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kindkit ([personal profile] kindkit) wrote 2017-06-25 10:30 pm (UTC)

Sometimes the original Dracula's weird in an interesting way, with occasional glimpses of Mina as a New Woman before the story flattens her down into a pious virgin whose purity is her sole protection against Dracula. And it can be weird about sex in a subtexty but fascinating way, like the initial homoeroticism between Harker and Dracula, or the way all the men give their blood to Mina and it kind of makes them all her husbands. But I bet Moffat will take most of the good stuff out (he'll maybe keep some female homoeroticism, but there'll be no male queerness unless it's in the most de-eroticized fashion imaginable, and Mina and Jonathan will bicker and banter in a way eerily reminiscent of Coupling, just like River and the Doctor did). And Gatiss will help him do it all, heaven knows why, and will do absolutely nothing to push for more/better queer characters and queer relationships.

And I will probably watch anyway, damn it.

about the Moons' marriage, which I think perhaps one is supposed to?
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Yeah. Laura Moon was an engaging if not always likable character for the one episode that was about her story, but she's not interesting as Dead Wife and have even less investment in their marriage than I usually have in a story's heterosexual relationships. Meanwhile Shadow is mostly a cipher--he's underwritten and the actor doesn't quite have the chops to improve what he's been given.

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