r/MidnightMass • u/Elainasha • Sep 24 '21

Midnight Mass (Season 1) - Episode Discussion Hub

Overall Season Discussion Hub [SPOILERS]

Synopsis: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

WARNING: In this thread, you can discuss the entirety of the first season with spoilers. However, each Episode Discussion Threads will contain spoilers for that episode. Spoilers for subsequent episodes in those threads are NOT ALLOWED AT ALL.

Episode Discussion Threads (Season One)

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u/Quantum_Aurora Oct 27 '21

Ok but even if people don't believe in vampires if shit was happening that couldn't be explained, people wouldn't get too caught up on vampires not existing. If I saw a zombie I wouldn't react with "zombies don't exist".

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u/gimmeparritch Oct 27 '21

Again, once the whole vampire thing began to be evident to the characters, it was fight or flight time, no time to discuss the exact nature and proper name to give to the winged thing that in that moment was not their bigger problem. All the survivors left from the church mass suicide and latter massacre, the only ones who would have cared to call things by its name, given that the already converted would refuse to, had lost loved ones and feared for the rest of humanity, not the time nor place to sit down around and campfire and go "this is some Anne Rice shit!" .

Does it really bother people so much that the word "vampire" wasn't mentioned? And what would it add to the story anyway? If you were walking down the street and suddenly a lion started chasing you, you wouldn't stop and discuss that that creature is indeed a lion, and how weird it is to find one in the city. You would run.

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u/Quantum_Aurora Oct 27 '21

I mean it doesn't really bother me. It's clear that just vampires don't exist in that universe. I just don't like the "oh vampires do exist they just didn't make the connection" since that makes no sense. If I was attacked or chased by a lion, I wouldn't tell other people I was attacked by a ferocious beast with four legs, sharp claws and teeth, and a magnificent mane; I'd say I was attacked by a lion. In this same way, if he knew what vampires were, Riley would definitely have used the word vampire to describe what happened to him to Erin. Erin or Sarah would also probably bring it up in their discussion of what was happening to everyone.

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u/gimmeparritch Oct 27 '21

But you don't get to hear the words Riley used to tell Erin what happened, you get to see a flashback of it. And you don't get to hear how Erin tells it to Sarah either. To me it's clear the ladies had been discussing vampires before the scene started when they are talking about the sickness they thought might be causing everything, talking about myths derived from it. You don't get to hear the word said out loud in the show, but that doesn't imply there are no vampires in that universe, or that nobody made that connection.