{"id":934,"date":"2008-04-04T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=934"},"modified":"2008-04-04T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:09:00","slug":"thats-an-interesting-anti-vampiric-plot-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/04\/04\/thats-an-interesting-anti-vampiric-plot-device\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s an interesting anti-vampiric plot device."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Moonlight, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/234033.html\">previously<\/a>&nbsp;mentioned here,&nbsp;season 1, ep. 12, The Mortal Cure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddytv.com\/articles\/moonlight\/moonlight-the-mortal-cure-reca-15837.aspx\">summarized<\/a> here, &nbsp;El Doofus Grande, Mick, learns about a temporary antidote to vampirism. Developed during the French Revolution [?!], this herbal compound temporarily makes a vampire mortal if absorbed through an open wound. That&#8217;s a neat plot device: temporary mortality. Too bad I didn&#8217;t think of it.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Moonlight alternates between pissing me off and entertaining me. The overdetermined and shallow narration adds nothing and detracts a lot from the story. The characters aren&#8217;t particularly deep. At the same time, the creators seem to have invested actual brainpower into vampires not only as supernaturals, but also as members of a subculture with its own hierarchy and rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Moonlight, previously&nbsp;mentioned here,&nbsp;season 1, ep. 12, The Mortal Cure, summarized here, &nbsp;El Doofus Grande, Mick, learns about a temporary antidote to vampirism. Developed during the French Revolution [?!], this herbal compound temporarily makes a vampire mortal if absorbed through an open wound. That&#8217;s a neat plot device: temporary mortality. Too bad I didn&#8217;t&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/04\/04\/thats-an-interesting-anti-vampiric-plot-device\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s an interesting anti-vampiric plot device.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}