# The Strain - Season 1 - no book spoilers!

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**Created:** [July 14, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strain-season-1-no-book-spoilers/693105 "2014-07-14T21:12:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strain-season-1-no-book-spoilers/693105/41 "2014-10-06T03:10:56Z")

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Well I’m certainly looking forward to next season. 🙂 Kelly’s appearance was a little underwhelming, but I loved Eichhorst being abruptly summoned. I really want to see where they go with this war between The Master and the other Ancients.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strain-season-1-no-book-spoilers/693105/42 "2014-10-06T18:10:49Z")

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I liked the backwards-walking bit. Though given how derivative of other works the elements of _The Strain_ seem to be, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the interesting-looking retreat was borrowed from something else.

(For example, the “competing factions of ancient vampires clash with each other over the tending of the ‘herds of humans’ on which they feed” storyline was used in Whitley Strieber’s 2001 novel _The Last Vampire_, which was a sequel to his more famous _The Hunger_. Whether it was original in 2001, I don’t know, but it’s certainly not original in _The Strain_.)

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