#van helsing (2016)

[thornsoflight]

I swear to god, if someone has not written the fanfic for van Helsing 2016 I will come out of retirement to write it myself

[bloustorm]

Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn

Idk I'm really happy about it

... Also i spoilered myself :')

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Amanda Tapping directed four episodes of season one, omg.

I saw her name in the opening credits of episode six and I was like: OH!

So, I guess we got three of the Five.

Started watching Van Helsing (drama series) recently and I am very intrigued by it.

Mostly, I find it very amusing that both Christopher Heyerdahl and Vincent Gale are in the main cast.

Don't think we're going to see any more of The Five, but my little Sanctuary heart was laughing.

[save-me-spiderman]

Detective Spiderman at your service

[nerdychickshavemorefun]

8 Brief Thoughts About Van Helsing (2016)

It's now been a good chunk of time since Van Helsing (Syfy) final season came out on Netflix, and I would like to take a look back at some things from the early seasons that had such great potential and were ultimately squandered. Maybe one day someone can take some of these good ideas and have another go at it.

As a preface, in general I think that if this show had taken itself a little less seriously, been a little less unironically 90s-comicbook-style edgy, and just had more campy fun, they might've been able to keep the plot from flying off the rails at the end of season 3 and maybe would've been able to keep the MC likeable enough that they didn't have to stuff her in a closet for over an entire season.

And now, 8 things that could have been good:

1. the idea of a reverse vampire (someone who can bite vampires to turn them back into humans). I love the idea of being able to walk up to a classic, arrogant Gothic style vampire who remembers the Crusades and thinks humans are basically cattle, and just absolutely wreck them thematically and literally with just a little ~nibble~

2. Combining the classic "zombie apocalypse with fast zombies" setting (with half-starved feral vampires as the fast zombies), with having actual, intelligent villiand (well, varyingly intelligent) who can have the usual villian hierarchies and dynamics. Like if the various bad guy factions of The Walking Dead were lightly fantasy flavored and also not meant to just further bash into your head that all humans are horrible terrible monsters.

3. On a similar note, just having a show in an apocalypse setting that says "Humans aren't the worst, actually, because the vampires definitely are, and you have to magically and horrifically strip a person of their connection to emotion and humanity to get that". And if that's the opposite of the writers intentions and I've read it completely wrong, then I think they might've chosen being edgy and nihilist over being interesting.

4. Diversity. Not just in the representation of bi women, lesbians, BIPOC actors and characters (I cannot stress enough how big a deal having a confirmed-in-season-one bi female protag was for 2016), but in the in-world diversity of vampire clans/subspecies.

4.5. The Sisterhood. Obviously.

5. Putting a SHOCKINGLY gripping murder mystery in the middle of the first season of your post-apocalypse fantasy show.

5.5. Making Christopher Heyerdahl the murderer. The man never misses when it comes to playing compellingly unhinged characters. If you want a show with a script and plot that doesn't do him dirty like season 4 did, watch the first season of Hell on Wheels.

6. Having your mid-level BBEGs Tragic Backstory be "I was into BDSM in the 1700s and I had HORRIBLE taste in choosing a new dom and now here we are". I'm sorry but that is glorious and I still can't fathom why they waited until we no longer cared about the character to reveal it. They could've played it for comedy, they could've played it for developing the character (trust/control issues etc), and instead we got to wave at it as it passed us by on its way out the window.

7. Lady Dracula instead of good old Vlady, and the Three Spouses of Dracula instead of three wives. Liked the idea, felt the execution was lacking (but, to be fair, it was equally as lacking as everything else plot related in the later seasons). Please, someone just give me a modern Carmilla in vampire fiction.

8. A short list of themes they could have developed or developed better with this setting and these characters, and chose not to:

Human capacity for empathy and connection, and how that relates to ones definition of humanity.

In what ways does the fact that "humanity" can be given or restored in this setting conflict with the characters' assumed definitions of humanity. Further, address the fact that almost every single vampire killed in this series was originally a person who didn't want to be a vampire, and who could have been a human again. What are the personal and moral implications of actively killing a vampire when you could have just as easily turned back? Is there any real difference than just killing a human at that point?

The line between love and obsession/possession and the toxicity therein. After they mentioned that most vamps have a very limited emotional range, I would have loved to see this theme played out more in the vampires who still have close familial or romantic relationships (or, uh, I guess both), especially when you have Phil to contrast it with.

Found family and redemption arcs. Oldies but goodies. The amount of these themes/tropes they did have within the side characters' stories was most of what made the later seasons watchable for me, but I sometimes think we all might've got over the fact that Julius used to eat babies just a little too quickly.

[lifewithaview]

Kelly Overton in Van Helsing (2016) Coming Back

S1E4

Vanessa and Mohamad head into the vampire-controlled streets in search of Dylan, the daughter that Vanessa orphaned when she 'died'. Back at the hospital, Cynthia is found dead. Doc soon discovers that what looked like a suicide is actually a deliberate murder. Is there a killer among-st the group? On their return to the hospital, Vanessa is captured by vampires while Mohamad leads a new group of refugees to the hospital.

[losthavenmine]

"I am what they say I am... I'm a monster."

