That's true, but it also has the most chess and that barnstorming ending. 8D That is true too, I cannot deny it. *sigh* Bless Steven Moffat and his addiction to chess metaphors. It's basically a complete cliche and yet so great.
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* *snerk* I don't understand how Chibnall of all people is missing so hard on that front. IT'S THE ONLY THING HE'S GOOD AT.
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. :) Hmmmmm. Could work. Though at least Lucy has some personality and motivation at all. Jack is such an utter blank; I was at a complete loss for why he cared about Lucy at all, what he wanted from anything . . . they just gave us nothing there. And Lucy I can at least buy into on a thematic level; Jack was beyond cardboard.
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 put several jokes into the vid about Zoe being a non-character (my name's forgotten) because . . . geeze, show her a bit of respect maybe?
(I love that they gave her a name that means "life", THE SYMBOLISM, I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH MOFF.) I DID NOT KNOW THAT. THANK YOU I LOVE IT.
I've been geeking out over the symbolism of Dracula's abodes. The castle, an endless labyrinth that serves as Harker's prison, and yet is it not Dracula who is ultimately seeking to escape it as a metaphor for his endless, blank life? He does not realize there is a map because he doesn't understand his own symbolic condition but he knows he needs Johnny to get out (bride #1). Harker, in contrast, intuits the existence of the map (that leads to the sunlight) because he has Mina. Compare to Dracula's flat in England where we have on a very straightforward axis, the doorway (invitation) with a piece of art in the shape of a crucified man above it across from the window (sunlight) and connecting them the long table (food, but also communion, coming together) which also serves as a mirror on top of which Dracula and Zagatha die.
I have missed this shit so much I could weep.
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. From the podcast it sounds like they left some of the modern stuff deliberately vague in case anybody wanted a second season, so who knows. It is all very Jekyll, which naturally I approve of.
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That is true too, I cannot deny it. *sigh* Bless Steven Moffat and his addiction to chess metaphors. It's basically a complete cliche and yet so great.
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*
*snerk* I don't understand how Chibnall of all people is missing so hard on that front. IT'S THE ONLY THING HE'S GOOD AT.
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. :)
Hmmmmm. Could work. Though at least Lucy has some personality and motivation at all. Jack is such an utter blank; I was at a complete loss for why he cared about Lucy at all, what he wanted from anything . . . they just gave us nothing there. And Lucy I can at least buy into on a thematic level; Jack was beyond cardboard.
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 put several jokes into the vid about Zoe being a non-character (my name's forgotten) because . . . geeze, show her a bit of respect maybe?
(I love that they gave her a name that means "life", THE SYMBOLISM, I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH MOFF.)
I DID NOT KNOW THAT. THANK YOU I LOVE IT.
I've been geeking out over the symbolism of Dracula's abodes. The castle, an endless labyrinth that serves as Harker's prison, and yet is it not Dracula who is ultimately seeking to escape it as a metaphor for his endless, blank life? He does not realize there is a map because he doesn't understand his own symbolic condition but he knows he needs Johnny to get out (bride #1). Harker, in contrast, intuits the existence of the map (that leads to the sunlight) because he has Mina. Compare to Dracula's flat in England where we have on a very straightforward axis, the doorway (invitation) with a piece of art in the shape of a crucified man above it across from the window (sunlight) and connecting them the long table (food, but also communion, coming together) which also serves as a mirror on top of which Dracula and Zagatha die.
I have missed this shit so much I could weep.
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.
From the podcast it sounds like they left some of the modern stuff deliberately vague in case anybody wanted a second season, so who knows. It is all very Jekyll, which naturally I approve of.