I am curious: Has there ever been lost media involved in this franchise, like a lost episode, a promotional video or photo, or a lost script, something like that?
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Does anyone know the existence or location of any genuine props or memorabilia from Young Dracula? I really enjoy this show and have been obsessed since I first saw this show as a kid, unfortunately as this show is fairly old and forgotten there isn't much discussion particularly on the whereabouts of items used during filming.
I have a few questions before I start to watch this show, to make sure to avoid some things.
1.Does this show have time travel/prophecies, magic spells or OP characters?
2.Does this show have alot of plot errors?
3.Does this show have alot of unanswered questions or is the pacing regarding mystery pretty quick?, going off that is this show full of filler?
4.Are the villains pretty effective or are they pretty pointless?
5.Is there some action(fight scenes) between the characters?
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I have no other outlet for my issues with the plot and the writing, despite how much I love this show, so... okay. Season 3 was my favourite season of the show. And yet, most of it felt wasteful to me? Is that the right word?
Apart from Vlad's relationship with Erin, the main storyline of Season 3 is about the book; the Praedictum Impaver, which is rumoured to be some kind of giant, ancient instruction manual on how to lead a vampire army to take over the world. It's simple like that apparently. Bertrand brings it to Vlad, claiming he needs to open it to prove his claim as the Chosen One, otherwise his family will be executed for lying. Vlad doesn't seem to be THAT motivated to open it though, and gets into a lot of conflict over the fact that he's not focusing on his training. He's too caught up with trying to be normal, trying to become a boyfriend to Erin. He can't get the book open, which becomes a huge problem, to the point where the evil reflection he didn't get to merge with on his 16th birthday because of his premature surge of power when he was 13, calls out to him and he is pushed into the blood mirror to merge with it. He's NOW able to get the book open. Then there's the whole Bad Vlad/Evil Vlad storyline, which ended very quickly. Wasteful? Perhaps. He goes away for a while after successfully managing to tame his evil side, at least enough so that he won't pin kids to the ceiling and have them sing 10 green bottles creepily anymore.
Where it all goes wrong for me is the final episodes. Everyone starts fighting for the Praedictum Impaver, including Bertrand. Why? Am I supposed to believe all of them think they can wipe out Vlad, then each other, then whoever's left can just waltz away with the book and "lead an army to take over the world'. He's the Chosen One. I thought it was obvious that he's the most powerful vampire in existence? ANYWAY! The biggest problem here is Sethius... once the text is complete, the book unravels and forms an actual person, very old vampire who was trapped in the book for being insane back in his day. He manages to turn the Count invisible, wipe out all of Bertrand's friends and most of the schoolgirls Ingrid turned, rambles on about draining the nearest village dry and then gets killed off five minutes later. Like??? That's what this whole thing surmounted to? I understand it would probably be easy to kill off someone who has been trapped in a book for, what, a thousand years? He's insane, egotistical... there are a lot of blind spots to hit. And I also understand that it would've been difficult to keep Sethius around because he would only end up killing everyone, BUT it felt a bit too easy and disappointing. I don't know what else I was expecting.
Maybe I'm alone in this or I'm missing something. I know that it was meant to be about the whole "enemy of my enemy is my friend", what with all of them(including the Van Helsings) working together to take him out. I know that the entire journey to get to that point, with Bad Vlad/Evil Vlad and the romance with Erin and Vlad was supposed to be the breaking point for Bertrand and his loyalty to the Chosen One, but the ending was a bit lackluster. I don't know.
Okay, so... Season 3 starts off with Ingrid on the run from slayers, which have somehow found her and are wanting information about where Vlad is. Because they also somehow found out he's the Chosen One? I guess that's down to the Van Helsing's and their fading mindwipe.
Erin picks Ingrid up. But then we find out that Ingrid had bitten her brother, Ryan, who she keeps in the boot of her car as he's going through the transformation. So... how did Erin know where to find Ingrid? Also, how did her and Ryan know she was a Dracula?
It's always been on my mind. I did think, "oh, maybe Ingrid had the Dracula crest on her." I don't know. It's all a bit confusing. Maybe Ryan asked her who she was amidst being bitten. I really don't know. That also doesn't explain how Erin managed to just track Ingrid down. I know she had a tracking device on her but...
While I grew up with Season 1 and 2, and enjoyed the low-budget feel, the goofiness and whatnot, I LOVE the darkness that came with the later seasons. They had more opportunities to go deeper and bolder with things... and in some cases, they did. Other times... not so much. It was on CBBC so there wasn't much they could do about that, which is probably why it was so lacklustre and rushed at times with the plot. Now, I'm not saying all vampire shows have to be gory and rated 18, BUT isn't that an inherent part of vampires and their culture?
