i’m making this post because some of you have really bad opinions about castlevania s2 jfc. like the gross and blatant racism aside (because i know the vast majority of you whites don’t give a shit and i and other ppl have already discussed) this season was horribly written, especially when it comes to characters. it was rushed and not well thought out and it shows lmao
like even just looking at the characters- the majority of character development in this season is honestly just fans projecting their own theories onto the show
isaac was the best written, newly introduced character to the show, where his relationship with dracula was clear, and his motivations seemed strong. his backstory absolutely should have been different (you’re really gonna make the one black person in the whole thing a former slave that whips himself, and then raises an army of slaves to commit his own genocide, amazing), but he was well-written otherwise, and it’s really shitty he has that hanging over him
hector was treated horribly and his character was so loose and unclear- i couldn’t tell you much about him that isn’t “this is his life story” and “he’s easy to manipulate apparently”, because the time that was spent on him was mostly poorly used (though the flashbacks to him as a kid were great)
what was the point of godbrand? what purpose did he serve for the story? to show tension with carmilla and unrest in drac’s generals? to be show a different side of the story? warren could’ve done that with absolutely any of the generals, and in much more creative ways. did we need to know he was a viking for any reason except his stupid boat joke? why did we need to care about his sexual history or lust for carmilla? was that ever established beyond a couple of throwaway lines? if we removed him from the plot and had some random general yell out something about disagreeing with dracula, would anything have changed at all? he was just a tool to (extremely slowly) advance the plot, not an actual character with any basis or substance. the only notable thing he did was get dracula to yell at him, so again, a tool for some kind of development, but nothing else.
about carmilla: how the fuck are you reading her as a strong character? all she says is that men are children- she cares nothing for the other women (they’re obstacles to her i guess, or cowards?), she has no history developed regarding why she thinks this way or is this way, and all of her (white) “feminism” is purely in words. do you all really think feminism is about beating up men (men of color mind you!!)? everything is so superficial about her- it’s like someone designed her character and said “she’s angry, hates men, isn’t afraid to use violence, and manipulates people into doing her bidding” and just made sure to include some lines to say that. there’s nothing about her motivations (besides some vague “power” thing), nothing about her personality besides those traits, and nothing of substance behind her??
even dracula got a shitty character arc! we left season 1 with him angry and moved immediately to him being indifferent, with no opportunity to see him develop. we don’t even know why he hates humans besides the vague “he’s a vampire” thing. the flashback we had to him murdering humans that had wronged him has no purpose except to show that he once… murdered humans violently (though i’ll note that the mention that he only killed the ones that had wronged him was good and important). that screentime could’ve been used to show him falling apart, to make him believable sad and frankly driven to some degree of madness because of his loss of lisa. we never find out why he didn’t turn lisa even, though that’s explicitly asked by the characters?? obviously it’s not hard to try to come up with some reasons but come on!! missed opportunity for a better look into their relationship
AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON ALUCARD. where was he when his mother died!! why didn’t we get to hear that? why don’t we get to see more of his relationship with his parents, and maybe how he felt about the fact that his own father almost killed him?? the main emotional conflict is only really highlighted in the end, when we see him crying because he killed his father and is left with just the ghosts of his family behind. we really should have gotten some of that way earlier, some more internal conflict, some fucking acknowledgement by trevor and sypha that that must have been tough??
sypha was basically perfect, i’ll give warren that
trevor had his whole purpose removed- he was literally just comic relief in this season, and his fight with the demons in the library literally could have been omitted and nothing would change lol (also really?? an entire vault of belmont magic and weapons and history and some casual demons can just break it open out of brute force?????? weak, bad writing).
why the fuck did warren spend so much time on the fake/bad politics at dracula’s castle and not developing the trio’s relationship and separate motivations for going through with the plan? the political plot is frankly boring- it added literally nothing except vague fodder to get carmilla to move the castle and betray dracula– which could have happened in LOTS of other, more efficient, better written ways.
and the sypha/trevor ending was bullshit, sorry- does warren know what friends are? or basic compassion for others? because they got over alucard’s grief and loneliness pretty fucking fast lmao
i’m not saying you can’t enjoy it (though if you enjoyed the way hector and isaac were treated in any way, u can choke), or that badly written stuff can’t be fun, but the characters in this season were horribly written and developed, and you can stop pretending otherwise, it’s okay, u can be a fan and acknowledge something is shit lol
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