I find that episodes one and three both have a lot more going on underneath and two is mostly entertainment.
That's true, but it also has the most chess and that barnstorming ending. 8D
That's an interesting suggestion I've not seen anybody else make. Everybody just tends to write the whole thing off after the second episode. I mostly just wonder how Moff and Gatiss didn't realize that asking an audience to invest in a whole new set of characters in the last third was a bad idea, so maybe giving the modern crew an equal amount of screen time to the Victorian one would fix that?
Exactly. As I said to elisi, if you're going to introduce new characters, you need to give them some time to develop, or what's the point in having them? *looks pointedly at Chibnall Who*
I have to wonder if Jack and Lucy really have enough going for them as characters to support any more story about them.
Jack and Lucy would have been better if they'd been swapped around - Lucy as Zoë's protegée, Jack as the one falling in love with Dracula. Lucy can be a promiscuous young woman AND a brilliant scientist, it's the 21st century. :)
Zoe, though, definitely could have benefitted from getting the time to be fleshed out as her own person, because I don't think she's uninteresting, but why replace a sparkier version of a character with a more insipid one who's only going to lose by comparison and, indeed, basically gets erased by the story itself? I'd totally watch an episode that focused on Dracula being held by the Harker foundation and having lots of sparky clashes of wits with Zoe, though (speaking of Hannibal-esque touches . . . )
Exactly. Zoë deserved more time and attention, if nothing else. She's dying! We could have had some scenes where she's living with cancer, going about her life, refusing to be signed off, being bloody minded and amazing. (I love that they gave her a name that means "life", THE SYMBOLISM, I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH MOFF.) Also the fact that he was creating an army of undead and had recruited Renfield as his acolyte was just... left there? Is Jonathan Harker going to take them on? Is Renfield going to argue that they constitute an endangered species?? I NEED ANSWERS.
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Date: 17 Jan 2020 06:09 pm (UTC)That's true, but it also has the most chess and that barnstorming ending. 8D
That's an interesting suggestion I've not seen anybody else make. Everybody just tends to write the whole thing off after the second episode. I mostly just wonder how Moff and Gatiss didn't realize that asking an audience to invest in a whole new set of characters in the last third was a bad idea, so maybe giving the modern crew an equal amount of screen time to the Victorian one would fix that?
Exactly. As I said to elisi, if you're going to introduce new characters, you need to give them some time to develop, or what's the point in having them? *looks pointedly at Chibnall Who*
I have to wonder if Jack and Lucy really have enough going for them as characters to support any more story about them.
Jack and Lucy would have been better if they'd been swapped around - Lucy as Zoë's protegée, Jack as the one falling in love with Dracula. Lucy can be a promiscuous young woman AND a brilliant scientist, it's the 21st century. :)
Zoe, though, definitely could have benefitted from getting the time to be fleshed out as her own person, because I don't think she's uninteresting, but why replace a sparkier version of a character with a more insipid one who's only going to lose by comparison and, indeed, basically gets erased by the story itself? I'd totally watch an episode that focused on Dracula being held by the Harker foundation and having lots of sparky clashes of wits with Zoe, though (speaking of Hannibal-esque touches . . . )
Exactly. Zoë deserved more time and attention, if nothing else. She's dying! We could have had some scenes where she's living with cancer, going about her life, refusing to be signed off, being bloody minded and amazing. (I love that they gave her a name that means "life", THE SYMBOLISM, I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH MOFF.) Also the fact that he was creating an army of undead and had recruited Renfield as his acolyte was just... left there? Is Jonathan Harker going to take them on? Is Renfield going to argue that they constitute an endangered species?? I NEED ANSWERS.