There are 3 messages totalling 130 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Ben Bass B'day (2) 2. Vampire Blood Injected in Human Characters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:34:18 GMT From: Jean <jmtof@j.......> Subject: Ben Bass B'day Ben will be ... I can't believe I'm typing this ... 40 on Thursday the 14th. I told him that things definitely become better with age ...<g> Jean ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:06:37 -0700 From: "Amy R." <akr@l.......> Subject: Re: Vampire Blood Injected in Human Characters In the 8/11/2008 digest, P J <blue_twingo772@y.......> wrote: > >>I don't find it logical that vampire blood should have the > ability to restore youth.<< I don't find it logical, either. :-) But it's what I've always seen in "If Looks Could Kill." FK isn't famous for its logic, so it had never occurred to me to question it before. :-) > >>Where would this lead when vampires make love and drink each > other's blood on a regular basis? How would the metabolism know > when to stop?<< I think canon does not insist that vampire bodies and human bodies would be affected in the same way. In FK, vampire and human characters have different reactions to sunlight, garlic, food, and many other things. Nick can live on nothing but blood; Natalie cannot. I believe canon would support a construction in which FK human and vampire characters have different reactions to vampire blood (among other things, humans became emotionally and mentally unstable when injected with vampire blood, as seen in ILCK and FI, while vampires do not). After all, an FK vampire is already frozen in time, immortal -- dead, Nick would say. At any rate, biologically different from a living, growing, aging human. Separately, my theory was that Sofia's treatment includes some unknown element in addition to her blood to achieve this effect, as a contrast to what happened in "Fallen Idol." Just an unprovable theory, of course. ILCK is a kind of inversion of the whole "Blood Countess" myth, isn't it? I don't know whether it was wholly fiction or had some element of historical truth, that story of the mad noblewoman who bathed in the blood of girls to maintain her youth, but I like to see ILCK as attempting to reclaim and reorient that story, with the vampiress here giving her blood to old women to restore their youth out of her immortality, instead of, as in the original, stealing the blood of girls to maintain her own immortal youth. > >>I think she doesn't need to shepherd them around. They depend on > her if they want to keep their youth. So they probably stayed close > on their own account.<< If she began treating them when they were still young, it would have taken many years before they noticed that they were not growing old, wouldn't it? So there must be quite a story in why they believed her and kept taking these treatments from her all that time, with no evident results? To me, her patients hardly seem to know her. Agnes, especially, in the jail scene, seems to know only Dr. Jurgen's name and where she works. Would they still be so distant after thirty or forty years? Also, they all keep changing their pronunciation of her surname (sometimes the "J" is English-style, and sometimes it is German-style). I know that's just the actors and director not being consistent, and reveals the order in which the scenes were filmed more than anything else, but I have usually interpreted it inside the story as evidence that they are not well acquainted with her. On the other hand, it could just mean she has changed her name recently, and they have not yet learned the new name correctly. It's very intriguing, the construction that Bernice, Norma and Agnes have been with Sofia since they were young! There's nothing in canon to disprove it. But I find I'm still attached to the idea that Sofia developed her treatment more recently, and that her goal was to redress the situation of women past the point of society's easy acceptance. The character is wrong, of course; the thing to change is society, not individual faces. She would save more heartbreak in the long run by fighting the social stigma than by catering to it. But she's doling out a kind of salvation, as she sees it. Amy R. akr@l....... FK Site: http://users.LMI.net/akr/fk/ FK Blog: http://brightknightie.livejournal.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:02:48 -0700 From: NytDreams <igatatsuwa@g.......> Subject: Re: Ben Bass B'day Not far behind him here....39 in less than 2 months. *sigh* I did get to catch him a bit on Flashpoint (was that it?...not sure about the name now). He's still looking good and it was good to see him again. Tab On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Jean <jmtof@j.......> wrote: > Ben will be ... I can't believe I'm typing this ... 40 on Thursday the 14th. > I told him that things definitely become better with age ...<g> > Jean > ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 11 Aug 2008 to 12 Aug 2008 (#2008-190) ***************************************************************
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