Post by Melissa Kane on Apr 12, 2006 16:43:21 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]possible spoilers ahead[/glow]
This is a pet conspiracy theory 'o' mine so please bear with me.
I often wondered when watching episode 23 "Lost Weekend" (my fave episode! Hehe!) why it took so relatively short a space of time for Marty and Merrill to hit critical mass, if you will. Marty states he'd not fed for 18 hours. Within another three of that in a roughly worked out timeline, he's desperately trying to munch on Merrill. And within possibly another hour from there, Merrill is just as bad as him.
Yet, only a few episodes earlier, in #15, "The Test", Drew seems able to last at least two nights without food (or sleep). In fact, Essie says plainly that it takes anywhere over 72 hours for a vampire to succumb to Withdrawal and fall into a coma.
Yet in as little as 22/24 hours, both Merrill and Marty are at varying stages of Withdrawal - its pretty safe to assume that Marty is very close to dying which I think was part of his reasoning (the other part being love) for offering what was left of his life to save Merrill's. Why?
Maybe it was just non-communication between the writing team members (which is good thought from another thread. Thanks, timeladyshayde!). Or could it have been leading to a revelation in Season 2? (This is something we'll never know, unfortunately, but I had to get this idea out here! *lol*)
I had an idea that the whole problem might be linked to episode 7, "Feeding Frenzy", the one where the blood allotments were tampered with? I wondered whether the Elders, with or without Murdoch's knowledge, were trying to switch the youngsters to artificial blood but got the recipe wrong.
Supposing that the Elders had carried the switch on, refining it more and more. A side effect of the fake blood was that the vampires had to feed more often, wouldn't it follow that since Drew hadn't have been on the new regime as long as M&M (so sweet?!
*lol*), he was more resistant to the effects.
Also linked to this idea is Episode 25 "Bloodtrip". When Bridget is caged and talking to Karl when he's provided blood for her, she makes a comment on how the blood tastes strange. I can't remember her exact wording, but its not complimentary. And, given how getting "real" blood sends Karl into a spiral of temporary madness, maybe its how they'd all react to blood again?
Any thoughts? Am I obsessed beyond hope or is there madness in my method? *lol*
'Lissa
This is a pet conspiracy theory 'o' mine so please bear with me.
I often wondered when watching episode 23 "Lost Weekend" (my fave episode! Hehe!) why it took so relatively short a space of time for Marty and Merrill to hit critical mass, if you will. Marty states he'd not fed for 18 hours. Within another three of that in a roughly worked out timeline, he's desperately trying to munch on Merrill. And within possibly another hour from there, Merrill is just as bad as him.
Yet, only a few episodes earlier, in #15, "The Test", Drew seems able to last at least two nights without food (or sleep). In fact, Essie says plainly that it takes anywhere over 72 hours for a vampire to succumb to Withdrawal and fall into a coma.
Yet in as little as 22/24 hours, both Merrill and Marty are at varying stages of Withdrawal - its pretty safe to assume that Marty is very close to dying which I think was part of his reasoning (the other part being love) for offering what was left of his life to save Merrill's. Why?
Maybe it was just non-communication between the writing team members (which is good thought from another thread. Thanks, timeladyshayde!
). Or could it have been leading to a revelation in Season 2? (This is something we'll never know, unfortunately, but I had to get this idea out here! *lol*)I had an idea that the whole problem might be linked to episode 7, "Feeding Frenzy", the one where the blood allotments were tampered with? I wondered whether the Elders, with or without Murdoch's knowledge, were trying to switch the youngsters to artificial blood but got the recipe wrong.
Supposing that the Elders had carried the switch on, refining it more and more. A side effect of the fake blood was that the vampires had to feed more often, wouldn't it follow that since Drew hadn't have been on the new regime as long as M&M (so sweet?!
*lol*), he was more resistant to the effects. Also linked to this idea is Episode 25 "Bloodtrip". When Bridget is caged and talking to Karl when he's provided blood for her, she makes a comment on how the blood tastes strange. I can't remember her exact wording, but its not complimentary. And, given how getting "real" blood sends Karl into a spiral of temporary madness, maybe its how they'd all react to blood again?
Any thoughts? Am I obsessed beyond hope or is there madness in my method? *lol*
'Lissa
The why is a good point....I mean the Elders and Murdoch had been totally honest with the night students throughout the experiment, so far as we knew. Though there were areas of mystery for both viewers and vamps. 
