“I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?” - Tenth Doctor
“Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap — if you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow — there's one thing you never — ever put in a trap. Me.” - Eleventh Doctor
“Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe! But, bad news, everyone, 'cause guess who! Ha! Listen, you lot! You're all whizzing about. It's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute, because I! Am! Talking!! Now the question of the hour is, 'Who's got the Pandorica?' Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else I don't have: Anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceships, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you! And then, and then! Do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.” - Eleventh Doctor
The philosophy of Hinduism puts much emphasis on the environment. The Ramayana, along with other texts, describe the most early instructions for the preservation and balance of the environment. It teaches us to live in harmony with nature and to recognize the divinity in everything.
How old of a religion is it?
Hinduism was practiced over six thousand years ago and there is even some evidence to suggest that the religion of Hinduism dates back to pre historic times. It is also the oldest known spiritual religion on the planet and was around long before the recorded history of ancient India.
How many different Hindus are there in the world?
There are six main different types of Hinduism in the world. The first type is folf Hinduism and it is based on the local traditions of deities on a communal level and it dates back to the pre historic times. The second type is the Stauta Hinduism which is practiced by traditionalists called bramins. The third type is vedantic Hinduism which is based on a more philosophical approach. The forth type is the Yogic Hinduism, which everyone is familiar with the practices of yoga, this is probably the most widely known type. The fifth type is the Dharmic Hinduism, which his based on the concept of Karma, described below, and also on the norms of society such as the Hindu marriage customs, called Vivaha. The sixth and final type of Hinduism is the Bhakti which is devotionalist practices.
Where do they live?
There are more than nine hundred million people who follow the Hinduism religion. Eighty percent of the Indian population identify as Hindus, so most of them live in India but with nine hundred hundred million followers, Hindus live all over the world.
What are their basic beliefs?
Hindus believe in the eternal soul and worship many different gods. They believe in karma and that it is the cycle of life. According to Hinduism, Brahman created everything and the different types of Hinduism worship different deities. Three of the most well known Gods of Hinduism include: Vishnu the preserver, Shiva the destroyer, and the Mother Goddess.
Gilgamesh is in a struggle with a cute young blonde girl, he is attempting to have his way with her and she is trying to get away.
GILGAMESH: Stop fighting me and take it woman!
BLONDE GIRL: No!
GILGAMESH: Well I do not care! I am strong and beautiful and I want you so I will have you!
BLONDE GIRL: R – A – P – E, get your hands away from me! Don't rape me!
GILGAMESH: Too bad tiny female!
BLONDE GIRL: Fine, just make it quick.
Enter Enkidu and Harlot.
ENKIDU: Sup my bitches! (points to harlot) Yea, that's right. I tapped that.
HARLOT: It's true, he did. (winks)
Enkidu and Harlot notice Gilgamesh raping the blonde girl, and the blonde girl appeared to be enjoying it more than she thought.
HARLOT: What's this? A young hottie is getting plowed against her will by such a handsome man. That should be me! I object!
ENKIDU: Hey Gilgamesh! Do not have sex with that girl!
GILGAMESH: Why should I not? It is my divine right to have my way with this woman, and any woman because I am beautiful and perfect and better than everyone and beautiful and . . . stuff!
ENKIDU: I am just as beautiful and strong and perfect as you and I just had sex with this uber hot girl for, like, a week straight – and she liked it. (Spanks Harlot).
GILGAMESH: Oh yea, well I have made it with every woman in this town! Every virgin, every wife, every husband, every pet! And even your Harlot there, several times! So what now?
ENKIDU: What now? Now we shall fight. (slaps Gilgamesh)
GILGAMESH: Oh no you did not! Now I have to get all up in your kool-aid!
Gilgamesh and Enkidu engage in an epic slap fight.
ENKIDU: You are a formidable opponent!
GILGAMESH: And you fight with the strength of one thousand faeries! Did we just fall in love?
ENKIDU: Yes, yes we did.
GILGAMESH: I am strangely okay with this.
ENKIDU: As am I.
GILGAMESH: Let us go frolic in the meadow, pick daisies, and make love for many moons!
ENKIDU: I would enjoy that greatly!
GILGAMESH: Come Enkidu, come Harlots, let the four of us hold hands and skip merrily to the meadow and have lots of sex.
BLONDE GIRL AND HARLOT: (throws arms in the air) Yay!!
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Harlot, and the Blonde Girl all hold hands and skip off happily into the sunset.
“I want to be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause. I will travel across the land, searching far and wide. Each Pokémon to understand, the power that's inside. Pokémon, gotta catch em all. It's you and me. I know it's my destiny. Pokémon. Oh, you're my best friend, in a world we must defend. Pokémon, gotta catch em all. Our hearts so true. Our courage will pull us through. You teach me and I'll teach you. Pokémon, gotta catch em all. Every challenge along the way, with courage I will face. I will battle everyday, to claim my rightful place. Come with me, the time is right. There's no better team. Arm and arm, we'll win the fight. Its always been our dream.”
