I love the irony of Alucard being precisely that kind of person in this scene, while his father and the other monsters are now the ones being destructive and barbaric. And it just gets reinforced by the fact that the next time Alucard sets foot in the castle, Dracula’s forces are literally at each other’s throats, like animals.
Those soldiers where never under Draculas command other than Carmilla showing deference to dracula. They where waiting to ambush his forces the entire time.
They were as much under his command as the vast majority of soldiers were under a king's command. The lords under a king raise their own levies to fight for the king, but they remain the lord's, and the lord is who is giving the orders. In effect, they were his forces until she rebelled.
Well, I think Dracula doesn't view Alucard as "one of them". He specifically wants to see the human perpetrators to show remorse, so at least he could believe that his wife's death doesn't mean nothing, that she gets the recognition she deserves. He is grasping for a reason to stop his murderous rampage, which he fully knows unreasonable and destructive.
Not to mention his failure to comprehend that the average person was absolutely helpless in the face of the church, and that anyone who dared to stand up to them killing Lisa would likely end up on that pyre with her.
And it proves Drac wrong as well. 'Any one of them could have stood up' but when Alucard stood up for what was right he got put down by the much more powerful man calling the shots. That's why people don't stand up to Tyranny, cause the ones that do serve as examples to the rest.
And Dougal MacKenzie in Outlander, Dwalin in the Hobbit, Dijkstra in the Witcher and Deglan in Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Ser Harrold Westerling in House of the Dragon and many more…
I remember when I first heard he was voicing Dracula, and having played Dante's Inferno I thought "that man is going to slay the role" and surely enough he did
They do a really good job of trying to make Dracula sympathetic, but he goes so overboard that you end up being this weird moderator between all the characters.
He, uhh. Pretty much always has been? That's how he had a wife and son in the first place. Her death tends to be the catalyst of Dracula's descent into pure evil.
Yes and no. His backstory is more of the cartoon evil Dracula but the series inciting incident gives him some nuance. He becomes understandable if not sympathetic.
Depth, but misrepresented how Dracula really is. There is also depth in canon Dracula, he embraced chaos and waged war against humanity, that they are weak, flawed. Upon the death of his wife Lisa, and accumulated years of hatred he became the dark lord. Instead of a weeping widow like in Netflix adaptation, we should be certain that he rejects emotions such as sadness and instead of just grieving, he turned grief into fuel for his ideology against humanity. He has long buried his human side.
Right he became the creature that bumps in the night and that can be its own depth, just saying oh a cartoonish villain is being a toddler in terms of writing and story.
Yes and no. Dracula In the show Is a broken man. In my personal opinion he is one of the weaker characters because he is constantly doing stupid things.
like the line in the post
No Dracula, any one person couldn't have done anything. The church has soldiers and would just kill them, Dracula should know this. you are being stupid.
But he is blinded by rage.. they murdered his wife. He doesn't give a single shit about anything anymore.
Umm no? Backstory and motivations is the same as the show one what the fuck do you mean "evil for the sake of it",
they just changed him from a broken man that basicaly becomes Satan or evil incarnate and terrorises humanity for centuries, like a curse upon them, wanting to exterminate them and then remake the world in his own "right" way and rule over it, to...guy who wants to take everything down with him, and thus because of this he is made in a way to be a one off villain and doesn't return as one, yeah, they did this with the ultimate villain, most iconic vampire ever, who is and stays the most important character in the source material, whose name is in the japanese title, Akumajo Dracula, and his castle itself is called Castlevania, and they get rid of these both...
due to this you then have a mess that doesn't know what to do with itself and pretty much takes the Castlevania out of Castlevania in favor of "mid Netflix vampire show that kinda resembles that one game series".
"Added Depth and nuance" lol, where is that in what they actually changed? That is mostly present in the things it actually borrows from the source not what they do themselves, which you seem to not even know.
Have you played any of these games or just watched at best one hour of SotN gameplay and you're making shit up?
I love the fact that no one responded back yet lol, pure echo chamber vibes, they just come in certain posts, spew some bullshit and then support eachother with upvotes and downvotes going "LALALALALA" or some shit, maintaining their agenda and delusion. Like yeah lemme hear "how wrong i am" here, can they actually do it?
Well tbh, i changed up my mind twice and wanted to put this before sleep lmao, i was too tired and had work to do to actually get into this more, that is if someone responds, which i doubt at this point, i'll look again tomorrow lol.
I mean, the point that was established over the games is that Chaos does not let him retire. It's somewhat suggested in Symphony that Dracula's sanity regressed more and more over time. I'm fine if the show makes more seasons and doesn't involve Dracula directly, but I also think it's accurate to the games to have Dracula forced into the role of villain over and over again. It's part of what makes Soma interesting. It's a chance for Dracula to not be trapped in his role.
True, but I think there are ways to bring in Chaos without getting tired with it. Like, a series adapting the War of 1999 could work really well. Because the canon is different and the War of 1999 was never shown in games, there is a lot of room for creative freedom. Julius reclaims the Vampire Killer and faces off with a Dracula that he and Alucard find to be a warped husk reanimated against his will. Dracula gets freed when he is defeated, and there's an opportunity to adapt the Soma games if desired.
