User Reviews

Very disappointing season finale. Ever since they killed Sam, the show hasn't been the same. I stayed just because I was curious how Vannesa's journey will pay out. Big let down! They remove her as the main protagonist and introduced her daughters. The actresses are plain bad, giving me a bad taste after each line. Now their father (Willem) , had a plan for them to kill the Dark One, but the sisters had no strategy whatsoever. They showed up powerless, no means to incapacitate Dracula and no Vannesa to help them. Just mindless plot and incompetents. The dark one gets her way, obviously, but I need to mention that the Madam President was also lacking brain cells to figure out that Jack was being possessed, predictable. It has been boring and hard to finish this season.

What I loved about Van Helsing was its dark themes and sense of impending doom as Venessa drew closer to her own dark side, and to the Dark One (who I assumed was Dracula, the same written about in Bram Stokers novel that is). I also enjoyed how the Vampires seemed so much stronger than the Van Helsings, and that made their defeat even better. Take for example when Julius and Scab fight in the first episode, where Julius didnt have a chance. Then take the episode where Julius finally kills scab. While it was a long fight scene, it was clear that Julius would win from the beginning, making it very unsatisfying. The show started with Venessa in her quest to kill the Dark One, and doing so stubbornly and awesomely, to two whinny teens complaining about how they just cant trust anybody. Similarly, all the major charaters like Axel and Julius went from being smart and reliable to being content to happily going along with whatever half cocked and badly thought out plan the girls came up with. I absolutely love this show and it is dissapointing to see where it has ended up. I hope the writers and directors can take inspiration from the first three seasons (especially season 1 and 2) and execute some of quality writing and great execution that got people to keep watching the show in the first place.

PS. What kind of Colonel brings a knife to a gun fight! Especially since he had a gun on him already

Really? Sam was the best actor here ever since the show started but now they cut him out easily and cut vanessa and let her daughter's do the rest and they are not even these great in acting accept for thier father, whoever watched arrow and the 100 will know of his acting skills. Other than that I'm fast forwarding this whole season and glad that I did.

The rest of this season was good but this really obvious twist at the end was a big punch in the face I would have liked to see more development on this human civilization and the players at work in it before well murdering them, they even killed the guy from Battlestar Galactica this show can't seem to give new characters a break which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it's done in such a lame way. Also why the hell do the secret service just let the president who is obviously not the president get away with letting an evil vampire go like why it's Insane. It's just full of plot holes and Insanity. Also if Julius is dead next season I'm not watching it. On a possitive note this new character ivory seems pretty cool and it set up some dark realm stuff that might be good. But for God's sake next time you want to make a character take over a person's role don't have them murder someone and release a vampire in front of the secret service it's goddamn stupid it takes all my enjoyment away and turns it into me repeatedly saying to nameless agent character why are you so stupid.