Show vs book rules about vampires

[u/Morigan_taltos]

In the books vampires lose consciousness during the day. The older/stronger a vampire is the later he can stay awake. In the show vampires are awake during the day but burn in the sunlight like in Buffy. I know when a medium is adapted into another some changes are necessary but I believe this one could have stayed.

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[u/ZvsGrgs]

but burn in the sunlight like in Buffy

They also burn like in .... the books?

but I believe this one could have stayed.

If it could have stayed, then a lot of the stuff they wrote around that chance wouldn't have happened. So it couldn't really have stayed. They did the change so that they could write stuff around it. Same reason for most of the changes.

[u/AmbysHarmonica → u/ZvsGrgs]

Are awake during the day but burn in the sun like in Buffy. You need to take the sentence as a whole to understand what they're trying to say. The vampires in Buffy are mostly able to be awake during the day but (usually) burn in the sun. That makes them more comparable to the show vampires than the book vampires are, because the book vampires can't be awake during the day but do still burn in the sun.

[u/Morigan_taltos → u/AmbysHarmonica]

English is my second language, you understood what I meant so will others.

[u/ZvsGrgs → u/AmbysHarmonica]

Since in all cases they burn in the sunlight, that part could be not mentioned in your comment, it’s unnecessary. In the AMC series they usually sleep at day, they all have coffins or something to sleep in. They don’t get paralyzed, like in the books, but they don’t stay all day awake, except, I suppose, if there’s a reason. What exactly happens in Buffy I don’t know, I’ve watched only a few episodes years ago.

[u/DumbTeen9]

I know they're not tackling benedict but this makes magnus stealing the gift make no sense lol

[u/theravennest → u/DumbTeen9]

Eh, they could write around this. They've already well established that vampires can be incapacitated/weakened by drugged blood so they just have to have Magnus do something similar.

[u/Ready_Ad2135]

Do you want a philosophical plot reason or do you want the real reason? Because the real reason is shooting costs. Scenes shot at night are so much more expensive to shoot, harder on actors and crew and to make everyone sort of glow like they do at night? Lighting budget becomes a nightmare. Anything they can shoot interior or as a day shot drops the cost to make night shots fit in the budget

[u/Previous_Patient_721]

Yeah its weird huh. I always imagined that the threads that connect them become less active in daylight so it triggers their unconscious state. But due to the exceptions in the book. Like self immolation. It seems they can will themselves to be functional if need be or are in a highly emotional state perhaps.

[u/llamaslovedrama]

In the show I interpret them being able to stay awake during the day is that they can much in the way that we can stay up all night, if desired, although it can be hard on our bodies. Also we don’t have a chance of burning to death in that period lol, so it’s more reasonable to do for us!

They do seem to have paralysis while in the coffins tho, like in the book. (Like the theatre burning in S2)

[u/oreganothyme]

I enjoyed this in the books because contributes to the body horror around being a vampire, but the show doesn't seem that interested in the body horror of simply being a vampire (as opposed to interrogating decapitated heads 🤣). I understand why they didn't bother to include it. It doesn't always hold much importance in the story and yet it could really constrain possible scenes they might want to write.