It also owed a lot to M&I in its take on Jonathan.
If anyone's going to do something like that it'll be Mark Gatiss.
And I'm not worried about book purists (they have my sympathies really; the last time anyone tried was 1977 and that was excellent, so no reason the BBC in particular couldn't do a reasonably faithful effort again, it's their thing). It's just that since DW and Sherlock people go out of their way to find out about and scream about everything relating to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, usually without even watching it or caring about whatever it is they've done evil things to now, and I've had enough of that over the last 10 years as it is. As Dracula's not a continuing thing, that'll die down relatively quickly, I trust. But even my innocent gifs of the 1977 have been hijacked on occasion as soon as we got into the lead of it, because God forbid you don't warn people about the evil of the two of them in case people might watch it or something.
It sounds a bit gory for me, though! I don't know if I'll be entirely able to avoid it, but I doubt I'll ever like it. It's a shame - if Mark Gatiss had done his own Dracula, it'd have been straight-forward and gory and dark and full of references to all the Draculas and I could have happily avoided it entirely, and if Steven Moffat had done a Dracula it's have been metaphorical and stolen my soul again while everyone else complained, but I bet I'd have loved it, even if it was weird, but both of them together is just no good at all. And this one is probably more Gatiss's baby, anyway. It's his sort of thing, and therefore not mine. /o\
Anyway, at some point I'll see if I can dare gif Bram Stoker's Dracula for tumblr, and finish off my Six What I Have Watched. But I don't really want any more warnings that Dracula is non-consensual and therefore homophobic!
I mean, I was going to go out and find a vampire to bite me against my will if they hadn't said something, but now I know it's Bad. /abuses sarcasm.
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If anyone's going to do something like that it'll be Mark Gatiss.
And I'm not worried about book purists (they have my sympathies really; the last time anyone tried was 1977 and that was excellent, so no reason the BBC in particular couldn't do a reasonably faithful effort again, it's their thing). It's just that since DW and Sherlock people go out of their way to find out about and scream about everything relating to Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, usually without even watching it or caring about whatever it is they've done evil things to now, and I've had enough of that over the last 10 years as it is. As Dracula's not a continuing thing, that'll die down relatively quickly, I trust. But even my innocent gifs of the 1977 have been hijacked on occasion as soon as we got into the lead of it, because God forbid you don't warn people about the evil of the two of them in case people might watch it or something.
It sounds a bit gory for me, though! I don't know if I'll be entirely able to avoid it, but I doubt I'll ever like it. It's a shame - if Mark Gatiss had done his own Dracula, it'd have been straight-forward and gory and dark and full of references to all the Draculas and I could have happily avoided it entirely, and if Steven Moffat had done a Dracula it's have been metaphorical and stolen my soul again while everyone else complained, but I bet I'd have loved it, even if it was weird, but both of them together is just no good at all. And this one is probably more Gatiss's baby, anyway. It's his sort of thing, and therefore not mine. /o\
Anyway, at some point I'll see if I can dare gif Bram Stoker's Dracula for tumblr, and finish off my Six What I Have Watched. But I don't really want any more warnings that Dracula is non-consensual and therefore homophobic!
I mean, I was going to go out and find a vampire to bite me against my will if they hadn't said something, but now I know it's Bad. /abuses sarcasm.