A metaphysical question

[shadowscast]

These days I'm working crazy hours, but my husband's unemployed (and keeping house for me, which is pretty sweet). Result: he's watching the Buffy DVDs without me! Which is kind of weird, since I think of Buffy as my thing; he even broke the shrink wrap on S7! Anyway, it's fun. He's been watching S7, and I've been catching the odd episode in the evenings.

Today he came up with a wonderful question: If you were to videotape a vampire, and then play the tape on a TV, and place the TV opposite a mirror...would the vampire's image show up in the mirror?

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[violethamster.livejournal.com]

I was reading a book on photography awhile back and there was an old picture of a city scene, with the streets empty of people. The book said that the streets were probably full of people at the time the picture was taken, but that the exposure was so long and the people were there such a relatively short time that none of them showed. Being the dork that I am, I immediately thought of the whole Jossverse mirror/photography vampire thing, but I have too short an attention span to try to extrapolate that into a logical-sounding explanation. Although I have thought perhaps vampires could be physically transformed in such a way that they reflect light differently than we do? Which might explain the bursting into flames in sunlight as well.

[shadowscast.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's all perfectly clear! In real life, vampires don't show up on film any more than they do in mirrors.

And that street was just crawling with vampires. :)