I watched Dracula: Dead and Loving It at a relatively young age (that was the version of the story that introduced me to Renfield) I was young, too! Just eleven, IIRC. Just barely old enough to watch it, I expect. It's still the version of Dracula I've seen/read the most times and sometimes I have to remind myself of the major story differences, heh, even beyond the silliness - things like Mina being Seward's daughter. That makes SO much sense that your interest would be piqued by Renfield. I don't love D:DALI as much as I did when I was younger, but there is a lot that has remained funny/enjoyable in it to me and one of those things is Peter MacNicol's performance. He basically plays two roles, since pre- and post-hypnosis Renfield is so different, and I think he's hilarious in both, even though some of the post-hypnosis comedy is broader than I tend to love now.
(You know, that's another interesting difference between that version and the original story. I always think of Renfield as a much bigger character because of D:DALI than he originally was. He gets way more screentime since he goes to Transylvania instead of our good friend Jonathan Harker and even after I feel like he plays a much bigger role than in the novel.)
I binged the first five seasons of Buffy in 2006, on DVDs that I rented from an actual video store in Providence. I vividly remember emailing some of my episode reactions to my friend who lived in a different city. LOVE THIS. I discovered the show in 2000, before it was even available on DVD. I bought all the legally available episodes on VHS (six episodes over three tapes from season 1 and the same from season 2....what a time) and then paid what was, for teenage me, a large amount of money to buy the missing episodes off the Internet from someone who had recorded them from TV. And recorded everything from season 4 off of TV myself, via reruns and the five remaining new episodes of season 4. SERIOUSLY, WHAT A TIME.
She also described her boyfriends' clothing from time to time; the line "there was nothing under the pants but him" apparently still lives in my head. Oh noooooooo XD I don't remember that line, but since I read to much later in the series when there started to be a lot of sex scenes, I will never forget her hilarious tendency to use "the front of his body" as a penis euphemism. Thanks for truly outrageous the mental picture, Laurell.
I love talking about vampires and fannish nostalgia with you! Ditto and same! <3
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Date: 2024-10-03 03:56 pm (UTC)I was young, too! Just eleven, IIRC. Just barely old enough to watch it, I expect. It's still the version of Dracula I've seen/read the most times and sometimes I have to remind myself of the major story differences, heh, even beyond the silliness - things like Mina being Seward's daughter. That makes SO much sense that your interest would be piqued by Renfield. I don't love D:DALI as much as I did when I was younger, but there is a lot that has remained funny/enjoyable in it to me and one of those things is Peter MacNicol's performance. He basically plays two roles, since pre- and post-hypnosis Renfield is so different, and I think he's hilarious in both, even though some of the post-hypnosis comedy is broader than I tend to love now.
(You know, that's another interesting difference between that version and the original story. I always think of Renfield as a much bigger character because of D:DALI than he originally was. He gets way more screentime since he goes to Transylvania instead of our good friend Jonathan Harker and even after I feel like he plays a much bigger role than in the novel.)
I binged the first five seasons of Buffy in 2006, on DVDs that I rented from an actual video store in Providence. I vividly remember emailing some of my episode reactions to my friend who lived in a different city.
LOVE THIS. I discovered the show in 2000, before it was even available on DVD. I bought all the legally available episodes on VHS (six episodes over three tapes from season 1 and the same from season 2....what a time) and then paid what was, for teenage me, a large amount of money to buy the missing episodes off the Internet from someone who had recorded them from TV. And recorded everything from season 4 off of TV myself, via reruns and the five remaining new episodes of season 4. SERIOUSLY, WHAT A TIME.
She also described her boyfriends' clothing from time to time; the line "there was nothing under the pants but him" apparently still lives in my head.
Oh noooooooo XD I don't remember that line, but since I read to much later in the series when there started to be a lot of sex scenes, I will never forget her hilarious tendency to use "the front of his body" as a penis euphemism. Thanks for truly outrageous the mental picture, Laurell.
I love talking about vampires and fannish nostalgia with you!
Ditto and same! <3