Apocalypse How - The Strain - I Am Legend's Descendant

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Back to another one of these huh, well, it's no bad at all, at least i enjoy them.

Anyways, today i'm talking about The Strain, a vampire apocalypse that seems to be one of I Am Legend's closest descendants. It's a really great series honestly, and the show so far has stayed relatively close to it's source material.

The Vampires:
Unlike my last review, there's only really two types of this monster.
First, we have the original 7, they are pretty much the hive minds of these armies. They can see through the eyes of the vampires they create and they are very intelligent, being in charge of millions of vampires, well, not all of them in charge of so, mainly just one, the only one who quite literally calls them self "The Master." They also don't die quickly in sunlight unlike their underlings, but they can still die because of it. They can also use other vampire and human bodies as they're new body is their old body gets too damaged.

Now, their underlings, which are the most common of them all, being the only other kind. Start off fairly slow and not to bright, but within a month them are back to full mobility and can actually think for themselves, making them much more formidable than zombies. But their main weakness is sunlight/UV lights, they also can killed normally with simple bullets or getting beheaded, heck, you can even ripe their "stinger" out, but silver burns them and is thus more effective.

The Anatomy:
 Vampires in this series have no hair (they lose it when they turn), no genitalia (it shrivel up and falls off), has a 6 foot "stinger" coiled up in their throat that shoots out at an incredible speed and latch onto something, cutting into an artery and draining the blood while passing on the parasite. Their skin is pale, for obvious reasons, and they are the same height as humans.

The Parasite:
In this series, it's not a virus, but instead something a little more feasible, a parasite. In this case it's a type of worms that enters into the victims bloodstream and quickly replicates. By the time you get one out, there is already several more flowing through you. They cause the metamorphosis itself and turn the blood into a white substance and changes the internal organs that process blood, along with the changes mentioned above.

Now, i said this was closely related to I Am Legend, and in truth it is. The vampires have attributes of zombies and vampires, they also become smarter as time goes on, and in both series the characters work for a cure.

Tune in next Friday when I review Season 1 of the show.

That's All For Now...