s02e21 — Becoming — Part I

@id268457930: This series is definitely not for you.

@id268457930: Dru is a bright character, I want her to be transferred from the status of an antagonist to Buffy's gang. Cordelia could, and Drusilla could.

@Иерарх: It's unlikely that Kendra became the winner just because Buffy had been dead for a while. The other one will only appear if Buffy dies.

@Buffy: of all the explanations that came to my mind, it's that sometimes vampires get bored and they turn someone just like that (as I understood it, the girl who turned Angel didn't hang out with him anymore either, but just turned him). It is also quite possible that older and smarter vampires simply convert different people so that they later become their cannon fodder, new slaves, so to speak (for example, the girl who burned in the sun to deliver a message to Buffy). And then whoever proves himself will become a cool vampire.

@Buffy: You're not the only one who noticed this oddity. There is a version that in order to become a vampire in Buffy, it is not necessary to exchange blood with a vampire (by the way, it is not enough just to drink it, but it is necessary that he also drink yours). It's enough for a vampire to drink enough of yours to make you die, but not all of it. So that the blood remains in the dead body. That would explain why Buffy has so many random vampires. A good confirmation of this version is the episode from the third season, where a vampire in a straitjacket turns his supervisor. That is, the ritual of blood exchange is optional in order to convert someone.

@alinejusty: If there were no liquids in them, they would be dry mummies! Vampires are infertile because their reproductive system doesn't work. Men have dead spermatozoa (or they are not produced. Here xs), in women, the reproductive system cannot create offspring. They're the living dead, so a lot of things in their bodies don't work anymore. Like the blood circulation. But they have blood. It just doesn't circulate or curl up inside.

@illseethese: She talked about it in the very first episodes. In particular, in the 11th episode of the first season.

The answer is more for new people interested than for Zax:
For "good demons and monsters," this is a direct route to the Angel series.
By the way, this actor was planned there, but was not available and they came up with another one.

@MoneyBarney: there's already so much game going on at school that all the students don't give a shit, it looks like :D

@MoneyBarney: In Sunnydale, everyone really knows everything (especially the students at school), they just pretend that nothing is really happening. They don't talk about such things openly. An unspoken taboo.

@SantaJul: Well, yes, they live in this world too. 😂
And most importantly, the "Judge" from the previous episodes would have killed all the people on the planet... Who would the vampires feed on then? I've always been interested in this question))

@EyeOfTheRaven: In the case of Acatla, they wanted him to drag the world into a hellish dimension. But that would not mean that everything would be destroyed. This meant that people would enter a world dominated by demons. That was the idea.

@BlondeBets: in order not to lose his soul again, it is enough for him not to do anything that can make him feel a moment of true happiness. For example, no more sleeping with Buffy)

@annmaryray: maybe this refers to the soul as not a person (consciousness), but some kind of function of humanity (as in DV, where vampires could turn it off at will)? Indeed, it would be nice to see how it sounds in the original.

@lest_forget: in the episode with Giles's Demon, when Angel took this demon into himself, he said that his demon had been waiting for this for hundreds of years, i.e. apparently the demon had not flown anywhere, but was sitting somewhere inside, shackled by the soul that Angel had instilled. And with the departure of the soul, he just got free and went wild.

It seems to me that this "suffering", for which he was cursed, may be akin to a departure from a state of passion, i.e., to put it simply, here you are wildly angry, yelled at someone, said hurtful things, and then regret it, and think "How could I even behave like this?"
In the same way, Angel realizes that he did all the atrocities himself, even if he understands with his mind that he was led by a demon inside, the soul makes him realize that it was still himself and his body. Therefore, he repents, because with his soul, morality, humanity, empathy, etc. reappear. In the same way, we empathize if someone died in the series, although we understand intellectually that these are generally fictional characters.

@lest_forget: Not quite like that. The soul is here like a Freudian supernova - conscience, empathy, love; in addition to it there is actually the personality of the Ego (or its absence) and base instincts -Id. Upon conversion, the soul dies/flies away. And then all the dark sides of a person will be realized. Since most people are so-so, and are restrained from evil deeds only by fear of punishment and public condemnation, then vampires turn out to be actually stereotypical vampires. But someone remains capable of love - like Spike and not only. Even the attitude towards the family is different - Angelus/ Liam immediately devoured his own, and Spike tried to save his mother. In the comics, Gunn was converted after the fall of LA to hell and was in full control of his vampire nature. And no extraneous demons inhabit anywhere.