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   her remains for whatever nefarious reasons they may have.]   
      
      
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   The Amount Of Vampires   
      
   Besides the sheer amount of cemeteries in Sunnydale, another running gag is   
   that active vampire recruitment seems to be happening all the time. Buffy   
   has to patrol the cemeteries because vampires seem to be popping up out of   
   the ground like daisies.   
      
   Assuming vampires are feeding on humans elsewhere, why do newly turned   
   vampires pop up out of their own coffins? Are vampire sires so sadistic that   
   they would let their victims be buried, only to have to crawl their way out   
   of their own grave to be reborn as children of the night?   
      
           [I have my own theory about that. See below.]   
      
      
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   Changing Location   
      
   According to Showbiz Cheat Sheet in Season 1, the series was shot in an   
   actual cemetery in Los Angeles, but because Sarah Michelle Gellar had to act   
   during the day when Buffy went to school, and then at night for the shots of   
   the Slayer patrolling the cemetery, she worked around the clock.   
      
   After Season 2, the art department set about creating one set where the   
   actors could work in a way that could reduce hours on set, and scenes were   
   shot in a small parking lot. The cemeteries looked quite different after   
   that, as they often needed to be dressed for whichever cemetery the Scoobies   
   would be in that night.   
      
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       [ The 'Vampovirus' -- I posit that vampirism is caused by a virus, and   
   for a lack of a better name, the 'vampovirus'.    These vampoviruses are   
   very weak and are easily killed by white blood cells. But when vampires DO   
   want to sire someone, they suck out most of the blood, then they let the   
   person drink some of their blood. So  there are now more vampoviruses   
   flooding the body than the white cells can kill. And in just a few hours   
   another vampire.   
      
       [ Most of the time, a vamp sucks out enough blood to satisfy his hunger,   
   which also kills the person, and there are enough white cells left to   
   destroy any vampoviruses he leaves behind.   
      
       [ But what if he happens to suck out so much blood that there aren't   
   enough white cells to kill the invading vampoviruses?  Days   later, the   
   vampoviruses have reproduced enough of themselves that a new vampire is   
   created. And that's why there are so many vamps are digging themselves out   
   of their graves, and that's why Buffy concentrates her patrolling mainly to   
   the cemeteries.]   
      
      
   David   
      
      
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