[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-15 Thread B. Smith
They were stronger than normal humans but had many of the traditional vampire weakness like the aversion to garlic, were helpless during the day, avoided mirrors, had an aversion to crosses and could be killed by sunlight or a wooden stake. The living vamps' humanity returned to them after a

[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-15 Thread B. Smith
I forgot that the living vamps could endure sunlight for short periods of time and appeared to be fully human. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, B. Smith daikaij...@... wrote: They were stronger than normal humans but had many of the traditional vampire weakness like the aversion to garlic,

[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-14 Thread B. Smith
The female vampire gives him poison so he can commit suicide instead of being executed. He looks out and sees the terrified faces of all the living vampires and realizes that in this world the vampires are the norm and that he is the thing that goes bump in the night(or day in their case). He

[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth - Slight spoilers

2009-07-14 Thread ravenadal
/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] topic: the last man on earth Another question I had was, why didn't he live on the aircraft carrier? Were we to assume that the mutants gained strength but not intelligence? How did the mutant set the trap? Why did he own dogs? Why didn't

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-14 Thread Mr. Worf
Thank you for the info! Did the book explain the effects of the vampire disease? Did they have any powers? Can they reproduce? Just curious how much of a difference the book versus the movies are. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:24 AM, B. Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: The female vampire gives him

[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-13 Thread B. Smith
He represented the last links to the old world and he was their boogeyman. The new living vampires retained their intellect unlike the corpses reanimated by the disease. He had unknowingly been killing both kinds of vampires. So he ends up being captured and killed by the new vampires for his

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-13 Thread Mr. Worf
Ok that makes much more sense. They could have used his blood to create a vaccine but that seemed to be the not a goal. What was the ending in the book? On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:25 AM, B. Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: He represented the last links to the old world and he was their

[scifinoir2] Re: topic: the last man on earth

2009-07-12 Thread ravenadal
I have never seen the Vincent Price take on the novel I Am Legend. I am a huge fan of the Chas Heston version as I saw it in my sane and sober youth and was quite taken with the late Roz Miles' nude scene (her build was Zoe Saldana-ish but, hey, I was young and sober and she was nekkid).