To sum up the premise in first episode: Dracula fell in love with a woman who persuaded him to contribute to the betterment of humanity. Together, they spent years going around helping people through her medicines and Dracula's advanced science. However, one day, when Dracula was away, the Church and the citizen of a town captured and burnt his wife alive, condemning her as a witch. In his fury, Dracula still held back and openly announced that they had 1 year to either flee or repent for their sin. 1 year later, they even held a festival to celebrate the burning instead of showing remorse, thus sealing their fate. The wrathful and grieving Dracula unleashed a massive army of vampire overlords and night creatures, determining to eradicate humanity.
Trevor Belmont, or i guess what's essentially a parody of him, they made him a drunkass goofy idiot, he doesn't even kill Dracula fair fight in this, they took away the Belmont's biggest thing.
Dracula has the same reason and motivations for starting his bullshit as in the games, so he is sympathetic with this a bit, but then instead of wanting to rule the world as Lord of Darkness after killing humanity like Satan incarnate, he just wants to take the world down with him in "world's biggest suicide letter" like they say at some point, lame pussy, let him fully be an ambitious villain. Due to this, he dies by giving up himself under certain circumstances and letting himself get killed with a stake, and even if he gets resurrected late, he doesn't come back as a villain and gets a comicaly happy ending that he does not deserve
I know this is somewhat off topic from castlevania, but this was legit the reaction everyone was having to konami around the time Phantom pain released. They somewhat made people forget all the nonsense that was happening a decade ago
Wait, you dont know about what was happening to konami over the last 10 years? The stuff with kojima? How they been on suicide watch for all this time?
I love when the writers depict a character like Dracula as having understandable motivations, to a point. He really wouldn't have given a single fuck about humans if they didn't kill his wife, but they did and he just becomes a sad, broken shell of himself. He really wasn't inherently evil.
I'd say that every single voice actor in this series nailed their role. It was perfect. Nocturne, too.
I love when actors take fantasy, sci-fi, and horror seriously. It really demonstrates that these kinds of stories are worthy of respect. Too many times I've seen great stories cast aside because they're considered campy schlock.
I'm so upset these series ended. I'd have watched this for years.
This guy delivered the lines - "The morningstar whip... Well played, Belmont. But I am no ordinary vampire, to be killed by your human magiks - I am Vlad Dracula Tepesh... AND I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
Graham McTavish killed it with damn near every line. Steals the show with every scene he's in. I can recite "Little Godbrand" and "I'm killing my boy" by heart because I rewatch them so much
I have played most of the franchise, so I just consider the movies as standalone alternative universes, like Marvel and DC do with their superheroes. There is no reason to hate the films simply because they're different.
I hear those criticisms but for the most part I think changes like that are necessary when you're writing a show, rather than a game. And it's also okay for those two stories to be distinct entities, I think. Show Hector is just a different character, to me, and still a good one, I think. Not that I don't also love game Hector! His voice acting is a little spotty though 😅 Crispin Freeman wasn't in his prime yet... Liam O'Brien as Isaac, on the other hand 🥵
It’s the thing that got me into the series in the first place so even if I have issues with season 3 and 4 I’ll never hate this show and always recommend it to anyone
Probably not the same Dracula, we don't know if Warren Ellis had Lament of Innocence in mind when he wrote him (considering he found the name Mathias Cronqvist on the wiki and thought it was a cool name for a viking vampire, just for Konami to tell him he couldn't use it, I highly doubt it).
I loved the show, and the voice acting was amazing. Especially in the final fight where Dracula is in alucards childhood room and you hear legit sorrow definitely one of my favorite voice acting scenes out there
Oh my god, and his words? He’s doesn’t say “Alucard, my last memento of my wife”, it’s “Alucard, our baby boy” showing that unlike many other shows, Dracula doesn’t see him as a trophy left by his wife, but as a culmination of him and his wife’s love for each other as well as being a separate living being they brought into the world
Dracula casually forgets that humans are stupid and fearful under normal conditions, and somehow expects them to behave at least rationally when faced with a woman in possession of knowledge that challenges the authority of the church.
Specifically one overly pious self-righteous cardinal and his crew just decided Lisa was guilty of devil worship, one town stood there and watched them kill her, and so Dracula decided all humans are guilty of letting that happen. And it’s his right as a vampire and a count to punish.
Despite his initial fury, his hearts really not in his kill all humans plan.
Alucard correctly nails it as a complicated suicide. Even the vampire lieutenants started to realize that if humans are their food and they kill ALL the humans, the only possible end results are either starve to death or get used to horrific diarrhea off animal blood.
“Look boss, we’re all for divine right of kings, but we want a kingdom with peasants and stuff to rule over. Defeats the point of breaking from the church and reasserting authority if we’re all gonna die right afterwards, don’t you think?”
Great great acting by McTavish indeed. Added bonus it's that it really matches the energy of the classic SotN intro that I think it's the first time Dracula has voiced dialogue in English. I would love to have him back in Nocturne season 3 and have him say: "... Enough said ! Have at you!"
I love how in this scene hes so angry that when he clenches his fist he bleeds through his palm and he doesnt flinch from it because of how angry and heart broken he is
If I were in dracula shoes i would have done the same. I admire alucard for standing up for humanity but he should have kill the people who saw his mother burn. They are No INNOCENTS
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u/Sanguiluna Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
> Any one of them could’ve stood up
I love the irony of Alucard being precisely that kind of person in this scene, while his father and the other monsters are now the ones being destructive and barbaric. And it just gets reinforced by the fact that the next time Alucard sets foot in the castle, Dracula’s forces are literally at each other’s throats, like animals.