Dracula

[Dipsydoodle]

Anyone tuning in tonight? I'm quite excited!

LittleDog I live in London too but I’m not sure why it’s linked, until the story gets to London....

I really enjoyed most of Inside No 9 but probably one out of each series bored me a wee bit.

With Sherlock, I hated the wedding episode and heard it was marmite.

LittleDog cross posting everywhere

Yes, I thought Gatiss Dracula would be cheesy and fun to watch. I said earlier, I don’t know if I’d watch if it wasn’t his work. I do like him. I met him once and he was very apologetic because his dog approached me...it was funny because I heard a man apologise while I petted the dog, said “oh it’s fine”, then I looked up and saw someone I did not expect!

Making Van Helsing a woman is fine, but I do think they are overegging the 'feminist' pudding. I winced a bit when Sister Agatha said 'You hate me because I'm an educated woman' or something like that. Yeah we get it. Women can be clever and stand up to men. We didn't really need it spelled out for us, but thanks all the same.

Mark Gatiss has a bit of a thing about stop motion animation and put a homunculus in the League of Gentlemen film that was animated that way. Jason and the Argonauts was an early example of the technique and Aardman Animations still use it for their plasticine films. I prefer it to CGI personally - it looks more real even though it's less realistic, iyswim.

AutumnRose1 only mentioned London because PPs have said only London Guardian-readers would like it. I’m one and don’t like it.

IcedPurple agreed.

And why, in Christmas Carol was Bob Cratchett’s wife black BUT also some kind of voodoo queen? Abd the one female ghost was young and attractive. Box ticking bollocks.

Absolutely loved it. I was expecting a good but quite serious horror/drama and I was pleasantly surprised by the humour and tongue in cheekness. I've never seen Claus Bang (sp?) before but I loved him as Drac, funny, sexy, charismatic.

Yes, I thought that making the black character the director of dark spirits was quite problematic too.

Loved it and impatiently waiting for 9pm as is my 15 year old daughter 😀

LittleDog oh I missed that
Such strange boxes people want to use. (Not a pun about coffins).

Easy I’ve only seen him in the Affair, he was very good.

I loved it! The right mix of authentic Hammer Horror schlock with sharp humour. Claus Bang is fantastically charismatic.

I want a South American remake with Antonio Banderas as Dracula.

I’m not quite sure what I make of it, but feel weirdly compelled to watch it again.
I do really love the Gary Oldman version, as a pp said it shows Dracula’s vulnerability & his love for Mina.

Did anyone watch the sky tv series a few years back with Jonathan Rhys Myers? I thought that was good, as again the chemistry between Dracula & Mina was spot on. But it didn’t get recommissioned, so everyone else must’ve thought it was pants.

And why, in Christmas Carol was Bob Cratchett’s wife black BUT also some kind of voodoo queen? Abd the one female ghost was young and attractive. Box ticking bollocks.

Hmm, that hadn’t occurred to me. It was perfectly fine for her to be black, there were lots of black Londoners in those days, but the witchcraft thing had passed me by.

I didn’t mind the female ghost being attractive though. It worked, making her Scrooge’s sister, and it makes sense that she would be young.

Offred oh I love JRM. Thanks for telling us!

JRM is mesmerising in it.

I heard Gatiss and Moffat plugging Dracula on Graham Norton’s R2 show before Christmas. They said that although they have written the whole thing, each episode has a different director and they envisaged that each would stand along as a 90 minute feature. I will be interested to see how different in feel tonight’s episode is.

Esteban interesting, thank you.

I want a South American remake with Antonio Banderas as Dracula.

Have you seen him in Interview with the Vampire @MoonriseKingdom?

I think TV reviewers in major newspapers tend to come from the same sort of right-on Oxbridge set that BBC execs come from, and their opinions aren't neccessarily representative of the general viewing public. Plus, they might be reluctant to give a bad review when they know they'll be meeting up with Crispin and Jocasta at that new artisan Peruvian quinoa place in Knightsbridge next week

I don't fit any of these stereotypes, and I doubt I'll get bump into Crispin or Jocasta anytime soon as it's rather a long way to Knightsbridge from rural North Yorks. Anyway, I loved it.

There’s no better vampire than Spike

Ooh I’ll have to watch that xsquared

There’s no better vampire than Spike

This. Although, Bill Compton & Eric would be close behind...

Okay I’m lost. Have I missed a bit?

Okay I’m lost. Have I missed a bit?

Yes me too, I'm assuming he and sister Agatha are now mates?

I think they’re setting up each episode to start in the same way - Agatha sits down with someone to hear their story - so we get a jump forward in time followed by the story told in flashback.