Blade: The Series

I like vampire stories for some odd reason. They're...fascinating. But nobody should mistake Blade for a vampire story. I just enjoy it as a soap of sorts. Basically, the series is a whole bunch of blood/fang porn and has a most amusing Assassin's Creed logic.

One funny thing about these pop vampire thingummies is that the narratives are basically excuses to bare fang, drink blood and maybe fight a little while they're at it. Admittedly, I do like a good cultural show, and Blade has some cheesy culture in it. Not quite classy or realistic, and chock full of continuity errors, but I guess I grow attached to such things, if only to see where they go.

Mmm...but the Assassin's Creed logic never fails to tickle me. Just as Altair somehow manages to go around unnoticed while bristling with weapons, Blade can walk around looking like a silver-decked vampire slayer with a katana on his back, and nobody bats an eyelid. Seriously. He can clomp through a hospital with his trenchcoat and boots, then draw a gun and nobody ever seems to notice. Nobody ever calls the cops on the heavily armed fella marching down their corridors. Admittedly, the only ones who ever seem to notice are the baddies.

Now, I know vampires are able to use glamors or other ways to influence the human mind, but that does not seem to be the kind of thing for Blade vampires. They're mostly the highly physical sort that prefer to go at it with fists, blades and guns, often in that order. Interestingly enough, that Assassin's Creed logic never seems to be explained. I can only assume that the assassin gains special benefits just for being an assassin: Nobody ever notices that you've got a shitload of weapons all over you. =p