Van Helsing (2004); The Howling (1981); Bad Moon (1996); The Wolf Man (1941); An American Werewolf in London (1981); Penny Dreadful (2014-2016); Underworld (2003); Skinwalkers (2006); The Wolfman (2010); Dog Soldiers (2002)

[fiotrethewey]

Yeah poor Arthur keeps getting made into either an arse or a bad guy (and the excuse is always "he was boring in the original so I am fixing him")

He's an arse to everyone in Dracula 2016

He's horrible in Hammer Dracula

He's the one who throws away the garlic in Bram Stoker's Van Helsing out of jealousy

He's a power hungry fascist in The Adventures of the Athena Club (everyone in the crew of light is evil there, minus Mina and Dracula who eloped together)

He's a villain in Anno Dracula (Jack is too) and the author admitted it was just because he hates him

He's a greedy murderous opportunist in Lucy Undying (though still not as evil as Mina)

What's boring at this point is completely changing his personality. Make him interesting with the building blocks you have than by making him an OC. He Would Not Fucking Say That.

RIGHT!? And the thing is he’s not boring in the novel? He wins Lucy’s heart, still trusts in his friends despite them being suitors to help him with his ailing fiancée. Not to mention his dad dying and taking on a title around the same time his fiancée dies and takes it mostly in his stride. (That man deserves to cry dammit.)

He’s incredibly resourceful (see dogs and the money for lock picking/travel) and he alone had to do something that no one else in the novel had to do, stake a vampire that was previously their loved one.

Jonny even said he can’t do that.

[v4nhelsing]

Hugh as gabriel van helsing i will always love you (i have a horrible hyperfixation) LOOK AT HIMM<3

Van helsing 2004 is one of my favourite movies ever and has been since 2016 and people need to talk about it more I BEG!!!!

[padmaddean]

Pride month Day13

Sarah (Doc) & Joline Van Helsing (2016–2021)

[bloustorm]

Watching Van helsing season 2 (my dad is watching and I'm kinda glancing over) and I so called it that after Mohammed stabbed himself and Sam bit him he would turn

Idk I'm really happy about it

... Also i spoilered myself :')

[batterknowsbetter]

FRANKENSTEIN

Samuel West Van Helsing 2004 Harry Treadaway Penny Dreadful 2014-2016 Colin Clive Frankenstein 1931 James McAvoy Victor Frankenstein 2015 Charlie Tahan (voice) Frankenweenie 2012 Kenneth Branagh Frankenstein 1994 Gene Wilder Young Frankenstein 1974 Peter Cushing The Curse of Frankenstein 1957

[laughableillusions]

Roleplay partner wanted!

Hello! My name is Valerian (he/it) and I’m looking for a rp partner (18+ ONLY!) My style is very literate and usually my replies are 2-8 paragraphs. I have many MANY OCs but can also do canon rps as well (canon x OC are also highly encouraged!) I’m looking for someone who enjoys gothic/darker stories. I usually roleplay thru discord because it’s less likely to glitch out on me like tumblr does. I can do mxm or fxm, fxf is a bit harder for me so I usually stay away from it

Fandoms and characters I write for:

- Dead by Daylight (Deathslinger, Michael Myers, Vittorio Toscano)

- The Crow (Eric Draven)

- Skyrim (Cicero, Farkas, Miraak)

- Van Helsing 2004 (Gabriel Van Helsing, Dracula)

- Fallout 4 (Danse)

- Slashers (Michael Myers, Billy Lenz, Brahms Heelshire)

- Resident Evil 8 (Karl Heisenberg)

- FNAF Security breach (Glamrock Freddy)

- Doom 2016 + eternal (Doomguy)

- The Lost Boys (Dwayne)

- Labyrinth (Jareth)

- X-men MOVIES (Wolverine)

- Lovecraftian Mythos (Cthulhu)

I also have many OCs as well! Feel free to interact if you’re interested!

General themes/ideas I love:

- monsterfucking/loving

- slow burn

- self indulgent smut

- enemies to lovers (not just rivals, I’m talking like 2 opposing sides of a war enemies)

- hero x villain

- vampires and werewolves

- mer AUs/mermaids

- angels and demons

- fae/fairies

-Celtic folklore

- corruption arcs

- fantasy/sci-fi settings

- period romances

- angst with a happy ending

- whump with a happy ending

- 70s- early 2000s time period

- Lovecraftian horror (horror in general)

- psychological analysis

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Nine People I want to get to know better

Thank you for the tag @samabigailalan!

Last Song: Too Sweet by Hoizer

Favorite Color: Reds or pinks. I like dark/bright reds!

Currently Watching: WandaVision, Van Helsing (2016), and technically Wednesday and Supernatural, but those last two are on pause.

Last Movie: I have no clue, to be honest, I haven't been watching movies lately. It might be Clue.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet! I have a major sweet tooth.

Relationship Status: Single

Last thing you googled: I looked up if the sign language in Van Helsing (2016) is real.

No pressure tagging: @romanaisalive, @lanistas, @ladyelysandra, @electricrogue, @zeldamacgregor

@tinknevertalks, @petergirl10, @misscrazyfangirl321, @galactic-pirates

[lifewithaview]

Van Helsing (2016) Stay Inside

S1E3

When the hospital's power source is damaged, Vanessa and the survivors only have three hours of reserve power for the UV lights - the only thing keeping the vampires at bay. While Vanessa and Axel head into the ruins of Seattle to scavenge parts, the others are left to fight: against both vampires and among-st themselves.