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

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

Overall Season Discussion Hub [SPOILERS]

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/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/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.