A Better Story: [Part Six] BBC Dracula

This video is a re-upload of the sixth installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Six looks at BBC Dracula and explains, in great detail, how it changed everything about how I look back on Mark and Steven's work.
A Better Story
• A Better Story
Thank you again to Brontë Schiltz for providing her Queer Gothic expertise!
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:20 Establishing Context, Vampire Edition
13:49 Framing BBC Dracula
18:47 The Rules of The Beast
47:56 Blood Vessel (My Beloved!)
01:20:58 The Dark Compass
01:54:59 The Final Scene
02:00:36 Come Out into the Sunlight
02:08:53 Safely Landing: Option Two
From a Drop of Water
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Sources
Queer Gothic Reading List Courtesy of Brontë:
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A Bisexual History of Dracula VerilyBitchie 2021:
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Dracula by Bram Stoker 1897:
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In Search of Count Dracula With Mark Gatiss 2020:
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Mark Gatiss Red Carpet News TV 2019:
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Steven Moffat The Times 2019:
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Mark Gatiss The Sun 2019:
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James Blundell and the Blood Transfusion:
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C Foster 2003:
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San Diego Comic Con 2015:
• SHERLOCK Comic Con Panel
Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV 2019:
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The Petruvian Man by DevoursJohnlock 2020:
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Vamping it Up! The Sun 2019
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The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss 2004:
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Schitt's Creek Wine Not The Label 2015:
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Steven Moffat The Telegraph 2019:
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The Adventure of the Empty House 1903:
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[@TJLCExplained]

Hello everyone! Here is at least a temporary (we'll know if it's permanent in about a month) re-upload of the Dracula video. Hopefully it stays up, if not, I'll probably have another re-edit up much sooner than this first wait. I was mostly motivated to get this up now because I've been releasing a BBC Dracula!AU Holmes/Watson fic throughout the month of February, and I thought there was no better way to celebrate the midpoint of this story than to have this back so people can get a refresher on my take on the themes of Dracula, since The Stories in Our Veins ended up being a direct response with more room to elaborate and two and a half more years to process my feelings. The link is below if you'd like to check that out! Thank you all as always for all your support and patience 💛 archiveofourown.org/works/52854427/chapters/133690984

[@stolenguts5566]

Thank you so much, I watched this like 3 times when you first posted and It’s lived in my brain ever since

[@jamesofglory]

WOOO ITS BACK UP! i’ve been watching it and rewatching it on drive for a while so this is a big day for me lmao

[@margplsr3120]

wow I will remember you forever! several years ago you did amazing fascinating videos that was so helping in every day live despite I am hetero. Greetings from Tricity in Poland.

[@MentalAsEver]

BBC Dracula was my Roman empire back when it was released. Such intelligent writing, and such a tragic / beautiful retelling of the original. Mark Gatiss is a genius.

[@AlienZizi]

THANK YOU for reuploading this!! "the password is my name" edit made me laugh so hard and i really missed it

[@alicebell7975]

Oh my gosh I’m so happy this is back!!! Thank you Rebs! 🙏

[@yours_eve2001]

I can't believe that I managed to watch one of your videos before years passing after you uploaded them!!! You're amazing

[@alucard52186]

I love all your videos. I will rewatch this whole series now that I've seen the notification that you re-uploaded this

[@ubi_goes_uwu7126]

YAy! I did read the script, as the incomparable Rebs sent it to me when I was first watching the retrospective, but I'm so excited to watch the video! And right as I was rewatching it, too :)

[@makiyangatito]

I love love LOVE these series of yours, and I love to see the community's journey through the heartbreak hahaha. I'll be staying onboard, looking forward to what's up to come *fastens seatbelt*

[@sizdimitri]

Hello! Hope you're doing well, you amazing person.

[@elizabetkiraly]

Thanks for the reupload! Hope it can stay up!!

[@TJLCExplained]

Me too!!!

[@elizabetkiraly]

I need to add that i went and watched this show only because you told me to only to come back to the videoseries and realize this video got taken down😔 i read the script u shared but am happy it is up again! Keep up the good work

[@loozziee]

Finally back up!

[@mothie]

These videos hit me so hard. I was barely a teenager when my friends introduced me to Sherlock BBC and it was my first fandom experience. I lived and breathed it and became very fixated very quickly. When S4 came out it was almost traumatic, it felt like all I held dear had been ripped from me. So being able to revisit this time of my life feels incredibly cathartic. It’s so good knowing I‘m not the only one this or similar has happened to. Lots of love ❤

[@DarkElfofVulcan]

So glad to see this up again! Thank you for reworking it so it can be watched!

