I am so sick of going to the message boards to only find lonely, ignorant people complaining about all the shows. Get a life. If you don't like a show be an adult. Don't watch! If it doesn't follow.the book exactly, or isn't up to your standards, get over it and shut up. Grow up.
IT IS FICTION. PLUS HOW MANY TIMES CAN SOMEONE DO DRACULA.
I mean come on you know how the book ends this keeps you wondering.
By the way I liked it!
No one asked for it to follow the book exactly. What we ask for is that it actually attempts to be a Dracula adaptation, instead of a completely unrelated story with completely unrelated characters that, by coincidence alone, happen to have the same names.
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No one asked for it to follow the book exactly. What we ask for is that it actually attempts to be a Dracula adaptation, instead of a completely unrelated story with completely unrelated characters that, by coincidence alone, happen to have the same names.
Wow, the amount of arrogance here is grossly disproportionate to the amount of intelligence. Let's see here...
An adaptation can be a distant one.
Which is not ironic at all to defend an original work with a nickname called "American Ninja"
There are tons of works that derived from its original and became a masterpiece. First thing that comes to mind is Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy.
You're comparing raw brain power to what comes first.
I pity people like you for lacking the insight and wisdom to see great in something different.
Dracula comes to London, likes a woman, visits her at night and makes her his woman, kills folks along the way and gets killed in the end. Oh, so much originality!!! Such a large scale story!!!
How many adaptations do you need for such ridiculously simplistic story? Apparently 10 isn't enough, is 20 enough, or 30, 50, a 100?
When this is renewed you better build a spaceship and live in Mars.
What a wanker. Nobody *made* you watch it. Then to spend so much time blathering on about it. Get a life.
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I can relate to this and the feelings I have about Under the Dome. Yes, I'm angry UTD doesn't stick to the actual story, but the show still is holding my attention.
With Dracula- there's a lot of different factors involved. Sure, there's the Bram Stoker version, however, Dracula himself is based off someone from history. So the show can actually take certain liberties in this regard.
No he isn't.
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Vlad the Impaler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler
And a lot of older folklore before Bram's time.
Stoker only knew of him from a single source which contained little information and was ultimately even flawed. The character was more or less an amalgamation of various historical figures and stories and ideas. So while Stoker's character shares a surname with a historical man, and perhaps a small number of other details, they are ultimately separate, and should be regarded as such. Not to mention that Stoker was nearly finished with the novel when he came across the historical source.
So again. No he didn't. Even so, as an adaptation of the novel, it's obligated to show the novel a degree of respect. This show did not do that.
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If it has a vampire, called Dracula, then I pretty know what to expect despite the story in this show being what it is. I enjoyed it as I don't hold anything other than 'teeth' and 'blood' in my mind.
shareNo one needs an excuse to voice their opinions positive or negative. This forum's very existence is an open invite to all.
HOW MANY TIMES CAN SOMEONE DO DRACULA.
Welcome to the internet. Would you like a seat by the aisle?
shareThere may well have been a gazillion versions of Dracula filmed but so far not one of them has stuck to the original story as written by Stoker. They either cut out characters or amalgamate two characters into one, or have Mina and Lucy as sisters or cut out whole sections of the story or add new aspects.
I'm a big vampire fan. Read hundreds of vampire novels good and bad..read dozens of 'factual' books about vampire folklore and Vlad The Impaler..I've even been to Transylvania 4 times. However this series was pants. I stuck with it for the first four episodes after which I just thought "I don't care about any of these characters. I don't give a *beep* about what happens to any of them" and that's not how I would feel if it was a decent adaptation and had a good story.
I agree, enjoy it for what it is, if not, move on, another Dracula incarnation will come along soon enough
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I am also sick of people attacking persons for their opinions. You cannot state people complaining or not liking this or that show are ignorant.
That being said, I have to agree with one point you have made here. This is a TV show that uses a very known name to all of us, the name of "Dracula". The fact a show is very distant from the book it is said to be inspired upon, doesn't make it bad.
I'd like to think this is a slightly grown community, and calling people kids and stupid doesn't do *beep* but make them want to defend their hate or disliking for the show.
American_Ninja stated different =/= Good or whatever, but if you dislike the show because it doesn't follow the book properly, it goes to show you wanted this show to be a copy of a book. I think the producers just took elements from the basic story and juggled with them to make them fresh and innovative.
So not following the book =/= bad show.
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