Ash Ketchum is a kind-heart, rash, and stubborn Pokémon trainer who wants nothing more than to be the world's greatest Pokémon master. Ash comes from the town of Pallet where he lives with his mother. His quest began when he turned ten years old but he broke his alarm clock in his sleep and woke up late. In a panic, Ash ran, still in his pajamas, straight to Professor Oak's Laboratory to get his first Pokémon. In Pallet Town, new trainers have the choice of three starter Pokémon: Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. When Ash got to the Lab, he ran into his rival, Gary, who has already gotten his first Pokémon and didn't mind rubbing it in Ash's face. They argue and then Gary sets out on his Pokémon adventure. Professor Oak is also outside and tells Ash he is late, then brings him into the Lab. Unfortunately, all the Pokémon were already taken by other trainers. The only Pokémon left was a Pikachu, but it and Ash didn't get along at first. Pikachu shocked him repeatedly and refused to stay in its Pokéball so Ash left Pallet Town, literally, dragging Pikachu along with him, tied to a rope.
The first Pokémon Ash tried to catch was a Pidgey, a great start for new trainers...that is, new trainers whose Pokémon actually listen to them. First, Ash just threw a Pokéball at the wild Pidgey but that proved fruitless so he ordered Pikachu to attack but instead it chose to run up a tree and sit on a branch. Still determined to catch his first Pokémon, Ash took off his shirt to attempt to use it as a net. This plan also failed and the wild Pidgey got away. When he saw another bird Pokémon in the distance, thinking it was another Pidgey, he started this time by throwing a rock at it. The Pokémon turned out to not be a Pidgey but a Spearow, and Spearow have short tempers. The angry bird attacked Ash, and as Pikachu watched this from up in its tree, the little mouse Pokémon laughed at its foolish trainer. But the Spearow thought Pikachu was laughing at it so it attacked the yellow mouse as well. Pikachu shocked the bird, which made it even angrier and soon, Ash and Pikachu were under attack from all of the Spearow's friends. Pikachu was taking the most damage from the assault and, realizing how much the Spearow was hurting his new Pokémon, Ash cradled Pikachu in his arms and ran away as fast as he could, with the flock of Spearow in close pursuit. He ran to the edge of a cliff, with nowhere else to go, Ash jump down the cliff into the lake below, holding tight to Pikachu. Ash swam to the shore where a red haired girl was fishing. She had a bike parked along side the road and without stopping to introduce himself to her, he ran up to her bike, placed Pikachu in the basket, and rode off as he told her he'd bring the bike back to her one day. As he quickly rode to the nearest town, it began pouring rain, which made the dirt rode all muddy, causing him to whip out. As countless Spearow approached, Ash, tired and injured from the recent events, stood up against the enraged birds and help out his arms to protect Pikachu. As Pikachu laid in the mud, it watched as Ash stood up to the birds to protect it. Grateful for this, Pikachu slowly got up and jumped onto Ash and into the air and used a powerful electric attack, which was amplified by all the rain causing twice as much damage resulting in the Spearow's defeat and the destruction of the red haired girl's bike. Ash picked up Pikachu and carried it the rest of the way to Viridian City, both were weak and tired but also happy as their life long friendship was only just beginning.
“Reality can really burn you out.” - Ash Ketchum
Ash was able to get Pikachu to the Pokémon Center where Nurse Joy was able to heal it. While he was waiting for Pikachu to heal, the red hair girl he borrowed the bike from stormed through the doors of the hospital in a fit of rage, holding her destroyed bike over her head. Ash explained the situation to her and she felt bad for his Pikachu but made it perfectly clear that he owed her a new bike, a debt that she would be reminding him of for years to come. She told him that her name was Misty and that she wanted to be the world's greatest water Pokémon master. The Pokémon Center is then attacked by a trio of villains known as Team Rocket: Jessie, James, and a talking Pokémon called Meowth. They attempted to steal all the Pokémon being treated at the center but were stopped by Ash and his Pikachu and, realizing how powerful his Pikachu was, Team Rocket promised themselves that they would one day capture it.
After Pikachu, and Ash, were fully recovered from the rough series of events they just endured, they set off, back on their quest, with Misty accompanying them. They traveled through the Viridian Forest where they came across a Caterpie. Again, instead of battling it first, Ash threw eagerly threw his Pokéball at it. This time, however, he captured his first Pokémon (despite it being entirely by luck). While in the forest, Ash also came across a wild Pidgeotto, which Ash foolishly decided to battle with his Caterpie, not realizing that his bug type was at a huge disadvantage to the wild bird type. After Caterpie was nearly demolished, Ash withdrew it and sent Pikachu out in its place. After a short battle, Ash captured his second Pokémon, and this time he did it the proper way. He also ran into Team Rocket again a few times in the forest and defeated them each time. Also before they left the forest, his Caterpie evolved into Metapod and then into Butterfree.
Arriving in Pewter City with Misty and his three Pokémon, Ash learned about the Pokémon League competition and for trainers to enter in it, they needed to earn eight badges from different gyms throughout Kanto. After discovering that there was a gym in Pewter City, he hurried over there, after refusing to accept Misty's help in his first official Pokémon battle. At the gym, he met Brock, the gym leader who specialized in rock type Pokémon (which put all of Ash's Pokémon at a disadvantage) and suffered a humiliating defeat to his Onix. Refusing to leave until he defeated Brock, Ash found a way to super charge Pikachu's electric attacks and returned to the gym for a rematch. Pikachu still wasn't powerful enough to defeat Onix but during the battle, the field caught fire from all of Pikachu's stray electricity causing the gym's sprinkler system to go off which weakened Onix to the point where Ash would have beaten it. But Ash refused to continue the battle, much to everyone's surprise, since it wouldn't feel like a real victory to him. Later, as he and Pikachu were leaving Pewter City, Brock caught up to them and offered him the gym badge, saying that he should have been the won to win anyway. Ash accepted the badge and he and Brock became friends and he joined the hero on his journey with Misty and Pikachu.
