[3:09
PM] Mr. Blue:
There's
a 390 ft piece of stainless steel jutting out of the middle of Dublin
and nobody knows why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Dublin
During
Festivus you face towards Dublin to pray
[3:09
PM]
Doctor
Who knows but ain't sayin'
[3:11
PM] Mr. Blue:
Supporters
compare it to other initially unpopular urban structures such as
the Eiffel Tower
99%
of things that are initially unpopular remain so
[3:12
PM]
It
even has alien writing all around the bottom.
(Doctor
facing off against Cyberman leader) "Let me show you what I did
to the last cyber invasion of Earth that started in Dublin Ireland.
Then tell me to surrender again."
[3:13
PM] Mr. Brown:
God
was working on Dublin and decided he needed to put a pin in that part
of the project and hasn't come back to it yet
[3:32
PM]
The
old Irish Prophesy was that the Devil himself had cursed the city -
declaring he would arrive one day, 3 miles tall, and sit on the town,
destroying it.
So...the
needle is defensive
[9:46
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
probably mentioned this but in GotG 2 there's a brief scene on some
party planet called Contraxia with a background song that instantly
blew me away. It's not on the soundtrack. It was written
just for that scene by Jimmy Urine (Mindless Self Indulgence
frontman. He also has a cameo in the scene).
Apparently
it'll never be released. i guess i wasn't the only person that
loved it, Someone edited out the dialogue and turned it into a 95
minute loop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bUUGwc-S0
[9:50
AM]
95???
[9:53
AM] Mr. Blue:
i
mean you don't have to listen to all 95 minutes
30
seconds is enough
[9:53
AM]
I
certainly won't...hehe
Was
thinking about Bang Wa Cherry though
Not-real
group that sang that shrill schoolgirl song in the Japanese club in
"Blade"
I
found a long version of it at one point. Was wondering if it
was just someone's edit to make it long, or whether it was the real
thing.
[10:02
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
never saw the movie but i remember liking the song
[10:05
AM]
I
enjoyed it
Blade
should have lost
On
the other hand the villain should have been whacked long before the
end.
Better
than 2, definitely
2
was kind of embarrassing in a couple ways...like “Underworld”.
(me)
"Who thought this out and presented it and were told 'OK'?
It would never be like this."
Seen
“Underworld”, I assume?
[10:10
AM] Mr. Blue:
nope
[10:10
AM]
Wow
[10:10
AM] Mr. Blue:
It
looked bad
[10:10
AM]
I
guess your "I don't know about vampires" thing extends to
movies
[10:11
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
just don't like 'em
[10:11
AM]
You
could just watch it for Beckinsale running around in tight shiny pants if
you like.
[10:11
AM] Mr. Blue:
I've
been watching Salem's Lot the last couple days
[10:11
AM]
James
Mason one?
[10:12
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
For
a made-for-tv miniseries it's alright
[10:12
AM]
As
I recall, the main vampire in that is pretty nasty looking
(looks
up)
Yes...quality
Nosferatu, that one.
[10:14
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah,
pretty much exactly like Nosferatu
They
used a guy that was disfigured in real life to play him
The
plot is similar to
the
scenes with the vampire kid coming to his friend's windows are creepy
For
some reason all the recently turned vampires have canine fangs but
the main dude has incisor fangs
I
guess that's a later upgrade
[10:18
AM]
Yeah,
liked the kid thing
That
one had the hospital rise in it, didn't it?
[10:19
AM] Mr. Blue:
hospital
rise?
[10:20
AM]
Guy
put the new vampire down with a tongue depressor and tape cross?
[10:20
AM] Mr. Blue:
oh
yeah
[10:32
AM]
Most
newer Hollywood vampires are just way too much.
Writers
keep giving them superhero-grade powers to look impressive on a movie
screen
Like
"has non-human powers" isn't enough
[10:33
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
[10:35
AM]
"And
for THIS scene, after the hunters shoot him 7 times, he's going to
turn into a dragon made out of blood and summon an army of flying
demon skeletons out of the earth."
"Laughing
off 7 high caliber bullets at point blank range isn't enough?"
[10:37
AM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[10:38
AM]
Meanwhile
I'm riveted watching "He Never Died"
[10:38
AM] Mr. Blue:
Really
the Dracula / Nosferatu vampires are pretty clumsy
They
move into a town and everything instantly goes hay-wire
[10:39
AM]
You
mean the real-world disruptions such a careless creature would cause?
[10:39
AM] Mr. Blue:
"Am
I under some type of suspicion?"
"Well,
half the town is either dead, missing, or turned into some kind of
ghoul since you moved in yesterday."
[10:40
AM]
Hehe
Been
around 500 years with the same MO...somehow managed to go unnoticed
til now.
[10:42
AM] Mr. Blue:
"Anything
from the FBI report?"
