What you've got on your hands is basically a fan-funded webisode series that has just enough time to touch on the major characters and setup from a 15 book series called The Morganville Vampires (incidentally the best vampire series I've ever read, and you may take me at my word I've read a lot of them).
It's a little campy feeling, covers the first book in the series, and is quite brief and condensed. It helps to consider it more of an amuse-bouche than full entree; one the author herself was able to curate in line with her own vision, and with the resources she had.
I'm very glad she did, as she passed away only a few years after it debuted. Knowing her world came to life in a way she approved of, and that she got to see it, makes me happy.
The characters felt accurate, as did the locations, I loved the casting, and I love the passion that brought it all to life.
I'm more than a little baffled at the hostile comments I've seen posted about it though, as if this series personally offended them yet none of them genuinely sound like fans of the series, the genre, or any indie projects at all.
But then, I've seen the same petulant insults towards similar small productions that were most certainly doing the utmost with their resources, so I just consider the source.
If you give it a shot and you like it, I recommend the books.
If you give it a shot and you wished it were longer, more detailed, etc., I recommend the books.
If you didn't like it, perhaps it's just not for you.
If you didn't like it so hard you feel it ruined your life, be honest with yourself: you never cared in the first place. Go watch Marvel (Insert hero name here) number 900, and leave the projects that don't have king's ransom budgets alone.
It's a little campy feeling, covers the first book in the series, and is quite brief and condensed. It helps to consider it more of an amuse-bouche than full entree; one the author herself was able to curate in line with her own vision, and with the resources she had.
I'm very glad she did, as she passed away only a few years after it debuted. Knowing her world came to life in a way she approved of, and that she got to see it, makes me happy.
The characters felt accurate, as did the locations, I loved the casting, and I love the passion that brought it all to life.
I'm more than a little baffled at the hostile comments I've seen posted about it though, as if this series personally offended them yet none of them genuinely sound like fans of the series, the genre, or any indie projects at all.
But then, I've seen the same petulant insults towards similar small productions that were most certainly doing the utmost with their resources, so I just consider the source.
If you give it a shot and you like it, I recommend the books.
If you give it a shot and you wished it were longer, more detailed, etc., I recommend the books.
If you didn't like it, perhaps it's just not for you.
If you didn't like it so hard you feel it ruined your life, be honest with yourself: you never cared in the first place. Go watch Marvel (Insert hero name here) number 900, and leave the projects that don't have king's ransom budgets alone.