The first teaser is out and I think it looks terrific. A decent blend of traditional elements with some novel twists. A major pus is that it looks genuinely creepy.
I enjoyed it a lot, mostly. Obviously I would rather they'd stuck with the Victorian period, but I kind of knew in my heart (roughly at the point when I realised that all of Ep 2 was going to be set on the Demeter) that they must have something else up their sleeve, and wouldn't be able to resist going down the Dracula AD 2019 route. As with most of the Moffat/Gatiss collaborations, you feel that a bit more restraint would really deliver gold, but they just can't seem to help themselves. Still, it would have been foolish to expect a faithful adaptation from this pair. Instead, we got a Moffat/Gatiss remix, and I'm mostly OK with that. It will make a fascinating and mostly entertaining addition to the Dracula canon, and I'm sure I'll enjoy re-watching it all on Blu-ray. And Bang is certainly one of the the best screen Draculas.
I enjoyed it a lot, mostly. Obviously I would rather they'd stuck with the Victorian period, but I kind of knew in my heart (roughly at the point when I realised that all of Ep 2 was going to be set on the Demeter) that they must have something else up their sleeve, and wouldn't be able to resist going down the Dracula AD 2019 route. As with most of the Moffat/Gatiss collaborations, you feel that a bit more restraint would really deliver gold, but they just can't seem to help themselves. Still, it would have been foolish to expect a faithful adaptation from this pair. Instead, we got a Moffat/Gatiss remix, and I'm mostly OK with that. It will make a fascinating and mostly entertaining addition to the Dracula canon, and I'm sure I'll enjoy re-watching it all on Blu-ray. And Bang is certainly one of the the best screen Draculas.