Vampires have that whole mental manipulation thing so they could hypnotize
someone into giving them money.
I have always had a problem with the no reflection thing. It never made
sense to me. Why wouldn't their image reflect? A mirror or video camera
isn't a supernatural thing that views a soul's reflection right?
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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> I think the thing with vamps and most other supernatural creatures is
> twofold: one, they don't exist in the same numbers as us. Even a thousand
> powerful vamps would fall before a human army. And two, they have specific
> weaknesses which further allow humans to defeat them, such as sunlight,
> garlic, silver, religious symbols for vamps (depending on the treatment, not
> all of these are effective), silver for werewolves, etc.
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> From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 1:06:47 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human"
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> I am hooked on the show now. I was just telling someone about it last
> night. I believe that a theme of the show is that bad things happen to good
> people. The thing about the characters is that they are just regular folks
> that have been turned into monsters (and a ghost) that was outside of their
> control.
>
> I have been wondering if there are any other supernatural creatures in
> their universe. Also, why are the vampires trying to take over the world
> (again)? Seems like they should have been able to do that a long time ago.
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Keith Johnson
> <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote:
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>> I know a couple of people mentioned "Being Human". Anyone watching it
>> other than them and me? I enjoy the show. It's light at times, but then very
>> serious at times, even scary and creepy. Only the Brits can strike that
>> balance in scifi so well. I like the characters--i'll even forgive the
>> eleventy millionth rendition of the young, hunky, angst-filled vampire. I
>> find the whole society of vamps who look out for each other interesting
>> ("don't mind me brother; you just keep doing your orderly duties and let me
>> sip a little blood from the patient in the bed. What? You won't let me feed
>> off a patient? You want to be an outcast?!") The young ghost who can hold
>> objects but can't be seen by many is interesting. The actress is good as a
>> bright spirit (no pun intended) whose natural ebullience is tempered by the
>> fact that she's a mostly insubstantial shade who can't yet crossover. Among
>> all the curses suffered by the roomies, I'd think being a ghost would be the
>> worst. At least the guys can enjoy some measure of life--at least even the
>> vamp can hold a woman, and in this show, he even eats regular food every now
>> and then.
>>
>> But what got me most recently is a show dealing with the young nebbish
>> dude who's a werewolf. The show starts off with him transforming, and a
>> voiceover speaks of the pain of the transformation. It states that, since
>> the werewolf frame is smaller than a human, the organs all have to shrink:
>> the heart must reduce in size, which is painful, as do the liver and the
>> kidneys. As the organs are rearranging themselves, bones break and reform,
>> hormones are flooding into the system. At the height of the change, the
>> narrator says in a eerily clinical tone, the organ restructuring is so bad
>> that the organs literally shut down as they're reformed--the lycanthrope is
>> effectively dying. But, he can't die, as adrenaline is pumped into the body
>> in huge amounts, constantly keeping him alive, and of course the animal
>> savagery starts kicking into gear. it's like a series of
>> deaths-and-resurrections, all painful because none of the regular
>> pain-killing hormones are working. I'm not quite accurate with my
>> description, but the gist was I never ever thought of a werewolf change in
>> those terms, and it was quite disturbing.
>> kudo's for that.
>>
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