMyIntentions
UPDATED: Sunday, September 25, 2005 20:00
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VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:38 PM

How many people here are fans of Ultra-Violet? A show with even fewer episodes than Firefly and even more vampire-obsessed than Buffy. It's a sort of "X-Files takes on Buffy". Main character's a jerk, his love interest is awful (I call her the "evil glisteny-teeth woman"--anyone could tell those teeth were plotting something...), and yet I loved it.

So, anyone else?

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Early: Where'd she go?

Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's NOT incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me --

RELFEXIVE

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:16 PM

Great series. Loved watching it again on DVD. Clever 'Class 5' abilities and weaknesses too. Smart.

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

SIMONWHO

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:31 PM

It's a great show, one I pimp onto those I encounter with great regularity. It's also interesting in that it is a post-Buffy vampire show (well, technically it was contemporaneous) and yet it doesn't cover the same ground at all.

The scene in the warehouse is wonderfully tense too. Another show that cried out for a second series.

RELFEXIVE

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:33 PM

The guy locked in with the coffins you mean? That was good... and a cunning escape plan too!

I liked how they were totally invisible to technology... all technology. You can't even take their fingerprints: "like all other media, it doesn't record".

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

TRUTHSEEKER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:59 PM

I liked it as well. I have a Canadian friend who found it somewhere or other, bought the DVD set and lent them to me. I watched them and promptly bought my own set.

Which is nice, 'cause that's exactly how I turned her on to Firefly. Ahhhh, the karma....

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BADGERGIRL

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:56 AM

I love that show...at least what I've seen of it. I've only gotten to see the first episode.

I plan on buying the DVDs at some point, though, so I can finish it.

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SMITH

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:40 AM

I hear they're making a movie version of Ultra-Violet, but I can pretty much guarantee that, like any other adaption of a worthwhile series, the film will have very little to do with the t.v. show. (Please note I do not class Serenity as an adaption of Firefly). If anyone has seen the Christian Bale flick "Equilibrium", the director, Kurt Wimmer, is taking the helm. Milla Jovovich is starring. Fingers crossed that it turns out okay!

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JABBERWOCKY

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 4:42 AM

Yeah, I heard about it a few years back and I managed to find a copy of the DVDs here in Canada. So I snatched it up and watched it as soon as I got home.

I think that this has been one of the best Vampire series out there besides Buffy. Though I did think that some of the things that the Code 5's couldn't do such as record their voice, and use Telephones was a little lame. Though I found the storys where very well written. It would have been interesting to see where they would have gone with the show if it had been picked up for a least another season.

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PURPLEBELLY

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:19 AM

Idris Elba(Vaughan Rice) using his native Hackney - what's not to love?

VISITINGMYINTENTIONS

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:52 PM

The guy in the warehouse scene (I can't remember anyone's names) was the coolest of the bunch. And such an ingenious escape!

I thought the abortion episode was the creepiest ever, because you have no clue what she should do...

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Early: Where'd she go?

Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's NOT incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me --

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