cimorene

recall these are the jeremy brett productions.

this one is awful. i took no screencaps.

loosely based on 'the sussex vampire,' this story adds homosexual tension and spanish-speaking babes to canon and sitll somehow goes horribly wrong. there's a subplot, for instance, with the groom, who is attracted to mr. ferguson's new peruvian wife's maid. he also has his nice christian girlfriend. there's the addition of a vampire character who we are to believe actually has psychic powers, ie the ability to stare at people, mesmerize them with his eyes, and sap their strength. holmes, who would have argued against this strenuously at first even if he was ever convinced, just says 'oh yes it's a known fact.' it's actually his theory, even though the episode begins with his scoffing at the supernatural. there are also some very bogus scenes where the 'psychic vampire' has a grip on holmes's mind and is presumably forcing him to hallucinate.

not only does it bring in the supernatural and muck about with it, it can't decide if it is to be explained away rationally at the end or not--making weak movements in that direction, not tying up the loose ends. it adds marital infidelity and other bizarre things like that for no apparent reason. besides all this, it bounces all over the place in a VERY non-linear fashion, which is extremely counter-doyle.

ugh.