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Dracula 1x02: "A Whiff of Sulfur"

Nov 08, 2013 18:49

@InterestingLit: Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, was born on this day in 1847. In early drafts of the novel, Dracula was named ‘Count Wampyr’.

@particle_p: Count Wampyr just made my morning.

@cleolinda: People in "Count Wampyr" really should know they're in "Count Wampyr."

So I'm just in time, it sounds like.

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aka_paloma November 9 2013, 02:33:40 UTC

I was doubled over with laughter and had to rest my head on the desk to recover after reading your Lord Laurent and his son/not-son confusion. I saw some of your tweets regarding this, but I hadn't realised the full extent of your confusion.

Lucy is my favourite thing about this show.

Also, I now ship Mina/Lucy. (Let's face it, except for Renfield, all the guys on this show are a bit tool-ish and Mina deserves better.)

jubilantia November 9 2013, 06:23:22 UTC

Hear, hear on that last one. I didn't think Jonathan was too bad the last episode, just a bit boring, but they really made his jerk flag fly in this one, didn't they? I do appreciate that he is realistically wary of the Grayson windfall- if he's accepted it right out, he would have looked (more) like an idiot.

cleolinda November 9 2013, 16:48:26 UTC

Well, the jerk issue has since been addressed in the third episode, but yeah. It's kind of startling to me, actually, because one of the hallmarks of the book is their devotion to each other.

jubilantia November 9 2013, 21:37:55 UTC

Well, really, it's all their fault for casting Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the Dracman. Not that his looks make his murders justifiable or anything, but with all the flashbacks the show is definitely shipping Drac/Mina. (Although I haven't seen the most recent episode- we'll see).

cleolinda November 9 2013, 16:55:27 UTC

I think the thing I love about Mina/Lucy is that you can totally support it with the book. There's a pretty common "romantic friendship" concept that you see in Victorian-era literature--a really sentimental, emotionally-heightened relationship that is not (necessarily) sexual or even "romantic" in the modern sense of the word. (See also L.M. Montgomery's "bosom friends" Anne and Diana.) But you tilt your head a little bit, and Mina writing to Lucy, "I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb" works any way you want it to. I swear to God, this might actually be the most book-accurate thing in the entire show ( ... )

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