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« on: January 04, 2015, 01:44:43 AM »
Well, as for the cross, Patti, I've never heard of the legends going back into B.C. times. Anyone?
I'm afraid my vampire parameters are permanently set for life, by my kidhood DS watching. Any vampire not following Barnabas rules is committing a transgression.
I never liked the idea of vampires just being a little shy of the sun, being able to wear big brimmed hats to get around... maybe partly because I actually have a much worse neurological hypersensitivity to light than that, myself. Even vampires do better in sunlight than I do?! Come on. (My thing has been severe and undiagnosed for 30+ years by the way... ask me about it or offer ideas anytime, though my private messaging here doesn't work)
The favorite vamp vulnerability moment I think of first is Don Rickles in "Innocent Blood" (1992), a John Landis movie I've only seen a bit of. (Mafia vampires!) Rickles becomes a vampire one night, is put into the hospital, doesn't know he's a vampire, neither does the hospital staff, and when the curtains are opened in the morning he bursts into flames, having no idea what's going on! Now that's what I want to see with vampires and the dawn... not a big hat...
The kill-the-head-vampire thing is just too easy. It's a way of wrapping everything up in an hour episode. Science fiction TV uses this shortcut too.