#mr roddenberry if i could ask you to explain any and every part of this show i would only have one question

[rohirric-hunter]

I'm not reblogging the ten mile long post about the impossibility of ethical vampirism but I want to talk about how they tried to handle it in Earth: Final Conflict, which I feel like I've probably ranted about on here before. After they became tired of the initial mood and feel and plot and aesthetic and style and themes and show and half did away with it half completely chucked it out the window resolving never to speak of it again, the writers put their original alien race on the bus into a weird space pod and stole the ending of The Dark Crystal to merge them with some other random aliens to create a third, different race of aliens that was definitely the next step of their evolution and not just, like, some random bullshit that they less pulled out of their asses so much as picked out of the toilet when they were done. The third race of aliens were vampires but with a sci-fi twist and I'm gonna be completely honest this is the part where the show stopped being memorable in any way whatsoever except for the fact that I learned what the word "consummate" means from it and also they dredged up yet more major characters that they hadn't managed to kill offscreen yet and proceeded to kill them offscreen. Whatever. The point is that obviously the vampire aliens were antagonists but there was one story arc where one of them was played off as a potential good guy (except based on vibes I think he turned out to be a bad guy after all but genuinely I do not remember I cannot emphasize enough how uninteresting the show was at this point) but anyhow at one point the main character of the hour (protagonists were like gas station headphones to this show) asked him how he could possibly be a friend when he killed people for sustenance. And he said, "I only feed off of mammals. Don't you only feed off of mammals?" And I feel like I was like? Ten? when I watched this? And ten year old me was like, "Ah-ha, a clue! Because humans are mammals he's actually misleading her! He does feed off of humans after all!" because I was endlessly optimistic then, but no, this line was never referenced again. I don't know if the writers don't know what a mammal is but it haunts me. Possible I suppose that English was simply not their first language, as there were parts of the show that were recorded and presumably written in French and then dubbed into English, but in my experience Canadians usually have a strong enough grasp of English to not make that sort of mistake. Genuinely baffled. Anyway, never trust a guy who's trying to hit on you when he says he only eats mammals. It might be technically true but it's also a fucking weird thing to say.