Jan Lennartsen I do think it should have another year or so to complete it as a series. I enjoyed the characters and their acting, re. Cooke's north country/Yorkshire tone I think it is easier for Yanks to understand than some of the Scottish variants in the Dr. Who recent varieties and the Welsh bits in Torchwood. and the variance is far less than in the USA, where BTW "Rupert's" "Pennsylvania" accent is actually legitimate, although it is not an Eastern PA or Philadelphia accent(he would need to say water as woa-aw-oah-ter in 4 syllables), the used accent is a southwestern accent but before you get to the distinctive Pittsburghian scots-irish-Dorset/cornish bit, which uses the word "red" to mean "clean" as in "red up yer room." and "Younz/yinz" for "you all" and " 'nat" for "and all that." A good former example of a user of the accent (not the Pittsburghian one) was former American football coach Bud Carson, whose accent was thought to be from Georgia when he was actually from Western PA(he was for a time the head coach at Georgia Tech).

CountVladDracula As an American woman with a visual disorder is there any way this show does NOT offend me?! Seriously! I'm legally blind (that's NOT totally blind. I have optic atrophy. I'm blind in my left eye and I went to school with children of various degrees of visual impairment). Mina is VERY poorly portrayed. Her blindness makes little sense and is never really explained. There's a Braille translation of every book in "the stacks" (cough) Buffy (cough) really? And why did one of her Braile texts have an illustration!? She held her cane wrong for the first few episodes. Then when she started holding the cane right she was cautious about the stairs in the stacks. News flash, geniuses! Blind and visually impaired people learn to MEMORIZE familiar stair cases! Did no one think to research anything?! They don't take slow cautious steps if it's a clean, uncluttered stair case that they are very familiar with! They walk as casually as anyone else or even occasionally run if necessary.Also Mina comments about Rupert's weight in the episode where she temporarily sees. A real blind person can tell a person's body type by the body mass. You can detect this by voice, sound of footsteps, and simple touch. Everything she said of their appearances she saw in that one episode she could have easily learned from touch. The ONLY thing that should have been hidden to her was their exact color of their hair, eyes and skin and she could easily ask about those.Now as an American what is with Rupert's accent?! In episode six he's pretending to be from "Pensylvania" with this heavy Texan accent. Does he not know Pensylvania is on the East coast in the NORTH!? It's closer to New York than anything Southern! Philadelphia is in Pensylvania. That accent made me want to convulse with disgust. And I thought the New York accents in the Doctor Who episode, Dalek's in Manahattan were bad! Finally the plot... Was it intentional that I think Luke's father may have been right?! They kill people and beings just for being different and it looks like most of them just want to survive. Look at what Rupert did to Simion just for possibly one day telling Luke the truth! And by the end of the episode no one cared! They're coming off as heartless, these "heroes" who show no mercy and see no shades of gray and never see their own faults.Also we have a male Buffy, a blind female version of Angel. A wise teacher named Rupert with a dark past from across the Atlantic... Smiting in place of slaying, and even the Stacks. It's a revamped Buffy The vampire Slayer! This is the British revenge for Sancturary (pretty much Americanized Torchwood about a female British immortal running a secret organization that destroys evil 'abnormals' and helps the good).I need to wash this nonsense down with Being Human and The Dresden Files. At least those are well written.

brianwoodward77 Philip Glenister showed he can deliver well crafted and very amusing lines in Life on Mars, but here he's given the norm for ITV, lets take something special and innovative and motion over it.Please stop this show before it gets any worse, the direction is average and the actors are much better than the script but when you try and smash together ideas nicked from better stations (BBC and Fox, NBC et al ) ITV what do you expect, man as a station you seem to be able to come up with rubbish, I hope you don't work hard on this.There have been times when you have produced some excellent shows, but sadly this isn't one.**In hindsight this was harsh, I'm not generally a fan of ITV however I am of Philip Glenister's acting, I've recently re-watched this series and think with time it could get a lot better, come on ITV get the writers bums in gear!!

