I have just seen 15 min of the first episode, and I think that the details in series like this is very important! The guy at the arcade place was killed from a gun and the killer was standing near him! I assume that the killer was a vampire and thats why you couldn't see him, but why could you not see the gun or the clothes for that matter? The clothes are actually something that often is invisible in vampire movies (in mirrors)!
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I think that's one of the long-standing aspects that require suspension of disbelief for it to work. They've had vampires and their clothes being invisible since the beginning - Nosferatu, Dracula...
I suppose you could look at it as a "vampire aura" or somethign that renders anything inaminate that's in close direct contact with them invisible. As good a theory as any.
Yeah, that sounds like a good theory. It would look kind of stupid seeing a floating set of clothes in a mirror.
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Interesting, but it's still a bit of a problem with this particular show.
The "leeches" aren't metaphysical or supernatural -- they're former humans who were mutated by a blood-borne disease. So the OP was right -- that shouldn't affect the visibility of their clothes or something inanimate like a gun.
Then there's the device that science fiction writers like to use that's similar in many ways to the Deus Ex Machina used in typical fantasy. It's called "The Laws of Nature We Do Not Understand."
Our current knowledge of nature is very limited. So what we know about the way light bends and refracts around certain creatures is very limited. So vampires having no visible reflection or recordable voice may be based on that limited knowledge.
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Actually, Angie March describes it as the Code V "bacteria" passed through the saliva. Bacteria can be both beneficial and destructive to the human body. Bacterial cultures can cause tooth decay or they can boost the strength of your immune system.
So the Code V bacteria is probably a strain that increases the strength of the host as well as its vision and longevity, while also destroying its resistence to ultraviolet radiation.
I look at it in the same way as the "Why doesn't Lois Lane realise Clark Kent is Superman?" question. It's a long standing part of the mythology so you just suspend your disbelief and accept it.
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Let's be fair, Channel 4 couldn't have vampires running around in the kip.
And I just took it to be another sign that the 'bacteria' theory was more wishful thinking by the team bar the boss. The vampires were still unexplainable to scientific thinking, (the explosion's and regenerating powder, clothes included) and this just adds to the unease of those involved and the viewer.
You don't see their clothes (or for that matter any dirt or soap or hair care products that may be on them) so clearly whatever keeps the Code Fives from being recorded keeps some personal effects on their person from being recorded either. They say at one point that even fingerprint ink won't hold the impression from one of them so it's not like this is rational and scientific somehow.
"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."
Them not leaving any imprint on anything, outside of contact with living beings with souls, makes them appear like beings that are defying the laws of reality.
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