{"id":164,"date":"2013-11-14T17:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-04-05T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:12:36","slug":"goblin-merchant-men-the-romantic-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Dracula: Goblin Merchant Men \u2013 The Romantic Episode!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14\" alt=\"Dracula banner - Click to learn more at the official NBC Network web site!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dracula-banner.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dracula-banner.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dracula-banner-256x62.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dracula-banner-320x77.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dracula-banner-400x96.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Welcome <a title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WormholeRiders<\/a> who are dedicated to <a title=\"Click to visit and learn more about Dracula at the official NBC Network web site!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dracula<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Lady Jayne Wetherby and Browning have a chat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-159\" alt=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Lady Jayne Wetherby and Browning have a chat\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-400x266.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0733.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Maybe I am being a bit thick, but the reason for the title of this particular episode escapes me. To me, this will forever be the episode, \u201cIn Which Dracula Shows He Still Has A Heart\u201d, or, \u201cThe Romantic Episode\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">What comes to mind with this current title is the little goblin bank tellers in the Harry Potter movie. So, very not the same thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">As is the habit of this particular series, the beginning of the episode gives us more insight into the character of Dracula, based on his experiences in his past life. We learn that Dracula was punished for disobedience by what appears to be a religious order, but is later identified as the Order Draco. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">The punishment, one of great severity, is some kind of mystic transformation that created his current state; that of vampire.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"Dracula S1 banner poster -- Pictured: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, Alexander Grayson, Vlad Tepes -- (Photo by: Nino Munoz\/NBC)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78\" alt=\"Dracula S1 banner poster -- Pictured: Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, Alexander Grayson, Vlad Tepes -- (Photo by: Nino Munoz\/NBC)\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NUP_156559_2875-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NUP_156559_2875-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NUP_156559_2875-200x300-128x192.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e9iZHLkBzk8?&amp;autoplay=1&amp;rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a title=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Beginning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170\" alt=\"Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning-256x141.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning-320x176.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Beginning-400x220.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">During his very unpleasant ordeal, Dracula, or as he prefers to be known in the 19th century, Alexander Grayson (<a title=\"Click to visit and follow Jonathan Rhys Meyers on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRM_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Rhys Meyers<\/a>), sees the vision of a woman standing near a blossoming tree. The tree is strangely incongruous to the events occurring around it. It turns up again later in the episode.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 R.M. Renfield front view - Delivers the message to Dracula\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-148\" alt=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 R.M. Renfield front view - Delivers the message to Dracula\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0380-400x574.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0380-400x574.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0380-133x192.jpg 133w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0380-320x459.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0380.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Grayson gets good news. The nasty trick he pulled on Lord Laurent (<a title=\"Click to learn about Anthony Howell!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0397928\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Howell<\/a>) in the previous episode has been successful and he has acquired the shares Laurent owned of British Imperial Coolant. It sounds like shares to a refrigerator company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Lady Jane Whetherby (<a title=\"Click to visit and follow Victoria Smurfit on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VictoriaSmurfit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victoria Smurfit<\/a>) is looking for a new elixir for her seer&#8217;s, who had an unpleasant supernatural experience, courtesy of Grayson, in the previous episode. She has found a man who knows a man, and, fortunately, that man turns out to be Abraham Van Helsing (<a title=\"Click to learn about Thomas Kretschmann!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0470981\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Kretschmann<\/a>), who, in turn, is in cahoots with Grayson. Very convenient, no?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">We learn a bit more about Grayson\u2019s man, R.M Renfield (<a title=\"Click to learn about Nonso Anozie!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1996829\/`\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonso Anozie<\/a>), when he and Jonathan Harker (<a title=\"Click to visit and follow Oliver Jackson-Cohen on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OJACKSONCOHEN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oliver Jackson-Cohen<\/a>) are sent on an errand to make a demand of an employee of the just acquired British Imperial Coolant company. Renfield requires no help or support from Harker. He lets Harker know that after the meeting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Grayson, aware of Lady Jane\u2019s desire for a special drug for her seers instructs Van Helsing in some nefarious scheme, while Lord Laurent is expected but refuses to give up his reason for accepting Grayson\u2019s threat. This is not good for poor Lord Laurent who is really now caught between a rock and a hard place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Lord Laurent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-173\" alt=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Lord Laurent\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Lord-Laurent.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Lord-Laurent.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Lord-Laurent-256x138.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Lord-Laurent-320x173.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Lord-Laurent-400x216.