good shit. it had all the pieces to be a silly story but it's not silly at all. no character is an idiot or cartoonishly evil or good. they're all complex, simultaneously generous and selfish. brave and cowardly. tbh my favorite character is the count. he's just the most handsome of the bunch. and he might seem like an absolute cunt at first but who knows how bad he actually is? I think the way you treat people is more important than what you think about them. maybe he'd treat his wife and servants well. we don't know that. I also like the maid a lot. dean might be the most undebatably nice person in the story but that also makes him the most boring imo. that's why I'm glad I don't know where this story is going. seeing just him and sarah being lovey-dovey would be boring as hell even though she's an interesting character.