Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Team Leviathan!!!

So I'm a ways into the Leviathan storyline and something just seems to be missing...

I think I know what it is...it's that team dynamic DS is so good at creating. Let me explain: During most of the major storylines, two major teams are created...a good guys team and a bad guys team. When the two sides are even in strength and number you've got yourself a good storyline...

For example, during the Petofi storyline you had some heavy hitters on both sides...

Good Guys: Barnabus, Angelique, Quentin, and Magda

Bad Guys: Petofi, Aristede, CD Tate, and Evil Tim Shaw

The Leviathan storyline just doesn't have the same dynamic:

Bad Guys: Barnabus, Elizabeth, The Todds, David, Amy, and super-aging evil baby

Good Guys: Julia Hoffman and an increasingly insane Paul Stoddard.

Those sides aren't even! Julia has to do some heavy recruiting...The other problem is that Barnabus isn't a very good bad guy. I enjoy the fact that he and Julia are enemies (nice change-up) but a reluctant Barnabus doesn't quite do it for me as far as bad guys go and the mutant evil baby isn't much of a physical threat at this point. Get Quentin's memory back and side him with Julia...then the sides will even out a little bit.

Oh, and did they really need to bring back CD Tate with his weird megaphone voice? What the hell was that? He was talking to Julia through a megaphone and she was, like, four feet away...That guy sure does bug me...

1 comment:

  1. Count Petofi. . .the greatest of all Dark Shadows supernatural villeins.

    #2?? Laura Collins the Phoenix-the first and (next to the Count) least derivative.

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