The unofficial fansite for the television show Blade: The Series.

Given that tonight is Halloween, I figured I should go ahead and push back the closing of the current poll until tomorrow afternoon. This is for two reasons:

1. With only a little over 70 votes, I don’t want anybody to miss the chance to vote in the poll due to it being Halloween.

2. I don’t want to worry about making a results post later tonight during Halloween when I’m not sure exactly how busy I’ll be.

So yeah, I guess you could chalk it up to me just being selfish.

If you’re going to be near the Norman, Oklahoma area tomorrow (October 28), you may want to check out this Christopher Reeve Foundation fundraising dinner. Why? Because Blade: The Series writer Geoff Johns will be in attendance and it appears that it will be his last signing of the year.

The dinner will be from 8 to 10 pm and since it’s a fundraising dinner, tickets are a bit steep at $200 each. However, with 100 percent of the money going towards the foundation and its research, it’s really going to a good cause. On top of that Tickets are tax-deductible so that’s a little bonus as well. If you’re looking to just go for the signing, you can go to the Speeding Bullet Comics store from 3 to 6 pm, which is completely free.

For more details you can check out the Speeding Bullet Comics website.

Tags: Geoff Johns, Speeding Bullet Comics, Christopher Reeve Foundation

Following in the footsteps of a few previous polls, this week’s poll will help us all get a better understanding of the demographic of the fans that frequent this site. I’ve asked age and I’ve asked location. That leaves the last big one… are you male or female?

Not much to the poll, but the results may prove interesting. I honestly have no idea how the votes will swing.

Jill Wagner has posted on her MySpace Blog that she’s in the November issue of Esquire Magazine. It apparently features Scarlett Johansson on the cover, so that’s what to look for when your out and about.

It’s great to see the cast is still alive and kicking (Wagner in this magazine, and attending the Scream Awards with Jessica Gower, along with Neil Jackson appearing on a Cold Case episode). I just wish they were all alive and kicking in the Blade series. Hope is not lost, but it’s sure getting there.

Tags: Jill Wagner, Esquire Magazine, Scarlett Johansson

I’m a pretty big video game nerd and one game I’ve been watching develop is Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance game - which was just released yesterday. Why should you care? Well, because you can actually play as Blade!

I haven’t bought the game yet, but I most likely will once it comes to Nintendo’s new console, the Wii. If you’re a fan of video games and comics, the latest from Marvel looks to pack more comic book characters into a single game than ever before. I’ve played and enjoyed the X-Men Legends games (which supposedly play similar to the new Ultimate Alliance game), so I’m definitely looking forward to checking this one out.

Tags: Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men Legends, Nintendo Wii

In a semi Blade related news story, there’s word that the Marvel character Moon Knight may be getting his own series in the near future. The character was alluded to during the first couple episodes of Blade: The Series, and I believe writers David Goyer and Geoff Johns had mentioned the possibility of him making an appearance in the series. It now looks as though he may be getting a series of his own.

I, personally, don’t know much about the character as I’m not into the comic book scene and have really only followed the Blade movies and show. Also, the news doesn’t say whether or not the show has been picked up by a network yet, just that Marvel Studios has teamed up with No Equal Entertainment to develop a Moon Knight based television series.

Tags: Moon Knight, Marvel Studios

The latest poll asked you all what you thought of Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones as Blade. I’ve heard a lot of grumbles from people saying that he was the reason the show didn’t take off and that he was too different from the movie Blade (Wesley Snipes). Well, the latest poll shows results implies that his performance was much better than some of the critics have claimed.

How Was Kirk Jones as Blade?
Okay: 55% (76)
Excellent: 32% (45)
Not Good: 9% (12)
Horrible: 4% (6)
Total Votes : 139

As you can see, only 13% of you thought Jones was “not good” or “horrible”. I actually thought those numbers were going to be much higher from what my impression was of the views most fans had of him. I did expect the “okay” choice to be the most popular (and it was what I chose as well), but seeing 32% of the votes go towards “excellent” is actually quite shocking for me.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved the show, but it really took a long time for me to get used to Kirk Jones as Blade. It wasn’t all his fault since he did have to follow Wesley Snipes and with much of the writing having Jones as almost a supporting role rather than the focus, it was hard for Jones’ performance stand out. I do, however, think this helped him a lot since both Jill Wagner and Neil Jackson had much stronger performances and had much more interesting characters. This allowed much of the flaws I saw in Kirk Jones be masked, but I do still think he needed quite a bit of work.

If he was the main focus of the show, I probably would have voted “not good”, but since he was kind of in the background for much of it, he got an “okay” from me.

Thanks to all that voted and be sure to check out the new poll tomorrow.

Tags: Kirk Jones, Sticky Fingaz

Ok, so I normally don’t like posting actual ads inside a post, but I received an email from Tivo about a “secret” promotion they are having on their Series 2 80 hour devices. The full promotional information is: Save $99 on TiVo! Get a new 80 hour TiVo DVR + one year of service for only $125!.

