Dude, what? Now+bullshit terminology is every urban fantasy thing on TV. You honestly thing the market is less accepting of that after True Blood, The Magicians, various superhero serials and Game of Thrones?Voss wrote:It had a prime time tv show on fox in the aftermath of Buffy* that failed miserably, being too confusing for the general audience and too hand wavy for the True Fans.
*with a number of cast members that were monsters of the week or short arc adversaries on Buffy.
The IP isn't good for a general audience, because it's just now+weird ass terminology that means nothing or something real that is entirely different (see Antediluvian, Brujah and Jyhad). It can work for computer games, because a larger chunk of the audience there is looking for clan names, wacky power terms, and lexicon terms to nerd out to. With the TV show (and possible future TV shows and films), people hear a litany of gibberish nonsense and tune out- even though they toned it down quite a lot for the show. If you strip all that out, you just have a fairly terrible generic vampire show.
With some focus and a competent hack at the helm, a nuVamp TV series could at least settle into comfortable mediocrity on SyFy or something.