Penny Dreadful

[cupcake_goth]

Look, I appreciate that they actually held to the tropes of Gothic and penny dreadfuls, and that there wasn't a happy ending. I knew, back in season 1, that this sort of outcome was the likely end game.

BUT DAMMIT I WANTED VANESSA AS THE MOTHER OF EVIL. I WANTED HER TO RULE IN MAGNIFICENT DARKNESS. WOULD IT HAVE KILLED YOU, JOHN LOGAN, TO GIVE US SEASON 4 WITH HER AS THE BIG BAD? TO HAVE GIVEN VANESSA A SEASON OF GLORIOUS EVIL and then maybe have her sacrifice herself to save the world?

I'm angry, but I see how this end came about. It just wasn't the one *I* wanted.

Comments

[morseren.livejournal.com]

I agree totally.
I am sad it is over. It was gorgeous and fun...I want all of Vanessa's clothes.

[ashbet]

I AGREE WE NEEDED MORE TIME OF VANESSA BEING EVIL AND STILL ALIVE AND *ARGH*

Kira and I are with you in this.

GAHHHHHHHH!!!

-- A (although every minute of Dr. Seward was amazing, though)

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

a season of Evil Vanessa,
with Ethan refinding Brona as Lily, and the conflict that creates
Maybe Dorian takes up with Evil Vanessa in an episode, and Dracula finds and destroys the painting while Dorian rots in Vanessa's arms.
and um... JOHN yes John finds the FORMULA and stabs it into Frankenstein's back and we see HIM become a monster..

and we never got to see Hyde become the monster. and that feels like a cheat.

And maybe the good doctor starts having visions of her witch ancestor and discovers herself to be the reincarnation and goes to Vanessa fully as the old witch to try to talk her back to herself...

*flops on the bed in a huff*

[ashbet]

Kira and I were both noting that we felt cheated that Jekyll didn't get a proper story arc, and Ethan never re-encountered Lily/Brona.

THERE NEEDED TO BE MORE, DAMMIT!!

-- A ;____;

[solstice-lilac.livejournal.com]

Agree totally. I know it's in keeping with Victorian storytelling, but after all of Vanessa's story, it just seemed so very anti-climactic and disappointing not to take her further and draw out the final conflict. It wouldn't have even needed a happy resolution--just MORE. And there were so many storylines and characters besides Vanessa that were left incomplete. I guess if I were a fanfic writer this could be fertile ground indeed, but as a fan of the show I felt let down!

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Not everyone can be a vampire princess.

[gothypants.livejournal.com]

And that's exactly what is wrong and unjust with the world.