It just felt odd to me when it got to Season 3. The dark vibe was there, the special effects were so much better, Vlad was a teenager... but they were forced to hold back because the show was for kids. And while it's a cool show to have for kids, the premise of it all was too good for them in all honesty. They had to hold back on doing so many things that would make the show SO much better. For instance, they would reference and allude to the fact that vampires were this horrendous, evil species but I never felt that. We were supposed to truly understand and be sympathetic towards Vlad and his constant struggle with wanting to be human and hating his own kind. But it's hard to really do that when we don't see this evil for ourselves. We rarely saw vampires feeding on people and biting them. They made the Count look like a joke most of the time but then would selectively make him a beast when it called for it, which was always giving me whiplash.
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Vlad and Erin were rushed(and not in a good way like some couples do in other shows) and they were not on the same page at all. They could have done a great romance story with them if they were given the proper attention. I would have liked to see them actually develop feelings for each other. We saw glimpses of it but never enough to make me believe they would risk so much for each other or be in love. Not to mention, they kept putting off conversations about their future together. They didn't fight for each other hard enough once she became a vampire.
Wolfie was supposed to be 4 years old but was 10. He looked like a 10 year old, he acted like a 10 year old... I didn't get it. Still, he was a better actor and delivered his lines better than George in Season 5.
Bertrand was the coolest character in Season 3--and that's coming from a girl who called her cat Vladimir--and then they ruined him in the next season by randomly turning him into a Yes Man for Vlad. I understand that being faced with Sethius, a complete lunatic who wanted the world in chaos like Bertrand planned, forced him to rethink things but I wasn't expecting him to become completely... tame. I found myself missing the snark, the backstabbing, the scheming, the scariness to him.
Season 5 was awful. I used to give it the benefit of the doubt but now I see that it's nowhere near the same level as the other four seasons. The lighting was always weird, the Count had turned into a complete joke, the humanity reveal with Vlad made sense but I still wish it had been hinted at more consistently throughout, I found Talitha to be cringe, the storyline surrounding the seed thing was boring and random, Ramanga randomly happened to have 2 sons which he never mentioned before(despite there being a huge wedding in Season 4 with their sister, as well as a giant scheme to kill the Chosen One, her groom), the Count was randomly lovely to Ingrid in the final moments of the show... the only redeeming parts of it was Piers, Malik and Vlad's handsome face.
There'll probs never be a season 6 but here's what i'd like to see. (leave your ideas below!) I'd make it either a 12 or 15 just since most of the audience is probably older. I'd have Vlad give up on his idea of peace for some reason and start drinking human blood. Then Chloe and Robin find him and are really disappointed in him and help him back on track.
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Does anyone know if Clare Thomas (Ingrid) will ever do any more acting? She currently works as a talent agent and is now married to Tom Prosser. Does anyone know if she plans to do go back to acting ever even if she's still being a talent agent?
i found the script of the first ever episode floating around somewhere, and just wanted to run it by whoever may see this to see if i should go ahead and change the spelling when i have the time? pretty big decision but also pretty small and just wanted everyone to be on the same page before its made!
i love and would die for that boy but should he be on the family tree or no? his only relation to the tree is elizabeta, who is only on the tree as a deceased ex of count and arta like.. obv. idk i feel like having the son of someone whos just an add on on the tree feels Wrong somehow... even tho id love for him to be a drac? 🤔
like.. the whole gang growing up together in stokely, either completely just that timeline or incorporating parts and characters post s3 into it its just To die for lads. idk suburban-set sitcom about the dracula family will always be in my heart and s1 and 2 were peak.
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I adored season 3... season 4 well not so much, I tend to skip almost all of it.
Ok, I'll say it. I HATED season 4.
The storyline seemed less about testing Vlad's and making him grow into the man and leader that he needed to be and more about crushing his soul.
They shouldn't have killed Sethius SO easily in season 3. It was the PEREFCT setup for a new villain!
They should have had him escape and rally forces to start vampire war. Then all of the prophecy about Vlad would have been true!
Vlad really would have been a great vampire general and he really would have led a vampire army! All the really evil vampires, like Ramanga and his evil Adze, would have followed Sethius and been killed. Other vampires would see how powerful Vlad is and respected him more. Erin would have had a chance to show off her butt-kicking combat skills. I bet she has some mad skills with an argentilium blade... The fights, the subterfuge, the vampire politics and war....it could have been epic!
And at the end, Vlad could have been trapped and injured and had no choice but to feed on Erin (human blood) in order to make them both survive! (I have an image in mind, like the scene at the end of BLADE when he bites Karen) Vlad races off to defeat Sethius and save both vampire and human races from annihilation...cut to Erin laying on the stone floor...and her eyes snap open and glow red. Oooo, I've got chills!
I did NOT like what they did to Erin's character in season 4.
If Erin loved Vlad SO much and accepted him for what he was, I simply can't believe that she would react to becoming a vampire like that. It really doesn't make sense to me, especially because she was DYING. He didn't bite her on a whim or because he was afraid that she was going to break up with him...she was dying. If he hadn't bitten her, she wouldn't be able to hate him...because she would be dead!
Now I could see Erin getting lost in the power and losing control like Vlad did when he looked in the mirror, Vlad chasing after her to stop her from biting people and then Erin breaking down and sobbing...but I can't see Erin hating Vlad for changing her and becoming evil.