. "There is an eerie artificiality surrounding Dracula's entire appearance in Sunnydale ??? his arbitrary initial appearance, his blatantly disparate power level and abilities compared to other vampires, the Marty Stu-style fascination he draws from the cast, his heretofore unmentioned past with other characters, and his oddly anticlimactic and inconclusive defeat (he is clearly not killed, and yet no" . . .