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** I'm pretty sure that the driver mentions over the radio that there was some delay. But even that aside, they were heading into enemy territory to rescue survivors. That could be a several hour drive into the city from the wilderness. Now, even if you put aside things like vampire day cops and delays, what do you think they should have done? It's not like they can drive into town, pick up survivors, and then set up tents in a cozy back alley at night when they are most vulnerable. I'd sure as hell rather try to make the mad dash home then set up camp on the enemies doorstep, especially when it's painfully apparent they are actively being tracked.

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** I'm pretty sure that the driver mentions over the radio that there was some delay. But even that aside, they were heading into enemy territory to rescue survivors. That could be a several hour drive into the city from the wilderness. Now, even if you put aside things like vampire day cops and delays, what do you think they should have done? It's not like they can drive into town, pick up survivors, and then set up tents in a cozy back alley at night when they are most vulnerable. I'd sure as hell rather try to make the mad dash home then set up camp on the enemies enemies' doorstep, especially when it's painfully apparent they are actively being tracked.



** Is really said is caused by a virus? It seems to have a lot of the traits of the classic supernatural vampirism. No virus could make you ageless and immune to bulets, or make your body inmediatly catch flames when direct sunlight touches your skin.

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** Is it really said stated in the film that it is caused by a virus? It seems to have a lot of the traits of the classic supernatural vampirism. No virus could make you ageless and immune to bulets, bullets, or make your body inmediatly immediately catch flames when direct sunlight touches your skin.



* And speaking of mirrors, more a nitpick than a headscratcher and maybe I'm not remembering this correctly, but wasn't the accident in the begining, when Edward and Audrey meet, caused by Edward looking at his pointy ears in his car's vanity mirror? After we had seen his empty clothes in the rear-view mirror in an earlier scene? Being a vampire gives you selective reflectiveness? :-)
** The scene clearly shows him using an in-car camera which projects his image on a screen. Apparently vampires have no reflection but do show up on camera.

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* And speaking of mirrors, more a nitpick than a headscratcher and maybe I'm not remembering this correctly, but wasn't the accident in the begining, beginning, when Edward and Audrey meet, caused by Edward looking at his pointy ears in his car's vanity mirror? After we had seen his empty clothes in the rear-view mirror in an earlier scene? Being a vampire gives you selective reflectiveness? :-)
** The scene clearly shows him using an in-car camera which projects his image on a screen. Apparently Apparently, vampires have no reflection but do show up on camera.



* What happened to all those humans? Who killed them? At first I thought the vamp senator went crazy but he was among the dead.

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* What happened to all those humans? Who killed them? At first first, I thought the vamp senator went crazy crazy, but he was among the dead.



* What about vampire offspring? There's no way I can imagine that to turn out well. If they are born as humans, they will get taken away to milk them for their blood their entire lifes (which probably won't be long). If they are born as vampires, they stay infants forever. And if vampires are infertile in the first place, they are fated to die out sooner or later, because nobody who dies or turns into a subsider can ever be replaced.
** Human breeding is mentioned above, so presumably the long term plan of the vampire governments to recoup any significant losses was to turn humans currently being held as livestock.

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* What about vampire offspring? There's no way I can imagine that to turn out well. If they are born as humans, they will get taken away to milk them for their blood their entire lifes lives (which probably won't be long). If they are born as vampires, they stay infants forever. And if vampires are infertile in the first place, they are fated to die out sooner or later, because nobody who dies or turns into a subsider can ever be replaced.
** Human breeding is mentioned above, so presumably the long term long-term plan of the vampire governments to recoup any significant losses was to turn use humans currently being held as livestock.
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** Presumably actually being ''born'' with the 'virus' meant that it operated slightly differently than for standard infection; look at how ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'' established that Lucian was the first lycan as opposed to the first werewolf because he was actually ''born'' rather than bitten, or how Eve in ''Series/BeingHuman'' was born basically human apart from being able to perceive Annie.

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** Presumably actually being ''born'' with the 'virus' meant that it operated slightly differently than for standard infection; look at how ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'' established that Lucian was the first lycan as opposed to the first werewolf because he was actually ''born'' rather than bitten, or how Eve in ''Series/BeingHuman'' ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' was born basically human apart from being able to perceive Annie.
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*** Plus, all it would take is one temporary interruption in the blood supply - natural disaster? transport strike? - for the vampires to get hungry enough to start turning on the humans again. And any lone maniac or fanatic who got turned could re-start the pandemic just by going on a covert biting spree. Really, it's not a sustainable system to have vampirism be at all commonplace; at most, it might be possible to allow a token handful of terminally-ill humans to be ''temporarily'' turned, kept in medical isolation for a time while awaiting a compatible organ donor or whatever, and then cured of their vampirism so their ''human'' ailments can be dealt with.
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*** Digital cameras anyway, some other broadcasts of vampires show a bunch of empty clothes floating around so maybe older cameras don't show them.
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** Depending on how depressed she was, she may have believed she deserved to suffer as she passed, or that exposure to sunlight was the only way to "purify" herself of the vampirism she'd come to loathe. Or maybe part of the reason she did it was because her family and friends had already degenerated into subsiders, and she didn't want whoever found her staked or decapitated body to go blood-crazy at the mess and rip her corpse apart in a feeding frenzy.
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** Human breeding is mentioned above, so presumably the long term plan of the vampire governments to recoup any significant losses was to turn humans currently being held as livestock.

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** Human breeding is mentioned above, so presumably the long term plan of the vampire governments to recoup any significant losses was to turn humans currently being held as livestock.livestock.
** Presumably actually being ''born'' with the 'virus' meant that it operated slightly differently than for standard infection; look at how ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'' established that Lucian was the first lycan as opposed to the first werewolf because he was actually ''born'' rather than bitten, or how Eve in ''Series/BeingHuman'' was born basically human apart from being able to perceive Annie.
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* What about vampire offspring? There's no way I can imagine that to turn out well. If they are born as humans, they will get taken away to milk them for their blood their entire lifes (which probably won't be long). If they are born as vampires, they stay infants forever. And if vampires are infertile in the first place, they are fated to die out sooner or later, because nobody who dies or turns into a subsider can ever be replaced.

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* What about vampire offspring? There's no way I can imagine that to turn out well. If they are born as humans, they will get taken away to milk them for their blood their entire lifes (which probably won't be long). If they are born as vampires, they stay infants forever. And if vampires are infertile in the first place, they are fated to die out sooner or later, because nobody who dies or turns into a subsider can ever be replaced.replaced.
** Human breeding is mentioned above, so presumably the long term plan of the vampire governments to recoup any significant losses was to turn humans currently being held as livestock.

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