I apologise about falling behind on these blogs. I've been busy with various stuff, and get distracted easily. But. Finally. I have the reviews for Episodes 6, 7 and 8.
Episode 6 "Blood Thieft" seemed to serve one purpose. Get Vlad and Erin out on a date. Which of course goes wrong. And everyone nearly discovers she's not a vampire. But they don't. I'm not sure what I think of the episode. While the plot was quite predictable, it was a strong plot, and it was portrayed in a way typical to one of the old series of Young Dracula. Again, it's taking more grown up ideas and using them. Except this episode seemed a bit more childish. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed it though. The acting was again on top form, especially from Gerran Howell (Vlad), and the Count, Ingrid and the tutor who's name I did know but have nwo forgotten was also really good. Erin was really good as well: it's just it didn't feel that she had a very big part. And it was primarily a story about her! So there should have been more Erin/Vlad scenes. So overall, the story wasn't up to the high standard of episode five, but it was still a good episode, which has revealed more about the characters....
Episode 7. This episode made Young Dracula trend on Twitter. Which is a massive achievement, absolutely huge. It was 5th trend in the UK, and compared to some of the other things that were trending, it was a massive achievement. As I've said. And I'd say it deserved to be trending. It had the action, it had the comedy, and it was one of the best episodes of the series. 3rd Best. (My favourites, joint top, are episodes one and five.) The idea was brilliant, and there was another excellent performance from Vlad. The idea of puppet Vlad was... um.... actually quite funny... and it broke up the excellent scenes that were taking place within the Mirror. The acting in the episode was excellent, but in episode 7 it was ultimately all to accompany Vlad as he accepted his true destiny. Or was made to, anyhow.
I was worried about the end of episode seven. Because whenever a good character turns bad, it always seems to throw the series off track, and often not for the better. But I was very surprised. Young Dracula episode 8 was fantastic. Both Vlad and Erin gave perfect performances in this, as well as Ingrid, and the scene where she was chucked into sunlight then saved while crying were acted brilliantly. Again, this episode took quite a basic idea, but it did it absolutely fantastically. The character of "Bad Vlad" wouldn't have worked for longer than one episode, but episode 8 tackled it perfectly. It was fun and serious, it was directed brilliantly, and it was a perfect episode for Young Dracula.
And there's still five more, hopefully fantastic, episodes to go.
Oh and they've confirmed Series 4, with Vlad, Ingrid and Erin definitely returning.
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