This show grew up, along with the kids who watched it when it first debuted... AWESOME!!
"I was the best CIA agent, that the CIA ever had, but I thought I told you honkeys from the CIA, that Black Dynamite was out of the game!"
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It was never really that much of a kids show in my opinion. Always funny enough to keep my attention.
"Well your team lost, so everybody cries."
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Probably would be better if scheduled later in evening too.
And if, you know, your history...it's enough to make your heart go whoooooahh
Last night's episode was way too dramatic for the CBBC to be broadcasting this... Young Dracula should fill in for the Doctor Who/Merlin timeslot. What fills that timeslot when Doctor Who & Merlin aren't showing??
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Then clearly the thing to do is to - somehow - let the BBC know about this wider audience. Emails are usually a good way, even if they often give out automated replies, but repeated watching on iplayer may also help. Sharing links around of clips and the link helps to. Also: blogging and social media.
shareHmm, seduction, death threats and a deranged hero. Yep, kid's show:-)
This NEEDS a wider audience. Maybe a sequel, depending on how this series ends?
Under the skies of scarlet and black
Thousands of eyes, there's no turning back
You guys are right, I watched the latest ep with my kid sister, and she was petrified. Granted, she's only 9 (and a tiny bit of a wuss), but I really dont think CBBC is the place for Young Dracula any more, it is much more of a teens/young adults/ or watch with the family thing, like Dr Who.
Was it ever really a place for the show? It's a tough fit - the cast was a lot younger when it first started airing and the violence was toned down.
But the amount of sexism/abuse directed at Ingrid by the Count was pretty impressive. It's funny when you can put it into perspective but can kids watching CBBC put it in to perspective? They can probably find it funny but I doubt they have a deep understanding of why, they just laugh because it's so absurd.
"Well your team lost, so everybody cries."
I think it's more that there are likely to be kids out there suffering from favouratism and biased parenting. That's not a good thing but sometimes stuff just happens. It's not shown to be right and if it helps a child come forward about being bullied or shines a light on behaviour a parent perhaps was not aware of then that IS a good thing.
It can't be a coincidence that the anti bullying poster has been prominently featured in many, many scenes this series.
Under the skies of scarlet and black
Thousands of eyes, there's no turning back
So, to sum up, this series so far we've had:
3 or 4 attempted murders
Torture
Possession
Seduction
Brainwashing
Parental abandonment
Assault
Vandalism
PTSD
Kids show:-) Stuffing brilliant, deserves as wide an audience as possible.
Under the skies of scarlet and black
Thousands of eyes, there's no turning back
I'd love to see it move to BBC1 to get some more fans. With more fans we can have more signatures on the petition for the DVD release :P
I hate my neighbour. He's always banging. I can hardly hear myself drill sometimes.
I didn't have a problem with the darkness of this series at all, until the episode 'The Return'. I didn't like Mina or Jonathon at all-though I could understand the reason why they turned out the way they did. I really loved them as characters in the previous series, but now?
The one thing that made it absolutely too dark for me was the fact that Mr Van Helsing was killed-not onscreen, but still, you get my drift. I thought the rage and horror behind that was just a bit too dark, and they probably could have figured out something else if they couldn't get the actor back to play him.
I'm not into fluffy bunnies or anything, but they are marketing this as a kid's show. I'm eighteen and I winced.
It really doesn't fit CBBC anymore; it really needs BBC1 or something. Still loving the series, though. Totally brilliant work. }-)
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I was just thinking that its gone from MI High with fangs to almost Being Human junior.
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