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I tend to have Knights Templar or Free Mason like organizations as either neutral or relatively benevolent, It hadn't really occurred to me but this really is the road least travelled, isn't it? Most societies seem to be portrayed darkly, with evil or at least self-obsessed intent. I actually remem...

Okay, we've talked about individual werewolf hunters, but what about an organization of these hunters, an anti-werewolf KKK if you will. Do you think the idea could work? I'm planning on using it in my story. In my concept they were originally formed by the Catholic Church in the Mideval era, used t...

Yeah, you got to think about that sort of stuff, scott. I can't imagine having to marrying into my own "kind." I'm partly asian and I rather not marry into an asian family. Don't get me wrong. I do have pride in my bloodline, but I would like other nationalities in my bloodline, like ital...

Agreed Bezerker.

But what we also should avoid is making them a race of Mary Sues. Like Twilight vampires. Oh dear god, Twilight Vampires.

As for Captain Planet, the show was over-simplistic and overdone, like so many other children's shows of that era. Things are rarely as black and white as portrayed in the show. Real life is messier, lots messier. It also fostered the idea that these problems could be fixed NOW, instead of showing ...

The werewolves that I'm writing about now are essentially monsters, in fact that's why I write about things like werewolves and vampires, because they aren't human, even if they once were. They aren't just normal people who can turn furry at will, being bitten changes you, doesn’t remove your free ...

If they made him their mascot, it might make bounty-hunters in their mid 20s, who are fond of the TV show, go after these hardened criminals (some of which don't seem to be referenced for crimes against the Planet)... This thread is now about Captain Planet. http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g298/z...

Great idea for revising my concept Kaebora! He could organise showings of Red Victoria at independent theaters (like The Loft in my town of Tucson, Arizona) to raise money to produce said preliminary scenes for Freeborn to convince execs to jump on the bandwagon! For werewolves, if he needed to show...

Yeah, true. But wouldn't the publicity and the preliminary scenes created usign that money help get a decent studio interested?

Well, I just thought of an idea to raise money for Freeborn. Why not have Antony go to small, indie movie theaters around the country and have them show Werewolf movie marathons to raise money? I know of a great theater called The Loft in my hometown of Tucson Arizona to kick it off at. I know such ...

In the end though, I don't see why there can't be room for both, and I think your Werewolf is as valid as anyone elses, Vuldari. For without the traditional Werewolf, the original Werewolf, indeed, the Werewolf archetype, as it were... what would we base our explorations upon? Were would we go from...

MoonKit wrote:Nah. In the books the werewolves and vampires are actually pretty cool. Its the love story thats going to make you gag. (and possibly the acting)

Yeah, because nothing says cool like sparkly vampires.

I'd try and use very friendly body laguage, try and communicate with pantomime and do that writing in the dirt thing others were talking about. I'd simply write my name and an arrow in the dirt pointing to me. Aad if I was being pursued by a hunter, I'd try and convince my friend to act as a decoy f...

Yes, but Lovecraft was way more racist than was common in his time, and in a number of his stories (Especially Herbert West Re-Animator) he described black people with a horror usually reserved for cosmic horrors, and some of his earlier stories have even more blatiant racist subtexts (Like the Horr...

Speaking of Cosmic Horrors, I kinda wonder, has anyone done a work based on Lovecraft that features Deep One characters whom are not evil and Cthulhu-allied?I mean, it's a well known fact that The Shadow Over Insmouth has some very racist subtext that can be pretty uncomfortable to think about these...

Brilliant! It's even got a great-sounding name, and a better reference than the more obvious "Jekyll-Hyde" thing. Treatment for such a disorder would be extremely difficult, I would expect, based on real-world counterparts. It would be largely a disorder of personality rather than primary...

I was thinking, couldn't Lycanthropy be portrayed as body horror? I mean, body horror revolves around a sense of wrongness with the body, and, if foisted upon an individual whom has no idea what the hell is going on, it seems like the two genres of story coudl cross over very nicely. Plus, remember ...

I really hope physics someday figures out a way for faster-than-light travel or some way to go through space quickly enough to be feasable, like wormholes or such.

Pan's Labyrinth was quality. Think though, amidst the fantasy how it let the violence of reality invade abruptly every now and then. One thing I hear often is that 'there is no scientific explanation for emotion' or 'our response to art'. Studying psych, I am aware this is not really the case. I do...

So your saying that one's religion should come from one's sense of wonder and awe at the world? Yeah, I can get behidn that. That's probably why I like fantasy and sci-fi much more than realistic works. But what about observable evidence of the supernatural (Such as ghoset/spirit sightings, messages...

I really want to beleive you Bezerker. It's just that, I'm worried that, by beleiving, I'm just fooling myself, blinding myself to reality. The reality beign that belief in gods and the supernatural is just, allong with the influence of halucinogens; magnetic feilds; and mistakes in human perception...

Please, don't be jerks in this topic and start yelling at each other over whos religion is right, or other things like that. All I want to do in this topic is for us to have a frank, calm, rational (or at least as rational as a discussdion over dieties and gods could be) debate in this topic. Anyway...

All forms of werewolf are equally valid, IMO. I don't think vampires have been "ruined" either. That's just a different sort of vampire. There's been many iterations of both werewolves and vampires, with some early vampires being called Wampyr and being undead creatures like zombies only ...

Most people other than us and furries. And some really creepy people.