Armies of the Night, Evil Taking Flight
Despite the fact that the series itself has been off the air since 1996, I actually managed to update my Kindred: The Embraced Timeline this weekend.
Besides some tweaking to rephrase entries, add bits of detail, and update a relevant champagne price, the new content comes from an America Online chat (Remember those?) some of the people involved with the series gave shortly after the first (and only) season originally aired on Fox. (This was, of course, in the era before we became so thoroughly aware that launching genre shows, then quickly cancelling them, is basically the way Fox does things.) I'd long ago saved a copy of the chat for just this purpose, but had never gotten around to incorporating its in-universe content until now.
To be honest, I haven't watched the series itself in a long time--and I'm glad I never opened my copy of that DVD set, since (as you can see by the price it's going for these days) it's now considered a collector's item. I doubt the videotapes I used to originally compile the timeline are in very good condition anymore, but if I wanted to rewatch it for the purposes of trying to glean even more timeline information, I'm sure there are a number of online options for that.
It might be nice to go back to the series just to relive the glory days of the Old World of Darkness, that time in the Nineties when Vampire: The Masquerade was all the rage. After all, the whole reason I was drawn to the show was because I found the setting more compelling than the actual roleplaying game...
In the meantime, we're in the midst of a resurgence in vampiric popularity, so feel free to have a look at a whole bunch of other timelines linked from the timeline site which connect to vampires in one way or another, including the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series Chronology and the Kolchak the Night Stalker Timeline by Chris Wike (caericarclight), the chronological list of Forever Knight Flashbacks by Valerie Meachum and Dorothy Elggren, the Supernatural Timeline by Joanna Browning, the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline by Fritz Baugh, the Twilight Timeline (which I've blogged about before), the Timeline of (Anne Rice's) Vampire Chronicles by Katherine Ramsland, The CastleVania Timeline by Andrew Modeen, and (naturally) White Wolf's World of Darkness Timeline by Jonathan Burt, showcasing the setting which led to Kindred: The Embraced in the first place.
That should be more than enough to suck away your blood...or at least much of your free time.
Besides some tweaking to rephrase entries, add bits of detail, and update a relevant champagne price, the new content comes from an America Online chat (Remember those?) some of the people involved with the series gave shortly after the first (and only) season originally aired on Fox. (This was, of course, in the era before we became so thoroughly aware that launching genre shows, then quickly cancelling them, is basically the way Fox does things.) I'd long ago saved a copy of the chat for just this purpose, but had never gotten around to incorporating its in-universe content until now.
To be honest, I haven't watched the series itself in a long time--and I'm glad I never opened my copy of that DVD set, since (as you can see by the price it's going for these days) it's now considered a collector's item. I doubt the videotapes I used to originally compile the timeline are in very good condition anymore, but if I wanted to rewatch it for the purposes of trying to glean even more timeline information, I'm sure there are a number of online options for that.
It might be nice to go back to the series just to relive the glory days of the Old World of Darkness, that time in the Nineties when Vampire: The Masquerade was all the rage. After all, the whole reason I was drawn to the show was because I found the setting more compelling than the actual roleplaying game...
In the meantime, we're in the midst of a resurgence in vampiric popularity, so feel free to have a look at a whole bunch of other timelines linked from the timeline site which connect to vampires in one way or another, including the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series Chronology and the Kolchak the Night Stalker Timeline by Chris Wike (caericarclight), the chronological list of Forever Knight Flashbacks by Valerie Meachum and Dorothy Elggren, the Supernatural Timeline by Joanna Browning, the Ghostbusters Omnibus Timeline by Fritz Baugh, the Twilight Timeline (which I've blogged about before), the Timeline of (Anne Rice's) Vampire Chronicles by Katherine Ramsland, The CastleVania Timeline by Andrew Modeen, and (naturally) White Wolf's World of Darkness Timeline by Jonathan Burt, showcasing the setting which led to Kindred: The Embraced in the first place.
That should be more than enough to suck away your blood...or at least much of your free time.