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Is Grayson really Vlad the Impaler? He manages to have feelings of sorrow when he encounters an imprisoned woman who begs for him to kill her, due to the tests being conducted on her by the Order. What is not clear however is he feeling sorry for the woman or for himself as he is brought face to face with his own suffering? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">As a psychopath, he would not feel sympathy for anyone else, but his feelings for himself would be very powerful.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Shhhhh.... Let's keep it a secret!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" alt=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Shhhhh.... Let's keep it a secret!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155260_1538.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155260_1538.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155260_1538-256x177.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155260_1538-320x222.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155260_1538-400x278.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Meanwhile, Harker\u2019s reputation has grown with the elite of British society, Mina (<a title=\"Click to visit and follow Jessica De Gouw on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessdegouw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica De Gouw<\/a>) and Lucy (<a title=\"Click here to learn more about Katie McGrath\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2692146\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie McGrath<\/a>) are off to party to overcome Mina\u2019s depression. Harker, the cad, has been found out in the previous episode as not the man Mina thought he was. Lord Laurent does the manly thing and faces the Order.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Anger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" alt=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Anger\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Anger.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Anger.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Anger-256x142.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Anger-320x178.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Anger-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Grayson has to vacate the street as the sun rises, unable to get a glimpse of Mina\u2019s reaction to the dozen roses he has left at her front door. He is not amused. He returns home only to take his anger out on Van Helsing who is not having much luck coming up with a formula so that he can remain longer in the sun light.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">My thought, as Lord Laurent faced the blade for his crime of selling his shares to Grayson was, how barbaric&#8230;this is no way for a bunch of rich men to behave. When money and power are involved, I guess it does not matter in which century you live. There will always be despicable immoral people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177\" alt=\"Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist-256x142.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist-320x177.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-The-artist-400x221.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">At a party of morally ambiguous individuals, Lucy and Mina indulge in some absinthe, which seems to give Mina an out of body experience. She experiences that same blossoming tree from the beginning of the episode, seemingly tying Mina to Grayson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Door closes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-182\" alt=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Door closes\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Door-closes1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Door-closes1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Door-closes1-256x144.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Door-closes1-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Door-closes1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178\" alt=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Primeaval star\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star-320x274.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star-320x274.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star-224x192.jpg 224w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star-400x342.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Primeaval-star.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Lee Potts of Primeaval<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">A young artist (<a title=\"Click to visit and folow Andrew Lee Potts on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewleepotts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Lee Potts<\/a>) finds Mina as she begins to come out of her stupor, and does his best to pick her up. She is not buying his lines. This angers him. He becomes belligerent. Fortunately for Mina, Grayson had just happened by and arrives in time to toss the young man onto his backside. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Of, course, we know that there is nothing accidental about his presence, and Mina, although sensible enough to figure out the artist, seems completely oblivious when it comes to Grayson. Strange, indeed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">As they talk, Mina confides in Grayson that Harker has hurt her. Surprisingly, instead of taking the opportunity to make his move, Grayson does his best to convince her to give Harker, the dummy, another chance. Then he takes the next opportunity he gets to convince Harker to re-establish his relationship with Mina. Why?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013  Harker an Dracula have a drink together\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-156\" alt=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Harker an Dracula have a drink together\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0494-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Mina seems to be in hot demand. She not only has the unrequited love of Grayson, and the returned love of Harker, but also, the dangerously unacceptable love of Lucy. Lucy is spending a great deal of time looking for excuses to spend time with Mina.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Abraham Van Helsing thinks it through\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-157\" alt=\"Dracula S1x03 \u2013 Abraham Van Helsing thinks it through\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0625-320x480.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0625-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0625-128x192.jpg 128w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NUP_155259_0625.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>The seers have their own problems. They have received the elixir and have taken it. It does not have the desired effect, however. Just as they discover the identity of the vampire, the drug takes effect. They both become paralysed. Enter Van Helsing who can leave no evidence of his chemical trail. He bashes in the heads of the two seers. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Before he does so, however, he tells the seers why he is there. He talks about how the Order punished him by burning his family alive. We have no idea what he did to deserve such punishment, or, for that matter, what Grayson\/Dracula did to be turned into a vampire. I assume that we shall find out later in the series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Finally, Harker and Mina make up. He arrives at her door and apologises for thinking she does not need a career when he has the means to support her. