I like it. The shows it reminds me of are “Todd and the Book of Pure Evil” and “Stan Against Evil”, two other intentionally stupid horror comedies that I enjoyed. On the other hand, I never got into “Ash vs. Evil Dead” – I found the first few episodes too talky.
I think the ex-cop + robot segments are the least interesting part, but they have their moments as well. My favourite part so far was probably the short “Welcome to Heart Corporation” orientation film.
I loved, 'Stan Against Evil"! I suppose it’s canceled, but I’d love to see another season. Grumpy John C. McGinley, fighting whatever the hell those evil things were, was a hoot! Loved his dumb-as-a-rock daughter.
(Googles)
“Stan Against Evil” is back in November, according to the IMDB! Yay! Just about when Evil Dead should be back.
Back to “Blood Drive”: The ex-cop & robot scenes are a drag for me, big time. I liked it when Slink was there, to liven the place up. And of course, any time Slink is forced to endure interviews or board (bored) meetings means a great slow burn, followed by gratuitous violence.
“He was our new head of maintenance.”
And the latest episode is the worst yet. I liked seeing Officer Aki back, as her robot role does nothing for me. Other than that, nada. One only hopes that this was an episode that builds on the future. Maybe Officer Barbie shooting himself in the dream is him symbolically killing his old self, letting go of his past (and his job as police officer).
It better amount to SOMETHING, besides a long, drawn-out way of showing how he became a cop and got the book. We already knew the basics of that, anyway.
agreed -
Was there a new one last night? The DVR failed me! Didn’t get it…
With reference to the “Chopsocky” episode:
No arguments from me. Dream sequences are pretty lame material for an entire episode.
I hope they get back to racing at some point; I liked that gimmick.
Aug 16th - “Scar Tissue”
Better than Aug 9th - “Chopsocky Special”, but that’s like saying a stick in the eye’s better than a stick in BOTH eyes. At least it’s a step in the right direction, and they’re getting back to the race now.
Thinking about it, I’m noticing a trend. I think my enjoyment of the show, in general, inversely correlates with how much time they spend on the inhabitants of whatever town they’re in. I realize it can’t be race race race constantly, but going into a town, getting entangled with the dangerous inhabitants, then escaping, is getting a little formulaic. How about just some odd towns, normal towns with a few odd/interesting inhabitants, etc, with no life-endangering struggles against them, while they deal with the other racers and/or Slink and/or the Heart Corp?
And hey, looks like less of creepy boring robot Aki for awhile, so that’s a plus! Not sure officer Barbie’s partner is all that interesting either, but he hasn’t been working opposite much, so we’ll see how he does out in the world now.
What’s the issue? “Blood drive” is a familiar commonly used expression in our culture, like “Home Improvements” or “Grace Under Fire”. TV shows use title expressions in clever context all the time.
I liked this episode; it reminded me of the Star Trek (you know, that TV show where they go to a planet, get entangled with the dangerous inhabitants, then escape) episode “This Side of Paradise”.
I’m sure I would get tired of the monster-of-the-week format eventually, but I doubt it’ll last long enough to really wear out its welcome in my case.
I quite liked “Episode XI: Rise of the Primo”. It had a huge nonsensical plot twist, plenty of gore, some funny lines (“I think it makes hats”), amusing commercial parodies, and it has me wondering what will happen in the next episode.
Where the hell does Slink shop for clothes?
I’m noticing posts drop off. There’s going nuts and not giving a shit about how crazy your show is, then there’s making it so crazy that the world makes no sense and it’s hard to understand how anything functions or gets done. WHO the fuck keeps making these robots and then unleashing them into the world, not particularly keeping a leash on them, until the bots show up on their radar. Soul reclamation that lets the soul-less live? WTF?
I let the blood for gasoline slide despite its improbability, because I looked on it as a degenerate “Death Race 2000” sort of turn. I guess the six awesome prototype nuclear cars were just too boring to make more. You’d think the rest of the world, or the corporation at least, would love fast cars that drove for decades or more without fuel. All this sounds like a post-singularity civilization that has unleashed a crazy AI on the world. Amazing, seemingly random tech used for, and in, odd manners, with no particular love for the populace. Reminds me of a story idea I had that I, of course, never followed through with.
Karma in a flesh-suit, conspiring against her sister that’s done nothing but give EVERYTHING to find her and save her since she apparently OD’ed and went missing? Christ, what an asshole. I kind of hate that actress too, though I never saw her before that I recall. If they told me they custom-designed that twist so that I would loathe it, I’d believe them. Officer Barbi’s partner got pretty upset that Barbi offed his duplicate. He had good reason, whether he knew it was a dupe or not. Also, Barbi’s crazy into the murderdeathkill now, and Grace is the sane-ish one trying to temper him? Character growth is good, characters flipping polarities is friggin’ Soap Opera writing. Particularly bad Soap Opera writing.
I swear to the FSM on his noodly appendages that I will cock-punch every writer if they use the actor who plays Slink (who was Pope in Falling Skies) to play YET ANOTHER character who constantly switches allegiances, becoming everyone’s favorite frenemy. A little variety for a talented actor would be nice. I already heard that song, bought the album. Play the new stuff!*
Yeah, I’m bitching. I dunno why. It’s not like any of us expected this to be coherent. Kinda hoped I’d laugh and enjoy it longer. I think that’s my problem. The crazy, outlandish fun is gone. Haven’t laughed much in the past few episodes.
*- What is, “Something no successful band with hits has ever heard screamed at a concert, Alex?”
I liked the final episode. Mayhem, destruction, a little bit of explanation and an April Wine song. At least now they won’t have to come up with explanations for how most of the main cast survived the finale.
The only episodes I thought were boring were “The Chopsocky Special” and “Faces of Blood Drive” which were too heavy on exposition and flashbacks and too light on over-the-top gore for my taste.
I thought they’d picked it up when they gave Killjoys 2 years and axed Dark Matter. I was actually mad that they were keeping Blood Drive when it had, IMO, tanked so badly in the last several episodes. Keeping it when dumping Dark Matter would have been a crime against Sci-Fi.
It earned the cancellation. They got too serious and didn’t do enough of the
funny/outlandish things that kept me watching early on.
I quit. What happened in the last few episodes to make it get so bad? I had heard it went downhill.
I haven’t watched the last episode yet. Maybe later…
Finally got around to it. Meh. No second season needed. All in all, pretty shit.