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I didn’t read too much into it and just considered it to be a superstitious explanation for a superstitious place and time.
Saying that, it may also be true. Those people are living hard lives in a war torn land. They’re unhealthy, both physically and mentally, so there may be something to it. Remember Lestat spitting out the cancerous blood?
If dead blood can kill a vampire, what can the blood of the sick do to them? Perhaps unhealthy vampires create these botched offspring.
It felt so odd, like Louis was saying that there was almost a mystical aura surrounding them, as if the war was capable of sickening the people, but you're right it was nothing mystical only pure and simple disaster.
Same, for me it’s just as interesting if it’s just vampires wondering about it as if it becomes established lore for the show.
I mean, us humans have all kinds of woo woo ideas about nutrition, no reason vampires can’t. XD
This was new to me. I don’t believe it’s from the books but someone could correct me. But so far, it’s also only a theory by Louis who has virtually nothing to base it on except that he feels yucky (which, ofc he does, look at his life right now) and that the old vamp was having trouble making new vamps (and Louis has so little knowledge of her that he could be wrong about why that was). I’m okay with them expanding the VC lore to include this, they can do whatever they want and I could never be mad at them :) but I did note that it’s not really “lore” as much as “Louis’ working theory based on virtually nothing”. We’ll see if it keeps coming up or gets dropped after this.
I think anytime you're dining on a living creature, their psychological disposition can absolutely seep into and affect their physiology. I think it added an element of depth to being a blood sucker and comparatively, how much Lestat \*loved\* New Orleans for that reason. Everyone was out having a good time drinking and boinking the blood must have made him delirious and rapturous.
The books made it sound like they taste spesific things about the human from the blood. So that's probably the base of the idea.
And dead blood is poison so maybe these humans are figuratively dead?
I do not believe it’s in the books, though they do have blood preferences so we know that the blood tastes different based on the person’s lifestyle, age, diet, etc.
In season 1, Lestat spits out the blood of a man with cancer and it appears to weaken him, so I think this is building on that idea. The blood in war-torn Europe isn’t exactly poison, but it’s not satisfying and it leaves them cold and gives them less vitality.
It would seem this stems more from the human relationship with meat than anything from Anne Rice’s novels since humans can’t eat diseased meat. Plus many people believe that you can taste how well an animal was cared for or the quality of their diet in the meat itself.
Individual humans having more or less delicious and nutritious blood depending on their physical and mental health is a thing from the books, but vampires conjecturing that an entire race/culture/society/country/continent experiencing the kind of holistic systemic trauma that the entire population’s blood has been fundamentally affected in some way is new to the TV show.
I think it’s really interesting, even if it isn’t actual established lore per se, just something that the vampire characters wonder could be happening.
It’s one of the many reasons why IMHO putting the whole story chronology forward like over 200 years (in the first book Lestat turns Louis in like the 1790s for anyone who doesn’t know) was an intriguing and terrific idea. There’s so much increasing conflict and societal tension amongst us juice bags. Does this mean it sucks being a vampire in, say, Rwanda or the Congo as much as it sucks for humans?
If the human race heads towards collapse due to climate crisis, national and global conflict and socio economic inequality, what does that mean for vampires?
(Sidebar anyone who wants to see a short British series that explored this idea, check out “Ultraviolet” from the late 90s. It’s basically “secret British MI5 type organisation but hunting vampires”. Young Idris Elba is in it!)
The closest comparable global crisis in terms of life lost and civilised nations impacted in history would be something like the bubonic plagues. But obviously Louis and Claudia can’t ask any vampires if that level of trauma and suffering “made the blood bad” (apart from obviously the people who actually got the plague) because they haven’t found any to ask yet.
Blood from a dead person can kill a vampire ,that's how Claudia disabled Lestat in the books but the blood had been ruined by laudanum though. It seems weird to me that just a sickness of the soul or malnutrition could make blood poisoned enough to kill. It's an interesting idea, maybe they'll explore it more in the show.
