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Post by jamish23 on Jan 11, 2013 23:38:49 GMT -5
Treating lycanthropy as a biological condition and not just a supernatural affliction, it's not a mystical curse but a virus that alters you DNA, if they took a blood test the doctor would find a extra strain he can't make a guess about.
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Post by Kavik on Jan 13, 2013 23:21:39 GMT -5
If UNDERWORLD is to be believed, only one in ten people bitten will become werewolves, which suggests a specific genetic marker that has to be activated by the bite (or other transfer of body fluids). I personally prefer it that way, so that the entire world isn't overrun by lycanthropy within a year's time.
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Post by jamish23 on Jan 14, 2013 15:25:59 GMT -5
Why does vampirisim and lycanthropy have to involve religious symbols and native superstitions? why can't it be more science based like the vampires in Blade?
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Post by Marcus on Jan 20, 2013 7:10:19 GMT -5
Probably because at the time of the legends creations science wasn't something known, and religion/superstition was, so that coloured the vampire and werewolf origins which carry on into today. Which is also why a number of other such mythical creatures are more religious based than science.
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Post by jamish23 on Jan 22, 2013 21:44:17 GMT -5
Like aliens being taken for gods thousands of years ago religious symbols like crucifixs and holy water could've been taken for weaknesses, like Blade try and explain scientifically why werewolves are vulnerable to silver and change at a full moon.
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Post by Marcus on Jan 23, 2013 4:13:58 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, what do you think would make good scientific explainations for the various werewolf traits? ie, why on a full moon, how does the body survive the change, where does the extra mass come from (and for that matter go) when a werewolf changes, why doesn't the werewolf starve due to the huge amount of energy it needs for it's rapid healing (or does it if it doesn't eat enough in the night?)
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Post by jamish23 on Jan 23, 2013 14:30:18 GMT -5
Gravitational pull of the moon would cause the transformation, Hulk outs are science based, like Wolf you get heighten senses and wolf hairs growing somewhere on you, the transformation would be slow and painful.
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Post by jamish23 on Jan 25, 2013 22:38:16 GMT -5
If you look at Being Human it mentions that the gravitational pull of the full moon triggers the transformation and in Bad Moon were Ted saids in his journal he takes a blood test the doctor couldn't identify strain saying it's some infection that isn't in the books.
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Post by jamish23 on Jan 27, 2013 22:09:53 GMT -5
You can be born with it but it won't manifest until you reach puberty.
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Post by jamish23 on Mar 12, 2013 22:54:43 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, what do you think would make good scientific explainations for the various werewolf traits? ie, why on a full moon, how does the body survive the change, where does the extra mass come from (and for that matter go) when a werewolf changes, why doesn't the werewolf starve due to the huge amount of energy it needs for it's rapid healing (or does it if it doesn't eat enough in the night?) The transformation is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon, you have the hair fall out and new layer of hair grow. There are scientific explantations that are inexplicable. |
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Post by jamish23 on Jun 23, 2013 14:05:06 GMT -5
Fact the moon can cause sea tides to rise.
Wolf's saliva gets into the victim's bloodstream and causes radical changes.
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Post by jamish23 on Nov 20, 2013 22:40:38 GMT -5
Changing at different phase of the moon, becoming more wolf like at each transformation.
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 21, 2013 6:51:07 GMT -5
Changing at different phase of the moon, becoming more wolf like at each transformation. The idea of becoming more wolf like at each transformation appears early in the history of werewolf movies (The Werewolf of London 1935), although it is not explicitly mentioned, just shown. That movie also supports the idea of lycanthropy as something biological rather than psychological or a curse. The protagonist's arm starts to transform when it is exposed to the 'moon lamp'. And the symptoms of lycanthropy can be alleviated by the juice of a Tibetan flower. |
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Post by Marcus on Nov 26, 2013 7:31:21 GMT -5
hmm, just been thinking, that if it was a disease that caused lycanthropy, it may be an idea to have a film where those infected only had a short lifespan due to the massively increased metabolisim the disease triggers, and the infected person actually starves to death - and until than is crazed with hunger which would go some way to explain the werewolf's aggressive nature.
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Post by someoldguy on Nov 26, 2013 13:46:05 GMT -5
hmm, just been thinking, that if it was a disease that caused lycanthropy, it may be an idea to have a film where those infected only had a short lifespan due to the massively increased metabolisim the disease triggers, and the infected person actually starves to death - and until than is crazed with hunger which would go some way to explain the werewolf's aggressive nature. That almost sounds like a kind of rabies. Which reminds me of that scene near the end of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, where the werewolf salivates like crazy before attacking. But lycanthropy is definitely not a disease in that movie. However it does introduce a different and rather interesting way of becoming a werewolf - hypnotic regression. |
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