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[nyoomzz]

"good morning, goto-san"

[wygolvillage]

its astonishing how much isaac killing a woman via a witch trial, who looked identical to his sister, who is a witch, and the implications of that, go uncommented on

[dewsprim]

There were some theories back in the day about how Isaac could've been killing two birds with one stone with Rosaly's execution, he was both ruining Hector's life and also throwing the suspicion off Julia by having people believe the witch was dead. It was a very interesting possibility, it could also give Julia's motivation to help Hector the added guilt of feeling partly responsible for Rosaly's death (I mean, she most likely already feels guilty since she couldn't stop her brother)

It's too bad the CoD manga was canceled before getting the part after Rosaly's death but before the game, maybe they could've touched on all this!

[arikad0]

THERE IS NO WAY I JUST SAW SOMEONE SAY "sorry you have bad taste and hate big tiddy simp Alucard but that’s on you" AS A COME BACK TO NETFLIXVANIA SLANDER

[dewsprim]

How weird is calling Alucard a simp aside, this is funny because when Curry the Kid (Iga's right hand man who worked with him in several Castlevania titles and Bloodstained) did an AMA in Reddit the redditors tried to make him comment on the show but he was kinda...politely trying to no say much about it

But still, he did comment on the things that bothered them the most. Which were the way Alucard's character was changed and how Hector was treated. And that does align a lot with what a lot of fans have been saying.

Maybe we fans aren't the only ones with "bad taste"

[juiceastronaut]

That's another thing that bothered me about Hector's ending.

He says he wants to be left alone (with Lenore, put a pin on that). Where was he at at the beginning of the series? Before Dracula found him? He was alone, isolated from other humans because he felt burned by them too many times. His isolation was a testament to his lost humanity. He only had dead things around him. Nothing living, and certainly no people.

So throughout that whole journey, after everything that happened, his emotional fulfillment and the end of his story arc is...to be right back where he started?

Oh except he wanted *insert woman here* with him that means it's better! Good thing she dies before THATS brought to fruition.

How come Issac can have story arc and realize he wants to live his own life and strive to the future, but not Hector? Like all that stuff Issac said about living in a forever now, how would that not be what he was talking against?

Can you imagine if they did that with Issac? After all that, sparing Hector's life and rebuilding that city just to say some shit like "I'll watch them from afar, I won't live among them but I shall help if need be" or some shit?

Hector's story arc should be him learning to make friends again, having connections, not furthering the self-imposed isolation that made him an easy target in the first place.

He says he wants to write a book, but a book can't replace real human contact.

When Issac told him his plan for the future it should've been the pinnacle of both of their arcs to have Hector join him. So that both Issac and Hector can allow real human contact back in their lives.

They should start with each other, and slowly expand out.

They need friends goddamnit!

[ldkmmkldfs-deactivated20220707]

i honestly thought Issac and hector were new characters bc at the time i barely knew castlevania, finding out old issac was bizarre and it seems they put the old personality on to godbrand(including the red hair). With the race bending of these two characters made me realize they could have done it to the main trio of heroes but decided to have a diverse cast on the villains only??? also it doesnt help that most them dont have voices or speak at all

we call that, poor diversity babyyy

[dewsprim]

I mean apart from being ultra pale white, Hector is also a main hero in the games. But I guess the showrunners decided that with the extra melanin also came a slavery storyline and no redemption arc.

[dostthouhavenochill]

i love the vampire show

[dewsprim]

Very interesting how much sympathy both the show and the fandom spared Lenore compared to Sumi and Taka, even though she did to Hector basically the same thing they did to Alucard.

Even worse, according to their backstory Sumi and Taka became distrustful and paranoid due to being enslaved by a vampire, so they were acting out of fear of being hurt again and were victims of people like Lenore. Meanwhile Lenore was just taking advantage of someone she and her sisters were planning to exploit for their own gain and whom they already had complete power over.

Yet in S4 the show goes hard on portraying her as sympathetic, "kind" within understanble limits, gets granted a dignified death waving an emotional goodbye to her victim, all framed as "tragic". But Sumi and Taka? They were just devious betrayers, get a gruesome death, their corpses desecrated and put on display, the only acknowledgment being Alucard shown pissing beside them.

I'm not saying what they did to Alucard wasn't terrible, but still very inch-teresting. And that's not even touching on how after S3 everyone was coddling Alucard while calling Hector stupid for being deceived.

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

Here's something interesting I've noticed about Lenore in season 4.

She tells Hector that she fears she's of no use anymore and will be shoved aside because her skills are no longer useful in their war. You could argue that she's just feeling insecure or even manipulating Hector to make him feel sympathy for her, but here's the thing:

That scene where Striga and Morana return to the castle, see it swarmed by beasties, sense that Carmilla is dead due to the polycule rings, so they're gonna go he gay somewhere else now?

They barely mention Lenore.

If they could feel Carmilla dying, it's only reasonable that they should be able to feel Lenore passing away/not passing away, too. But no, they just kind of assumed that she died even before Carmilla because if Carmilla's dead then there's no way their weak little Lenore is alive too. They barely spare her a line of dialogue before moving on.

And idk it's sad that they don't really give that many shits about her, but it's also kinda funny. She's the diplomat. The charismatic one. The one who makes people love her and do what she wants them to. And yet none of their vampire gal pals give a shit about her. Morana cried for Carmilla, but not for Lenore. Even Hector didn't try very hard to stop her from going out into the sun.

And yeah, I could feel bad for her but after all the shit she's put Hector through I think I'm just gonna stick to asking Alexa to play "This Girl Is On Fire" whenever I watch her burn to a crisp because she can't bear to live in the exact same gilded cage she didn't hesitate to shove Hector into.

[dewsprim]

Lenore: *dies*

Striga, Morana, Hector and me:

[dostthouhavenochill]

[dewsprim]

It's too bad not even the show bothered to give them that