"Well,
every place Mr. Straker lived before has had to be condemned for
various reasons."
"Well...
Let me know if you find anything useful."
[10:43
AM]
lol
"Seems
there was a (flips papers on clipboard) 'plague of undead' that
started every time he moved into town and ended with a massive kill effort
sometime after he left. So...nothing much."
[10:47
AM] Mr. Blue:
"It
says here he was the sole survivor of a *squints* massive vampire
epidemic in eastern northern Hungary."
[10:47
AM]
Just
one of these films, I'd like the minion to apologize.
"The
master...he's been succumbing to Alzheimer’s. I'm
so careful to keep him in, but... How can I help make it right?"
(getting
out Kill Kit, passing out instruction sheets)
"He
was always so clean, you know? But then he started having “accidents” and I could tell something was going wrong."
"I thought if I picked a nice quiet town and a big old house like he likes far away from a
proper neighborhood...even if he got out. I just didn't think he'd wander so far. So
who are we after?"
“Now
now, let's not get into revenge or anything – it just makes it
worse. Lord, the bloodbaths... No, he's very old, usually quite harmless, and has put away
billions. We'll just put the girl back where she belongs, put her soul at rest and
discuss some sort of settlement. People do it for car accidents
and such all the time."
I
like this, actually
This
is one thing the "Secret World" trope in film and games get
right.
You
must be a responsible member of something like that or everyone in it
is screwed.
If
vampirism as an easily-passed contagion actually happened (numerous
examples) the human world would have ended in ancient days.
Dracula
apparently made 4 total vampires in his hundreds of years - 3 wives
he left back home, and 1 I guess he decided was a dud in England.
"What about the wives?"
(Van
Helsing) "Eh...Transylvania...
"Shouldn't
we do something?"
(Van
Helsing) "Remember, I told you a month ago that the common
vampire is pretty stupid. If they knew the trick to making more
there would be more. They'll wander off...bite some people.
It'll be fine."
"But!"
(Van
Helsing) "Do you want to hunt down every wasp nest around here
too? Let's go home."
[11:13
AM] Mr. Blue:
heh
[11:13
AM]
(He actually did kill them in the book)
Lucy
bit children nightly til they killed her...they were fine.
[11:13
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah,
only some seem to change
I
guess it's like an infection... it doesn't always take
[11:14
AM]
He
had to feed Lucy and Mina his blood.
Mina
suggested she was forced but Van Helsing had noted earlier it’s a
choice.
Granted
a heavily coerced one.
Then
you die...blood loss of repeat visits...
So
obviously - in that version - it can be done and there's always some
danger one of his wives would make a new one out of some species
instinct
But
most of the time...nope.
You
wake up kinda woozy, look in the mirror at your neck and say
"Maaan... Honey? We need to garlic the windows this week.
Vampire season I guess."
"Well
it's October, dear...the nights are getting long."
[11:58
AM] Mr. Blue:
It
wouldn't make sense that their victims die
No
other blood-suckers kill their victims. Usually they don't even
notice.
[11:58
AM] Mr. Brown:
There
is also the whole - why would just one bite change them?
I
have seen that done before in films
[11:58
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
like the idea of it being an infection
Like
malaria... Getting bit by a mosquito carrying it isn't a guarantee
you'll get it
getting
bit by 20 mosquitoes carrying malaria though.
[11:59
AM] Mr. Brown:
I
like that you have to drink the vampire's blood to change
[12:00
PM]
So
another element - vampires don't drink very much blood from their
victims.
How
much they drink is not discussed but its observable in the text
Dracula
was drinking enormous amounts of blood from Lucy and Mina
They
needed transfusions
Meanwhile
Jonathan Harker was left in Transylvania with 3 of them for weeks who
fed on him nightly to keep him too weak to escape.
Lucy
was having a nip of street child every night.
Must
have just been pulling half a teaspoon each? 1/4?
Wear
you down, definitely
I
think in Bram's case most people would die from infected bites from a
dead person's mouth.
Vampires
are scary as Hell with fantastic powers but just "aren't
dangerous".
They
kill you through side effects – wash the bites and put up repellent.
And
don't attack them head on or they'll use their powers to tear you
apart
...unless
they want you to serve them or they "love" you, and then
you're F'd
[12:12
PM] Mr. Brown:
Later
tales of vamps they like to say vampires are from Cain in the Bible
[12:59
PM]
Cain,
yes. Doesn't make much sense for God to make an immortal
bloodsucking monster on earth to plague his creation with his
offspring...but...
The
Lilith angle makes more sense.
[1:00
PM] Mr. Brown:
yep
mother
of vamps
[1:00
PM]
Adam
was into Goth chicks for a while
[1:01
PM] Mr. Brown:
The
first black lipstick wearer
“We
don't have clothes but I rubbed this soot on my lips and eyes. How
does it look?
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