Interesting I didn't know about that series.SilverWook said:
The concept of MHB, goes back at least to the 60's.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065303/
There wasn't magic healing blood in B5. That was a device that was developed to punish criminals by transferring their life force. It's left ambiguous enough that it's arguable the transference of their life isn't even necessary. Could've just been a lie made by that alien government to have a death penalty. Maybe with some modifications it could be used on it's own. Not the same thing at all.Bingowings said:
My personal favorite is the one in B5.
For getting June Lockhart and Bill Mumy (who I think looks a bit like our very own Gaffer Tape) back in the same show together alone it was worth it's use.
It also wasn't hooked up to a corpse to bring it back to life. Which is how the magic healing blood (plot) device is starting to be used as. It's like "oh this character is dead, dead, dead." *sadness* "WAIT A SEC! INJECT SOME BLOOD INTO HIS LIFELESS CORPSE!!!" *character is alive again* "YAY!" It's like the cliche "it was all a dream" thing.
Only it's somewhat even more of a cop out sometimes as it seems to be used currently as just a means to bring characters the writers want to bring back then forgotten about when they want characters to really, actually, die again. Looking at SilverWook's link and reading through what happens with that show is more like how I would like this plot device to be handled in fiction where their authors bring it up. I mean if you bring it up deal with it more in the story, don't just forget about it when a character's dieing and there's a magic healing blood person in the room. Bring it up again, something!
