Hellion,
I still disagree with you about Parker Posey. I just felt she was too offbeat and not threatening enough, though to her credit she did have one really good scene where she tortured Hannibal about his thirst eventually overtaking him and him feeding on the little girl they kidnapped. But other than that, her crew was too lightweight.
Though I think you made a good point about Abigail. She wasn't that impressive to me to be honest. I also thought the movie was too murky when it came to whether vampires had been outed or not. The first two films at least were consistent in largely keeping vampires hidden from the general public. But with Trinity it seemed like that had broken down and that vamps were more public. Which seemed like it wouldn't make what Blade was doing all that big of a deal (though I know that the vamps also had control over law enforcement, to some extent). I wish the film had been more clear about how much people knew about vampires.
Regarding Grout and Blue Moon's comments about Blade 2. I have to admit you both had some good points. I was so taken with Blade 2 as I first saw it, it was such a rush that I was willing to overlook some of its faults. But I do wish that they had brought Karen Jenson back and I think that Blade's lack of development really hurt him in the long run because it opened the door for him to be upstaged by more 'interesting' characters like Hannibal & Abigail in Trinity and then Krista in the TV show.
I wish there had been more focus on his emotional journey and what little we got I credit that to Snipes. Because we saw what little Goyer thought of the character's journey largely without Snipes in the TV series.
Though the movies took Blade to another level, I must admit that I think the old 70's comics did a better job with his character development-from what I've read-and even some of the recent comics have given him a girlfriend, the vamp Spitfire. I don't see why the movies were so against allowing Blade to have a love interest. It's something I think Wesley Snipes wanted, because I think he understood how important that could be to the character's overall development and viability.
Back to Blade 2, I do wish it had followed on more from the first film, with Jenson, but also with the vampire politics. I do think that Goyer perhaps was trying to return to that with the series and do something maybe with the various houses, as one of you described, but the show got canceled before he could make good on that.
I have to wonder if maybe the change prevented Whistler from killing himself at the end of Blade 1? Perhaps the human side wanted to do it but the vampire self-preservation thing kicked in? And admittedly they didn't do a good job of showing Whistler kick his blood habit or follow up on the seeds of mistrust that were sown.
In hindsight I can see how bringing Whistler back might have ******ed Blade's character growth. If they had followed on with Karen Jenson instead you might have been able to take Blade into a different direction than what we got. However, the focus was on bromance and not romance, on the action at the expense of character. I just wish that Goyer had been able to do with Blade what he later did with Batman.
