I never realized Castlevania has it's own "Should Moon or Venus kill Beryl"
Does
now! XD
Tally another with the "where's Grant?", "Dracula's War Council made no sense", "WTF new random monsters instead of harvesting the Monster Dictionary", "Carmilla's clique was a waste of effort (even if Lenore's the hottest thing this side of Venus Weed)", and "the final season could've been A LOT shorter" sentiments.
Slogra and Gaibon aside, after the three-part was finally done, disaster was to follow...according to my perspective, of course. We're left in the end with a noteworthy, high-quality production accessible to everyone. At the expense of those who know better. Ey, they tried and it was an honest to goodness try.
But it's one of those things I'll have to grin and bear forever (like
so many things I've lived to see spoil). As
Portrait of Ruin, the adaptation had a lot of potential and awesome stuff going on but wound up tremendously flawed if you're showing up with expectations so calibrated as N's marketing commanded.
Then we have scenes like this:
Cleopatra: Carmilla's house is on fire.
Guts: Yeah, I'm tired of fighting. Let's elope.
::they leave::
Hrumph.
Or one of my favorites:
Zobek or Something, friend of ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER WITH PETS IRRELEVANT TO CASTLEVANIA: DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! LIKE AND SUBSCRI--
::gets hung up on::
I'm intrigued to see this edit, it'll be fun to see how it runs with the fluff excised.
Unlike how the Rondo preview left me curious about what of its robust cast and worldview will be ignored and supplanted.