BBC’s Dracula – saw the first episode yesterday. I fully expected it to be shite, and it surpassed all expectations. This was not unexpected as it is typical of the BBC to ruin everything they touch with their pointless ‘re-imaginings’ of classic stories – even more so, since Moffat and Gatiss were behind this.
They naturally had to introduce a homosexual element, where a nun asks Jonathan Harker if he had sexual intercourse with Dracula. The nun was of course portrayed as free spirited and empowered. She also turned out to be called Van Helsing. So you can already see, presumably, that an empowered woman is going to be Dracula’s nemesis. There was also a black and a Chinese nun – just what you would expect to find in a convent in 1890s Hungary. Dracula himself started off with an eastern European accent and gradually ended up sounding like an East End wide boy. It’s in three episodes, so can only get worse.
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