Dracula

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Anyone tuning in tonight? I'm quite excited!

To me the most disturbing bit was where Lucy and Dracula were in the cemetery, and she could hear the dead calling out from their graves - especially the crying baby . . .

@xsquared, ooh yes! Time for some droogling - a combination of googling and drooling!

I want to watch the whole thing again from the beginning now I've read this thread. I think I may see some scenes differently.

What age range is this suitable for? Am planning to watch, but not sure if DC will be allowed to join me yet.*

What age are your DC?
There is some quite disturbing scenes, and sex scenes.. the first episode features some pretty gory zombie creatures and the last episode features a character whose been burnt to a crisp, as well as zombie children..

I'd probably say about age 15? But other posters may say different.

Sorry that was a bold fail. 🤦🏻‍♀️

DC are 13 and 10.
The 13 YO wouldn’t bat an eyelid, but this sounds a little dark for the 10 YO! She was unperturbed by Stranger Things, but sex scenes, burnt people and zombie things sound a bit much!

Thanks for all the advice.

Did anyone else notice that Mathew beard who played jack. Said in the disco scene that he was a junior doctor who wanted to specialise in mental health issues- he’s currently in Vienna blood ( written by same guy who also wrote some episodes for Sherlock - can’t remember his name) playing a junior doctor specialising in mental,health. They’ve put lots of injokes in this miniseries. Like Agatha being inside no 9 - a nod to Mark Gatiss’ co-writers from league of gentlemen who write. Inside no 9 .theres a dr who link too in the first episode

Child thing was horrible.

Sounds awful but why wasn't Lucy cremated properly to ashes in an urn?

Why were there no undead zombies on the ship?

I thought the guy who kissed Lucy was a bit like the Marius.

Was Lucy's downfall her vanity?

The oven door was open when the crematorium man came into the room, so it seems like she may have broken out of the oven before she was fully burnt.

I think Lucy's downfall was the fact that she was bored of her life. That's why she was happy to hook up with Dracula and risk being undead. Becoming a vampire was never going to make her happy, even if she became a good looking one.

When Dracula fed off Lucy the last, fatal time he told her she would remain aware but 'wouldn't be able to move for a little while' and everyone would assume she was properly dead. That's why she could see herself screaming in her bedroom mirror, but to the audience she look dead on the bed. When she went into the incinerator she was finally able to physically move again, so was able to escape from her coffin (luckily it was only wicker) and the incinerator before her body was consumed by the fire.

I also think Lucy was essentially a sociopath. Totally self absorbed and totally selfish. She just used people, then threw them aside. She was so bored of everyone adoring her, and craved some real danger and excitement which is why she was involved with Dracula.

@woodhill Dracula said he threw the bodies overboard.

Lucy got out I think. Gorgeous crematorium guy said something about the fact it shouldnt be open yet. So I presumed she'd somehow got it open (presumably after the wicker casket burnt away and she could get to the door).

Not sure about undead on the ship. Was either not explained how someone ends up dead or undead, or I missed it.

@ParanoidGynodroid my 13 year old watched it. Bits he was grossed out by was where finger nails come off (due to being loose - not torture) and the undead being trapped alive in coffins 6ft under.

@DarkBetty I have a fear about being buried alive so that scence disturbed me too. I blame my fear on the fact there seemed to be a theme of this when I was younger (including hands reaching out of graves). So being buried alive, along with a fear perilous quick sand and rabies formed my childhood!!!

I don’t think they’ll be dead. Zoe took the the vile of Dracula’s blood, surely that would have cured the cancer?

So what would you have wanted to happen in episode 3?

I would have preferred to have kept it in Whitby for Dracula to own a gothic mansion on a cliff.

A bit more ethereal type rather than a vain Insta girl to play Lucy.

The Agatha/Zoe plot was tenuous and felt a bit forced in part 3. It didn't seem to work on a modern level. I hated the scene in the house with the battered wife.

I think the writer/director wanted to do a Sherlock on it and it didn't work.

Hopefully our Mr.Would Bang gets more work out of it and pops up in another role.

I really enjoyed it all, even the randomness of the last episode. I did rather enjoy reading this though: newsthump.com/2020/01/04/missing-persons-case-opened-after-dracula-writer-vanished-up-his-own-arse/

Hmmm.
I quite liked 1 and 2 but this disappeared up its own arse somewhat.

How did she get out of the furnace?
How did Dracula get that flat? Where does his money come from? (I’m guessing he got Gatiss’s character to find it for him).
How did she walk all the way from the crematorium to his flat without anyone stopping her? (but this was London where people would just look at their shoes).
Why did they build that elaborate as all fuck cage thing for him?
Why did the guards not notice him calling his lawyer?
Who was funding the research?
Why did Gattis have a cord on his glasses? People only do that on distance glasses.
Why did they think it was ok to take a chunk out of the house at the start? How did they get a JCB there in time?