purple_beard Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 Interesting story arc.... Pretty good animation. Pretty dark IMO. Quote Link to comment
blcdude1 Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 I watched it and enjoyed it. Leaves me with high hopes for season two. And yeah, that bar scene, what with the goat fucking? Pure Warren Ellis insanity. Hilarious. Quote Link to comment
EH_STEVE Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Loved it, but too short. Four 22 minute episodes isn't a season, it's a cock-tease. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 If you just look at it as the average length of a movie, it's not so bad. Initially though I was expecting the neighborhood of 12 to 13 episodes like the average length of an anime season now, but did hear at least that the next season for this will be around twice as long. The first season was great all around, but the first episode was easily the best of it IMO. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 https://gonintendo.com/stories/284951-netflix-s-castlevania-producer-says-season-2-scripts-are-done-wa Hot damn. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) The ball's on Nintendo's court for letting it happen. Will have to see if they deliver, or if they keep the ball and go home... edit: Suppose I'll make a different thread for it in the Nintendo section. Edited July 11, 2017 by Ridley Prime Quote Link to comment
Eliwood8 Posted July 14, 2017 Share Posted July 14, 2017 I didn't realize it was only four episodes; I watched it all yesterday and thought it was really good. It does feel like just a prologue though. I'm looking forward to seeing how much more they can do in the second season. Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/06/second_season_of_the_castlevania_netflix_series_arrives_llater_this_yearr Next wave coming at the end of the year it looks like. Quote Link to comment
EH_STEVE Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 5 hours ago, purple_beard said: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/06/second_season_of_the_castlevania_netflix_series_arrives_llater_this_yearr Next wave coming at the end of the year it looks like. They were already greenlit for a third season too. Quote Link to comment
Sir Grim Locksmith VIII Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 On 6/24/2018 at 1:00 PM, purple_beard said: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/06/second_season_of_the_castlevania_netflix_series_arrives_llater_this_yearr Next wave coming at the end of the year it looks like. Hell yes babeeeeeee Doc Brown and purple_beard 2 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 Now that season 2 is out and I watched it... It was pretty good, sad ending notwithstanding. I’m just not sure how to feel about the setup for another season though, without spoiling anything. Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 18 hours ago, Ridley Prime said: Now that season 2 is out and I watched it... It was pretty good, sad ending notwithstanding. I’m just not sure how to feel about the setup for another season though, without spoiling anything. I'm through episode 4.... its not bad.... so far.... can't wait to finish it. Ridley Prime 1 Quote Link to comment
Edie Napier Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 20 hours ago, Ridley Prime said: Now that season 2 is out and I watched it... It was pretty good, sad ending notwithstanding. I’m just not sure how to feel about the setup for another season though, without spoiling anything. Considering how the games go, Dracula will most likely be revived by Death and cement him as the Dark Lord, considering Death is a big force in the series and hasn't showed up yet. It's actually been taking good liberties with remaining faithful to some of the story in the series so far. Ridley Prime 1 Quote Link to comment
Sir Grim Locksmith VIII Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 (edited) Binged the entire second season the other night. The way it was structured made it feel like a movie broken up into 8 parts more than a serialized story. Nothing against that per se, but it sorta affected the pacing the show as a show, as it kinda dragged when the main trio spent multiple episodes meandering about in the Belmont archive without interacting with the outside world. That part also ties into a larger issue, as the show lacked any real interaction between the protagonists and the antagonists until the climax. Like, I liked how both sides each received some kind of development, but these developments were so isolated from one another that may have well been different stories entirely. This lack of interaction also fucked with the world-building. I never really got a feel for the world outside of Dracula, his army, his castle, Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard. So if the show was gonna spend so much time developing Dracula's henchmen, then it should of have been a story about Dracula's henchmen and the infighting that goes on within his ranks. However, that would sort of defeat the purpose of adapting the general Castlevania plotline; it wouldn't be a Castlevania story without Alucard and the Belmonts stopping Dracula. To fix this, I'd make the protagonists escalate their encounters with Dracula's hierarchy of henchmen. You have them start with fighting off the night creature hordes before slowly rising up in Dracula's ranks as they pose a greater and greater threat to the vampire lord. This forces the characters from both sides to clash, creating a more dynamic platform for which to develop your characters with. It's a more conventional way of doing things, but it works for a reason. I'd also keep the mystique of some of Dracula's henchmen (like Isaac and Hector) to allow more focus on the protagonists. You can still hint at their