One thing that was nice about the slow pace of the show is that it gave me plenty of time for my eyes to wander and take in the background of whatever castle, building, town, forest they happened to be in. I always do that while playing the games, pausing the action after killing everything in the room for quite a while and just enjoy “being” there.
So glad I'm not alone in this, on both fronts. And the scenery in this season was the most gorgeous it's ever been.
I particularly liked Carmilla's castle for ditching the "
VAMPIR YUZE BLACK AN RED AND ONLY BLACK AD RED MAYB SUM GOLD TRIM IF THEY FANCY" aesthetic that Vampires have been largely cursed with for god knows how long. Carmilla and her sisters give the impression of people living their immortality determined to enjoy it, surrounding themselves with nice things, wearing clothes they like, enjoying food they can't even derive sustenance from, decorating the castle in whites and primary colors, and with Lenore especially taking time to just admire the land around them.
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I don't see how a sunrise could possibly improve this."
Carmilla and her clan are a complete 180 from Dracula last season, who started as a firebrand, but burned out and remained kind of an angry but depressed husk unless provoked. (Evidently staying on a rage high for a whole damn year while you summon an army from hell has that effect.)
The fact that they take the time to enjoy things --with Carmilla evidently having "plotting schemes" down as a no-kidding HOBBY if her "sister's" dialog is anything to go by (if nothing else, they all agree it's her hobby)-- without a moment set aside for depressive brooding or mulling over how cursed they are or how angry and vengeful they are, was such a relief to me because it flies in the face of how vampires are typically portrayed and it's part of why I look forward to their return.