Here for my Good Friend Jonathan

Let things slide, but I'm finally all caught up. . . just in time for the dark days. Alas.

For the first time, I shall try both reading along with Dracula Daily and listening along with Re: Dracula. Wish me luck!

So everyone talks about Jonathan not being able to handle spicy, paprika isn't spicy, Jonathan's too English to appreciate something spicy. . . but has it occurred to anyone that, when he says the paprika hendl was "good, but thirsty," he didn't mean "spicy," he meant "salty?"

He's going on a business trip to some place called Transylvania. Sounds like such a lovely place! He's going to write me all about his trip, and the old nobleman he's helping with some real estate deal. Can't wait to hear all about his trip, must be so exciting!

Some may prefer more angst and open-endedness, and I don't mind that sometimes. . . but sometimes, a nice, heartwarming "and they lived happily ever after" is the order of the day.

Quincey Harker's birthday being on the anniversary of Quincey Morris' death, and thus the day they killed Dracula, means it is impossible for Dracula to be Quincey's father in any way. He was born too late for Dracula to have impregnated Mina or for Mina to have been under Dracula's influence while pregnant with him. A neat little bow on the happy ending: Quincey Harker is a perfectly normal little boy.

I just want to confirm, we're still getting the epilogue too, right?

Rest in peace, Mr. Morris. Give Lucy a hug and a kiss from all of us.

Uh, wrong horror movie there, Mina.

Van Helsing arouses Mina, and they sleep together. Just had to point that out.

Is it "superstition" when they're COMPLETELY CORRECT? Maybe don't be so dismissive, Mina, when you are literally wearing proof of a vampire's influence.

To all my Dracula Daily buds who've stuck it out so far! We're almost at the end!

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992): Dracula is just so dreamy and sexy! Oh, right. I have a fiancé too, I guess.

Not sure exactly what the symbolism might be, there are a lot of interpretations that spring readily to mind, but damn, it would be a chilling visual in a proper adaptation. Maybe as the last shot in the penultimate episode of a limited series. Flickering orange light. Jonathan’s voice over as he writes. Shutting the door. Cut to black. Credits and ominous music.

But we, yet again, get to see Mina flex her remarkable brain. "Not bad for a girl?" Sherlock Fucking Holmes and The Goddamn Batman would be impressed with her deductive reasoning.