andrew-552 I honestly don't know what stuns me more, the cliché-riddled ineptness of this show or the fact that it took three people to create it (or four if you count Joss Whedon.... and you should. If I was him I'd be seriously be considering legal action....). I mean, how many people does it take to watch, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," then attempt to recreate it for a British audience? The creators will no doubt argue about the, "uniqueness," of their show and how it provides something, "different," for todays television audience. I would say it shows ITV's desperation to grab any part of the, "Doctor Who," type audience from the BBC that they'll commission dreadful knock-offs like this rather than something genuinely original and exciting.So, instead of a young, wholesome, stereo-typical (at first glance) American girl living in the U.S. who turns out to be the last Slayer and must battle vampires, demons, werewolves and various other, "evil entities," with the help of some friends and a British mentor with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things demonic, using cool martial arts skills and assorted strange and ancient weapons/spells, etc we get a young, wholesome, stereo-typical British BOY living in the U.K. who turns out to be the last Van Helsing and must battle vampires, demons, werewolves and various other, "evil entities," with the help of some friends and an American mentor with an encyclopedic knowledge of all things demonic, using cool martial arts skills and assorted strange and ancient weapons and spells. Totally different.Whereas, "Buffy," had Joss Whedon's wry, clever, original, funny ideas behind it this has Philip Glennister doing an American accent and a blind girl whose medium-type abilities seem to give her a real leg up when it comes to negotiating stairs at high speed.Watching it, it seems as though any kind of original idea had the same effect on the writers as a crucifix does on Dracula. Rather than come up with a single original thought they seem to have sat there, watched every action movie and TV show from 1997 and gone, "Ohhhhh! That's cool! Let's do that!" unfortunately meaning they've rather missed the point that it is now twelve years later all this stuff has been done to death already (and far better too). So we're treated to endless, martial arts fights where the action goes from regular speed to sudden slo-mo as our hero/villain/demon does a back flip mid-battle and are so poorly edited with crash zooms and camera jerks you can't actually tell what is going on.Obviously, as with any show like this, acting talent is not the main reason these people have been cast. It's the, "Prettiness Factor," that's got them in and I have no problem with that. This is designed to be eye-candy, fun, entertaining television, not a Pinter adaptation. But the level of writing and the ideas behind the show are so poor it's hard to tell if the actors are bad or if it's just the scripts and direction.Ironically enough, it is the person who is probably the most respected actor in the cast, Philip Glennister, who fares the worst. His Rupert Galvin has to win the award for most clichéd depiction of an American by an English person on a British show ever. It's not really his fault, he makes a fair crack at the accent and what have you, but it's the dialogue he's given that lets him down and makes it just interminable. He comes across like a twelve year olds idea of what a tough guy American must talk like based only on watching bad American movies and who has never actually met an American in their life. Practically every line out of his mouth is some leaden cliché, like references to, "The whole enchilada," and the godawful, "Showtime!" (which terrifyingly seems to be what the writers are trying to make his catchphrase despite the fact that even Arnie stopped thinking saying that just before a fight was cool twenty years ago) that flops around on the ground like a fish gasping for breath before expiring. I actually consider the use of the phrase, "Showtime!" as an indication of how awful a movie or TV show is. If a writer thinks it's a cool, original thing for a character to say then it's generally a pretty fair indication that whatever I'm watching is crap and, "Demons," is no exception to the rule. It ranks right up there with, "Why don't you put down your gun and face me like a man?" And, judging by this show, the North of England must be empty as they all seem to be living in London.All in all, I can see why this show seems to be losing viewers by the millions already. Although it will probably get a second season due to the amount of money they've put into it, regardless of ratings, as happens with U.K. shows more and more these days. Maybe ITV could put the money to better use and come up with an original idea for a change? Maybe a show about a group of elite soldiers, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from prison and enter the criminal underworld and use their skills as mercenaries to help innocent victims? Oh.... Hang on.....