Huh? He drains Jonathan and leaves him so weak he’s out of the story for months. He successfully migrates to England, killing the entire ship’s crew on the way. He lives in London for months, killing many locals while he does so. He kills and transforms Lucy. He comes incredibly close to also turning Mina. His minions kill Quincy Morris in the climax of the story.
For sure, it’s a very old book that really doesn’t follow the storytelling conventions we would expect today in terms of how the pacing of tension and the back-and-forth between protagonists and antagonists work. But it’s a far cry from “one W before the ultimate L”. Hell, basically the entire first half of the book is all Ws for D.
Huh? He drains Jonathan and leaves him so weak he’s out of the story for months. He successfully migrates to England, killing the entire ship’s crew on the way. He lives in London for months, killing many locals while he does so. He kills and transforms Lucy. He comes incredibly close to also turning Mina. His minions kill Quincy Morris in the climax of the story.
For sure, it’s a very old book that really doesn’t follow the storytelling conventions we would expect today in terms of how the pacing of tension and the back-and-forth between protagonists and antagonists work. But it’s a far cry from “one W before the ultimate L”. Hell, basically the entire first half of the book is all Ws for D.