Kindred

[wiseheart]

Something new...


I'm re-watching the whole Kindred: The Embraced series (all eight episodes of it), courtesy of Snicklepop who gave me that Amazon gift certificate. It's the first time I watch it in original, and it made me understand what an incredible loss it is that Mark Frankel (the actor who played Julian Luna, the vampire Prince of San Francisco) died in a motorcycle accident.

I've never seen another man radiating so much sexual magnetism in my whole life. And he was not even my idea of a beautiful man to begin with. I find Terry Carter beautiful. And Antonio Sabato jr. But this man was one hot guy and no mistake.

Aside fromt hat, he also had a thousand faces. And a voice that makes me shiver. I never hard his voice before.

Okay, enough drooling. I also understand now why this excellent series didn't last longer than eight episodes. It's intelligent. It forces you to rethink your comfortably recycled values. Things are not balck and white, and while nobody is evil entirely, nobody is without sins and failures either. Of course not even the hot scenes could save it. It has deep passion, all-consuming lust and also tortured love, but it's not dirty.

I loved this series for the first sight, with German dubbing. But I've become a dedicated fan after having seen it in original. It made me interested in good old het passion again. And it inspired me to finally round up "Forgotten Roots", my only Kindred WIP on ff.net.

I also started reading Kindred fanfic again. It's a small fandom, so while there is crap, too, fangirls have not enough brains to care for it, especially as most of them veren't even born when this series had its short career on TV.

It's liberating to write about such passionate creatures. There are rules, too, of course, especially if one cares for the White Wolf RPG background, but they are few and easy. Canon is not so suffocating as it is in Tolkienfic. One doesn't get much feedback in this fandom, and there are some nitpickers, too, but they are easier to ignore.

Also, it's easier to write great drama. Canon itself is full of passion, betrayal, sometimes even violence, but not the graphic part. I mean, they have managed to behead people onscreen, without showing gory details.

I think, as vampires go, I prefer Kindred to Angel & Co. Even though I managed to bring them together in my highly complicated Angel/Buffy/Kindred/Poltergeist/Who-knows-what-else vampire crossover alternate universe.

Actually, if I think about it, Tokienfic is the only fandom where I write canon stories. Both in Star Trek and in the vampire all of my stories are either crossovers or AUs - or both.


I'm afraid this wasn't very coherent. But that's OK. I just wanted to write down my thoughts about Kindred before I forget them.

And now back to watching and drooling.

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I'm completely unfamiliar with this series, but I remember Mark Frankel from a strange British film called 'Leon the Pig Farmer' (I don't know if it ever made it overseas...). IIRC, there's a short bio on www.jewhoo.com that talks about the waste of his early death.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I never heard of that movie. But I'll take a look at the bio. Is this the same site where you'd digged up stuff about Orlando Bloom's father earlier?

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

It is the same site. I've even contributed stuff, which must make me even sadder :) Mr B. senior is a fascinating person.