The Gates (a.k.a your weekly dose of Rhona Mitra with fangs!)

[fembuck]

So ABC has put up the first 17 minutes of their new summer show The Gates (premieres June 20th), starring your favorite and mine, Rhona Mitra.


(Click Rhona to view the 'Sneak Preview')

I must admit the first few minutes had me rolling my eyes, but by the time the 17 minutes was up I was pretty engrossed in the show and I actually yelled at the screen when the preview ended because that scene was INTENSE.  It should also be noted that the preview was like 40% Rhona Mitra (Claire Radcliffe) which I greatly approved of!  I'm so happy that her character is going to figure prominently as she is my main draw to the show.  Well, Rhona and the fact that I love vampires and werewolves!

Also, based on the little montage of what is to come on the show that they featured at the end of the sneak peek, I'm already shipping Claire and Devon (the lovely Chandra West).  

 

The hate-sex/fight-sex/antagonism-sex between them would be amazing!  Plus, I love my blonde/brunette pairing, lol.

Honestly, this show is not going to approach the epic levels of awesome of True Blood but I think that it could be some fun summer entertainment and that I'm going to be able to stare at Rhona Mitra (with fangs) for extended periods of time, so I'm in.

Comments

[kschoiceofafi.livejournal.com]

Haha, you are seriously the coolest person ever! I'm going to have to add you b/c we have so much in common.

1) Love for vampires and werewolves.
2) Love/Hate relationship with The Hollows.
3) Love to hate the Twilight series.

Yes, you have to be my new friend.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

you are seriously the coolest person ever!

I am! I know because my mother told me so, lol

<1) Love for vampires and werewolves.
2) Love/Hate relationship with The Hollows.
3) Love to hate the Twilight series./i>

AWESOME! We are meant to be :D I've still got Love/Hate going on with Twilight, but Hollows is more and more becoming Hate/loath. *sigh* I can't even finish the fic I started to post :(

Yes, you have to be my new friend.

Let's make this happen!

[kschoiceofafi.livejournal.com]

Have you read the latest book? I have it and have been trying to read it for months. Fail. Not enough Ivy.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I started to read it, but when I heard what happened in it, I couldn't force myself to continue. I think that Kim might have well and truly killed my interest in the series. I just get exhausted when I think about the series now, I can't even work up a good rant or hate for it now. I'm just like *sigh* no1curr.

And I've always felt like there's never enough Ivy, but I know that it was particularly galling in this last book.

[ic1pher.livejournal.com]

but Hollows is more and more becoming Hate/loath. *sigh* I can't even finish the fic I started to post :(
FWIW some of the fanfic has been absolutely phenomenal lately. It takes most of the pain away. At this point I don't know how the book series is NOT completely ruined beyond repair. If Kim somehow manages to save Ivy/Rachel I will be in awe.

It just absolutely KILLS me that Hollows 1-4 is EXACTLY what I want to read but there's no continuation. I haven't found anything like it. Anywhere. The moment Kim slammed the breaks on Ivy and Rachel is the moment the series took a deep dive.

When it comes to finishing the fic you started: IMHO there's no point in writing if you don't feel inspired to.

I could rant forever so I just better stop right now.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

FWIW some of the fanfic has been absolutely phenomenal lately. It takes most of the pain away.

I think that Kim might have well and truly killed my interest in the series. I've been seeing a flood of Hollows related fic, but I just can't bring myself to read it. Just thinking about the series and the characters makes me depressed.

As much as I hate what Kim's done to the characters and the series, I think killing my interest in fanfic for the series is the evilest thing she's managed to do. Like how badly do you have to screw up a series to ruin fanfic for someone who had been hardcore? *shudder*

It just absolutely KILLS me that Hollows 1-4 is EXACTLY what I want to read but there's no continuation. I haven't found anything like it. Anywhere. The moment Kim slammed the breaks on Ivy and Rachel is the moment the series took a deep dive.

This. The beginning of the series was so good. The Rachel/Ivy friendship/developing relationship really was the heart of the series though and the strongest most unique thing about it, and the slow destruction/mangling of that relationship has destroyed the series. Rachel/Ivy was what made this series special, and without it the series and Rachel are just boring and pedestrian.

IMHO there's no point in writing if you don't feel inspired to.

No point, and no way. I can't even open up the file.

*shakes fist at the sky and curses cock-blocks cock-blocking*

I could rant forever so I just better stop right now.

The saddest thing for me is that I've now even lost my ability to rant about the series. The ranting meant I still cared, now I'm just like 'eh' :(