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i think what we really need is a spinoff,cute cozy show about vlad going to live with sally and george for a bit and all the shenanigans that would occur. not any supernatural life threatening things.
just like, vlad having to enroll in a college or something, or hiding him from the neighbours (bonus points if one of them is a little robin branagh-esque) or george having some kind of school project and he has to learn about breather things like geography or gymnastics. them playing tig or hide and seek and vlad uses some of his vampire powers. or sally has a dinner party and vlad has to pretend to be human and george coaches him in what she thinks normal boys like, which is hilariously off (or they go in the opposite direction and just play him off as moody emo teenager and he has to walk around being weird and listening to music on a computer in his room or something)
i just think it would be so fun.
heres how the 1st episode could play out:
we open on them pulling into the driveway, they hurry to cover vlad with something,maybe a hoodie and then they run inside while he’s smoking profusely. they get inside and show vlad around,then they show his room and explain that he can decorate it if he likes. then they are interrupted by the doorbell.
we meet the nice neighbour lady, who asks what the smoke was about. she has to think on her feet and make something up,like she recently found her teenage son who she gave up years ago, and he has some behavioural issues (implying he vapes/smokes) and that theyre working on it. the neighbour makes some remarks about “oh you poor things!” and then leaves.
sally closes the door and we cut to george running around and closing all of the curtains and sticking up some black card on vlad’s windows telling him all about how it's “like they did in world war 2” then vlad thanks her and sally calls them downstairs.
they are all stood in the kitchen and sally is pottering around making food for lunch/dinner she tells george to lay the table and then stops “sorry vlad! i forgot,um, will you be needing… you know” and he has to awkwardly just be like “no. its fine…” and explain his prefered diet and all.
after they eat vlad goes ip to his room to get some sleep.
maybe a bit later the nice neighbour turns up at the door with her own child(or children.maybe she has a child georges age) and says that she thought that they could rub off some good on him,and since theyre of a similar age it could be nice. sally has to awkwardly let them in and run off to tell vlad of the situation, cue him having to get out of his coffin, throw on a hoodie or something and make his way downstairs. then he has to try not to fall asleep while stopping them from finding out his secret and keeping them entertained. shenanigans ensue.
we end the episode with the teen leaving and vlad and the others sighing with releif
wouldnt have to go exactly like that of course, but it would be a way to introduce the new story and characters while keeping it lighthearted. i think it would be much more of a silly kids show like the first 2 seasons than a dark teen drama like seasons 3,4&5
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Thank you, /r/ProgrammerHumor, I love you endlessly.
Redditors competing to make the worst volume sliders possible...
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A Vampire's fangs are also it's reproductive organs
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I had to write YEARS of posts about British Clownfall and South Korea just straight up speed ran theirs a mere seven minutes longer than it takes to watch Wicked
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yes, percy rose through the ranks of new rome disturbingly fast. no, jason did not do the same at camp half blood. yes, percy's rise to leadership at both camps took about two weeks and was completely unplanned. no, the same cannot be said for jason. his rise was carefully planned and took over a decade. they're both children of the big three, but where percy thrums with raw power, jason is a sword honed by zeus and hera. where percy is a survivor, jason is a weapon. where percy is a cycle breaker, jason can't get out. jason's fatal flaw was temptation to deliberate because he never managed to make his own choices. he was every classic definition of a hero rolled into one, and he never questioned it because his happiness came after the responsibility. jason was never going to ascend as fast as percy because jason was raised on hard work and discipline while percy, an abuse survivor and child of poverty, knew when to fight dirty. where jason was a transplant, percy was an invasive species. jason was always going to die because he was never more than a tool for the gods to throw away when he outlived his usefulness, or when he started to question his place. if someone as locked down as jason can question the system, anyone can. now that luke has put thoughts of overthrow in everyone's heads, zeus has to be very careful because while jason was expendable as his weapon, percy was unexpected in every way. zeus has no plan for him. when percy dies, he will become a martyr, so he can't die, except now everyone knows that percy doesn't want to be a god either. jason had to die, and now percy has to live.
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i think about the xenophobia and immigrant themes a lot when i rewatch the show now. i remember having a rewatch a few years ago and mrs branagh started defending magda against van helsing and having a moment where i realised actually elizabeth was calling out xenophobia. it was fairly obvious looking back, but it was just never something i had given much thought to. but its something we see a lot, especially in stokely - i unfortunately think it was forgotten a bit in the later seasons.
i don't remember where i picked the headcanon up from exactly anymore - its entirely possible i saw another tumblr user explore it - but theres a strong likeliehood that renfield in reality would likely have spoken quite broken english because his interactions outside of the family were largely restricted so therefore would have very little exposure to english. exploring how much english the rest of the family knew would also be something i wish we could have seen. the first scene of the first episode we see ingrid complain about having to use english, but then its never brought up again.
this sort of veered off op's point but i think young dracula as a show is something incredibly special despite its faults, and having the family be immigrants in a small town was an incredibly important thing. for a kids show it dived into a lot of deep themes and this is one of them. i just wish we got to see it be explored more
I'm surprised nobody talks about Young Dracula because that show put a new spin on the Dracula mythos whilst veering into themes such as immigration, xenophobia, being an immigrant kid in a hostile culture, etc. And all that on a kids' sitcom back in the late 2000s when anti-immigrant racism was rising rapidly.
