Erm...

[katikat]

What's the difference between ghouls and shapeshifters? They both take over their victims' visage and memories... But 'shifters don't eat their victims and they are allergic to silver. But that's it? *scratches head*

And SPN's ratings: 2.76 mil., 1.1/3 - on the one hand, ouch; on the other hand, everything was down last night and by down, I mean down - CSI and Smallville hit series low with 14.45 mil., 3.6/9 and 3.05 mil., 1.3/4 respectively. Now, that's what I call OUCH!

Comments

[ckll.livejournal.com]

SV will hit bottom till S9. I enjoyed the Clois scenes in the last episode but nothing else.

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

The ghouls didn't make much sense to me at all, really. If their staple diet is corpses, they would have no need to take on the memories of victims - it's very nonsensical. But they were merely plot devices, rather than logical mythology.

[bendtothesun.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much it really, Ghouls rob graves and eat corpses to take on the appearance (ect) of the deceased, it's also said to prey on young children and depending on your mythology they can also shift into animals. Usually they're desert bound creatures and comes specifically from Arabian folklore if I remember correctly.

The thing about shapeshifters is that a lot of creatures fall under that vague title (yes including Ghouls), so I think SPN used the Skinwalker myth especially for their "true" creatures yes? So it would make sense that they'd be similar considering the skinwalker comes from Native American mythology (the idea that legends from different areas of the globe will mirror themselves as every cultural has it's version of creatures). As far as I know Supernatural is the only one who has it that silver can kill the skinwalkers.

So despite my rambling yes that seems to be the main differences, also that to kill a Ghoul you had to get a headshot or burn them until they're ashes, Skinwalkers can imitate any noise they want (and can read people's minds but I don't remember if SPN went with that). Essentially they're similar creatures but with the cross-cultural mythology SPN works with it's gonna happen.

*cleans up after self*

Edit: I also forgot to mention that while Ghouls generally have to kill a person to take over their appearance and such Skinwalkers don't have to, they can simply "steal" it (or your body depending on).