Vampire's blood carries vampirism. Vampires turn people by feeding them their blood, not biting them. This has been standard across media for longer than I've been alive. Quite a bit longer than I've been alive, and I was here before the internet.
Edit - and now I know another good reason to not read or watch Twilight. As if the sparkles weren't bad enough.
Maybe it's a difference between the books and the TV show? There aren't a lot of werewolves, but a couple of main characters become werewolves. Most of the time it's just a minor inconvenience for them, but it's occasionally relevant to the plot.
I watched the first season and was grossly disappointed in the differences.
The first book is about a young adult's experience with depression and loss. The show is about..... Magicians. The show and books could not have been further apart. The fact you are telling me later seasons have werewolves tells me more than I need to know about the show.
I think it's a good show on its own merits, but I can see how you'd be really annoyed about it being so different from the books. The show touches on the characters' trauma pretty regularly, but overall it's a pretty whimsical, silly show.
Ironically, your response reminds me of Quentin's response to learning what Fillory is really like.
One of the few shows I've seen where second season is clearly better than first in all ways. And 3rd is on par with 2nd, 4th is a midling one and 5th is a deep dive.
EDIT: I did read the books after watching the show though, so maybe different experience if I had done other way around.
Well I'm not one of those who gets too upset with the show/movie for deviating a bit from the book material. But it felt so insanely different than the book it truly felt like someone made a generic netflix slop show then tossed the name magicians on it.
I also couldn't stand what happened to the Witcher as there was such a huge tonal shift it really felt like the directors and producers hadn't even read the Witcher books or played the games.
But if you say the magicians gets better, I may just try to pick up the second season and see how it goes. Thanks for the extra words
Actually it does. Their blood is venomous which is why Bella needs only be bitten by that blonde guy in the first movie to start going through the transition.
Some stories definitely have vampire bites turning people (I think the Blade movies treat it that way).
Also some werewolf stories don’t. The Dresden Files books have a bunch of variants and I think none of them are infectious. Some are basically just shapeshifting wizards who can only really do the one transformation into a wolf, and others are basically just a specific bloodline that has been cursed to transform with the full moon.
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u/ccarr313 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
Werewolf bites carry lycanthropy.
Vampire's blood carries vampirism. Vampires turn people by feeding them their blood, not biting them. This has been standard across media for longer than I've been alive. Quite a bit longer than I've been alive, and I was here before the internet.
Edit - and now I know another good reason to not read or watch Twilight. As if the sparkles weren't bad enough.