But I’m on the second episode and I guess the Christian god just canonically exists in this show? Crosses and holy water and shit work on vampires. Seems like a bold choice for a show to say “uh yeh that deity canonically exists in our show but I guess it’s just indifferent or whatever?”
Maybe this gets lampshaded at some point but in the second episode it’s weird as fuck lol
Crosses are an ancient symbol that predate Christianity, the Egyptian ankh is pretty similar. It could have nothing to do with Christ. Holy water is sanctified with a cross if I remember rightly and magic does exist in universe so maybe crosses just are anti-vampire for some forgotten reason.
I'm reminded of the castlevania anime; they tried to get past the religious connotations of the cross so they specifically explained the reason the cross works is because....vampires are disoriented by mathematical symbols. Yes really.
I mean, that's sort of in line with the old mythology of them having to count each grain of rice if you pour out a bag infront of them, like that numbers and math are some weakness for them? Still kinda whacky though.
I think for me one of the issues was that it takes geometric genius to build Dracula's castle, so it didn't make sense to me.
Yeah but if you know how to leverage that weakness into a strength, you get a good paying job in children's television.
So there's another reason that a vampire teaches counting on Sesame Street other than "The Count" pun. Cool.
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Didn’t that show have a moment where a priest throwing holy water did nothing, but a Belmont was able to ignite it? It was implying true faith mattered more than earthly authority.