The Strain

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Figured, but haven't seen it and didn't interest me. But thank you, sincerely, for the warning.

You know how some people just don't want to see scifi? Or romantic comedies? Or anything by Woody Allen? Or Tom Cruise?

We're that way about zombie movies. The last zombie thing we watched was that Will Smith movie, and while we liked it as far as it went, the zombie thing was offputting to us.

I'm that way about Tom Cruise lol. I've never seen Minority Report even though I think I'd like the story.

Give 28 Days Later a chance. It's a little bit zombie but not really... It's almost believable even :)
 
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I just watched the latest episode.
Eichorst demonstrated what a sadistic creep he is :( Vasiliy Fet is a quick learner... it didn't take him long to figure out sunlight was deadly :) Do y'all think Fet and Gus will ever join up with the professor and Ephraim?
 
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I have enjoyed the series. I like the fact that vampires are not sparkly but rather gross. My goodness they work quickly. I was amazed how quickly people are getting infected.

yeah, I was getting tired of romanticized vampires... vampires are spose to be evil! I wonder how many victims are infected by just the worms? Those worms make me cringe more so than the vampires lol
 
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Ok, you read it here first: this series is so good they will probably cancel it after this season. The only disappointment this far is that the German nazi's spoke English (why?). Otherwise I am thrilled, and quite honestly a wee bit scared from time to time!
 

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Ok, you read it here first: this series is so good they will probably cancel it after this season. The only disappointment this far is that the German nazi's spoke English (why?). Otherwise I am thrilled, and quite honestly a wee bit scared from time to time!
That is a bummer, I was rather liking this series. As far as the German's speaking English (one has to realize that this a show about vampires) German's speaking English not that far fetched. :)
 
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I love the characters in this show. They're interesting AND scary :) The last episode had lots of surprises - for me anyways, the pace is too quick for me to guess the outcome.
Those flashbacks did an amazing job of showing us (rather than telling us) the relationship between Setrakian and Eichorst. I did not guess what Setrakian was working on so it was a total surprise. I was also surprised by the appearance of that gang of strigoi in hoodies, they will for sure add a lot of interest to the show :) I really liked that scene where Needa's daughter descended the staircase and her reflection in the mirror wavered because... :)
 
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I am really really liking The Strain :) The Walking Dead is going to have to pick up the pace and the producers are going to have to spend some of that 6 mil/episode they're profiting on special effects if they don't want The Strain to steal all their viewers.
 
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I love the characters in this show. They're interesting AND scary :) The last episode had lots of surprises - for me anyways, the pace is too quick for me to guess the outcome.
Those flashbacks did an amazing job of showing us (rather than telling us) the relationship between Setrakian and Eichorst. I did not guess what Setrakian was working on so it was a total surprise. I was also surprised by the appearance of that gang of strigoi in hoodies, they will for sure add a lot of interest to the show :) I really liked that scene where Needa's daughter descended the staircase and her reflection in the mirror wavered because... :)
Why do you think the gang in the hoodies are strigoi when they killed the nurse because she had been scratched? They kind of reminded me of rats. Did I miss something? Help!!
 
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Why do you think the gang in the hoodies are strigoi when they killed the nurse because she had been scratched? They kind of reminded me of rats. Did I miss something? Help!!

I'm not sure where I got the idea they were renegade strigoi... maybe just because I thought it would be cool lol. Maybe they're an older strain created by a different master vampire? And these new strigoi are invading their turf lol.
 
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I have a couple questions about Sunday's episode...
Why did The Master break Setrakian's fingers? Why didn't he kill him? When Eichorst saw Setrakian's broken fingers, he seemed to understand what happened and why, did he?
 
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