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The magic healing blood device....

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So in several bits of fiction lately the magic healing blood device has been utilized. All it makes me wonder is why? It seems like in 2005ish it got used in 2ndBSG and then it opened the magic healing blood device floodgates. Maybe it was used before but off the top of my head I'm not remembering anything that did. Apart from it being an easy out for writers in terms of bringing characters back it really serves no purpose. It weakens to narrative of the story and is annoying. It seems just to be an easy writing crutch to fall back on, like the "it was all a dream" thing that used to get used a lot. I'm personally hoping that it dies out....

What are your thoughts on this plot device?

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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.

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Thought this was another one of them spambot threads for a minute there.

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SilverWook said:

The concept of MHB, goes back at least to the 60's.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065303/
Interesting I didn't know about that series.

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.
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.

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!

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I wasn't aware of The Immortal series either, until the SciFi channel began showcasing short lived series in it's early years. Saw a lot of genre shows that hadn't been seen since they originally aired.

Kind of sad they don't do that anymore.

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Where were you in '77?

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Magic healing device was magic and healed and was a device.

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Ah, back when they were still called Sci-Fi channel. Good times for that channel good times...

Bingowings said:

Magic healing device was magic and healed and was a device.

It healed and it was a device but it clearly didn't work on the power of magic. What I'm talking about is the fact that the magic healing blood device is basically saying an individual's blood has healing properties. So much so that that another person's corpse could be dead, radiation filled, missing a limb or two. Oh hey! We have some magic healing blood as a plot device! This'll only take a couple of minutes to bring this person back to life! Yeah it doesn't matter if they've been shot in the head through the eye! Bring them in to get the injection! They'll heal right up with a brand new eye to boot! YAY! That's what I'm talking about. Not anything like the device in B5.

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