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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 12, 2020 10:28:24 GMT -5
From the Duo responsible for Sherlock, starring Cumberbatch and Freeman.
Binged this last weekend, first two episodes were decent but E3 was
a damn mess. The leads were the best thing about it for me.
Gatiss and Moffat made some creative choices that had me scratching my
head.
Anyone else watched it?
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 12, 2020 18:45:07 GMT -5
From the Duo responsible for Sherlock, starring Cumberbatch and Freeman. Binged this last weekend, first two episodes were decent but E3 was a damn mess. The leads were the best thing about it for me. Gatiss and Moffat made some creative choices that had me scratching my head. Anyone else watched it? I am just starting to watch it on Netflix. At four and a half hours total plus breaks to come up for air etc., this could take a while. I will comment when I am done. |
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 12, 2020 22:00:56 GMT -5
I watched the first episode. Certainly different than the usual Dracula and very interesting. I hope they can keep that up.
I will check out the next episode tomorrow. With the highly variable weather I have got myself a whopper of a cold. Hopefully the night time cold medicine I bought will help me sleep, something that I generally have a problem with for other reasons.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 12, 2020 23:30:41 GMT -5
I watched the first episode. Certainly different than the usual Dracula and very interesting. I hope they can keep that up. I will check out the next episode tomorrow. With the highly variable weather I have got myself a whopper of a cold. Hopefully the night time cold medicine I bought will help me sleep, something that I generally have a problem with for other reasons. Okay, rest well and feel better. |
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 13, 2020 13:31:21 GMT -5
I liked Episode Two as well. Except the end, which sort of told me what the next one would be like. Too bad I was right. Well, as the song goes, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 13, 2020 14:31:35 GMT -5
I liked Episode Two as well. Except the end, which sort of told me what the next one would be like. Too bad I was right. Well, as the song goes, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.
The final episode is a mess. 
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 13, 2020 14:38:11 GMT -5
I liked Episode Two as well. Except the end, which sort of told me what the next one would be like. Too bad I was right. Well, as the song goes, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.
The final episode is a mess.
Dracula's Lawyer? Two blood suckers for the price of one!  I did like the reference to the end of Horror of Dracula where Van Helsing runs down the long table and opens the curtains on Drac. Too bad that was the high point of the episode. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 13, 2020 14:41:55 GMT -5
The final episode is a mess.
Dracula's Lawyer? Two blood suckers for the price of one! I did like the reference to the end of Horror of Dracula where Van Helsing runs down the long table and opens the curtains on Drac. Too bad that was the high point of the episode. I actually bust out laughing when Zoe did that.
Came off unintentionally hilarious to me, not awesome like with Sir Cushing did it.
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Post by ArcLight on Jan 14, 2020 14:57:26 GMT -5
Pretty much agreed to all this.
Moffat and Gatiss can do some good stuff, but it usually gets drowned out by the sound of them clapping each other on the back talking about how "clever" they are.
Seriously, I think 80% of the times I've ever heard the word 'clever' in my life has been from their involvement in Doctor Who and Sherlock.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 14, 2020 16:37:20 GMT -5
Pretty much agreed to all this. Moffat and Gatiss can do some good stuff, but it usually gets drowned out by the sound of them clapping each other on the back talking about how "clever" they are.
Have you seen Moffat's Jekyll with James Nesbitt?
I heard it's quite good.
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Post by someoldguy on Jan 14, 2020 16:54:00 GMT -5
The BBC three-part Count Dracula of 1977 was for my money a far better adaptation of the original story. This was shown in the US on PBS as Dracula: A Gothic Romance. It is not the major differences from the novel that were problematic for me. The first two episodes were quite interesting even though very inventive. Bringing Dracula into the modern world was not really much of a problem either. I liked Fred Saberhagen's Dracula novels on that subject - until he succumbed to deadline sequel-itis, that is. It is the idea of the Institute and all the related silliness that killed it for me. And the resolution of what Dracula was afraid of was handled most clumsily. That climax could have been handled much better.
Lugosi accent - “To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! There are far worse things awaiting man than death.” Which is straight from the novel. In the 2020 BBC mini-series it is presented as a 'clever' revelation instead of the continuous subtext it should have been. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Jan 14, 2020 19:12:08 GMT -5
I also like the BBC 1977 adaptation with Louis Jordan as The Count.
The 2006 version with Marc Warren in the titular role, not so much.
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Post by ArcLight on Jan 15, 2020 1:12:54 GMT -5
Have you seen Moffat's Jekyll with James Nesbitt?
I heard it's quite good.
I remember liking that fairly well, but it's been awhile.
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