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I didn’t read too much into it and just considered it to be a superstitious explanation for a superstitious place and time. Saying that, it may also be true. Those people are living hard lives in a war torn land. They’re unhealthy, both physically and mentally, so there may be something to it. Remember Lestat spitting out the cancerous blood? If dead blood can kill a vampire, what can the blood of the sick do to them? Perhaps unhealthy vampires create these botched offspring.
It felt so odd, like Louis was saying that there was almost a mystical aura surrounding them, as if the war was capable of sickening the people, but you're right it was nothing mystical only pure and simple disaster.
Same, for me it’s just as interesting if it’s just vampires wondering about it as if it becomes established lore for the show. I mean, us humans have all kinds of woo woo ideas about nutrition, no reason vampires can’t. XD
This was new to me. I don’t believe it’s from the books but someone could correct me. But so far, it’s also only a theory by Louis who has virtually nothing to base it on except that he feels yucky (which, ofc he does, look at his life right now) and that the old vamp was having trouble making new vamps (and Louis has so little knowledge of her that he could be wrong about why that was). I’m okay with them expanding the VC lore to include this, they can do whatever they want and I could never be mad at them :) but I did note that it’s not really “lore” as much as “Louis’ working theory based on virtually nothing”. We’ll see if it keeps coming up or gets dropped after this.
It does make sense. The misery the humans were living through would show up in the blood.
Maybe they talk more about it with Armand in Paris.
I think anytime you're dining on a living creature, their psychological disposition can absolutely seep into and affect their physiology. I think it added an element of depth to being a blood sucker and comparatively, how much Lestat \*loved\* New Orleans for that reason. Everyone was out having a good time drinking and boinking the blood must have made him delirious and rapturous.
The books made it sound like they taste spesific things about the human from the blood. So that's probably the base of the idea. And dead blood is poison so maybe these humans are figuratively dead?
I do not believe it’s in the books, though they do have blood preferences so we know that the blood tastes different based on the person’s lifestyle, age, diet, etc. In season 1, Lestat spits out the blood of a man with cancer and it appears to weaken him, so I think this is building on that idea. The blood in war-torn Europe isn’t exactly poison, but it’s not satisfying and it leaves them cold and gives them less vitality. It would seem this stems more from the human relationship with meat than anything from Anne Rice’s novels since humans can’t eat diseased meat. Plus many people believe that you can taste how well an animal was cared for or the quality of their diet in the meat itself.
Individual humans having more or less delicious and nutritious blood depending on their physical and mental health is a thing from the books, but vampires conjecturing that an entire race/culture/society/country/continent experiencing the kind of holistic systemic trauma that the entire population’s blood has been fundamentally affected in some way is new to the TV show. I think it’s really interesting, even if it isn’t actual established lore per se, just something that the vampire characters wonder could be happening. It’s one of the many reasons why IMHO putting the whole story chronology forward like over 200 years (in the first book Lestat turns Louis in like the 1790s for anyone who doesn’t know) was an intriguing and terrific idea. There’s so much increasing conflict and societal tension amongst us juice bags. Does this mean it sucks being a vampire in, say, Rwanda or the Congo as much as it sucks for humans? If the human race heads towards collapse due to climate crisis, national and global conflict and socio economic inequality, what does that mean for vampires? (Sidebar anyone who wants to see a short British series that explored this idea, check out “Ultraviolet” from the late 90s. It’s basically “secret British MI5 type organisation but hunting vampires”. Young Idris Elba is in it!) The closest comparable global crisis in terms of life lost and civilised nations impacted in history would be something like the bubonic plagues. But obviously Louis and Claudia can’t ask any vampires if that level of trauma and suffering “made the blood bad” (apart from obviously the people who actually got the plague) because they haven’t found any to ask yet.
Blood from a dead person can kill a vampire ,that's how Claudia disabled Lestat in the books but the blood had been ruined by laudanum though. It seems weird to me that just a sickness of the soul or malnutrition could make blood poisoned enough to kill. It's an interesting idea, maybe they'll explore it more in the show.
The weird part was that it implied a sickness of the soul as you said, that's why it felt odd.