Dracula 1x02: "A Whiff of Sulfur"

[cleolinda]

@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.

Comments

[cleolinda]

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.

Oh, and I have to add--I genuinely, GENUINELY thought they were father and son. I don't even know HOW. Apparently I was just so tired that I tuned out any dialogue on the subject and just focused on the vague physical resemblance? Plus the first episode had primed me to just be like, "Look, I don't know what they're meeting up later to do, but none of this show makes sense so just go with it." I was SO UNHAPPY when I thought for about thirty seconds that the show was actually doing an INCEST PLOTLINE, I can't even tell you.