Now that’s an incredible deal since it would normally cost $224 for the same thing. They aren’t advertising this promotion, only sending it to affiliates (which I am). If you don’t need one of their dual tuner or Series 3 machines, I’d highly recommend jumping on this deal. I have a 40 hour Series 2 Tivo and I really don’t know how I lived without it.

I wouldn’t post about this unless I really love the product and think this deal is definitely something you all should at least check out (perhaps as a gift for Christmas?).

Tags: Tivo sale

One of the biggest topics of debate for the Blade show (other than it’s cancellation by Spike TV) is the performance of Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones as Blade. Some say he did a great job while others think he is a big reason why the show wasn’t picked up. Well, now’s your chance to let us all know what you think about his performance as Blade.

How Was Kirk Jones as Blade?

• Excellent
• Okay
• Not Good
• Horrible

As you can see, there’s only four choices so choose what matches your feelings the best.

Tags: Kirk Jones, Sticky Fingaz

The following article was sent in by frequent site visitor Jeff Thomas.
Good morning/evening all!

Here is a look at some numbers… an extrapolation to put numbers into context following the aforementioned premise.

Blade Trinity sold 7,729,894 tickets. Lets assume that some of the ticket buyers came as a couple… lets say 25% of those. The contrast being a “couple” at home watching Blade the TV series. So that narrows the Blade Movie Target audience for the TV series to 5.8 Million potential viewers. So of this viewership only 2.5 Million show up to the Premiere. I am wondering if the other 3.3 Million were aware of the TV series. Those fans that believe the “majority” of fans watching the premiere were Blade the Movie fans would suggest that at least the Blade fans would have been aware of the
Pilot on Spike… Where were they?

Did they not tune in because WS was not the Lead?
Did they not tune in because they were unaware of the TV series.. or potentially Spike?
Did they not tune in because they were unavailable Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m.?
Perhaps they did not have Spike in their programming line up?

To move this premise forward. If you are New Line…

a) are you going to cater your TV series to the movie fans?
b) are you going to dare attempt a 4th movie without WS as the lead?
c) are you going to look for a new Network/Cable host based on a retention of 1 Million (approximate) fans post episode 7? Is it worth shopping another network?

These are my thoughts to invoke specific conversation if wanted. I suggest a) and b) are futile and perhaps option c) is the direction New Line takes. I further suggest that if the movie fans were to be lenient and accept a new character in the role this franchise would survive. There is still the feint possibility this franchise could survive regardless as I believe there are enough existing movie fans that did enjoy the product combined with the potential new viewership that remains relatively untapped in my opinion.

I suggest that New Line and Goyer knew that for this project to be successful and subsequently an option of producing a Blade 4 they had to cater to the TV viewing demographic not just the Movie Fan demographic and that is exactly what they did. They needed to find a large demographic that would not have predisposed concepts as to what Blade is/was (a.k.a. WS). I was personally disappointed in the 2.5 Million viewers as I suspected it would be a much larger turn out but as I have stated before I still believe Spike was not the right host. Unfortunately the pilot was not very good.
Action scenes were definitely weak and as a stand alone episode it just was not that entrancing. I do believe, as seemingly a few others to the tune of 1 Million, that the continuing episodes increased in value and the storyline continued to intrigue many. If the TV series remains in Cancellation land I suspect Blade the franchise follows suit.

d) What are your thoughts on the Blade Franchise?
e) Where does New Line go now?
f) Is Blade on the big screen or small screen gone for good?

If there are any takers on the potential of a new TV series or even if you
think this is an impossibility I pose this question:

g) Hypothetically would you watch if they changed the Lead?

Take care!!

First off, thanks to Jeff for the great article! There’s a lot of great information and speculation in there.

Now, he brings up a few questions in there for everybody to toss in their input - namely:
d) What are your thoughts on the Blade Franchise?
e) Where does New Line go now?
f) Is Blade on the big screen or small screen gone for good?
g) Hypothetically would you watch if they changed the Lead?

I’ll post my own thoughts on those questions here and hope that you all will add your input in the comments below.

d - I personally love the Blade franchise. I love the movies and I love the television series. I admit that I haven’t read any of the comics, so I can’t comment on that part of the franchise.

e - In one of the previous poll results I gave my nod to the Sci Fi channel being a great possible home for the show as well as mentioning a few other decent possibilities. We know New Line is still behind the show and I’m sure they are going to do everything they can to keep it alive on a new network if at all possible.

f - No. Blade will be back in some form or another. The comic has just started up and hopefully the television series hasn’t come to an end.

g - Would I watch? Yes. Do I want them to change the lead? No. I feel Sticky is a fairly weak actor in my opinion. However, he’s already made his mark on the character and I’ve come to know the “TV” Blade as the one Sticky has portrayed. As such, I hope he remains the Daywalker, though I’d definitely still watch if he weren’t.