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[AgentLampshade]

I anticipate the first season with caution.
I highly anticipate the second season.
I anticipate the third season with a "please don't fuck it up" sense of mind.
I await the fourth season with a resigned feeling of "well, can they salvage this?"

 

[Dryk]

I look forward to it being very flashy and engaging.
I do not look forward characters who ultimately be whatever they need to be to service a plot that doesn't hold up under any scrutiny.
I do not look forward to the moment several years in where the main character/Moffatt surrogate turns to the audience and tells them to shut the fuck up and stop questioning how he does all the wonderful things he does.

 

[marrec]

Here's hoping Moffat can reign it in for this series. Not that I'm particularly interested in Dracula, but I am interested when Moffat is good, which is less and less these days.

I'll definitely give it a chance though, if only to see Gatiss eat bugs (cause he's gunna be Renfield of course)

 

[Infinite]

I guess it'll be completely mastubatory with moffat trying to prove how clever his writing is without actually being good

 

[SpaceWolf]

Bets on this take being set in the modern age?

 

[Blader]

Here's hoping Moffat can reign it in for this series. Not that I'm particularly interested in Dracula, but I am interested when Moffat is good, which is less and less these days.

I'll definitely give it a chance though, if only to see Gatiss eat bugs (cause he's gunna be Renfield of course)

oh shit

I guess it'll be completely mastubatory with moffat trying to prove how clever his writing is without actually being good

Do people really believe Moffat has never written anything good?

 

[Magwik]

Can't wait for Dracula to be the smartest bestest coolest person ever.

 

[The Giant]

Awesome news. Jekyll and Sherlock were great.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

LOL, stay with that shit away.
Moffat is the worst.

 

[Sojgat]

Can't wait for Dracula to be the smartest bestest coolest person ever.

"I'm not a vampire, I'm a high functioning sociopath."

 

[Sotha Sil]

Can't wait for Dracula to be the smartest bestest coolest person ever.

Can't wait for him to meet a strong woman who will give him sass but will ultimately fawn over him ("Even I must admit, The Doctor Sherlock The Count is the most important person in the whole universe")

 

[bengraven]

I can't wait.

This is exactly who I would want to tackle Dracula.

 

[KernelPanic]

I guess they aren't going to be writing Sherlock Season 5 anytime soon.

 

[Blader]

You guys are acting like the Bram Stoker story isn't dull as shit and that there isn't a long line of bad adaptations of it already (excluding the first Lee/Hammer movie and 20 or so mins of the Lugosi one). This will be, at worst, just another one on the pile.

I guess they aren't going to be writing Sherlock Season 5 anytime soon.

Moffat worked on Sherlock in parallel with Doctor Who, so this would be potentially less work than that. The big holdup to any potential S5 would be Cumberbatch and Freeman's schedules. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a one-off special somewhere down the line though.

 

[cr0w]

You guys are acting like the Bram Stoker story isn't dull as shit and that there isn't a long line of bad adaptations of it already (excluding the first Lee/Hammer movie and 20 or so mins of the Lugosi one). This will be, at worst, just another one on the pile.

The BBC/Louis Jourdan mini-series is fantastic and faithful.

And, being faithful, it's also extremely dry and dull. But it's damn sure faithful.

 

[Breads]

One day people will wake up and realize that Moffat is trash.

 

[Kinglypuff]

I actually really love most of Moffat's writing and feel like some of the hate that gets thrown at him is really nonsensical, but for the life of myself I don't get why he keeps on giving Mark Gatiss writing jobs. Apart from an Adventure in Space and Time everything he wrote goes from okay/mediocre to absolutely horrible.

 

[Mudcrab]

I guess they aren't going to be writing Sherlock Season 5 anytime soon.

Its for the best really.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Should be good Gatiss loves his classic horror.

https://youtu.be/ZkZBJd4UTlM

.

The BBC series with Jonathan Rhys Meyers was really good.

That was Sky, not BBC.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Season 4 of Sherlock best season

I'm just wondering how clever Dracula will be. Genuinely curious if they can write a lead that isn't a hyper intellectual at this point.

 

[Steamlord]

You guys are acting like the Bram Stoker story isn't dull as shit and that there isn't a long line of bad adaptations of it already (excluding the first Lee/Hammer movie and 20 or so mins of the Lugosi one). This will be, at worst, just another one on the pile.

You're forgetting both Nosferatu films though. The book drags plenty but it has some great bits as well. Particularly the castle, of course, and the Bloofer Lady subplot.

 

[Blader]

You're forgetting both Nosferatu films though. The book drags plenty but it has some great bits as well. Particularly the castle, of course, and the Bloofer Lady subplot.

No I'm not

yes, Nosferatu looks cool and is hugely influential, but it's so boring!

 

[cr0w]

Should be good Gatiss loves his classic horror.

https://youtu.be/ZkZBJd4UTlM



That was Sky, not BBC.

Damn you're right. Got mixed up because it aired on NBC over here.

 

[Undrey]

I must be one of the few people that really loved all of Sherlock. The only episode I disliked was the final one. While the last series was the worst and did introduce unneeded characters and plot points, it was still good for what it was.

We really need a good, faithful Dracula film/series adaptation.

Also I know it's not happening, but Benedict Cumberbatch would be perfect for Dracula.

 

[Steamlord]

No I'm not

yes, Nosferatu looks cool and is hugely influential, but it's so boring!

Oh. I guess your opinions are just bad then

 

[Barkley's Justice]

I'm kinda sick of these two.

This

 

[Blue Lou]

Personally, I'd rather see it set in Cluj than England. It's probably cheaper to film there too.

 

[Rymuth]

Dracula is going to spend more time chewing the scenery than he is biting necks, won't he?

Like Sherlock and Dr Who, I'm expecting Dracula to be the missing puzzle piece in everybody's life, a nonstop talking attention whore whom everyone is beholden to

And this is coming from a Who and a Sherlock fan, btw

 

[Buddy Mcpuddy]

Oh do fuck off Moffat, go and create something and then ruin that.

 

[Blue Lou]

I wonder if James Nesbitt will reprise his role as Jekyll from Moffat's Jekyll. We could have a BBC Dark Universe.

 

[Kuraudo]

I wonder if Van Helsing will be the main character. Feels like he could very easily fit the aloof lovably sociopathic genius cipher Moffat's characters end up becoming.

 

[Mudcrab]

I wonder if Van Helsing will be the main character. Feels like he could very easily fit the aloof lovably sociopathic genius cipher Moffat's characters end up becoming.

Van Helsing: The secret to defeating Dracula lies in my mind palace.

 

[Bulletzen72]

Gatiss has put a nice turn as old Vlad himself in the Big Finish audio drama version of Dracula. Probably the most faithful version of the tale I've experienced outside of print. Worth checking it out!

 

[A-V-B]

Dracula is going to spend more time chewing the scenery than he is biting necks, won't he?

let's be honest, when has this NOT been the case?

 

[Protome]

I liked Jekyll, despite its uh...eccentricity. (although I think that was mainly because I'd follow James Nesbitt to hell and back rather than any of the writing...)
I loved the first couple of series of Sherlock.
I've found Moffat's running of Doctor Who to be all over the place with really high highs and absurdly low lows.

So...I guess I'm excited? maybe?