Another quick post about little stuff...

The Ubervampire (hey, I can read the screen credits) is, we're told, "a real vampire" and the whole grand dramatic entrance with the music crescendo business is telling us that though he might look like a bad accident between the Master and Nosferatu, this is a vampire more dread than any we have seen to date. And one who really won't look good with his shirt off (hmmm...note the vampire is male - more of that genderfication I mentioned, with the Big Bad raising a male evil out of the female earth).

Ignoring questions like "how come no one ever tried to raise this fella out of the Seal before?" and "I thought Xander said there were absolutely no pentagrams on site - is he some kind of more subtle sleeper-agent?", what about this Ubervampire? Well, I'm going to call him the Ur-vampire, for starters, to go with the Ur-Slayer (er, Ur? ). If he's the first "real vampire" we've seen then my money is on him being the literal father (or Father) figure for all the vampires in the world. Here's Giles with some exposition (from The Harvest, as usual):

The books tell the last demon to leave this reality fed off a human, mixed their blood. He was a human form possessed, infected by the demon’s soul. He bit another, and another, and so they walk the Earth, feeding. . .Killing some, mixing their blood with others to make more of their kind. Waiting for the animals to die out, and the old ones to return.

So the Ur-vampire should be this first vampire, if not the demon who bit him, untainted by the millenia of dilution which has resulted in such human-seeming vampires as Angel and Spike (all of Darla's children seem tainted with humanity - the Judge wants to kill Spike and Dru because they "stink of humanity"). As a havoc-wrecking device, he'll be great since we can assume he won't conform to Buffy's expectations of how vampires think/act.

Well, I hope.

...tangenting slightly...just how many vampires can Sunnydale sustain?