Has anyone read the books the show is based on? If so how close does the show follow the books? Oddly this is the first show based on a book I've seen here that the readers haven't come in lording their inside knowledge on.
Think they believed he would go up pretty quick in direct sunlight like the normal ones do.
This other vamp faction doesn't seem to have the same facial deformities that the master and his german buddy do, wonder what the reason for that is?.
Haven't read the books, so don't have any hard details but I imagine there are multiple vamp factions, and the truce is probably something along the lines of so they didn't have to keep killing ech other, controlling the number of vamps in each faction, and prevent wiping out their food supply.
Based on some Wiki and Reddit reading, it appears that the Ancients (including the Master) can really take just about any human shape, because it boils down to what host they took. The Master took a frail host that had gigantism.
Also in the book, they have said the showdown with the Master at that point had been far more up the alley of what we should have expected: they had fought hard with the Master and cut him up quite badly. He escaped by voluntarily jumping out the window, and defiantly stood there exposing that while he burned and smoked, it did not phase him.
The writers of the show kind of screwed it up, but they still gave Setrakian the right attitude at the conclusion. It is difficult to actually land killing blows on his very nimble and strong body, and he appears to have so much strength that he can withstand the power of the sun/UV for extended periods of time. I think it is preferred to NOT burn, but he can handle it for a bit of time.
I imagine if the writers had the master stay on the ground like that simply as a different way to showing defiance. He roared and ran away AFTER the group finally made a move to slay him, but I wonder if that was to signal that he was going to simply stay put simply to fuck with them, until they finally made a move that he needed to evade.
They waited, I'd argue, because they entirely expected that he was dying. I think Setrakian was basically saying last rights of some sort, and he was making a move to land a killing blow when Master finally moved.
Shoddy writing for the moment, and in general the fight scenes have been rather terribly written and choreographed, and some suspect this has budgetary reasons.
Perhaps Season 2 will get some improvements in that regard. Season 1 was probably finalized in script prior to getting the green light for Season 2, so they were probably a little modest in some aspects. They might invest more with further approval.
They haven't given any details about the hunter/bodyguard for the Ancients, but I've surmised that, from some accidental spoiling of details by skimming the wrong sections of wiki, he's got some interesting aspects to his story that I excited to see revealed in the show.
What they haven't really shown is any other members of the crew. I think the chief hunter is unique, whereas the others may simply be sentient vamps under his charge.