Blade the Series - 1x09 - "Angels And Demons"

[fembuck]

Well, golly! What an episode.

First off, I like snarky female asian doctor (I'm going to call her Dr. Kim from now on, because I think it's a pretty good guess). From her entrance, "Ever hear of a lamp?" Dr. Kim amused and entertained me. It was nice to see Shen have someone to share his pain with. I mean, Shen deals with Blade pretty well, but you gotta know that being around that guy like 24/7 has got to be a serious downer like almost all the time, lol. I hope we see more of Dr. Kim, I kinda like it when Blade's inner circle is a little expanded. Plus she's like the perfect candidate to develop a new inhaler for him (though that would mean no more of Krista's orgasm face in the shower, though I'm sure Marcus Chase would be happy to help her out with that).

Despite this episode being a total Marcus/Krista shipper wetdream come true, there were still a few moments for our girls. First, Chase called her 'darling' (I don't know if it's an Australian thing and I don't care!), then Chase's mere presence was enough to calm Krista's bloodlust, then Chase totally undressed Krista (and I'm assuming bathed her because I want to), and then picked out a sexy slip to dress her in before tying her down on the bed (which I'm assuming is like totally vampire foreplay).

Awww, poor Charlotte. She sounded really sad when she declared that if Glynis hadn't checked in yet that she never would. Chase is in for a beat down, Charlotte is totally pissed. It sucks that Chase has to get the beat down because Charlotte knows without a doubt that Marcus cares about her and she can be used as a bargaining chip. Marcus I ideally should be getting the beat down (though he seemed to recover from those pretty quickly. Then again, if Krista was all "let me lick your wounds" I'd probably ignore the gasping hole in my chest to. Plus, it seemed like she was doing most of the work anyway), or at least Krista since she actually did the killing and is the one Charlotte is actually suspicious of. There is a possibility that Lurch grabbed the wrong "girl", but I don't think so. Also, I'm interested in this plan that Charlotte spoke of. I can't remember if it's been brought up before, but I'm glad to see that the pure bloods have something up their sleeves.


I was surprised by the revelation that Marcus is only 107 years old. For some reason I thought that he was older than that. In any case the flashbacks were kind of interesting in that it really explains Marcus' hatred of the pure bloods. Though I found his backstory really cliche and boring. Oh, Marucs is just misunderstood. See he was a really good husband, who loved his angel Isabel and sacrificed home and country to be with her. And all he wanted to do was open his own shop and make is way in this country that celebrated freedom and the pursuit of happiness. But EVIL vampires stole this dream and destroyed his life. And now he's sad and angry and driven, and has been meticulously planning his revenge for a hundred years (like Michael Scofield only he wants to kill people instead of rescue them, and he takes a lot longer to plan things ... and isn't nearly as fine). Because of his pain, he truly understands Krista's (even though he caused hers) and they're perfect together and it makes me want to puke. Honestly, okay I can see a bond existing between the two of them, but really Marcus just visited upon her the pain that was visited upon him because ... um, he wanted to? Frankly, you'd think he would have known better. This 'my blood is in you and so we share a love that is pure' shit is stupid, and that the point that Chase still hates Frederick's guts even though she won't kill him just proves that. The bond makes it so that she can't actually kill him, but she remembers what he did to her and can never forgive him for it. Krista should be in the same boat.

Really I would've liked it if they'd gone the Krista/Marcus dark/hatefuck route. His beatdown of her in his office was pretty awesome, and if they'd had them hook up as an extension of that, sleeping together and having Krista work through some of her vampire issues, while Marcus worked through some messed up desire he'd had to turn his wife and safe from life's suffering or something, that would have been alright. But the Florence Nightengale, schmoopiness of their union bugged. The scene was filmed nicely though.

Dominic (or is it Damic? I really sounded like they were saying Damic this episode but whatever, I'll just call him Big D) is a total bastard and I'm glad he's dead. If all the Armayan pure bloods were thugs like him it's not hard to see why they got kicked off of the council. The Marcus/Big D fight was pretty awesome though. Marcus was actually menacing and intimidating this episode and I liked him much better this way.

Leave it to Chase to have the heels of her boots tipped with silver. Gotta love that girl! Oh Chase, you so crazy. It was pretty funny how Lurch just downed her though and then dragged her out of the alley like a sack of potatoes.

The Agent Collin's storyline was somewhat interesting tonight. Okay, not really but at least there's some forward movement with them knowing about Blade and the cover-ups and probably going to track him down very soon. Plus, Dr. Gilmore (I'm going to call her that because Doctor lady reminds me of Lauren Graham and I didn't catch her name) is all sorts of hot, and is pretty smart to boot. If she's in scenes with Agent Collin's well, at least I'll have something to look at.

God that wig they gave Marucs was hideous. I think Neil Jackson's kind weird looking anyway, but in a kind of SexyUgly way, but in those flashbacks it was just fugcity. Not interesting looking, just FugUg.

Also, Blade ... sweetie, honey ... you totally didn't have to watch them for that long. I know you don't have much of a social life, but really. Oh, and before you say he got up at the end of the scene to leave, I say to you we never say him leave, we never saw him even turn to leave. We saw him stand up, take of his dark glasses so he could see better and lean forward. So I'm gonna call a perv a perv on this one ;)

Next week looks interesting though! I'm looking forward to Krista's detox (honestly, I think she will rethink her position on Marcus once she's feeling better. I don't think she'll hate him quite as much, but I don't she'll be wanting to kiss his boo boo's better anymore either). Not sure who those masked people are, but they look interesting, and I like that it seems like Blade will be called out on his viciousness. Disappointed that there was no hint of Chase in the previews (thought there's really no way they could avoid dealing with what happens with her since there's no way Marcus won't notice that she's missing).

Comments

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

But, I was watching the pilot earlier today and you know that scene with Chase in the meat locker - Krista has yet to look at Marcus in the same way she looked(looks) at Chase.

So true. Krista looked at Chase with longing and yearning, and she's never done that with Marcus. Like meat locker scene with Krista and Chase, you can feel a pull between them, a sexual chemistry that's not there with Krista and Marcus.

I really feel like a lot of the relationship development we've seen is between the two of them, and they have some of the same issues as K/M, but with K/C it's less creepy and smarmy. I mean honestly, Chase is alway the one there taking care of Krista after Marcus has done something to fuck her up, and teaching her while Marcus only talks to her when it suits his needs.

But, the sex scene with Marcus had 'pity fuck' written all over it. I almost, *almost* feel sorry for him.

Yeah, I kind felt bad for him too after seeing what Dominic did to his wife, and then seeing Dominic laugh about the fact that destroying Marcus' life was so insignificant to him that he didn't even remember who he was. Like ouch. And I can see how after seeing all of that Krista would be feeling sorry/sympathetic towards him. I just hope that it wears off next episode for her, just like it's warn off for me after thinking about Marcus and all the shitty stuff he's done since the start of the show.