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girlhood is thinking about young dracula a bit too hard when you're out of academia for the first time in your life and starting to write an essay on ingrid because you don't know what else to do
#get ready young dracula fans i am here to be annoying and then disappear again#gabi rambles about young dracula#cbbc young dracula#young dracula#cbbc#ingrid dracula#count dracula#vlad dracula#vladimir dracula
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i'm rewatching the young dracula pilot and i have some thoughts
the beginning is iconic - and the only time vlad is talking to and looking at the camera as far as i remember
"she's so much like her mother" the count not liking ingrid because of his complicated relationship with magda, her leaving him for a werewolf as we found out later in this ep and he's taking it out on his daughter - it all makes sense
robin hanging upside down in his room - what a legend
the first episode is actually doing such a good job setting up all the characters and the story
i like how it's mostly just a silly little show but it already introduces the dread and pressure vlad faces of becoming a vampire and that feels so real and sad
the scene where the count puts the cape on vlad in the mirror hit me harder than i thought it would probably bc i know where the show is going
"we're vampires. can't escape it. it's your destiny"
renfield in the nurse (?) outfit lmao
"have you come to donate blood?" "no" "it's for a good cause?" "what cause?" "lunch" alskdkjdd
i'm sorry but how did robin go from his hiding spot under the bed out of the door and walk around the castle without vlad, ingrid or zoltan noticing?? they're standing right there!!
the branaughs all going up to the castle one by one - really funny
ingrid is already a fashion icon
did renfield get tortured by a tarantula i totally missed that before and wow am i glad we did not really see that
and then he kills it (imelda) "if it's any consolation, master, she wouldn't have felt a thing" "except your huge bottom squishing her" INGRID lmao
love seeing vlad and ingrid teaming up and act like typical young brother/big sister
the count being dramatic as always but i feel like he gets introduced to being more formidable than he later is but i like it more this way than the borderline only comedy figure he becomes later
the actors are all really good actually but you can tell it's the first episode and it's still a little awkward and they're still working on the dynamics
all in all what a nice little kids gothic horror show that i have become obsessed with, totally accidental, six years ago
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I'm in nostalgia hell! Here is the result of it, enjoy!
[DO NOT REPOST OR STEAL THIS ART]
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Marvel movies have completely eliminated the concept of practical effects from the movie-watching public’s consciousness
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some thoughts on vlad between seasons 2 and 3
i have many, many conflicting headcanons about what exactly happened in the gap between s2 and s3 and how the entire family was at that point in time but one concept i think is interesting is the idea that vlad was drinking blood in that time.
obviously its well established that vlad refuses to drink blood and believes its wrong. in s3e1 we see him say this from the offset, however we also see him really struggle with being in a room full of breathers. most of this can be easily brushed off with the writer's trying to display that drinking blood isn't who vlad is, even though its what his nature calls for. this is pretty boring however and therefore i am choosing to project headcanons onto it <3
after wearing the crown of power at the end of s2, vlad collapses leading to the iconic scene of ingrid saying she neither knows nor cares if vlad is alive or not. this is where the blank spot begins. we know that the batteries on the uv cage ran out so the count could escape with renfield and vlad, however we don't know what state vlad was in at this point of time but we can assume it was bad.
working on the basis that the crown of power at least partially transformed him (e.g. gave him his fangs and boosted his powers, i then believe that he never went to the blood mirror on his sixteenth birthday as everyone believed he had already transformed, which then allowed for the events in s3e7/8, but thats another post) i think its an interesting idea that the count - unsure what exactly to do with this extremely ill vampire child - gave vlad blood whilst unconcious in an attempt to heal him. when vlad eventually came around he would deny this as treatment, but i'd like to believe that it is what made him better. to go along with this i think it provides an interesting dynamic that vlad is unaware that he was being fed blood whilst in this weakened state, with the count never having the heart to tell him that he had been drinking copious amounts of blood. its for this reason that we see vlad then struggle so much to be around breathers, as he went cold turkey on blood after he woke up properly. it shares some parallels with how much he struggled after biting erin - although it wasn't entirely the same.
TLDR: vlad had a blood addiction he never even realised he had because it was used to save him when he was ill
#young dracula#cbbc young dracula#cbbc#vladimir dracula#vlad dracula#count dracula#ingrid dracula#idk if this makes sense#i think its an interesting concept though#vlads blood addiction in general is something i wish the show explored more#when i say make vlad suffer more i mean showcase that he has addiction problems i don't care that its a kids show give it to me
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Young Dracula as Tumblr Text Posts~
I dunno what number this is or if I was ever really keeping count tbh
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tumblr has an AI toggle you should turn on to prevent your work being shared with training models/etc! it's under settings (gear icon) & then visibility.
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