Will that happen? Probably not, especially considering the love story angle that next week’s episode is heavily pushing. The headstrong character passes a key medical exam, bringing her one step closer to becoming a physician, not a nurse! There is a potential story arc that could make her the new Van Helsing, in as much that she could assume the position as nemesis to the vampire. The only compelling persona on the show remains Jessica De Gouw’s Mina Murray. Very few characters in this episode play well without Dracula on screen. But the show’s mythology expands here as well Van Helsing points out that our Dracula is indeed Vlad the Impaler. The scene plays out mostly for spectacle, and to see Dracula writhe in pain as a crucifix knife is stabbed through his foot. We get it, Van Helsing’s got beef with The Order of the Dragon. We get a little bit more story, but not much. “A Whiff of Sulfur” opens with almost the same resurrection sequence with Van Helsing from last week. You live forever, you’re infatuated with her, wouldn’t you want her to live forever with you? His morals aren’t THAT strong. The problem is that the character goes to vampiric measures to get what he wants that it just doesn’t make sense. Being undead, unstoppable to most, what prevents you from getting what you want? Well, having a moral center of course! Dracula would consider her an abomination, which reflected, says a lot about how he looks at himself. Renfield (Nonso Anozie) addresses a major, glaring issue that should be easy to correct: why not turn Mina (Jessica De Gouw) and make her yours? This one question sums up one of the biggest problems I have with this show. The latter represents the easiest to handle, and those moments are few and far between. From what I can gather, he also has three or more speaking voices: the first is the dreadful wussy pain voice, accompanied by the normal, ego driven indoor voice, and the vulnerable, moral one. For such a fierce creature, Dracula has such a low tolerance for pain that it distracts from his primal moments, making him seem like a giant wuss. In a scene where Abraham Van Helsing(Thomas Kretschmann) draws blood to address Dracula’s aversion to sunlight, Rhys Meyers dials it up beyond eleven. Rhys Meyers continues to deliver a shifting and uneven performance as Vlad the Alex Gray Dracula guy. Despite their various flaws, their business ventures were vast, and far more interesting. This version of Dracula tends to remind me of the Leviathan’s from “Supernatural’s” seventh season. A supernatural creature trying to introduce science and reason into the world. Alex Grayson’s (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) business acumen and plan are a bit ironic. Has the vampire market been ex-sanguinated of new ideas? While “Dracula” certainly brings a fresh perspective to the undead prince of blood sucking beasts (sorry Chupacabra, you’re still #2), it’s not without heavy flaws.
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