Dracula 1x03: "Goblin Merchant Men"

[cleolinda]

"I'll recap the whole season of Dracula," she said. "Barring any catastrophes," she said. Well, there haven't been any full-on catastrophes yet (although the weather is supposed to be hellish, please let those not be famous last words), but I've been dealing with some chronic (mild) health issues, blah blah blah, I'm emotionally upbeat but not

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[padparadscha]

Previews of this program also included: terrifying screams, a rotted corpse, death, murder, a woman burned alive while tied to a stake, spirits, satanic and occult elements, homosexual content, tons of blood... and other gore, including decapitated heads in boxes and pools of blood.

I'm sold!

[cleolinda]

If I didn't know better, I'd say NBC put them up to it.

[tabbyclaw]

@colehaddon: What secret pain lives in Lucy's heart when it comes to Mina is devastating to imagine for me.

Pretty much every tweet you have ever quoted from this guy makes me want to smack him, but for some reason this one takes the cake, even more than the one about LGBT characters. "Look at me, I have made a character sad and that made me sad. That makes me deep, right?"

[incogra]

Same. Cool it, dude.

[evewithanapple]

I just read that tweet and thought "well can you imagine it? Because given the vast lack of understanding you've shown of LGBT issues thus far I DON'T THINK YOU CAN." "I see dead gay people" does not progressive representation make.

[cleolinda]

It seems to me like the misstep people make when they're like, "let me show you how tragic it is when LGBT people suffer! They're people just like us! :(" Maybe there was a time when that point needed to be made and (our) society hadn't grasped that yet, but I feel like we're to a point where we need to do better than that. I'm trying to find the tumblr post I saw where a girl was talking about how crushing it was to see movies and TV shows where the girl never got the girl, as it were--never got to be happy and often died tragically, and how her father kept insisting she wasn't really a lesbian... because he didn't want her to die. I'm failing at paraphrase here, but that was the gist of it--that representation, and happy, normalized representation, matters. What happens to Laurent and Daniel makes sense in historical context and in the plot, but that's also the only representation we as an audience are getting (on this show, at the moment), and why Daniel's "I'm gay and I can't carry on anymore" death is such a terrible scene to

[vivian_lake]

>>>Anyway, at some later point, Mina tells Lucy that this guy told her (in @cailingaillimhe's words), "he buried his poems with his first wife but years later dug her up when he needed to publish." So that's what we're dealing with here. *That's* the book he's holding.

And his name is Gabriel. I see what you did there, screenwriters.

Not even going to touch "look how diverse our dead people are".

(One of my biggest wishes for the second season of That Culinary Show - *textually* not-straight characters *who also don't die*.)

(Off-topic - how can I recommend you things that might be of potential interest for you without coming off as annoying and proselytising?)

[ravenya03]

And his name is Gabriel. I see what you did there, screenwriters.

Wait, so this was a direct reference to something? Because I watched the cut scene and that anecdote about a poet digging up his wife's body to retrieve his buried poems was ringing all sorts of bells in my head. My mind went straight to Lord Byron, but nothing came up...

[vivian_lake]

Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

[ravenya03]

That's the one! Thanks!

[mistress_infy]

Bwahahaha, oh god the stories I have about Stretch Velvet Suit Guy. Looking back, I think he was the gothy version of a fedora-dude-bro, like...all hat-tilts and "m'lady," with a side of trying to order food for me (It went something like that scene in White Chicks: "And for the lady, perhaps a salad." "*Laugh* Perhaps NOT. I'll have the ribs, extra sauce

[mistress_infy]

Oh, they're completely not, but that's something most people give a pass on. Like, there's these super-fine boned, very clearly well-bred horses pulling these cabs around.

Husband found it amusing when I pointed out that the same chestnut with socks and a perky tail was pulling nearly every hansom seen in a mid-to-close shot for every episode thus far.

[elirrina]

There's definitely sun-angst on Louis' (I think he's the one) part in Interview with a Vampire, maybe that's the one you were thinking of?

[cleolinda]

You know, that might have been it. Or possibly Lestat in one of the later books?

[missychacha]

I think in the book where lestat goes to hell and gets the shroud of turin louis and a couple other vampires sun themselves as suicide?

[cleolinda]

I so vaguely remember that book, but I think you're right.