But did they live in a world predating 'Twilight', 'Anita Blake' and 'True Blood'? Vampires as sympathetic, glamorous and just-dangerous-enough-to-be-cool are a modern concept far removed from the traditional view of a blood-drinking corpse.
I think there are a lot of people underestimating the effect it would have on society if we suddenly discovered a way to live forever. Stay beautiful and young and strong, and the only catch was that you couldn't stand in direct sunlight, and you'd need to adopt a different diet.
Sure, I wish S8 went into more detail on what's actually going on; the pace did seem to slow down a lot over the last five issues. I suspect there's a big reveal/plot twist coming up to show Twilight is behind it all, which explains the lack of detail now.
even Chanterelle was smart enough to immediately see that she was in deep deep shit the second she laid eyes on a vampire
Don't you mean "the second she was grabbed by a vampire who buried his teeth in her throat"? Because the first was pretty much simultaneous with the second.
And in TV canon, admitting that monsters existed almost always led - if not immediately - to a realisation that they were a problem
I thought that particular conceit had been dropped by the time of 'The Prom', pretty much. After that demons and the supernatural seemed more like an open secret that everybody knew about but nobody talked about. Willy's Bar and Caritas operated quite openly. Clem could drive his car down the middle of Main Street. The Los Angeles DA kept shamans on call.
Oh, and:
Slayers don't really get to not be Slayers even if they don't want to
How do you reach that conclusion from Alex's story?
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Date: 2009-07-07 10:05 pm (UTC)But did they live in a world predating 'Twilight', 'Anita Blake' and 'True Blood'? Vampires as sympathetic, glamorous and just-dangerous-enough-to-be-cool are a modern concept far removed from the traditional view of a blood-drinking corpse.
I think there are a lot of people underestimating the effect it would have on society if we suddenly discovered a way to live forever. Stay beautiful and young and strong, and the only catch was that you couldn't stand in direct sunlight, and you'd need to adopt a different diet.
Sure, I wish S8 went into more detail on what's actually going on; the pace did seem to slow down a lot over the last five issues. I suspect there's a big reveal/plot twist coming up to show Twilight is behind it all, which explains the lack of detail now.
even Chanterelle was smart enough to immediately see that she was in deep deep shit the second she laid eyes on a vampire
Don't you mean "the second she was grabbed by a vampire who buried his teeth in her throat"? Because the first was pretty much simultaneous with the second.
And in TV canon, admitting that monsters existed almost always led - if not immediately - to a realisation that they were a problem
I thought that particular conceit had been dropped by the time of 'The Prom', pretty much. After that demons and the supernatural seemed more like an open secret that everybody knew about but nobody talked about. Willy's Bar and Caritas operated quite openly. Clem could drive his car down the middle of Main Street. The Los Angeles DA kept shamans on call.
Oh, and:
Slayers don't really get to not be Slayers even if they don't want to
How do you reach that conclusion from Alex's story?