Dracula (BBC) - spoilers

[Morrus]

This is on in half an hour. Hope it’s good!

 

[Morrus]

I really liked that. Much more than I thought I would. Next episode is tomorrow night.

Dracula as horror, not a romance. A vampire who really is a monster.

Goes a little further than I'd like with some of the body horror. But it kind of needs to be there. This is the diametric opposite of something like Twilight. This Dracula is truly something to be terrified of.

Saw the 'twist' (Sister Agatha's identity) coming a mile off. That said, she stole the show. She is so dry and sarcastic. "Why would the forces of evil attack a convent?" "Perhaps they are sensitive to criticism."

Killing Harker was a brave choice. And the horror of his declining body as Dracula grows stronger really shows the horror of the vampire.

Can't wait for tomorrow. Preview shows Dracula on this ship heading for England.

 

[wicked cool]

Is War of the worlds bad?

 

[Nebulous]

I'm totally getting this vibe from Harker, another body horror favorite of mine, From Beyond

 

[Morrus]

Wow. The twist at the end of episode e2 caught me completely by surprise. I'm not sure if I like that development -- I was enjoying the period setting. I've seen enough modern day vampire shows, I think. But still, one episode left, curious to see what they do with it. And is Sister Agatha a vampire then? Still alive 200 years later?

 

[Morrus]

Ugh. It didn’t stick the landing. The change to modern day didn’t work, and he decided to die because he was ashamed. Bleh!

 

[Talltomwright]

Ugh. It didn’t stick the landing. The change to modern day didn’t work, and he decided to die because he was ashamed. Bleh!

Yup, strongly agree. Dracula managed to encapsulate everything I loved and hated about their version of Sherlock; brilliant setups, great characters, coming from an old story with a fresh feel, but then losing their way because they're more interested in being clever than being entertaining. There was a moment, when Dracula was locked in the glass cell with the opening roof, when I thought, 'ooh, we've got three stories about containment; one with Jonathan in the castle, one with everyone trapped with Dracula on the boat, and one with people thinking they have Dracula imprisoned, but really he's still in control.' But unfrotunately that setup only lasted a minute and then he was free and on Tinder and it was all down hill.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah. The first episode was SO GOOD.

The second was good.

The third... ugh. And also, the best character, Sister Agatha, who stole the show in the first episode with her dry wit and sarcasm, and then played a different character who lacked those qualities in the last episode. What were they thinking?

 

[Talltomwright]

Yeah. The first episode was SO GOOD.

The second was good.

The third... ugh. And also, the best character, Sister Agatha, who stole the show in the first episode with her dry wit and sarcasm, and then played a different character who lacked those qualities in the last episode. What were they thinking?

Yes, I hadn't seen in Dolly Wells in anything before but she's brilliant as Sister Agatha (and then was saddled with a really dour great niece, or whatever she was.)

 

[Nikosandros]

Ugh. It didn’t stick the landing. The change to modern day didn’t work, and he decided to die because he was ashamed. Bleh!

I wonder if the part about Dracula being afraid of death was a reference to this passage in the book in which the Count admits to having fled the field of battle:

Was it not this Dracula, indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland, who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph! They said that he thought only of himself. Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?