Im so pissed about the ending they gave alucard in the last season of castlevania. Like, its obviously heartbreaking and it seems like hes going to be turned into a villian, which i do not like at all, but i would be okay with it if it at lease made *sense*. It just was so obviously ‘we need to make this happen for his character arc’ and it was just so rushed and didnt make sense for any of the characters involved. For one the two that attacked him showed genuine care for him not long ago and nothing he did really warranted that kind of reaction. It would have made more sense if they were secretly against him all along and acting but to go from actually caring about him to murder with no inbetween steps makes no sense, especially since he never gave them a hard no to any of the things they asked about and they never asked him to show them now with any force. It kinda paints them as unrealistically stupid to have them not even try another route first which kinda comes off as racist since they’re the only aisian characters so far with any significant screen time.
And alucard is really dumb in this situation too. Even if they got to that point where theure trying to kill him, which makes no sense in the first place, there are like 100 different non leathal ways he could have gotten them off of him with a magic sword. He could have pushed them really hard with the flat or the pomel. He could have cut off their weapon hands and knocked the knives to the side. He could have just blocked their knives and used the force to push them back. He could have held it against their necks as a threat. Any single one of these things could have been followed by a look, obviously i could have killed you just then but I didnt because I really dont want to. Can you just let me out now so we can talk about this? I can show you the fucking magicky rooms right now if you want, and the fucking 300 servants quarters if you insist I didnt realize it was that important to you. Like i literally didnt show you that part of the castle bc its boring. And them being mad that he doesnt personally escort them there makes absolutely no sense because they have complete free reign of the castle and even admitted to wandering at night with no restriction and alucard was just like aight cool.
It’s sloppy lazy writing in order to hamfist in some sort of plot development and character arc fodder. It’s literally man wife dies so he can do revenge type of throwing away their characters for another’s character development but worse bc usually those at least make some fucking sense. It’s like a fake deep oooh its destined that all vampires become.evil no matter how hard they try bc humans are nasty. Like if they wanted to do that it would be easy to make characters who wanted him dead bc his dad was dracula and they dont care that he killed him bc they hate all vampires so much. But instead the motivation is…. they didnt get a personal tour of all the bathrooms??? Fuck all the way off.
It especially sucks bc the shows writing is usually strong so its just like… where did this come from. Did you have to have two dramatic evil sex scenes at the same time making you look puritanical. Are you racist. Do you hate sex or poly amory. Do you think people with ptsd are stupid. Or are the writers suddenly so lazy they dont care if one of the main characters plot arc makes any fucking sense.
And its not like they need him to be the villan, they got this whole terf squad to fight. Who are also poly lesbians which… have we seen any good guys be poly or gay?? And Dracula could easily be resurrected. They do it in the games all the time. They almost did it in this same season.
It just pisses me off so much because its bad lazy writing all to try to fuck up my favorite character. Like he’s theirs its their right to fuck him up but at least put some effort in please. I know its stupid but i literally cant sleep because of this.