As they traveled to each of the gyms, Ash was able to earn each of the badges. Unfortunately, he actually lost each of the gym battles the first time he attempted and was only given the badges when he saved the gym from Team Rocket. He was also able to capture a few more Pokémon including a Charizard (that won't obey him), Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Krabby, Muk, and thirty Tauros. He made it into the Pokémon League and placed in the top 16.
MORE TO COME............ENJOY THIS WHILE YOU WAIT....
“I love Halloween. The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me. People think it's fun to pretend you're a monster. Me, I spend my life pretending I'm not. Brother, friend, boyfriend - All part of my costume collection. Some people might call me a fraud. Let's see if it will fit. I prefer to think of myself as a master of disguise.” - Dexter Morgan
A forensic blood splatter analyst at the Miami-Metro Police Department by day, serial killer who kills other murderers by night. Dexter only kills people that have escaped the justice system and fit a code of ethics that his adoptive father made for him to keep Dexter off of death row. This 'Code of Harry' only allows Dexter to kill someone after he has found evidence that they are guilty and more importantly, to never get caught.
“With the solve rate for murders at about twenty percent, Miami is a great place for me. A great place for me to hone my craft. Viva Miami.” - Dexter Morgan
Dexter lives in Miami with his sister Debra, who is a Detective at the same Police Station, and his one year old son Harrison. His wife Rita was murdered by The Trinity Killer, another serial killer who Dexter thought he could learn from. Dexter also has two step children from his marriage, Aster and Cody, who live with their grandparents now after their mother's death. Dexter originally thought that he couldn't feel emotions like everyone else but he would do whatever it takes to protect Harrison, Aster, and Cody.
“She's the only person in the world who loves me. I think that's nice. I don't have feeling about anything, but if I could have feelings at all, I'd have them for Deb.” - Dexter Morgan
Dexter was born in 1969 to Laura Moser, who was a police informant to, and secret lover of, Harry Morgan, Dexter's adoptive father. On October 3, 1973, Dexter, and his older brother Brian, were witnesses to their mother's murder by a trio of drug dealers. The men left Dexter and Brian locked in the shipping crate alone where the murder took place with their mother's body and a pool of blood. Dexter often refers to this as him being “born in blood.” They stayed there for two days until Harry, a cop, and other police officers found them. Harry carried Dexter out and adopted him, Dexter was still young and was able to repress the memories of his life before his adoption but the psychological damage was already done. Harry discovered that Dexter was killing pets neighborhood pets at the age of seven. Realizing that Dexter is a sociopath, Harry decides to teach him a code of ethics in order to keep Dexter safe and out of jail. Harry teaches him to only kill people who deserve to die, murderers that have been set free or that have eluded the police.
“Harry was a great cop here in Miami. He taught me how to think like one; he taught me how to cover my tracks. I'm a very neat monster.” - Dexter Morgan
Dexter's code keeps him from getting caught and only allows him to kill someone who deserves it. In order to find out if they deserve it or not, Dexter looks for evidence like blood, the truth is always in the blood. He also meets his potential victim beforehand to see if they are likely to kill again and when he is sure they are, he ritualistically prepares a kill room. The location of the kill room is different for each victim, it is somewhere secluded and symbolic to who his victim is (such as killing a truck driver in his truck). Once the kill room is selected, it is covered in plastic so it will catch all the blood so there won't be any evidence left. Dexter puts up evidence and photos of the killers victims so they can see why they are going to die. In order to get the victim to the kill room, Dexter stalks them until they are alone and then sneaks up on them from behind and injects them with a tranquilizer called M99, which knocks them out for several hours. When the victims wake up, they are trapped in the kill room, naked and secured to a table with plastic wrap, or duct tape in some cases, in the center of the room. Dexter collects 'trophies' from each of his victims, he slices the victim's right cheek and collects a blood sample. Dexter keeps a box of blood slide hidden in the air conditioner of his condo. He talks to his victims before he kills them, explaining why they are going to die and usually gets them to confess, then he uses a knife to stab them in the heart, but in some cases he may use a different method depending on its symbolic relevance. Dexter then dismembers the bodies and wraps each part in plastic and places them into biodegradable garbage bags filled with rocks. He then goes out on his boat, the SliceofLife, and dumps the bodies into the bay. Dexter does all of this alone, but is assisted by a fantasy of his dead adoptive father, Harry, who gives him advice and encouragement throughout all areas of Dexter's life.
