Perhaps their ancestors knew something that can help them save the world. Left with the family book, it’s time for the sisters to embark on a journey to find the past. Time seems to be running out.įortunately, Vanessa has the usual main character, plot-immunity, and they manage to kill B’ah and use his blood to cure her eventually. She asks Scarlette to kill her if she ever turns. The sisters kill more vampires, but eventually, Vanessa is forced to admit she’s been craving blood. Vanessa and Scarlette manage to stay together through a series of hallucinations and a host of other problems. As the season comes to an end, she awakes with blood-red eyes. That creature emerges and ends up biting Vanessa. At the end of the season, she’s forced to sacrifice herself to open the final door to the Elder vampire. Though she believed her mother died giving birth to her, it turns out a third VanHelsing woman is still around. This causes a whole new set of problems for the survivors.Īfter first being captured by BlackTec, Vanessa eventually discovers her mother hiding among them. Toward the end of this season, the ferals start showing some alarming signs of intelligent thought. Alternately the feral vampires seem only to care about eating. The organized and intelligent vamps are more dangerous because they’re capable of logic. ![]() Up until this point, there have been two kinds of vampires. She goes on a killing spree of her own, murdering every vampire she can lay hands on. He ends up burnt to ash, which sends her into a rage. Though she does eventually find the turned Dylan and even tries to turn him back into a human, she fails. Vanessa loses her Dylan once and for all time. She manages to accidentally, or subconsciously find her lost sister Scarlett who’s been training her whole life to fight the vampires. In season two, we see a whole lot of flashbacks revealing the backstories of various characters, Vanessa included. Vanessa is starting to learn more about her past. Though the apocalypse problems never go away, especially after her late-season capture by the vampires in the first season. Over and over they seem to find a place where they have some form of safety only to have it yanked out from under them by radiation, crazy cult leaders and other troubles. Yet with her unique vampire curing blood and incredible skills, she becomes the reluctant mascot/leader of a group of survivors. In the process of dealing with that problem, he becomes a vampire instead and begins hunting Vanessa as an immortal serial killer with even more power than before.Īdapting to the apocalypse all over again isn’t easy for Vanessa Van Helsing. They discover a very human serial killer this season. ![]() In the process she gets severely injured and doesn’t seem to heal, forcing her companions to desperate measures to help her. She uses her powers to help the people around her and try to fight vampires. The first season is all about Vanessa realizing who and what she is, to some extent. She doesn’t get a second to think or get her bearings before she has to kill or be killed. For Vanessa, waking up in the middle of her own vampire attack is not so fortunate. ![]() At least in a world full of zombies you can run or climb away from trouble as often as not. Both The Walking Dead and Resident Evil play off this trope. It’s a plot device that’s been used before quite successfully with zombies. There’s nothing like waking up from an extended coma and discovering a ravaged world full of monsters to mess with your head. WARNING: SO MANY SPOILERS AHEAD!!! The Story Begins: Season One There’s a lot of ground to cover, but like Vanessa herself, we’ll find our way through the world and seasons of Van Helsing. Now that we’re into the fourth season, and hopefully looking forward to many more, it’s time to get a good look at the evolution of the show thus far. This is one show that has been through more changes than most in the three seasons it’s already been on the air. As the sole inheritor of a vast and burdensome legacy, she’s subject to all the expectations and demands that come with her famed heritage whether she’s ready and willing or not. She is the child of the famous Abraham Van Helsing. Vanessa is the savvy yet somewhat broken Vanessa Van Helsing. In this strange new world, the vamps don’t play nice or hide in the shadows. We get to see the somewhat inevitable result of a world where vampires and vampire hunters are real and at odds. You can’t help but enjoy a good continuation, and Van Helsing is the descendant of Brahm Stokers Dracula story.
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