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The Tale of the Captured Souls

posted 8 years ago by Arvin-G-Borkar
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When watching this episode, it was apparent that the host was actually a vampire , living off the souls of families that looked into the mirrors. But then when the gal, towards the end, turns the dial back on the machine, they get back their energy and he turns old.

How would that be possible if the host started out nearly young? Would he not revert to being young, as he was, while the family normalized with their energy back?

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[–] Kel_Vernsen 8 years ago

You got it mixed up. Vampires survive on blood. I never heard of any living off souls. They are also immortal and do not age. And last, they wouldn't be able to walk around in daylight like the host did.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

So was this creature exclusive to "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" then?

Also, do you have any explanation as to how the creature became old when it was normal before sucking the souls of the parents?

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[–] novastar_6 8 years ago

He didn't start out young, he stayed young by sucking the life out of all the people that came to stay at his house. In a way it is a bit like a vampire, he would feed off one or two souls, that would work for a while, but he'd always need more so he was always looking for victims to lure in, and when he couldn't find humans he'd take the souls of animals to stay young.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

Oh I see. So we could go by the fact that, even though the parents had their energy given back to them; his body was all ready at the "x" day mark where he would have turned old anyway.

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[–] novastar_6 8 years ago

Exactly, he couldn't have come up with all those contraptions as a teenaged boy, he would have to have had years of experiments to perfect them all. He was 90 years old by the timeline of the tombstone when Danny and her parents arrived.

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

No, what I meant was, how much energy he had left in him from previous souls. The only time he would feed is when the souls were wearing off.

The problem I had with the episode was that the parents' souls made them old and made him young. This was when almost all the life was sucked out of them. Then when the gal turns back the dial, all the energy (no energy was lost by the transfer) goes back to the parents to bring them normal again. So how was it that the soul eater turned old? He should have been young, as he was, before the transfer. You see what I mean?

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[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

From the other souls. Maybe when she destroyed the machine it released it all.

[–] Puvwall (1457) 2 years ago

That kid was an OG steam punk