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Old 10-21-2015, 11:18 AM   #5402 (permalink)
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I find the Victorian-era sexism to be hilarious. Especially since...

Spoiler for spoiler:
Whenever the men treat the women as weaklings in need of protection, and keep them in the dark about important plot events in order to spare their delicate feminine minds, it always backfires and leaves everyone in an even worse situation than if they'd treated them as equals.


But yeah, the beginning is clearly the best part.

Spoiler for spoiler:
Even in 2015, the scene with the three vampire brides is still boner-worthy.
It was probably relatively progressive for its time, the women are often characterized as strong and all that. But, yeah, I know what you mean.

But what annoyed me about the second half or so was
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how 90% of it seemed to be them crying, praying and telling each other how awesome they are. Would that really be a spoiler? Well there's not much else there.


Also Van Helsings 'accent' got so ****ing annoying at some point.
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