WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for BBC's Dracula.

BBC's Dracula is one of the most divisive takes on the character yet, paying homage to Bram Stoker's novel as well as the Hammer movies and the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola flick. However, the show deviates from the source material to add modern flair. This leads to Vlad the Impaler (Claes Bang) ending up in modern England -- as opposed to the 1800's -- where he plans to continue spreading the curse of the undead.

Sorry to say, however, as this three-episode series traverses two different timelines set 123 years apart, quite a few plot holes arise that we can't help but sink our fangs into and criticize.

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NOT RAISING THE STAKES

In the show's first episode, "The Rules of the Beast," Sister Agatha Van Helsing (Dolly Wells) follows Dracula's rules to the tee when he tries to attack her Transylvanian church. He hasn't been invited in, so he can only stop at the gates, and here, Agatha gets up close and personal. She's within breathing distance of the vampire. Yet for some reason, she doesn't drive a stake through his heart, even though she's holding the weapon in her hand.

It's a pretty dumb decision, as she knows he's a warlord with a lust for blood. Her entire mission, inherited from her ancestors, is about killing Vlad, so why wouldn't she follow through. In fact, in quite a few of the exchanges between Agatha and Dracula, especially when he corners her in her science lab later that night, the nun is right next to him but doesn't kill the vamp. Even when he's looking away at a fleeing Mina, Agatha just doesn't have the common sense to impale him. There are so many instances when it slips her mind thereafter that she comes off as a terrible vampire hunter.

THE DEMETER'S TRIGGER MAN

In the second episode, "Blood Vessel," Vlad takes out the passengers and crew of the ship the Demeter in a cat-and-mouse game. It's all for kicks, as Dracula needs to occupy his idle mind to pass the hours. The journey concludes with the remaining crew members and guests figuring out Agatha was the victim the vampire hid on board. Together with the nun, they overpower him, light him on fire and throw him overboard.

Agatha's infected from his bite, though, and as the two living crew members leave in a lifeboat, the dying nun and Captain Sokolov (Jonathan Aris) decide to burn the boat down before it can reach England and possibly spread Dracula's contagion. However, Dracula heals, swims back to the ship and slits the Captain's throat before asking Agatha to come topside for a drink.

When he walks off, Agatha could easily have gone and lit the fuse below deck to blow up the Demeter. Oddly enough, she doesn't even think to do so, instead relying on Sokolov, who's somehow just barely alive, to take care of it. That he didn't die after Drac slashed his throat is also pretty convenient, as all other people who suffered this style of attack from the vamp died instantly.

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FOREVER YOUNG, UNDER THE SEA...

Dracula's premiere episode found Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan) in the vampire's castle to sort out his trip to England. The undead warlord is initially old and decrepit, seemingly dried up from not feeding. Over the next few days, though, he looks younger and younger as he secretly drains Jonathan's blood. The nearby town contains people the vampire could have fed off, yet Vlad never opted to do so in a mind-boggling decision. He could also have traveled as a wolf somewhere, so he should have been able to find food somehow.

Also, this raises a valid concern in the final episode, "The Dark Compass," where he is revived after spending 123 years underwater after the Demeter sank. Dracula hid in his coffin without sustenance for all that time, but somehow he emerges on England's soil fresh and young. Yet, with no blood to drink, he should have been old and withered.

Some fans argue his coffin had Transylvanian soil, which restores him, but even when he slept on this soil in his castle, he still became frail. Blood is the true key to the vampire's ability to stay young and vital. This Dracula should have been geriatric after 123 in the sea, but this oversight is for plot convenience, so he can become a playboy in 2020 London.

FAKE NEWS, FAKE MYTHS

In the finale, Zoe (Agatha's descendant, also played by Dolly Wells) reveals all of Dracula's supposed weaknesses (burning up if exposed to sunlight, fear of the cross, needing an invitation to enter a place, etc.) were only able to manifest because the vampire gave them power. In actuality, they had no bearing on his existence.

In theory, Dracula was his own worst enemy, yet the series shows the sunlight burn him when he tries to kill Jonathan after the latter escaped his castle. He also should have been able to cross the gates of Agatha's church, but couldn't. So Zoe's explanation for his weaknesses was simply Dracula being too clever for its own good. The show tries to say these weaknesses weren't real but we see them hinder the vampire time and time again.

Executive produced by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue and Ben Irving, Dracula stars John Heffernan, Dolly Wells, Joanna Scanlan, Sacha Dhawan, Jonathan Aris, Morfydd Clark, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Claes Bang as Count Dracula. The miniseries debuted on BBC One Jan. 1 and is now streaming on Netflix.

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