Dexter and his fantisized father
In 2006, Dexter was already working at the Miami-Metro Police Department as a forensic blood splatter analyst and is in a superficial relationship with Rita, who has two children – Astor and Cody. There is also a new murderer in Miami, The Ice Truck Killer, who's victims were all prostitutes and drained of their blood. They all wonder what the Killer is doing with the blood and it eventually turns up in a motel room, the blood of all the Ice Truck Killer's victims all over the room, and it triggers long repressed memories for Dexter and he recalls that he witnessed his mother's murder, and that he also had a brother, Brian... The Ice Truck Killer, the man who has is engaged to Dexter's adoptive sister. Brian abducts Debra and lures Dexter to their childhood home and attempts to persuade Dexter to kill her ao that he could be free from his old life and be with his real brother, someone who is exactly life him and knows who he really is. Dexter rejects his brother's offer, sets Deb free (she was unconscious so she didn't see what went down), and in order to stop Rudy from killing anyone else, Dexter slits his brother's throat and leaves him for Miami-Metro to find, and they write it off as suicide.
Dexter and his biological brother, Brian
When the bodies of over thirty victim are found in a harbor in Miami, Miami-Metro decides that there is a new serial killer reeking havoc in Miami, The Bay Harbor Butcher, better known to them as Dexter Morgan. And if that isn't enough for him to worry about, Sergeant James Doakes, a detective at Miami-Metro, suspects that there is something not right about Dexter. Therefore, Dexter must keep a low profile in order to keep off the police's radar. Also, Rita suspects that the reason Dexter is always out late is because he is a drug addict, and so he can keep the truth, that he is a serial killer, from her, he allows her to believe that he is and he begins going to drug rehabilitation meetings. He meets a woman named Lila who becomes his sponsor and she helps Dexter learn more about his addiction, not to drugs but to killing. Dexter learns that he doesn't need to kill, but he wants to. As all this is happening, Miami-Metro, with the help of an FBI serial hunting expert, and getting ever closer to finding out who the Bay Harbor Butcher is and found that he has a law enforcement background and Doakes, going rogue after being suspended, has discovered the truth about Dexter and attempts to bring him in. But Dexter has plans of his own, he intends to plant evidence so that Doakes is found to be The Butcher instead, and has Doakes locked away in a cage. Lila also learns the truth about Dexter and she finds where Dexter has locked up Doakes. She then blows up the building, killing Doakes in the process, in order to protect Dexter. Miami-Metro finds the body of Doakes, who they believe to be the Bay Harbor Butcher. When Dexter refuses to run away with her, Lila kidnaps Rita's children, Astor and Cody. Dexter finds them and Lila locks them in her flat and sets it on fire but Dexter is able to get the kids and himself out in time. Lila then flees to Paris, France but Dexter finds her and kills her.
Dexter and Lila
When Rita tells Dexter that she is pregnant, Dexter considers leaving her since he doesn't think that he would make a good father What kind of dad would a serial killer make? Debra convinces that he would make a great father and so Dexter decides to stay with his girlfriend and even proposes to her, although it takes a few attempts before she finally agrees. After killing a man in self defense, who turns out to be the assistant district attorney Miguel Prado's brother, Dexter helps Miguel coop through his loss since he feels bad for killing someone who doesn't fit his code. Also, Dexter notices a man talking to Astor at the super market and them sees him again, taking pictures, while they are at the beach. A quick scan of his license plates reveals who this man is and Dexter uncovers that this man is pedophile and Astor is is next target. Although pedophiles don't fit The Code of Harry, Dexter kills him anyway in order to protect Astor. Furthermore, an old friend of Harry's and of Dexter's, Camilla Figg, is in the hospital and she asks Dexter to pull the plug on her in order to save her from the pains of her terminal cancer. But when Miguel comes across Dexter right after he kills a drug dealer named Freebo, he learns Dexter's secret and promises that he won't reveal it. They become friends as Dexter begins to teach Miguel the code and also asks him to be the best man at his wedding, which Miguel accepts. However, the two of them participate in a power struggle and Miguel kills a woman who doesn't fit Dexter's code so now Dexter has to kill Miguel now that his darkness has been unleashed. With Debra as Dexter's new best man, he and Rita are married.
Tired from his responsibilities as husband and father, and his son Harrison having been born, Dexter has not killed anyone in months and due to conflicts with Rita, they have started couples therapy. Frank Lundy, the FBI serial killer hunter from two years ago, returns to Miami in pursuit of a serial killer who has been eluding the authorities for thirty years, The Trinity Killer. Trinity kills in threes, hence his name, starting with a young woman bleeding out in a bathtub, then an older woman jumping off a tall building, and ending with a man being bludgeoned to death. Later it is discovered a young boy has disappeared in each of the cities Trinity has been to and the missing boy is what starts the string of murders, making four victims a year for thirty years. Which totals to one-hundred-twenty victims, making Trinity the most successful serial killer to have gotten away with it since no one has found the evidence to link the four people. After Lundy if shot and killed, Dexter continues the pursuit of Trinity and eventually discovers his identity. To Dexter's surprise, Trinity (Arthur Mitchell) is a well respected man with a wife and two teenagers. Dexter takes up the false name of Kyle Butler and introduces himself to Arthur and befriends his rival serial killer in hopes of learning how he is able to handle being both a family man and a serial killer. Being so close to Trinity, Dexter has had several opportunities to kill Arthur but keeps postponing it, thinking he can still learn more from him. To that end, he learns that Arthur's family isn't has happy as they pretend to be and they are actually terrified of him. Not wanting his relationship with his family to end up like Trinity's, Dexter plans a belated honeymoon for him, Rita and Harrison, while Astor and Cody are staying with Rita's parents. Rita left for the honeymoon on an earlier flight at Dexter's encouragement, telling her he had some work he had to finish up and would meet her there. With Miami-Metro getting ever closer to finding Trinity, Dexter catches Arthur as he attempt to skip town and finally kills him. As Dexter returns home from dumping Arthur's body in the bay, he finds Harrison sitting on the bathroom floor in a pool of his mother's blood, Rita having bleed out in the bathtub as Trinity's one-hundred-twenty-first victim. Dexter blames himself for Rita's death and fears that Harrison will turn out like him, having both been 'born in blood.'