more nuanced relationships and histories, but I'd keep it more restrained for the sake of balance. It kinda felt like the show blew its wad too early for those characters, especially since the end of the series clearly set their character arcs up for some sort of sequel. It would have been better to reveal more about their pasts in this hypothetical sequel series than to just give everything away through flashbacks from the get-go. I can see why the creators blew said wad too early though; they were probably afraid the next season wouldn't be greenlit or something, so they wanted to show off how nuanced the henchmen could be now that they had the chance. Still loved the show though. It's just that its one issue is so glaring that it prevents it from really reaching that tightly structured spice you see with shit like Avatar: the Last Airbender or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4 or Breaking Bad. Edited November 5, 2018 by Sir Grim Locksmith VIII Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted November 6, 2018 Author Share Posted November 6, 2018 On 11/4/2018 at 11:41 PM, Sir Grim Locksmith VIII said: Binged the entire second season the other night. The way it was structured made it feel like a movie broken up into 8 parts more than a serialized story. Nothing against that per se, but it sorta affected the pacing the show as a show, as it kinda dragged when the main trio spent multiple episodes meandering about in the Belmont archive without interacting with the outside world. That part also ties into a larger issue, as the show lacked any real interaction between the protagonists and the antagonists until the climax. Like, I liked how both sides each received some kind of development, but these developments were so isolated from one another that may have well been different stories entirely. This lack of interaction also fucked with the world-building. I never really got a feel for the world outside of Dracula, his army, his castle, Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard. So if the show was gonna spend so much time developing Dracula's henchmen, then it should of have been a story about Dracula's henchmen and the infighting that goes on within his ranks. However, that would sort of defeat the purpose of adapting the general Castlevania plotline; it wouldn't be a Castlevania story without Alucard and the Belmonts stopping Dracula. To fix this, I'd make the protagonists escalate their encounters with Dracula's hierarchy of henchmen. You have them start with fighting off the night creature hordes before slowly rising up in Dracula's ranks as they pose a greater and greater threat to the vampire lord. This forces the characters from both sides to clash, creating a more dynamic platform for which to develop your characters with. It's a more conventional way of doing things, but it works for a reason. I'd also keep the mystique of some of Dracula's henchmen (like Isaac and Hector) to allow more focus on the protagonists. You can still hint at their more nuanced relationships and histories, but I'd keep it more restrained for the sake of balance. It kinda felt like the show blew its wad too early for those characters, especially since the end of the series clearly set their character arcs up for some sort of sequel. It would have been better to reveal more about their pasts in this hypothetical sequel series than to just give everything away through flashbacks from the get-go. I can see why the creators blew said wad too early though; they were probably afraid the next season wouldn't be greenlit or something, so they wanted to show off how nuanced the henchmen could be now that they had the chance. Still loved the show though. It's just that its one issue is so glaring that it prevents it from really reaching that tightly structured spice you see with shit like Avatar: the Last Airbender or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4 or Breaking Bad. I think you got what 4 episodes for S1 and I think this season is like 10. Then they are like 24+/-m long episodes. S1 felt incomplete. S2 seems to want to expand and advance the story but as I haven't finished it so I can't fully comment on that yet. My beef does like along the lines you are getting at in that something isn't connecting dots in the story arc of the show. I'm kind of liking Dracula dealing with Camilla, Hector, and Isaac vs Alucard, Trevor and Sypha that I don't mind being deepened in their circle of friends way but somehow, it also isn't really connecting why they really want to have to go at each other. Sir Grim Locksmith VIII 1 Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted December 19, 2018 Author Share Posted December 19, 2018 YO! This new season is epic.... that Episode 2.... Quote Link to comment
EH_STEVE Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Finished the second season last night. Soooo good. Quote Link to comment
Malkon Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Ugh it really is probably the best animated show on netflix. That fight scene with dracula at the end though. That's the stuff of legends. Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Oh yeah, Adi Shankar (created of this show) is apparently set to do a Devil May Cry show next, which he'll have crossover with Castlevania at some point. That's... cool and all, but DMC already had an anime before, so I feel for the people that wanted a Zelda show or something next that were kinda salty about the news. Shankar expressed interest in wanting to do a Metroid animated series earlier also, though I knew that wasn't gonna happen this soon. Somewhere down the line would be cool though. Devil May Cry is happening next from what I understand, but I'll just wait for Castlevania season 3 tbh. Quote Link to comment
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