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Now that he has the means, he must still let her pursue her dreams. For Victorian England, this couple will stand out quite a bit. Love, however, seems to conquer all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Renfield and Grayson\" href=\"\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" alt=\"Goblin Merchant Men S01X03 Renfield and Grayson\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Renfield-and-Grayson1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Renfield-and-Grayson1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Renfield-and-Grayson1-256x142.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Renfield-and-Grayson1-320x178.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Goblin-Merchant-Men-S01X03-Renfield-and-Grayson1-400x223.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Grayson also discovers that he has done a good thing by bringing Harker and Mina together. He enjoys the good feeling this brings him. She remains in his orbit, as Renfield points out, yet, not within his grasp. As an immortal man, he has plenty of time to wait for her.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">At the beginning of this analysis I mentioned that I did not understand the purpose for the title. Perhaps, upon reflection, the title is more about the character of the men who belong to the Order. Maybe it is not Grayson who is the evil in this story. Perhaps, instead, it is the Order. Time will tell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dracula season one banner - Click to learn more at the official NBC Network web site!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/dracula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142\" alt=\"Dracula season one banner - Click to learn more at the official NBC Network web site!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dracula-season-one-banner.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dracula-season-one-banner.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dracula-season-one-banner-256x144.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dracula-season-one-banner-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Dracula-season-one-banner-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8978\" alt=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/shield\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WormholeRiders-New-Logo-150TS-Dark.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Thanks to <a title=\"Click to visit and follow Managing Editor WR_Systems (Kenn) on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WR_Systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenn<\/a> for final staging, audio video embedding and additional image selection, and many thanks to you for visiting for stopping by the <a title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WormholeRiders News Agency<\/a> Dracula&#8217;s Definitive Domain dedicated web site! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family. 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I and Team WHR look forward to <a title=\"Click to visit and follow WHR on Twitter!\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeing You on The Other Side!<\/a>&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to visit and follow ArcticGoddess1 (Patricia) on Twitter!\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArcticGoddess1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9199\" alt=\"Click to visit and follow ArcticGoddess1 (Patricia) on Twitter!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/shield\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PatriciaBertrand-192x192.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Regards,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Thank you. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a title=\"Click to visit and follow ArcticGoddess1 (Patricia) on Twitter!\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ArcticGoddess1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArcticGoddess1<\/a> (Patricia)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome WormholeRiders who are dedicated to Dracula! Maybe I am being a bit thick, but the reason for the title of this particular episode escapes me. To me, this will forever be the episode, \u201cIn Which Dracula Shows He Still Has A Heart\u201d, or, \u201cThe Romantic Episode\u201d. What comes to mind with this current title&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Dracula: Goblin Merchant Men \u2013 The Romantic Episode!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,45,49,20,11,32,24,17,48,40,30,39,33,23,87,25,50,43,36,38,12,9,35,16,55,52,61,8,22,37,10,47,31,44,56,13,34,41,46,14],"tags":[259,237,241,216,207,224,220,213,240,232,222,231,72,225,82,219,80,221,242,235,75,228,92,230,215,257,208,205,227,212,51,246,243,256,252,79,214,84,83,204,244,218,229,234,211,78,206,239,93,223,236,74,85,67,247,209,226,217,253,233,238,210,69,77],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andrew-lee-potts","category-anne-mensah","category-annie-symons","category-anthony-howell","category-ben-miles","category-bram-stoker","category-carnival-film-television","category-charlotte-asprey","category-chris-seager","category-christopher-hall","category-cole-haddon","category-colin-callender","category-daniel-knauf","category-dracula","category-dracula-s1x03-goblin-merchant-men","category-flame-ventures","category-gabor-kiszelly","category-gareth-neame","category-harley-peyton","category-irene-burns","category-jessica-de-gouw","category-jonathan-rhys-meyers","category-katie-lovejoy","category-katie-mcgrath","category-laszlo-demeter","category-levente-lezsak","category-lindsey-stirling","category-miklos-banyai","category-nbc-universal","category-nicole-taylor","category-oliver-jackson-cohen","category-ousama-rawi","category-rebecca-kirsch","category-reece-pearson","category-steve-shill","category-thomas-kretschmann","category-tom-grieves","category-tony-krantz","category-trevor-morris","category-victoria-smurfit","tag-andrew-lee-potts","tag-anne-mensah","tag-annie-symons","tag-anthony-howell","tag-ben-miles","tag-bram-stoker","tag-carnival-film-television","tag-charlotte-asprey","tag-chris-seager","tag-christopher-hall","tag-cole-haddon","tag-colin-callender","tag-daniel-davenport","tag-daniel-knauf","tag-declan-hannigan","tag-dracula","tag-elizabeth-kinnear","tag-flame-ventures","tag-gabor-kiszelly","tag-gareth-neame","tag-gary-oldman","tag-harley-peyton","tag-harry-potter","tag-irene-burns","tag-jack-fox","tag-jemma-redgrave","tag-jessica-de-gouw","tag-jonathan-rhys-meyers","tag-katie-lovejoy","tag-katie-mcgrath","tag-kent-johnson","tag-laszlo-demeter","tag-levente-lezsak","tag-lewis-rainer","tag-lindsey-stirling","tag-lucrezia-borgia","tag-matt-barber","tag-michael-twaits","tag-mike-kelly","tag-miklos-banyai","tag-music-news-series","tag-nbc-universal","tag-nicole-taylor","tag-nigel-marchant","tag-nonso-anozie","tag-occult","tag-oliver-jackson-cohen","tag-ousama-rawi","tag-primeaval","tag-rebecca-kirsch","tag-reece-pearson","tag-renfield","tag-scott-alexander-young","tag-st-eligius","tag-steve-shill","tag-thomas-kretschmann","tag-tom-grieves","tag-tom-reed","tag-tom-waits","tag-tony-krantz","tag-trevor-morris","tag-victoria-smurfit","tag-vlad-tepes","tag-yusra-warsama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dracula\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}