June 9, 2024:
Dojo in the afterlife.
Die, rise. Now you know kung fu!
So that budget plus action-hour obligation leak into the metaphysics. Format requires vampires know martial arts, just as it requires a monster per week. A hunky 200-year-old vampire and a petite teeniebopper have identical skills because they're required to have the fight that leads into the third act.
Hot versus cold, camp versus just plain bad. It never quite lands because its slip is showing.