Castlevania

It gets good and good, as the show progresses, season by season. Season 1 got a bit slow, but that was only because there were 4 episodes. Season 2 got interesting, and it concluded with an epic confrontation between the three heroes and Dracula! Season 3 was excellent. Up until the last episode, which had a pretty bleak conclusion, how they left it with each character; just when you see a glimmer of hope you get disappointed with the dark reminder of humanity!

Castlevania, while based on the popular video, to me is like Game of Thrones, but animated, and with vampires!

SPOILERS AHEAD

I was really looking forward to this show, as many people praised it. However, so many things that the show was acclaimed for, are the exact reasons why I hated watching it. Season 1 was promising, it was short, straight to the point. It did an amazing job at introducing the characters and the world. It piqued my curiosity and I needed to know more. I can’t say the same for the following seasons, as the biggest crime this show commits is telling you everything and not showing you. Which on its own is bad, but when the dialogue is bad as well, it makes for a boring watch. There are many examples of lazy writing in the show. One scene that I found just plain bad, was the flashback when Dracula was recruiting Isaac. He has this line: “Say the words. So I know you are still my friend”, to me this line stood out from the moment I heard it. The line is just such a poor attempt at forcing the other character to talk about how they met. They don’t even try to have a good set up for the flashback, they force it in instead. There are many other bad pieces of dialogue, but I am sure I got some of my point across. What also does not help is how bad the voice acting is. The voice actors are whispering a lot of the times, which for me does not work. They also have no emotion in their voice, so a lot of the deliveries make some normal scenes so boring to watch. I am not sure if the voice actors are to blame, or the director who guided them. Whoever it was, the show was really hindered by it.

Season 2 - 3/10:

The actual story of the show has some interesting plot threads, but the writers chose the most boring scenes to show. Our main hero cast is stuck in a library for most of the season. They barely have any fighting scenes, and we are mainly learning on how to kill Dracula. Many scenes that they do show of them, are jokes, some comedic bits to lift the tension between the other plot threads. Which is disappointing, because I was hoping they wou...