Bite Me

Has Toby Whithouse, head writer and chief cook and
bottle washer of Being Human, added to werewolf/
vampire lore?  I was struck by two seemingly new twists:

1) werewolf blood is like a stake through the heart for 

vampires (geez louise, wouldn't this knowledge have been 

valuable to poor, sad-sack George - Russell Tovey - two, 

three seasons ago?  I mean, vampires were practically taping 

"kick me" signs to his back when they weren't kicking 

sand in his face) and (2) vampirism is like drug or sex 

addiction - you can beat it if you have enough will power 

and try really, really hard.

New vampire-in-residence, Hal (Damien Molony), isn't 

feeding on humans but unlike, say Edward, from Twilight, 

who feeds on small, furry forest creatures or Vampire Bill, 

from True Blood, who quenches his thirst with synthetic 

human brew, Hal doesn't seem to need to ingest any bodily 

fluids.

Now the werewolf blood thing - well, I guess it would be 

awful hard to extract blood from a werewolf (for the express 

purpose of killing vampires).  For one thing, you can only 

harvest once every full moon and werewolves are just plain 

frickin' mean and onery until they transition back to human.  

If you kill 'em they would probably transition back to human, 

and, if you knocked 'em down with a tranquilizer gun they
would probably transition before you could "milk" them.

Still, werewolf blood kills vampires.  Who knew? (Or did 

werewolves overcome and nobody told me?)

~rave!