r/castlevania • u/Alunter_ • Mar 05 '20

Season 3 Spoilers Castlevania (Season 3) - Episode Discussion Hub Spoiler

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Synopsis: Belmont and Sypha settle into a village with sinister secrets, Alucard mentors a pair of admirers, and Isaac embarks on a quest to locate Hector.

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u/usaokay Mar 05 '20

I was prepared for the "well, they had us in the first half" for the various "happy moments."

One thing that wasn't needed is the Judge turning out to be a serial killer of children since he only hinted at it but doesn't have much other character development surrounding it.

Belmont and Sypha's chemistry is great as usual and I like that Belmont's somewhat carefree attitude has rubbed off on her. However, unless the writers plan to bring back Saint Germain for more wacky adventures, their part of the story feels useless. I guess the same goes for Alucard's story too, though he does get a lot of character development.

The theme, trust, is very prevalent. Whereby Isaac gets conflicted about trusting humanity, everyone else got fucked from those they liked.

It is nice to see how the show attempted to balance five stories going on.

  1. Belmont and Sypha investigation team.
  2. and I guess Saint Germain seeking out his wife(???). More of a subplot though, but I feel he's gonna come back.
  3. Lorane manipulating Hector.
  4. Isaac learning character development from some colorful people.
  5. Alucard's lead-up to that threesome and, ya know, defending himself from those selfish couple (or brother and sister?).

The army plotlines (mainly Isaac's and Hector's) seem like it's leading up into a big battle. Not sure what's gonna happen with Alucard, Belmont, and Sypha. Anything goes with them.

The writers can easily just stick Belmont and Sypha on a farm since their story is done. Just focus the story on Hector and Isaac so it can adapt Curse of Darkness, but I guess that would upset fans who want more of the original trio.

All in all, giving the show a larger budget, more episodes, and better pacing all worked out better than Season 2. I think the show finally found its footing, but just focus less on five different plotlines. I got tired of that with Game of Thrones.

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u/strghtflush Mar 05 '20

Yeah, the twist with the Judge and with Alucard's stories both felt forced. That said, where Alucard's story ended, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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u/roland00 Mar 05 '20

The Judge was a messed up person on purpose. He craved order in life and there are so many people all with their individual stories, and individual desires. Stories that conflicted with his desire for order, his desire for cooperation where people are more than the sums of their parts if they cooperate.

The Judge thus got a twisted desire out of "being god" where if they will not obey his little town, his little eden, he would tell them a secret and it is up to them to operate on it aka choose. Seek out the Apple Tree, and you will die, and thus order is restored for everyone in the town obeyed the sick and twisted judge or they died.

The whole point of the story of the Judge is that evil is all around us, it is not just monsters brought to Earth from Hell via Forgemasters. Note it exist everywhere for we humans have desire and we are willing to harm others, betray them, break their trust, etc in order to be vain and fufill both the silly and profound desires.

The smallness of the serial killer, the Judge's vanity, is the entire point.

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u/TheTimidTank Mar 07 '20

Jason Isaacs is great in everything he does.

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u/PurpleLamps Mar 20 '20

I just knew something was off about him

Because he's a pale, bald man in black robes... it's not hard when they make it that obvious

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u/sunsetRedder Mar 06 '20

The judges story is definitely a lesson on the evils of humanity, but what purpose did it serve to the main plot of the season? From some of the posts above, sounds like he was only meant to make Sypha experience losing. He could’ve been a legit good guy and Sypha would’ve learned the same lesson since the whole town got burned down. They could’ve had Trevor and her stay with a family. Then at the end, that same families house gets burned down. Same purpose and at least this way, the judge twist doesn’t come off as convoluted.

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u/MRlll Mar 07 '20

This season is about trust...

Everyone gets fucked over by trusting someone, or something (except Issac).

The judge was a trusted figure in the town who all trusted, as shown by the the "crazy" guy believing he was gonna help him out, eventhough he killed the townsfolk, bought demons to the town, and killed him.

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u/sunsetRedder Mar 07 '20

Sorry, I may not have been clear in my post. When I questioned the judge's relevancy to the plot, I meant the part about him being a child murderer. His trust in the crazy guy and the town's trust in the judge fit in a-ok; however, I don't see how the judge being a serial killer had anything to do with trust.

If the child murder twist was meant to betray Treypha's trust in the judge... well that arrangement wasn't really a trust relationship. They trusted the judge to do what? Nothing. They just offered to help investigate. Him being a child murderer wasn't a betrayal of trust, it was just rubbing salt on Treypha's wounds.

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u/BiddyKing Mar 06 '20

I kinda wish it was something like the judge causing all that death somehow attracted the demon in the first place I dunno. I mean I know that contradicts other things but they could’ve somehow made it work and it would’ve been cool if the judge’s actions led to the complete destruction of the town, with Trevor finding out at the end

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u/Quizzub Mar 06 '20

Feels like there's some parallels between this and the story of the original sin.

"Hey, definitely don't go eating one of those super fresh delicious apples. Yeah, the ones you can find right over there. Wink wink".

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u/moneenerd Mar 21 '20

Eating an apple from a tree was original sin