thoughts on Dracula season finale
Jan. 25th, 2014 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaI watched the first couple episodes of NBC's Dracula, then gave up on it. But I wanted to see how they wrapped things up, so I watched the last couple of episodes. The finale...made me laugh a lot, which probably wasn't the point.
Was the "mad conductor" bit with music when Van Helsing was destroying his laboratory really necessary?
One of the things I did think was well-done was when it's revealed that Van Helsing turned Lord What's-His-Name's children into vampires right before they eat their father. Well-played, irony!
I wasn't expecting the first person Lucy nommed to be her mother. That probably was not the smartest thing to do. Okay, Lucy's just been turned into a vampire and she doesn't have any self-control yet. I can buy that. But isn't killing her mother kind of stupid? Mrs. Westenra will be found dead, in her daughter's bedroom, when NOBODY ELSE WAS THERE, the victim of a bizarre murder, and Lucy won't be able to defend herself in the daytime. I can only see this working out one of two ways:
Lucy immediately runs off; or
Lucy turns her mother instead of killing her, after which she and Mrs. Westenra become a super-fashionable, sophisticated vampire team who make only going out at night the new trend. I know this will never happen but I'll continue to daydream because it would be SO AWESOME.
I'm pissed off that Renfield, the only character with ANY DAMN SENSE AT ALL on this show, is dead.
Mina and Dracula having sex at the end of the episode made me laugh and laugh. They've just both been blown-up; Dracula fought and killed Lady Jayne; Harker, who they both know sabotaged the machine, is missing; Rendfield, Dracula's RIGHT HAND MAN, hasn't been heard from in ages; and they instantly go, "Time to get it on!" I also noticed that both Dracula and Mina did a good job of cleaning themselves up before jumping into bed.
ETA: I also think that Dracula's decision to turn Lucy into a vampire in the second-to-last episode was...dramatic but short-sighted. So he wants to make her suffer by forcing her into the crappy un-life that's bothered him so much. That makes sense, as far as it goes. But now he's stuck with her! Unless she gets killed off (which she probably will at some point, let's be realistic, it's not as though anything GOOD ever happens to Lucy in any adaptation of this story), Dracula is now stuck with Lucy hanging around for who-knows how long, instead of just killing her and being done with it.
So I definitely enjoyed watching the season finale, but probably not for the reasons the show's creators intended. :)
Was the "mad conductor" bit with music when Van Helsing was destroying his laboratory really necessary?
One of the things I did think was well-done was when it's revealed that Van Helsing turned Lord What's-His-Name's children into vampires right before they eat their father. Well-played, irony!
I wasn't expecting the first person Lucy nommed to be her mother. That probably was not the smartest thing to do. Okay, Lucy's just been turned into a vampire and she doesn't have any self-control yet. I can buy that. But isn't killing her mother kind of stupid? Mrs. Westenra will be found dead, in her daughter's bedroom, when NOBODY ELSE WAS THERE, the victim of a bizarre murder, and Lucy won't be able to defend herself in the daytime. I can only see this working out one of two ways:
Lucy immediately runs off; or
Lucy turns her mother instead of killing her, after which she and Mrs. Westenra become a super-fashionable, sophisticated vampire team who make only going out at night the new trend. I know this will never happen but I'll continue to daydream because it would be SO AWESOME.
I'm pissed off that Renfield, the only character with ANY DAMN SENSE AT ALL on this show, is dead.
Mina and Dracula having sex at the end of the episode made me laugh and laugh. They've just both been blown-up; Dracula fought and killed Lady Jayne; Harker, who they both know sabotaged the machine, is missing; Rendfield, Dracula's RIGHT HAND MAN, hasn't been heard from in ages; and they instantly go, "Time to get it on!" I also noticed that both Dracula and Mina did a good job of cleaning themselves up before jumping into bed.
ETA: I also think that Dracula's decision to turn Lucy into a vampire in the second-to-last episode was...dramatic but short-sighted. So he wants to make her suffer by forcing her into the crappy un-life that's bothered him so much. That makes sense, as far as it goes. But now he's stuck with her! Unless she gets killed off (which she probably will at some point, let's be realistic, it's not as though anything GOOD ever happens to Lucy in any adaptation of this story), Dracula is now stuck with Lucy hanging around for who-knows how long, instead of just killing her and being done with it.
So I definitely enjoyed watching the season finale, but probably not for the reasons the show's creators intended. :)
