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HEY ZACK: Here's a deadly disgusting creature all your own!


...and you can name it whatever you like.

Really? Cool!

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Who writes this crap?

What kid would react to having a murderous creature that he's seen kill people in the same manner as being given a pet puppy?

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What kid would react to having a murderous creature that he's seen kill people in the same manner as being given a pet puppy?


The dumbest kid who ever existed: Zach Goodweather.

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Young boys have a tendency to get fascinated by scaled creatures like dinosaurs and totally like their ugliness. Rather than play fetch, he would train his creature to hit targets with its stinger.

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Young boys have a tendency to get fascinated by scaled creatures like dinosaurs and totally like their ugliness.


Yes but it's a HUGE stretch to say that a boy who watched people being EATEN ALIVE by a raptor would be all "oh cool come here, boy" if one walked into a room.

Children aren't stupid, and they can get traumatized like the rest of us.

Children who've seen dogs attack people or been attacked by them tend to fear them not immediately rush out to get one of their own. And dogs are just animals, this is a disgusting blind zombie-vampire child that sucks human blood for a living.

It's bad writing. 

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Yes but it's a HUGE stretch to say that a boy who watched people being EATEN ALIVE by a raptor would be all "oh cool come here, boy" if one walked into a room.
I am really not sure. It depends on whether the boy is able to differentiate between the different vampires. The big red flag for me would be: He has watched his mom feeding and still accepts her like a human being. So if he is capable of not just scream hysterically the moment she enters the room, I don't think it is a stretch to think that he could accept the vampires as different entities.
It's bad writing.
So is the whole show. It is steadily standing knee-deep in nonsense. So the measure I apply is a rather low B-movie quality. In a different show "boys like scaled creatures" would hardly be enough as reasoning, but the bar for this show has be so low to keep watching that I am fine with that figue leaf of an explanation, especially since in about 90% of all other cases, even such weak excuses cannot be found.

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I am really not sure. It depends on whether the boy is able to differentiate between the different vampires.


They're all vampires and they all kill.
He's seen them do it.

The only difference is this one is told not to kill him.
It isn't special or unique it's been given orders.

It doesn't matter if you differentiate between higher and lower they are all bloodthirsty and killers, and have the potential to kill you.

The big red flag for me would be: He has watched his mom feeding and still accepts her like a human being.


Well yes, but that's not a red flag.
That's his mom. The woman who gave birth to and cared for him.

It's the same for Gus, or some of the people on those Zombie shows.
They refuse to see a loved one as dead and monstrous so they go into denial.
That's not unusual or strange.

What would be strange is if they saw ALL vampires and zombies in that way.

Especially ones they had ZERO emotional connection to.

You know, like the blind zombie vamp-girl pet. 😢

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It doesn't matter if you differentiate between higher and lower they are all bloodthirsty and killers, and have the potential to kill you.
That mentality warps in such situations. People get mutilated by trauma and that is something you don't seem to take in account at all.
Just look up Stockholm syndrome, which is a prime example of people acting different from what you would expect.

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It's his first girlfriend and his mother approves πŸ˜€

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i'm shocked to say that i actually liked the Zach/young girl vamp scenes in last night's ep. i found it really interesting how she cuddled up to him and that they seemed to have a (temporary i'm sure) little friendship kind of sort of.

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It's kind of a kid meeting an effed up rescue pet. I could almost hear the "Arms of An Angel" Sarah McLachlan song in the background. Please donate the lonely creature fund. Lol

I wish I had a couple of those when our house was broken into.

I do like to see those twisted kids. The little kids that play them seem to be having so much fun. Lol

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sandifay, LOL. :)

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LOL!

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Not only was it rather illogical, but one of the creepiest, most disturbing ideas I've seen on a TV show - I suppose that was the point.
I'm seeing a glaring "plot device" here that will probably pay off in another episode, or perhaps more likely another season.
All in all, I didn't buy his sudden switch from extreme revulsion to relative acceptance of the new "pet."

...and Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice, whenever he's away

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oh man. i thought he wanted to have SEX with her.........

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Hey, female Strigoi keep their vagina as proven by Quinlan.

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When did Quinlan prove this?

M is fearless, she's the original honey badger, she doesn't give a sh!t! - Nekojita

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By being born.

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Good point. Quinlan is similar to Blade, and his Mom got turned while he was in her uterus, and therefore, she had a VAG, at least long enough to Quinlan to crawl out of it.

Funny inconsistency with the "Party Line" regarding vaginas and strombolis.

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What kid would react to having a murderous creature that he's seen kill people in the same manner as being given a pet puppy?


Ever heard of Rottweiler?



~Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes~

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I was hoping that weird monster would eat him πŸ˜€πŸ˜Š

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