wait, and did Spike just knock Dru out with a choke hold? I thought it was pretty clear these vampire don't breathe...hence Angel surviving on the bottom of the ocean.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
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erin_obscure - Dec 29, 2010 5:54:28 pm PST #7755 of 10464
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 29, 2010 6:37:49 pm PST #7756 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
And their hearts don't beat, so it wasn't from blocking off the carotid arteries either. Joss and Jeff really fell down on that scene.
Instead of stopping her via choking, they should have had Spike throw a bunch of rice or mustard seeds at her feet and convince her she had to stop and count them all.
Strega - Dec 30, 2010 10:11:33 am PST #7757 of 10464
Choking Dru prevents her from talking, so then she can't vent the crazy and it builds up enough to knock her unconscious.
Cass - Dec 30, 2010 11:35:21 am PST #7758 of 10464
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
That almost makes sense. Well, it makes sense enough. Most of my Dru these days is from randomly caught Angel eps.
erin_obscure - Dec 30, 2010 12:29:55 pm PST #7759 of 10464
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
good spin, strega. that works for me.
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2010 1:56:51 pm PST #7760 of 10464
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There was also the time The First Evil (I think it was) tortured Spike by repeatedly holding his head underwater. My ex handwaved it away by saying that since they're dead, there must be gases of decay building up inside them, and instead of breathing good air in, they have to breathe bad air out. He based this on something Joss once said: that what comes out of Angel won't make the trees grow. What happens if they don't and how this fits with Angel being trapped in a small box underwater for months, I don't know. I ran out of handwavium about that point.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 30, 2010 4:14:03 pm PST #7761 of 10464
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd just as soon Joss' understanding of biology and science in general never have anything to do with emergency medical care I'm in need of. Since Angel demonstrably can draw breath even if he doesn't need to, he'd be somewhat better at CPR than a living human being since the outgoing breath would have the same amounts of oxygen and CO2 as the surrounding atmosphere. (Though I suppose the trade-off of having your chest compressions performed by someone who's accidentally snapped doorknobs off in his hand might outweight the good...)
Atropa - Dec 30, 2010 4:32:57 pm PST #7762 of 10464
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Choking Dru prevents her from talking, so then she can't vent the crazy and it builds up enough to knock her unconscious.
Dru is my favorite Jossverse vamp, and yet I think this theory makes perfect sense.
SailAweigh - Dec 31, 2010 7:25:16 am PST #7763 of 10464
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Ha! I always assumed the chokehold Spike gave Dru was meant to be more in the manner of a Vulcan nerve pinch. There's still got to be some kind of signals between muscles and brain, even if they're magical. ::handwave, handwave, flourish::
Strix - Jan 21, 2011 7:19:39 am PST #7764 of 10464
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Someone posted that today is Buffy's 30th birthday.
CRXY.