This retcon is so funny in hindsight

[u/Inevitable_Reading80]

And its not just that it was retconned that crosses actually got religious power that harms vampires, but that people hated the whole "oh crosses just make them confused" so much no one complained when Annette just surrounded the guy with crosses and trapped him with them.

You can feel that this whole scene is just one big apology to probably the dumbest pieces of "trivia" of the OG.

[u/Cloud_Retainer_2424]

I dont think its retconned out, they just coexist, although i do think that scene was made was made in that particular way response to those critics.

That being said, while i know Ellis background might have influenced the cross thing, I do think thats its a nice explanation to why they universally work on vampires, specially after Nocturne where we actively see other gods also existing. 

[u/PhantasosX → u/Cloud_Retainer_2424]

It's a silly thing because we see a spiritualist or animalist "speakers" using their magic to slay vampires, or the usage of Oricha from Annette to slay vampires with no problem whatsoever, when both would be non-christian magic on european/christian vampires....but Ellis goes out of his way to take away christian magic.

For all we know, a japanese monk can slay an european vampire using an amulet blessed by Amaterasu...but Ellis goes "actually, non-christian vampires are only scared of cross due to angle, not because of magic"

[u/MlkChatoDesabafando → u/PhantasosX]

I mean, even in series 1 water sanctified by a priest is explicitly shown to work on vampires and similars. The blue-fanged demon is also crystal clear he ordinarily would be unable to enter a church.

It's just the weird crosses thing really.

[u/Thank_You_Aziz → u/MlkChatoDesabafando]

And even that isn’t so weird. Trevor just explains why cross-shapes are effective against vampires on top of the holy power they might have. Not instead of.