Bitten: The Series

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by slayer1

ummm, good luck with that. I hope i have to eat my words but good luck to all you people who donated to indi-gogo for any sort of commissioned TF scene. I don't want to be mean but this is the same guy who was trying to sell his songs for $2 to keep the electricity on, I hope he comes through though. Only then will I shell out any $$ for a finished product, the same way I only buy missa clips or loco comics, when there is a preview. I'm waiting for this clown chick too whose gonna try a cat video, I'm happy to buy it but not till I see something first...

Well, I didn't put a single penny on the project, simply because I didn't see the project matured enough. And, to be sincere, I am not still very confident about the success of the initiative, in general terms.
And about Anthony's monetary problems, I suspect that it was just something temporary, as long as right now he's directing another movie.
And yes, I also just buy stuff like Missa's and so on, believe it or not, I am very demanding for my money .

[Kantomaster1111]

Freeborn won't happen. It's time to get over it. He cites House of Cards as an example of a show that was forced to wait for the greenlight. Little does he realize that Kevin Spacey's schedule was the hold out for that, as it was basically already set to shoot at that point. Freeborn is a high-concept horror/drama that may never see the light of day through the studio system. He should have gone the Indie route and applied for grants and done a better job at Kickstarter campaigns. He's had how many fundraisers and we haven't seen anything but the first 5 minutes of a pilot? He says he's been shooting but if that's the case, he should at least be putting out what he has to raise further funds, not trying to shop what he has to people who, in Hollywood, surely don't care unless it's going to make them rich. He's targeting a niche market, it's not going to pan out.

[Wbfoot]

I wish brownrigg would just film the transformation scene at this point. Forget the rest of the movie and just sell that scene.

[Chiaroscuros]

Final ep - what a steaming pile.

Not going to shed a tear if there's no s2.

Meh acting, lousy characterisation. Wimpy "big bad". Only a tease worth of werewolf inside an otherwise forgettable family action-drama.

Am I being too rough?

Disappointed,

-C

[Anahki]

Well, it is what it is. I won't also miss a second season. If someone remembers the first long trailer of the series, it was 50% of Elena turning into wolf in different scenes, that turned out to be the 90% of what they shown afterwards, with the notable exception of the second TF on ep.1, that was in fact the best one IMHO. Other bad things were the not very good casting, the fact that they deviated from the book to save money with the FX (scene of Elena under the car, of non existant Elena TF in front of Phillip), the misunderstanding of who the target of the series would be (they tried to sell it as a werewolf show first, and then as a love triangle, when it was a "mafia" drama), the concerns of Ms. Vandervoort about nudity (I still believe that they ruined some of the TF takes) and the self censorship to sell the series outside Canada, that made the series a fair success in Canada, but not great numbers in USA.

Ok, I will balance my comments with the good things: there were three decent werewolf transformations, and they were well done... very censored, but well done. the very first one was cool and showed some nice facial TF, and "Elena's first TF" had a very nice "previous to TF" performance... the only one in which Laura V. showed nice actorial skills. But the best one was the TF with Logan, and I especially loved the foot TF, as it is quite unusual and was nicely done. In fact, it is to the date my third best female werewolf TF ever, being the other two in my top ten too.
Other good things were the story itself, I mean, the series was very viewable, and the CGI were not bad either, even though I still prefer the real props. And I really hope that this series could have helped to "normalize" the female werewolves in future shows .

[Kantomaster1111]

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters. This show could have been about a mafia without having any wolves and nothing would have changed. Elena simply can't leave the mob the same way a cult would not let you leave. If they're not going to utilize the whole werewolf thing to appease our own fetishes, could they at least utilize to fulfil the show's title and premise?

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by Kantomaster1111

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters. This show could have been about a mafia without having any wolves and nothing would have changed. Elena simply can't leave the mob the same way a cult would not let you leave. If they're not going to utilize the whole werewolf thing to appease our own fetishes, could they at least utilize to fulfil the show's title and premise?

A script with as many holes as a gruyere cheese... the plague of the XXI century writing xD.

[TF-Viewer]

Strayed too far from the book, that's about all I can say about it.

[hexen]

Originally Posted by Kantomaster1111

Bitten's ending was predictable and lazily written. I don't know how the book goes, but I can't say I want to see where another season could go. I know it's a budget thing, but seriously, if they're a pack of werewolves, why is it they all fight as humans? Just because werewolves as humans have lots of strength shouldn't make them automatically good fighters.

World of Darkness's goddess of nature solved that issue by giving werewolves an old Hollywood thing called the hybrid form... you know, half man, half wolf. But yeah for the most part the ending of season one left me completely unwilling to keep up.

[Garnu_Thorn]

On hopping over to Shadowlore Inc. I found Dragoniade got around to posting more vids. That, and including any of Bitten all the way up to Vengeance.

[Anahki]

There are some people alergic to that website... anyway, there is nothing new there regarding the show, but thank you Garnu .

I can add that JB Sugar (producer) has his own account on vimeo. He posted some "promising" videos, but unfortunately there wasn't anything new... and he has avoided (consciously or unconsciously) any of the TF scenes (e.g., the initial scene is cut after Elena goes off the elevator).

Ah, I am waiting for the DVD official release. I know that some people have been awarded with it, and the casting has it too... yep, the chances to get a "director's cut" are more than zero, but nearby :P. What do you think?

[Garnu_Thorn]

Nada. That is until the uncut collection comes out. It will probably be another werewolf production collecting dust on my shelf once I have it.

Personally I am put off too much by the overly painful scenes. I'm one to argue that natural shapeshifting is far from painful. I'd like to see some porn company show tf as it should be, the most orgasmic thing to happen to someone. Bitten esques shapeshifting in such a light that from my perspective it's something of a concoction from people that make propaganda to skew people from pursuit of actually experimenting in shapeshifting.

Of course once a film company shows shapeshifting as pleasurable I think all of a sudden it goes the direction of romance or, *cough*porn*cough*