I can understand why many people here didn't like Season 3. The entire theme of that season was about betrayal of trust and shaking up characters' beliefs. I thought it made sense after the climactic battle against Dracula in Season 2 to turn everything on it's head and make the world seem more complicated than the main cast pictured it to be.
Alucard had his trust in humans betrayed.
Sypha had her trust in trying to be a good simaritan questioned.
Trevor had his trust in his creed and religion shaken up.
Hector had his trust in freedom and love completely destroyed.
Isaac had his trust in Dracula's motives deterred.
Moments like these help define character growth.
Season 3 could have worked as an introspective dark middle chapter for a 5 season show. Considering that it's not going to happen now, it will probably stand out as the awkward season while season 4 might end up rushing story threads just to wrap up a creative vision that was originally supposed to span multiple generations of Belmont and somehow include Dante in all of this.
That's out of the window now.
I suppose that may have been the intent, but I feel the execution of it was just lacking. The whole "split scenario" I just feel was a total misfire in making everyone's arcs all fully separate. Alucard's arc is a total afterthought and it shows, as it also butchers the character. One of the hallmarks of his character is his unwavering faith in humanity, and the promise to his mother to defend it. It's what keeps him going through all the centuries. To end up losing his faith in such a really ham-fisted way is just furthering the insult.
I honestly think the twins were there to boost representation, they had no purpose and end up doing nothing that would effect any part of the story, it's the only purpose I can see for them.
Those gay incest twins were the worst. Cant believe they wasted Alucard on that plot.
Indeed. Their purpose was worthless and their motives were simply wtf. I love how their backstory involved the super dangerous Japanese vampire, who Sypha killed in an instant rather pathetically back in Season 2, which made their motives all the more dumb. It really felt they had no idea what to do with Alucard (especially since in canon, he was supposed to just go to sleep after CV3 until SotN), and just lazily turned him into a pure fanservice character and wanted a sex scene with him and this was the best they could do. And god that whole scene was just WTF. The twins in many instances are drawn to look like children, yet all of a sudden they became more "adult" looking, not to mention the fucking weird "relationship" until then was more mentor/teacher and gave off no hints of anything else between them.
Ya. I get it they wanted a male and female character mix. And tossing in some lover's chirping was forced in for jokes.
But they could had just had Trevor and Sypha being a kick ass dual with serious attitude.
I would had liked the series more if it was a bit more serious. They make Trevorr a joking smack talker every minute.
Definitely a gripe I had with the writing/characterization is the typical "man dumb, woman smart" dynamic played out between Trevor and Sypha. Again you can count on Trevor to be the bumbling fool who will always get injured, where as Sypha then comes along without a hitch and pulls more lightning out of her ass to deal with things effortlessly (her powers are so deliberately broken and basically written to serve the plot/scenes)
Season 3 was a snore-fest. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Once they departed from anything resembling Castlevania 3, it was over. Hell, it was over the moment they killed Dracula. And also, no Grant Denasty? They gave OTHER PIRATES parts in season 2 and didn't introduce the last main character of the game.
Another thing that irked me was the lack of the fantastic soundtrack from the game. They used one track in all the episodes I've watched.
It's too bad, too. The first two seasons were good and the animation style was very appealing.
From what I recall, the whole thing with no Grant is thanks to Ellis, unless he's bullshitting, that he just hated the idea of that character and wanted nothing to do with him in the script. I wouldn't even be surprised if he fully intended to do that as the season's progressed as an FU to the fans who were bugging him about it. And yeah, the only soundtrack adaptation from the games I recall was the Bloody Tears remix at the end of S2. But other than that, it was all original tracks.
I think you stopped at the best possible spot. Especially if you're even remotely a fan of Alucard or SotN.
Definitely reminds me of SotN
On the plus side, there werent any blowjobs. Close, but none.
It's funny. I remember a year ago when this had just aired how the initial praise for the Season was so overwhelming it seemed. I felt I was alone in thinking "wtf did I just watch?", "how was any of that good?", especially with regard to this plot in particular. Though over time I've definitely found and noted more and more people coming to similar conclusions (perhaps initial hype and shock value wore off). Let me be clear, I'm not against trying to do something interesting with Alucard (since again he has no canon story right after S2), I'm just disappointed that this was all they could come up with, and that it's so nonsensical. It basically boils down to:
Dumbass Twins: "Move Castle"
Alucard: Castle Broken. I'm no Engineer. I can't fix. I'll help you in any other way.
Dumbass Twins: "Why you no Move Castle?"
I'm not mad even with Alucard getting a sex scene. I just feel it was so unearned and cheap (on top of the whole awful context of it), especially for such a longtime character.
From what I recall in articles, Ellis apparently had written Seasons 1 and 2 way back pre 2010, as the initial pitch was a trilogy of film-run-time movies. That sort of fits with the episode count for both seasons (S1 = 4, S2 = 8). I think he had to even get Konami and possibly IGA's approvals for the treatments. The project of course got into limbo for a while, but when it got resurrected at Netflix I believe Ellis said he just used the same treatments with some minor updates/changes. The point of that tangent is that, S1 and S2 had been through the wringer in the writing and editing process, where as S3 seems so shoddily put together by comparison, as it comes off as trying to pull a Game of Thrones final Seasons (lack of source canon does that too0.
