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31 Days of Halloween #14
Oct. 15th, 2014 12:34 amhttp://originallonemagpie.tumblr.com/post/98823492812/october-31-days-of-halloween
Day 14 - A question you’ve always wanted to ask about a horror trope:
Well, what I had in mind actually started out as a specifically Buffy trope, but, post-Buffy, has become pretty commonplace in a lot of films and shows. And that is, how, why, and when do the dead miraculously get martial arts training? Especially vampires. I mean, I can understand them being able to put in the 10k hours over the centuries, with the whole immortality thing, but what gets me is the freshly-resurrected ones who have instantly got it, no matter what they did in life.
So, where does it fit in- brain death, rigor mortis, first dan...?
Day 14 - A question you’ve always wanted to ask about a horror trope:
Well, what I had in mind actually started out as a specifically Buffy trope, but, post-Buffy, has become pretty commonplace in a lot of films and shows. And that is, how, why, and when do the dead miraculously get martial arts training? Especially vampires. I mean, I can understand them being able to put in the 10k hours over the centuries, with the whole immortality thing, but what gets me is the freshly-resurrected ones who have instantly got it, no matter what they did in life.
So, where does it fit in- brain death, rigor mortis, first dan...?
