The Blessed Dark

Episode aired Jun 19, 2016
TV-MATV-MA
56min

8.3/10

S3.E9

Sir Malcolm and his allies battle the fiend laying claim to Vanessa, the Creature faces a baleful demand, and Ethan makes a heartrending choice.Sir Malcolm and his allies battle the fiend laying claim to Vanessa, the Creature faces a baleful demand, and Ethan makes a heartrending choice.Sir Malcolm and his allies battle the fiend laying claim to Vanessa, the Creature faces a baleful demand, and Ethan makes a heartrending choice.

8.3/10

2.3K

Director
- Paco Cabezas
Writers
- John Logan
- Andrew Hinderaker(staff writer)
- Krysty Wilson-Cairns(staff writer)
Stars

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Director
- Paco Cabezas
Writers
- John Logan
- Andrew Hinderaker(staff writer)
- Krysty Wilson-Cairns(staff writer)
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Sir Malcolm, Ethan, Kaetaney, Dr. Seward, Dr. Frankenstein and Miss Harteghan confront Dracula to rescue Vanessa Ives. Lily comes home to Dorian and finds an empty mansion, only Dorian and one dead girl, Justine. John Clare refuses to have his son turned into a monster ,like him by Victor. —stephen scialli

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Trivia
The poem The Creature/John Clare recites at the end of the episode is called "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by the English poet William Wordsworth. In his poem, Wordsworth laments his lost connection to nature as he grew older and humanity's failure to recognize the value of the natural world.

Goofs
Vanessa Ives had renounced her Roman Catholic faith. At the moment of her death she reclaimed it but when she said the Lord's Prayer, she used the protestant version.

Quotes
Vanessa Ives: Fear not old prophecies. We defy them. We make our own heaven and our own hell.

Crazy credits
"The Blessed Dark" had a different opening title sequence and used a somber theme song to match the mood of the finale.

Soundtracks
Demimonde
Written by Abel Korzeniowski

Top review

10/10

Beautiful

Like the end of the last two seasons, it shows they not everything has a happy ending, or at least there isn't a happy ending without consequence. It's an amazing episode in a brilliant show, beautiful ending to the franchise. Such a shame they ended it. It deserved A longer run and I partly believe it was cancelled due to poor advertising.

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