Arthur Mitchell (Trinity) and Dexter Morgan
Husbands, Fathers, Serial Killers
Dexter walking in on Harrison sitting in his mother's blood
“Harry was right. I thought I could change what I am, keep my family safe. But it doesn't matter what I do, what I choose... I'm what's wrong. This is... fate” - Dexter Morgan
The FBI has taken over the Trinity case, and Dexter appears to be a suspect for Rita's murder. Dexter comes across a rude hillbilly man at a boat shed and kills him when he loses control and let's out his rage from Rita's death. The FBI clears Dexter of suspicion but Quinn, Debra's partner at Miami-Metro, still feels that Dexter is somehow involved in the Trinity case and suspects that Dexter is Kyle Butler. With Rita's death, Astor and Cody go to live with their grandparents and Dexter hires a nanny to look after Harrison so he can attempt to fall back into his old routine. He targets Boyd Fowler, who is connected to a series of missing women and is a known sex offender. After killing Boyd, Dexter discovers a young woman, Lumen Pierce, Boyd's current rape victim, saw what he did. Dexter takes her somewhere safe and tends to her wounds but doesn't know what he is going to do with her since she is a witness. He can not let her go since she saw what he did and he can't just kill her since she doesn't fit the code. Lumen is afraid of Dexter at first, thinking that he is going to kill her too, but, slowly, she comes to trust him and she reveals that Boyd wasn't the only man who raped her. She asks Dexter for help in finding and killing these men but he refuses and tells her that she would be better off just going home to her family. Thinking that she got on a plane home, Dexter receives a call from Lumen asking for his help in disposing a body. She found and lured one of the other men, a children's dentist named Dan, to a harbor and shot him thinking he was dead. When Dexter arrives, Lumen is outside waiting for him and she takes him to the scene of the crime but Dan the dentist is gone, not actually being dead he struggled away and hid. Dexter found him but refused to kill him without any proof. The two of them overheard Dan make a phone call, while they were in another room, to his other accomplices, hearing him say, “that last fucking bitch is still alive.” With this being all the evidence of Dan's guilt that dexter needed, he snapped his neck right there.
Dexter and Lumen
Dexter then agrees to help Lumen track down the rest of The Group and the find a photo of five young boys, Boyd and Dan are in it and the other three are the rest of The Group and this shows that they have known each other since childhood. They discover that the third boy is Cole Harmon, the security guard for famous motivational speaker Jordan Chase. Dexter allows Lumen to help him prepare the kill room and kills Cole in front of her. As they leave the hotel where they killed Cole, Dexter runs into Jordan and he tells Dexter something that inadvertently proves he is a part of The Group, “tick tick tick, that's the sound of your life running out,” which is what one of the men often said to Lumen during her captivity. Not known to Dexter, Quinn has hired an ex cop, Stan Liddy, to spy on Dexter and find out what he's up to and Liddy has bugged Dexter's condo and obtained photo's of Dexter and Lumen dumping a body into the bay. After getting close to Jordan Chase, Dexter finds a necklace with a vial of blood in it. He secretly takes a sample of it and finds that it belongs to a woman named Emily, who was the first rape victim of The Group and that she is actually still alive unlike the twelve girls after her. They visit her but she wasn't willing to help them. Dexter and Lumen continue to work on finding the people in the photo and learn the identity of boy number four and after abducting him, Dexter allows Lumen to make her first kill. And after they dump his body into the bay, the two of them begin a sexual relationship. As Dexter prepares Lumen to kill Jordan Chase, he discovers that his place is bugged and that someone has been watching them. Dexter locates the surveillance van but no one is inside and Liddy sneaks up on him with a taser. Liddy takes Dexter to an isolated location by the harbor and Dexter ends up killing him in self defense in an attempt to escape. While Dexter was in this situation, Lumen received a call from Emily saying she had a change of heart so Lumen went to see her but it was actually a trap set up by Jordan Chase, the last living member of The Group. When Dexter receives a call from Jordan and learns that Lumen is gone, he finds a property that Jordan owns under a different name, an abandoned summer camp where the rapes first began. Dexter goes there and finds Jordan with Lumen, after a struggle, Dexter is able to knock Jordan out. Shortly after he wakes up, Lumen confronts the ringleader of her rapes, finally in a position of power over him and she stabs him through the heart, killing him, with Dexter's approval. The following day, Lumen tells Dexter that she no longer feels the need to kill since all of her attackers are now dead, and that she is finally returning home to her family. Dexter is upset about this but knows that this is best for her. With the lose of someone that he became so close with, Dexter is still not alone despite how he might feel. He still has his son, Harrison, and his sister, Debra and his step-kids, Astor and Cody.
