I dont understand the Skid's betrayal part

Ironically, I was just about to post a similar topic.

To me, it felt like they created a plot twist for the sake of it. It's not that I couldn't imagine Skud being a backstabbing bastard, but there wasn't really any foreshadowing towards it. They obviously tried to use Whistler as a red herring, which made it even more obvious that it WASN'T him... but I didn't suspect Skud and it still doesn't make sense to me. There's also that scene where Skud & Whistler start to bond, which is *ENTIRELY POINTLESS* if they're just gonna make Skud a turncoat anyway.

Just to answer your question, in the original script Skud betrayed Blade out of jealousy towards Whistler.

"And you. You never cared about me. I gave you everything. All you cared about was digging up the old *beep*!"

YEah, that part wasnt really clear. Some lame writing by Goyer. Apparently Skid was a familiar and had been planted. But if Blade knew, why wait till then to reveal he knew? maybe he just suspected Skid wasn't who he said he was but wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to jump the gun. But what would Blade care? He'd just kick him out and get someone else.

He was working for the vampires.

I think Blade new, but kept him around to make cool guns and help him find whistler. Also, working with the Bloodpack and getting captured by the vampires allowed Blade to get deeper into the vampire underworld, and find out more about them (like using night vision goggles to find vampire clubs :p)

I would have two guesses. I agree with Blade keeping him around even though he was a familiar simply because he was extremely helpful. The other assumption I made was that he could use Scud to get a deeper understanding into the vampire life. If powerful vampires controlled Scud, then Blade could use him to get to the powerful vamps.

I assume Scud betrayed Blade for the same reason all of the other familiars did what they were told; the chance to become a vampire and essentially live forever.

Well you can't even get his name right so there is no wonder you can't understand the film.

I never really noticed that, but having you point it out, it actually seems ridiculous.

Blade hates familiars and vampires, but he knew Skid was one of them and he just let him hang around? hmmm....

Seems to me that is very poor script writing. At least give him a backstory, like his wife was a vampire or something and he needed to become a vampire in order to be with her... dont just say, he wants to be a vampire "just 'cause".

That is really really stupid!



"I am Jack's cold sweat."

skud was accually working for the vampires the whole time.

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