tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post6647196812723033028..comments2024-02-24T03:34:18.060-05:00Comments on Stealing Commas: Something that interested me about Underworld that Rise of the Lycans erasedchris the cynichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-2256318704483139572012-11-25T21:22:52.963-05:002012-11-25T21:22:52.963-05:00The series is, by the end, about super special bec...The series is, by the end, about super special because they're beyond average awesome and stuff. But if you look at the first movie it's not so much.<br /><br />Selene is a death dealer who Viktor likes because she reminds him of his daughter. As far as we know she has no relationship with the other two elders, she doesn't much like the the person Viktor left in charge of his area while Amelia (or whatever her name was) was the awake Elder.<br /><br />There's nothing particularly special about her, she just stumbles onto and falls in love with Michael.<br /><br />Lucian is the greatest Lycan commander, but he got that way because (remember, using first movie only) he happened to fall in love with a vampire.<br /><br />With the exception of Viktor the vampires were all ordinary vampires, and his position as Elder didn't seem to mean much more than being really old.<br /><br />Including Lucian, the Lycans were all presented as ordinary Lycans.<br /><br />The only one with super special anything was Michael, and it was dormant until very near the end of the movie. It was more a liability than a, "I'm so awesome," thing and if not for being bitten, injected, and then bitten again, all evidence is that he would have lived a perfectly ordinary human life.<br /><br />In the first movie it's much more relationships than special blood that drive anything.<br /><br />Lucian is against Viktor because Viktor killed his wife, he wants a peace treaty because he never wanted a war to begin with, he wants a hybrid because:<br />1) Should make it easier to get rid of Viktor.<br />2) His and Sonja's child would have been one. She died because she almost brought one into the world, now he's going to finish the job.<br /><br />Selene is a death dealer because she reminds Viktor of Sonja, so he sees her as a replacement for his daughter (who he killed) which probably gives her more leeway and independence than most but it's because of her relationship with Viktor, not her being super special thingy-thing. Her relationship with Michael will drive much of the plot of the movie.<br /><br />Kraven is powerful because of his relationship with Viktor (mess cleaner upper) and his with Lucian (death taker-of-credit for, secret ally.)<br /><br />Michael is the only one with special blood (unless you count the scene where Marcus opens his eyes) and for most of the movie instead of making him the super special thingy-thing it made him a target and the person in need of saving. And then in the end he becomes super special thingy-thing.<br /><br />-<br /><br />As the movies go on, everyone get super special and it becomes much less about what you do and much more about what you happen to be. A change for the worse, I think. The perfectly ordinary human cop in the last movie is probably a more interesting character than any of the super specials.<br /><br />Michael and Selene's kid is presumably god incarnate given what she's got going for her. She has as as one parent a seemingly unkillable (if he appears dead just drop some blood on him, he'll come back) hybrid of vampire/human-Corvinus/werewolf, which makes him the first to bring all three of the Corvinus lines together. The only thing Michael doesn't have is the immortal-but-still-human blood of Alexander himself, and the kid gets that on her mother's side.<br /><br />So the girl has all four types of special blood, and thus far there are only four types of special blood.chris the cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872875475212333027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-60900537110813728422012-11-25T20:26:49.277-05:002012-11-25T20:26:49.277-05:00Heck, even the primary bad guy in the last film is...Heck, even the primary bad guy in the last film is a super-werewolf.Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3889388775673754833.post-29065624428095029332012-11-25T20:21:10.920-05:002012-11-25T20:21:10.920-05:00Well, to be fair, the whole series is about people...Well, to be fair, the whole series is about people who are super special because they're all awesome and stuff. Selene starts as a death dealer, is cherished by one elder and wanted by another; Michael becomes the first true hybrid - a descendant of Alexander Corvinus, infected by a werewolf but then infected by a vampire as well before his first change; Selene becomes sunproof and vastly stronger by taking blood from Alexander Corvinus (but, strangely, still considers herself a vampire - despite being clearly another sort of hybrid); and then there's the daughter, a third hybrid, who has presumably Inherited All The Awesome.Michael Mockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233321050691782148noreply@blogger.com