aaaand i'm disquieted. Why's Alucard a messy person tossing bottles haphazardly? Can he not clean? Is he really that far gone? Would suck if he were....
—I seem to recall demons being about used to be something of a serious thing, what with them raiding towns, eating babies and men and women, painting rooms with the leftovers, and moonwalking their way out
Germain shows up and buys an apple and that's it. Only history buffs and people who played Curse of Darkness will even remotely care why he's there since all he does is buy and then waste an apple
and the BB duo act out a far more natural exposition dump but then makes Carmella's scene worthless in the exchange and ends with a bad "You're sleeping on the couch tonight" joke
From Japan, no knowledge or power, but able to speak Romanian, able to transverse the Hymalaians else sail through the tougher Indian and Arctic Oceans, all to stalk one vampire because more might exist and apparently the Daimyos can't be bothered to purge proper (this IS about Nobunaga's time, so)
Mathias Cronqvst: former general of an unnamed army who retired after the crusades. Set up an elaborate Xanatos Gambit that would net him two powerful stones that would effectively grant him true immortality as a direct act to defy God, who took his wife from him.
By netflix rules, Dracula should be sixteen times the forgemaster both his peons were and already have an army to control, since he's got more in line with being a Dead Apostle than a true vampire
QUICK TIMELINE: Curse of Darkness follows Hector, 3 or so years after Dracula's fall at the hands of Trevor, Sypha, Alucard, and some implied minute men. He fled the final battle, sealed his powers, got the fuck out of dodge because he did not agree with Dracula's plan to wipe every human off the face of the Earth.
Isaac (in ginger form not a black guy) meanwhile actively LOVED Dracula's plan and had no intention of fucking with it, nor any moment to pause and consider a turn of heart. He was pointedly livid Hector betrayed Dracula and fled, and so stalked him after having himself an emo cry
Found him, successfully had his wife drawn, quartered, and burned for heresy crimes she certainly didn't commit, essentially left a Carmen Sandiego-like message saying "I did it, meet me at this castle", and fucked off to watch Hector rage across the land with intents to tear it apart
Hector was not the violent vengance type in his life, he was about as kind as you initially saw him in S2, and despite the lifetime of persecution for being a goddamned psychic freak that could raise the newly-dead or create entirely new demons from the ether, not pull them from hell, he did believe in humanity's kindness and feinted not to lay hands
on them. The whole purpose of the game is watching Hector's rise back to his Forgemaster powers and his slow decent into violence as his revenge takes priority over his better nature. Irony being he stopped being kind and thinking clearly, in spite of attempts for the supporting cast to ground him.
Instead he chased headlong after Isaac, who was getting HIS revenge but also furthering his original ambition of human extinction by goading Hector into fits of violence and using his powers specifically to use him as a vessel for Dracula's resurrection.
It's Hector remembering kindness and not really wanting bloodletting that lets him fight that off. Isaac, in turn, says "fuck it" and uses HIS body as the vessel. Hector just barely ecks out a win against Dracula without the assistance of a Belmont.
It's also the reason fictional villains get to wax philosophical. What else is there to do when you show you can mudstomp a hole into protagonists? Discuss Plato, of course.
it's because the script was too full of quips to actually focus on characterization so as a result the director's forced to tell the audience Trevor's character issues instead of us seeing them naturally 8U
The A plot is conquest of the Braila corridor which the show genuinely does not have time to actually execute unless Carmilla has a mountain of corpses under her castle
yes, yes, do go on about Carmilla didn't do anything wrong and had zero intents of zlitting Dracula's throat and overthrowing him regardless of whether or not he wasnted to cruicible the entire human race
Game of Thrones is to blame wait not it isn't because they actually had plot progression per episode. It just took place with people whose names you couldn't be damned to remember 8U
I swear if Isaac runs into one more person that has literally seen hell but is just some chill/decrepit easy goer that managed to live into their twilight years I'm going to flip my shit
I think the biggest insult is this goes on under the exact assumption it won't get the axe, thus leaving these slow-ass plot threads entirely unresolved
C plot stretched out because minecraft's getting laid, A plot is on hold because the Neutered is getting laid, B plot doesn't even have a proper villain identity to fight he's just kinda pillaging a city of almost-but-not-quite dead
Bad people do bad shit that was never the point. The "so-easy-kids-even-got-it" point of Castlevania was struggle through bad shit to get to the new day because it's not always night.
Mayor/Judge of the town? Orderly sociopathic child murderer that used an apple tree to lure children to their doom, and collected their shoes as trophies.
Sala some mad monk who for SOME reason despite seeing the demons that plagued Wallachia, decided "Hey the Damned and Satan are pretty cool" and willingly became an unwitting pawn in a surprisingly well-executed cthulu summon
upside 2: if netflix DOESN'T cut the throat out of this like they've done their other "too popular to cancel" shows, then I have at least the consolation of watching Isaac gut The Neutered and His Four Unqualified Pimps
World: /moves on, invents steam engines, industrializes
Carmilla: um wait
probably really pissTrevor: /zombie nod
goddamned salad fingers
Kyp:
Yeah yeah we get it
After: Okay i'll heel for a little piece of light meat
Deep 8U
UNDERSTATEMENT 8U
And beaten into dust by one drunkard, his druid handler, and a minecraft-playing vampire. Your point?
No, you probably diddled kids and coveted your neighbors wives while they were in senate 8U
Thaaaaaaat's better.