Ron Does Stuff

I don’t really know how the fandom received the first season of Castlevania Nocturne when it first aired — I’ve found that getting too involved with the fandom of anything just ruins things — but I did find it very fun to watch, if not as compelling as the first Castlevania. That cliffhanger did make me excited for this new season!

The end of the last season kinda saw our heroes defeated, with Erzsebet Báthory come to bring eternal night onto the world. Which okay that’s horrible but it did end with Alucard returning which is always good news for me!

But at the start of this new season what we get is a scene from three years ago, with Alucard in Egypt facing off against Egyptian vampires? Gimme more of this lore! What is it he’s searching for? The first thing he finds are these jars with what I assume is ancient vampire blood that can’t even survive exposure? Whatever it is that he finds, it’s not there anymore.

Back in the present day, it looks like the eternal night that Erzsebet brought with her isn’t so eternal as the sun shows itself once more. Turns out Alucard has known about Erzsebet for quite some time now and had gone to that Egyptian tomb to find out a way to destroy her. And there maybe a chance to destroy here if they find the goddess Sekhmet’s heart, which is in her mummy — the show does a mom joke here.

Meanwhile, Erzsebet is looking for revenge, vowing that she’s going to make Alucard groveling and pissing himself in terror. Some people pay for that kind of treatment! And she may just get her wish because over with the heroes because Maria doesn’t look like she wants to head to Paris to find Sekhmet’s heart but instead go attack Erzsebet again.

Elsewhere in France, the Abbot is burying the dead Templars with the help of Edouard and they have a conversation about the humanity of the night creatures. It’s scenes like this that really impair this series. You just end up recalling a similar conversation between another night creature and Isaac that tread similar ground. It’s not that this new conversation in Castlevania Nocturne is bad, it’s just that it’s been done better. What I am enjoying is this dynamic between Tera and the Abbot. I don’t think this is a relationship that’s been explored in the first Castlevania series.

I am also loving the role that Alucard is playing as the voice of nuance for Maria, who has spent her life just thinking vampires were something “fun” to kill. As the first Castlevania series showed us, human men can be just as monstrous, even worse, than monsters.

Back at Erzsebet’s palace/mansion/place, the Abbot is being tasked with making more night creatures as they beef up their forces to attack Paris. However, the Abbot inadvertently gives Erzsebet the idea of bringing Drolta back after she was disposed of by Alucard at the end of the last season. We already know from the trailer that this works, and the Drolta we get back is, as Selina Kyle would put it in Batman Returns, feeling so much yummier.