[@luanasilva7341]

You're baaack

[@luanasilva7341]

The world isn't boring again

[@essig193]

I was here when you first started the Sherlock Christmas advent calendar❤ after what happened with Sherlock I fully divested from tv and totally forgot your channel. Throughout like 5 years, I kept looking but couldn’t remember the channel. Found you like 2 months ago maybe and I’m so happy this channel is here❤❤ soooo fun revisiting these episodes with your take and I feel much lighter and happier rewatching them!

[@Pickledmacaroni]

This show's ending reminded me of BBC Jekyll and the reveal of what his monstrous personality represents

[@TJLCExplained]

another great connection, I haven't finished Jekyll myself but both Inside Man and Steven's take on Time Traveller's Wife involve something similar, the man has his preoccupations

[@Pickledmacaroni]

@@TJLCExplained It's like he had been making connections and headcannon in a similar lens for years and then decided just to represent it himself when nothing arose naturally. My personal favorite headcannon in a similar way is about Ian Fleming becoming jealous of Roald Dhal's sexual espionage prowess for Churchill and results in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and if no one makes a show or movie I feel similarly compelled to write one.

[@sardine1222]

As a (then) lonely queer man, season 4 of Sherlock felt like a painful betrayal of something I'd cautiously begun to believe in, despite being entirely unaware of the existence of TJLC, and I only learned of it recently stumbling onto your old videos. They've been profoundly healing, and I especially appreciate the humanity you have for everyone involved. Since this video was reuploaded at such an opportune time, I actually wanted to give Dracula a chance so I could appreciate your analysis better, and to my surprise I genuinely enjoyed it! Though Mofftiss owes that in large parts to you, for reminding me to be hopeful and willing to hear them out on their terms. At least for this. S4 still smarts, but maybe your final video will help with that too, soon as I get over the pre-flight nerves.

[@setsunameiou257]

Everything you say Is Gold for me❤

[@miracle_prelude4392]

It’s baaaaaack!!! Love this.

[@zoetevka4653]

Love you thank you for all you work through the years. I really love you Videos and Analysen♥️🥰🫶🏻♥️

[@heyannabeth]

omg i can finally stop watching this in the google docs copy i have in my files lmaoooooo

[@TJLCExplained]

Make sure you keep that copy just in case!!

[@heyannabeth]

@@TJLCExplainedi def will, it’s my comfort video essay to listen to hehe

[@yannah8903]

yoooooooo it's baaaack!!!!!!Thank you , rebs:)!!!

[@KettyFormaggio]

thanks for this video love love love

[@PizzaFreaak]

👀💕

[@amandavieirap]

Omg !!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@luanasilva7341]

Not related but ... Do you by any chance... What do you think of new interview with the vampire adaptation?

[@TJLCExplained]

Oh, I absolutely love it!!! I couldn’t be more excited for season 2, though I’m still a bit disappointed that Claudia’s actress couldn’t return though Delainey Hayles looks like she’s going to do a great job too

[@Anonymous-zw9ud]

Ikr I'm so glad me an this commenter above aren't the only ones ​@@TJLCExplained

[@Anonymous-zw9ud]

1:53:08 the catharsis!

[@ConfidentiaX]

A question, over the last decade you have been filming, how many cameras did you change? and from what to what time period? the video quality has always been very good so Im puzzled

[@TJLCExplained]

I am so sorry to break the illusion, I have always filmed with the front facing camera of my iPhone, whatever model that would have been in 2016, and then these were on the 13. Goes to show you don’t need fancy equipment to get decent quality! (Though for these I was using an upgraded mic, still nothing too fancy)

[@user-tl8tu8ul5z]

I think it would be great if you made the stories in our veins into a podcast I can listen to you talk for several hours

[@TJLCExplained]

I’m hoping to actually! (I do work full time AND am a full time grad student though so… it might be a bit)

[@lemcy1256]

DracuIar is bi and so is Storker (or he just gay) and I'll die on that hill. Also, I define as a bisexual apocalypse. But with the original meaning of the word apocalypse: disclosure/revelation. Because me realizing I'm bisexual (sadly quite late, in my 30s) was a real revelation!!! So please refer to me with my preferred pronoun: bisexual apocalypse. THX

[@lemcy1256]

Yasss! You mentioned verilybitchie, one of my bi icons (also our trans icon) and their vid! kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2PRi4l3p96Ci5I

[@zoetevka4653]

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[@lemcy1256]

Also, for everyone who is still unsatisfied by BBC Sherlock NOT BEING FUCKING QUEER, as it should be, come to the Carry On / Simon Snow Fandom! We have warm blankets, sweet sour cherry scones, lots of gay tea AND a connon OTP queer/gay couple of a bisexeual (?) Chosen One, in the end magicless Dragon Boy and a very gay and camp, sassy vampire wizard. #snowbazrulz

[@annatevka8830]

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