“Lumen said I gave her her life back... a reversal of my usual role. Well the fact is, she gave me mine back too. And I'm left not with what she took from me, but with what she brought. Eyes that saw me, finally, for who I really am. And a certainty that nothing... nothing is set in stone. Not even darkness. While she was here, she made me think for the briefest moment I might even have a chance to be human. But wishes, of course, are for children.” - Dexter Morgan
Phoebe was born on November 2nd 1975 and is the Middle sister of the Charmed Ones, with her older sister Piper Halliwell and their younger half sister Paige Matthews. She also had an older sister named Prue, who was killed by a demon. The Charmed Ones are three of the most powerful witches in the Halliwell line and Phoebe's powers include premonitions, levitation, empathy, and pathokinesis. She has found other jobs,aside from fighting Demons, as an advice columnist, reporter, and author but she always puts her family first above all else. She eventually married a Cupid named Coop and they had three children, all girls.
“Wow. Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?” - Phoebe Halliwell
Phoebe and her sisters, Prue and Piper, were raised by their grandmother who bound the sister's magic and erased all their magical related memories in order to keep them safe. They grew up without their powers, not knowing that they were really witches until 1998 when Phoebe returned to San Francisco to the house she grew up in where her sisters lived now. That night while playing with a spirit board, the word 'attic' was spelled out on its own. She went up there to investigate and she found the Book of Shadows, their family's magic book and she read a spell from it, not knowing that it would unlock the powers of her and her sisters.
Phoebe and The Book of Shadows
Her first premonition was of two teenagers getting hit by a car and was able to prevent it from happening. Phoebe embraced her powers happily and encouraged her sisters to as well. Her relationship with her sisters was a rocky one but after they were reunited and had their powers returned, she became closer with them. Coming into the magic also help Phoebe become more of a responsible adult and she even went back to college and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. She met and fell in love with Cole Turner, a half demon called Belthazor, who was sent to kill Phoebe and her sisters. Cole also fell in love with her and instead of killing her, he protected her from the Triad, the powerful demons who hired him. The death of her sister Prue was devastating for her, since the two had become a lot closer over the last three years. Prue's death also broke the Power of Three until Phoebe and Piper discovered that they had a half sister named Paige Matthews, the daughter of their mother and her Whitelighter.
The Charmed Ones
Piper Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, and Paige Matthews
She has had a difficult relationship with Cole. First he was a half demon and then she stripped him of his powers, making him a regular human. Phoebe did not know that Cole had found a way to not only regain his powers, but also become The Source of All Evil in the process. Eventually, the two of them got married but Cole sabotaged the wedding into a dark wedding and Phoebe became the Queen of the Underworld, the place where the demon's dwell. Phoebe tried being both evil, as Queen of the Underworld, and good, as a Charmed One. She wasn't able to do it and, with the help of her sisters, she vanquished her husband. He isn't gone for long and soon comes back to attempt to regain Phoebe's love and falls. He is more powerful now and nearly indestructible but the Charmed Ones eventually found a way to destroy Cole once and for all.
“Nothin' perks up a girl's career like sending her ex-husband straight to hell.” - PhoebeHalliwell
In the sister's seventh year of fighting demons, they battled a demon named Zankou who attempted to harness the power of the Nexus to destroy the witches. In defeating him, they faked their own deaths in the hopes that they could retire from their magical destinies and lead normal lives. Phoebe used a spell to change their appearance to anyone, mortal or demon, that saw them. Phoebe and her sisters soon learned that this was a mistake and reverted back to their 'normal' lives.
“I am not nuts. Okay, maybe just a little, but that's irrelevant here.” - Phoebe Halliwell
Phoebe decided to move out of the manor where her sisters lived and get her own apartment, not long after that, The Elders sent Coop, a cupid, to her in order to help Phoebe find true love as a reward for all she has down in the battle against evil. Slowly, however, Coop and Phoebe fell in love with each other but both thought that their love for each other was forbidden. As fate had it, The Elders actually sent Coop to Phoebe hoping that they would fall in love, so it turned out that their love wasn't forbidden. They got married and on their honeymoon, Phoebe got pregnat with their first baby, whom they named Prudence Johnna Halliwell, after her sister Prue, who was killed years earlier.
Phoebe with her husband Coop and their daughter, P.J.
“I'm not afraid of our powers. I mean, everyone inherits something from their family, right? Yeah, money, antiques, a strong disposition. That's what normal people inherit.” - PhoebeHalliwell
Back in the Victorian Era, William was a simple little man, he lived with his mother, wanted to be a poet, and had his sights on wooing a pretty young woman who had no affection for his at all. Then he met a woman named Drusilla, a vampire. She sired William, now William the Bloody (soulless and evil), and the two of them began their relationship as they travel the world with Darla and Angelus. During his time as a vampire, William earned the nickname Spike because he killed people with railroad spikes and he killed two vampire slayers.
