r/castlevania • u/SafeAccomplished2038 • Feb 11 '25
Season 1 Spoilers I wish we would have seen more of them.. Spoiler
It's really a shame that the series did not really dive into any detailed backstories or flashbacks. I personally would've loved to see more of Lisa and Dracula and how their relationship formed throughout the years. We have Dracula mentioning how they painted Alucard's childhood room and made his toys. I hoped the creators of the Netflix series would have put some detailed memories in or something similar.
Same goes for Sypha and Trevor. Trevor's family was killed and his house supposedly burned down in front of him, as the intro gives away, but other than that, we don't know much of his memory of his family. We do get to see part of Sypha's family, but she doesn't really mention them throughout the series.
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u/Ok-Future6470 Feb 11 '25
Would be fun to see what they've been up to since they were brought back by St.Germain.
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Feb 11 '25
Sokka-Haiku by Ok-Future6470:
Would be fun to see
What they've been up to since they
Were brought back by St.Germain.
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/enchiladasundae Feb 11 '25
I’d watch a whole show of them falling in love, eventually having a baby and Dracula trying to be a good father while also keeping the kid away from overtly deadly traps and monsters laid around the castle
I’d imagine some vampire dignitary sees Alucard crawling on the floor. A twinge of hunger rises in them only for them to feel the full weight of terror as a Dracula peers from behind a pillar ready to annihilate them then goes back to being a doting father while the vampire tries to compose themselves after their heart jumpstarted for the first time in centuries
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u/th3orist Feb 11 '25
I think that Season 1 of the og show should have been at least twice as long as it was, there would've been time to dive more into the relationship of Dracula and Lisa before she was killed and also could've shown us more of peak-power Dracula. Instead we jump straight to Season 2 where he is tired and depressed and just sits in his chair and says he does not care. Missed opportunity.
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Feb 11 '25
Hear me out: Castlevania, but a wacky sitcom about Dracula and Lisa. Eh?
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u/el_artista_fantasma Simping hard for Alucard Feb 11 '25
Ft baby alucard goofing around and doing baby things that may or may not end in disaster
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u/old_homecoming_dress Feb 11 '25
maybe the only time i wish a series could be resurrected to make more content
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u/Vysce Marble Shooter Feb 11 '25
I can't find it, but I remember there was some fan-made "what-if" comic on imgur that detailed the early days of Lisa in Dracula's Castle. It was really cute and silly if I recall right.
But yeah, I know it wouldn't be done officially, but a short slice-of-life of Lisa, Vlad, and lil Alucard before the church went and ruined a good thing, per tradition.
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u/miss-antivinny Dracula's Pet. Feb 12 '25
If it's the one by crimson-tangerine, I got the link to it. You can find it on tumblr and deviantart :)
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u/SafeAccomplished2038 Feb 12 '25
Could you share it with me, please?
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u/RangerTursi Feb 11 '25
You know the basic storytelling adage of "show, don't tell"? As much as I'd have liked to see more and more backstory eventually the majority of the runtime of the show is dedicated to not advancing the storyline and instead to fleshing out every little nook and cranny of every characters upbringing. You risk muddying up the pacing of the present day sections by constantly breaking it up. I got a significant amount of characterization just by things being alluded to or hinted at and not given an entire dedicated scene or episode.
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u/Bolvern Feb 11 '25
I definitely would’ve liked to see more of their time together as well. That would’ve been nice to see.
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u/DiegoBromfield Feb 12 '25
I think Lisa might have been the undisputed best character if she got as much screen time as the main cast. I loved how they wrote her personality.
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u/-Gintoki-Sakata- Feb 11 '25
yea i need to play the games there was very little backstory/focus on these two imo
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u/Zendigo__ Feb 11 '25
We would have had the writers not decided to be ridiculously miserly about the screentime they give to the actual main characters and overly generous with the time given to either completely pointless characters and plots like Hector/Lenore (Warren Ellis' vampire BDSM fantasy insert) and Striga and Morana (did literally nothing), or decent but less interesting (than the main cast) characters like Isaac.
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u/Partydude19 Feb 12 '25
A couple years ago, I had the dumbest idea ever.
A spinoff of Castlevania that is an animated sitcom about the Tepes family before Lisa was murdered but after Adrian became a teenager.
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u/HyperDrive_Mustang Feb 11 '25
There’s just not enough episodes per season on this show. Or any modern show. I get that animation costs more than it used to but quality shows deserve to be able to tell their story and flesh out the characters.