A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Five-Hundred-And-Seventy-Eight

As part of researching vampires, I began watching the Buffy TV series.  It was on when I was in college, but I never got into it despite having numerous friends who were.  After watching the first episode, I have some questions I want to research, largely to do with the design of the vampires.  I couldn't help but notice the very sharp, bony ridges that they seemed to give the creatures, details that made me think of lizards and other reptiles.  It may well be that I am just seeing that when no one else would, but I do wonder if there are any interviews discussing the specifics of the thought process for those elements.  I think that what really made me notice this aspect was the fact that the vampires are shape-shifters, as well.  The first vampire depicted is a normal woman one moment and then has a monster face the next and I can't help but notice that it feels a bit similar to the idea of reptilians that is put forward by certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.  I am probably going to far to see that connection, really.  I would be shocked if it was anything that was even slightly intentional, but I still can't help but observe it and wonder.  It is probably just that I have been researching these kinds of connections too long and am just getting overly sensitive about it.  Even so, I do wonder if there is not some link to the idea of the vampires looking like reptiles just for the sake of making their designs stand out.  I wouldn't be surprised if that aspect was partly intentional, though without any of the underlying implications being purposeful.

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