In the 1990's Spike came to Sunnydale, where he met Buffy Summers and he attempted to kill his third slayer. Every attempt to kill the slayer over the course of three years failed. He was captured by The Initiative, a secret government organization for capturing and studying Demons. The Initiative implanted a cerebral microchip deep in Spike's brain which causes him pain every time he harms or attempts to harm a human, but he learned that he could still hit demons. He escaped from The Initiative and went to Buffy and her friends for protection. During his time with Buffy's gang, Spike attempted to commit suicide by staking himself, provided information (for cash of course) to Buffy and her friends, and he fell in love with the slayer. Once again, the girl failed to return his affections.
The Vampire and the Vampire Slayer
Spike ventures to Africa to find a demon shaman who makes Spike undergo several difficult trials in order to 'prove himself.' Spike passes all of the trials and earns back his soul. He returns to Sunnydale and eventually he and Buffy's relationship still has its issues but they do become emotionally close with each other. Soon after, Sunnydale and the world is threatened to be destroyed by The First Evil. Angel (the vampire who had a soul first, and used to be Angelus) brought Buffy a magic amulet that he got from the evil law firm, Wolfram and Hart. Angel was the one who was supposed to wear the amulet but Spike took it instead. Inside the Hellmouth, Spike wore the amulet and it began to glow, which caused all the demons inside there to burn up, allowing Buffy and everyone to escape and flee Sunnydale. Spike was destroyed by the amulet along with the town, dieing once again after he was initially sired.
“What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What, can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Let's find her! She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for... the safety of puppies... and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on!” - Spike
Spike saves the world
The amulet was dug up from the debris of Sunnydale and mailed to Angel at Wolfram and Hart in Los Angeles, California. It revived Spike, but only as a ghost and he was confined to the city of LA. Spike was eventually restored to his undead vampire self, soul and all and help Angel to pull one final assault on the Senior Partners to show them that the forces of good won't ever give up. This caused the Senior Partners to send LA into a post apocalyptic state with demons of all kinds running around all over the place. Spike continues his fight for good against evil.
Spike: After the Fall issue 1
“We like to talk big, vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' That's just tough guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is , I like this world. You've got dog racing, Manchester United, and you've got people, billions of people walking around like Happy Meals on legs.” - Spike
The novel that I would like to see turned into a movie is Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead. It is the final book in the Vampire Academy series (there are six books in all: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, and Last Sacrifice). The final book is my favorite mostly because my favorite character, Sydney Sage, has a larger part in it than when she was introduced in Blood Promise and her one chapter, web-cam exclusive, appearance in Spirit Bound. Sydney is the main character in the recently released spin-off series Bloodlines, which I am currently in the process of reading. However, as much as I would love to see Last Sacrifice, as well as every book in the series and spin-off series on the big screen, I would want to see the movies in order from first to last, just like how I read the books.
Vampire Academy is an urban fantasy paranormal romance novel. Urban fantasy is a fantasy story that is primarily set in the city with some supernatural elements. Paranormal romance basically deals with some sort of supernatural love interests as opposed to just two normal everyday people. The story takes place at St. Vladimir's Academy, a boarding school for Moroi and dhampir guardian novices students, hidden deep within a Montana forest. For this, it would be cool to shoot on scene at a college somewhere but there would also need to be more of a gothic sort of theme going on. Most of the story in Vampire Academy takes place at the school so there would be scenes in classrooms, dorm rooms, a chapel, and outside. There wold also have to be one short scene in the mall and another scene in a small isolated cabin in the woods so, overall, as far as the cost of movies go, it shouldn't be too expensive. But if we can't find a University that is willing to rent us space, we could just build a model of the Academy and shoot that as the school and build sets for the classrooms and the like. But it would be much more time efficient and fun for the cast and crew to shoot on set.
The story is about two teenage girls who are best friends. The Rose Hathaway is an unpredictable and somewhat reckless dhampir who speaks her mind and Vasilisa Dragomir (Lissa to her friends), is an empathetic and caring Moroi princess. What I was thinking was that we could have Emma Roberts (from Valentine's Day and Nancy Drew) play Rose since she is about the right height and still young enough to pass for seventeen. Hopefully though her hair is still brown because if she dyed it blonde than we would need her to dye it back. I wouldn't want to use wigs unless they were a last resort. Amanda Seyfried (from Mamma Mia and Letter's to Juliet) would be perfect, in my opinion, to play Lissa, because she has the right hair color and height but I think she migh be just a bit too old for the role. I'm sure we could do something amazing with make up to make her look a tiny bit younger because there is just something about her face that screams vampire. As far as the fangs go, only the Moroi and Strigoi characters would need them. We basically would have to make it so that we don't even see their fangs until they feed because the Moroi characters need to be able to cover their teeth with their lips while learning how to remain hidden from humans.
The two main protagonist are Dimitri Belikov and Christian Ozera. Dimitri is an older dhampir and the main love interest for Rose. What I was thinking for this was to get Chris Hemsworth (from Thor) to play Dimitri; the role would be kind of similar to the one he played in the Thor movie. The hair length would be the same too, except that it would need to be brown. Christian is Lissa's love interest throughout the story; he has black hair and a dark gothic attitude and I have honestly no actor in mind to play him. This brings up another good point. This movie would be cool with these big actors, but what would be even more awesome was if we shot the movie with all unknowns, like a clean slate. And as for the director, I would totally want to direct the movie myself but if that isn't an option, I would like to see Catherine Hardwicke (directior of Red Riding Hood) direct this movie. And we would already know that she works well with Amanda Seyfried since they worked together in Red Riding Hood.
