Ron Does Stuff

We’re already halfway through this season and to be quite frank I don’t know what it’s been building up to just yet. But I’m willing to wait and find out!

At the end of the last episode, Annette was being accosted by the three-headed apparition that she had been seeing for much of the previous episodes. But just like the previous episodes, we take a look back at the past first before getting back to the present.

This time around, the flashback isn’t in Egypt but what I assume is Erzsebet Bathory’s castle, and we finally find out how Erzsebet became a vessel for Sekhmet and that she is based partly on the historical Erzsebet Bathory. Drolta promises that she will become a god, and she kinda delivered on that promise, to be honest.

Back in the present day, Annette wrenches herself free from whatever force it was that was pulling her to what I assume is the supernatural realm, with Richter and Alucard not really aware of what it is she’s experiencing. Or maybe Alucard isn’t letting on how much he knows but Richter is definitely clueless.

As they head to the Louvre to find Sekhmet’s mummy, Alucard tells them that Erzsebet plans to be the counter-revolutionary leader and marshall the monarchies of Europe against the growing revolution in France. I don’t know if this is working as well as the anti-religious bent of the first Castlevania series but I’m going to give it a chance because I like Alucard.

Elsewhere in France, Maria is headed to her father, the Abbot, fully intending to kill him. And I don’t blame her! The anger she feels when they finally confront each other? Totally justified! And when she summons a freaking dragon? I feel you girl! And when she points out that most of what’s bad in the world is because of stupid old women? Look around us, you know she’s right!

Maria ends up killing the Abbot and for a moment there loses control of the dragon that she summoned. There’s also a part where Edouard starts singing once it become clear to the night creatures that the Abbot is dead and I gotta admit I did not get the need for that at all. It looked awkward!

The murder of her father saps Maria’s energy so Tera asks Juste to take her somewhere safe, and once she recovers Juste warns her that continued summoning of those “monstrous things” will end up destroying her in the long run. Are they going to go with a corruption storyline with her? I don’t know if I’m into that.

What I am into is this dance betweek Mizrak and Olrox. Good boy/bad boy is a popular trope for a reason! It does look like this is going to end tragically though and I’ll just have to console myself that it’s the logical ending for the story of these two, especially with the genre the story is in. That said, it looks like Annette and Richter are going to at least end up together and I once again have to ask the makers of Castlevania why you can’t just have an LGBTQIA+ couple end up together in the show? The person Alucard ended up with in the first series was supposed to be a man, by the way, but got genderswapped. And the only guy he got with during the show tried to kill him.

Alucard, Annette, and Richter finally find Sekhmet’s body but before they can even do anything with it, Drolta and her night creatures appear to take it away from them. If there’s one thing that this show has maintained — aside from unhappy endings for LGBTQIA+ characters — is the quality of the fight scenes. Unforunately, as valiantly as the trio fights, Drolta manages to escape with Sekhmet’s body.