10.26.01
The more I consider it, the more I believe that the following is a stupid curse.
Let's consider this: you are an evil, evil vampire who runs rampant for several hundred years, torturing, savaging and feeding upon hapless mortals. Your body is a shell for a fiendish demon, and you have no control over what the demon does with its shell. You have no conscience, no soul upon which to bear the guilt of your crimes against humanity.
One day, you eat the most beloved Gypsy girl of a certain tribe, and the Gypsies conjure up the worst curse they can imagine visiting upon an immortal monster; they return your soul.
Okay, I can buy that.
Suddenly, the horror of your crimes is visited upon you, burned into the very depths of your soul. Every waking moment is a reminder of the evil that you have perpetrated, and every time you attempt to sleep, your dreams are filled with the agony and torment of your victims, a thousand times over.
I can buy that too.
You are so scarred by your crimes, you are forced to drink bottled animal blood because you can't stand to harm living creatures by feeding upon them.
Yeah, fine. Gross, but fine.
You feel the need for penance, and decide to become a force for good, fighting evil wherever you can.
Hmm, I guess that's a little far-fetched in my book, but then you have to question the owner a book in which vampires exist, but benevolent ones are sketchy. Back to my point:
The Gypsies have cursed you so well that you are no longer a danger, no longer a threat. You are a fairly upstanding individual now, as far as monsters go.
Uh-huh.
However, the only catch to all of this is that should you ever experience one moment of perfect happiness in amongst all of this torment, you lose your soul again and return to being a thoughtless monster bent on the damnation and destruction of mankind.
Excuse me? If you have a happy moment, the curse is lifted and you return to nastiness? Wouldn't you just seek out happiness to get rid of the torment of having a soul?
I mean, I would. I'd rather be all conscience-free and evil, than broody and tormented on a constant hell-fire-and-damnation level of broody tormentedness. That would suck.
It just seems a convenient excuse to unleash your evilness during a romance-filled second season sweeps week. A contrived plot point, if you will.