The central conflict of the story is that Lissa, being the last member of her family and possessing unknown magical abilities, must be protected and it is Rose's duty to do that. There are dangers outside the school and within. Outside the school are countless Strigoi who would love nothing more than to drink the blood of the last Dragomir. Inside the school is Mia Rinaldi, another Moroi girl who constantly bullies Lissa, who is a basically just a bitch (for lack of a better word) to Lissa and Rose. Her character would be perfect to cast a sixteen year old blonde unknown. There is also the danger Lissa is to herself. The magic she wields takes a physical and psychological toll on her that, overtime, can cause her to go insane if there is not a proper remedy found to combat it. At this point in the story, Lissa is taking anti-depression pills and slicing her arms with a blade when she feels depressed from the magic. The final danger is the main antagonist throughout the series, Victor Dashkov. He is an older Moroi who is suffering from an incurable sickness and wants to use Lissa's magic to heal him, but to do this he would have to keep her locked away. Personally, I would love to see Michael Shanks (from Stargate SG-1) play Victor but he is probably too young, but we can make him look older for the role. Either him or Anthony Head (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Merlin) since he would be old enough for the role and I think that his accent would be a neat thing to throw into the character. Both are really great actors and would be memorable villains for the story. However, I would probably lean more towards Anthony Head though for this role because of the age issue and even though I think Shanks is a better actor, Head would make a better villain.
The main target audience for this movie would mainly be teenagers, mostly teenage girls. It would appeal to them because the books are set in urban fantasy which teenagers like and because it adds fantasy adventures to places they are familiar with, in this case a school. Also, paranormal romance is becoming really popular nowadays with the idea of eternal love and the horribly directed Twilight movies. With all that in mind, it should be obvious that this type of movie (with vampires, romance, fantasy, and magic) would be incredibly popular with today's audience. Let me just say that if Twilight did as well as it did in theaters, then Vampire Academy has the ability to do at least five times as much damage in the box office. This series of books by Richelle Mead is already one of the international bestsellers, so it appeals to a wide variety of people world wide already. As for those people who like vampire movies, don't like to read, are illiterate, or have never heard of it since they don't browse bookstores, transforming these books into movies will have the potential to double the number of people that are already fans. For each person that has read Richelle Mead's books, they will each probably bring a friend who has never read the books and some of them will even see it twice or more. I guarantee that this movie would make a killing in the box office on opening night and for a few weeks there after. And with a strong enough trailer, than there will be even more people that go to see it just because they think it looks good.
According to A. O. Scott, fantasy literature involves a young hero that goes on some sort of quest or mission in order to save someone or something. Vampire Academy does indeed conform to this type of story telling pattern. Rose Hathaway as the young heroine is on a mission to protect her best friend, Lissa Dragomir, from Victor Dashkov, Strigoi, and from the magic of spirit Lissa wields which has dangerous effects on her. So Richelle Mead stuck to the basic pattern of storytelling that is common with most fantasy literature and most people could probably relate to wanting their best friends to be safe.
For the most part, all the scenes that would need to be shot are pretty simple and wouldn't cost much money. There are easy, low budget scenes like Rose walking through a lake, walking around the school's campus, and Rose punching Mia in the face at a dance. That last one would really be about as complicated as these scenes would get. The actors would have to have some form of stage combat training for hand to hand fight scenes. Only the people playing dhampir characters would really need to have to know how to do that since they would be battling the most. There also would be a scene where Rose jumps on a bench and it breaks which causes her to injure her leg. That could be faked pretty easily. There would also need to be a set with a fake car wreck for a short scene. The crash wouldn't need to be shot because we just need to see the damage caused by it for a quick dream sequence in the beginning. It would be better for the movie, and more powerful, if the crash was shown on screen but if there wasn't enough money in the budget for it then it could be skipped and we could just show the wreck. Getting into the more difficult scenes are the ones that would require the special effects for the Moroi when they use their magic. There would need to be some sort of special computerized effect to show that Mia used her water magic to drop snow on Lissa and Rose, when Lissa is tortured by a Moroi with air magic, and when Christian uses his fire magic to make flames appear all around Ralf Sarcozy making it appear as if he were on fire.
After this movie is finished and has proven itself a success in the theater, we can then begin working on making movies out of the other five books because as good as Vampire Academy is, the rest of the series is even better. This is just the beginning of the adventure and there is a whole lot more to learn about the Vampire Academy universe and a whole lot more important characters to meet. In Frostbite we meet two more main characters, Adrian and Eddie, and then in Shadow Kiss the romance between Rose and Dimitri finally takes off. Then we go to Russia with Rose in Blood Promise and are introduced to Sydney Sage, the human alchemist with the magic golden tattoo on her cheek. Finally, everything gets worse for the characters in Spirit Bound and Rose goes on the run in Last Sacrifice in order to fix everything. So it gets pretty good and it would be heart racing to watch all this unfold on the big screen. And then we can get started on the Bloodlines movie.
Richelle Mead, Author of the Vampire Academy and Bloodlines Series
