Quick fanwank poll: "Because I never invited you in"

[beer_good_foamy]

OK, the invitation rule is always fun. If a vampire hasn't been invited into a private residence, there's an invisible barrier keeping him or her out. So in "Epiphany", if you recall, Angel has to save the gang from a bunch of funky demons with eyes in the back of their necks holding them hostage inside a house belonging to the late Sharp family, former non-paying clients of Angel Inc. Angel does this by driving Lindsey's truck straight through the window. One of those hero moments he does.

Now, luckily for him (and less so for the Sharps) everyone who used to live in that house is dead, which means Angel can enter without an invitation. And this is in an episode where the invitation rule is a pretty big theme.

The trouble with that, of course, is that while we know that the Sharps are dead, Angel doesn't. In fact, since the demons want to impregnate humans, it would have made sense for them to NOT kill the people in the house. So say, hypothetically, one or more of the Sharps was still alive. Say the invitation barrier was still up. So a vampire drives a heavy truck at full speed towards a house where he hasn't been invited.

What happens?

[Poll #1487771]

Comments

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

I voted toothpaste, but my heart tells me, from watching way too many movies, that The truck would have gracefully slowed down, coincidentally stopping halfway through the window just before Angel's toes hit the barrier.

Stoopid coincidence.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Funny how that always happens, isn't it?

[peroxidepirate.livejournal.com]

Hee. I ticked graceful slowdown because, as you say, that always happens in movies/TV.

As for what would be most consistent with the actual mythology of the universe, I think the truck would go through the window and Angel wouldn't, and it would just be a crap shoot whether some part of the truck severed his head & turned him to dust on the way.