Anime
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Pretty standard stuff. A handful of bigots go ahead and review bomb stuff they hate.
Usually that's an indicator that the show is really great. Personally I thought the original Castlevania series was fantastic, so I'm looking Forward to watching this one.
Powerhouse Animation is usually worth watching for the visuals alone.
I finished Nocturne last night and it was…eh? Well it’s half a show isn’t it? It’s the same as the OG Netflix Castlevania S1, where they set all the pieces up for S2, so I’m willing to wait it out and see where it goes. The 53% does feel accurate to me as a score honestly, even though I’d personally put it at like ~60%.
The highlight of the show for me was Richter and Maria’s interactions in episode 1, and I thought we would get more of that than we actually did. I don’t mind Annette, but like…I wish we got more RICHTER (and Maria, Tera, and Orlox by extension) and saved Annette’s story for later.
It also just …weirdly felt too rushed and too slow simultaneously. 8 episodes was not enough for the story they wanted to tell, and I wish they just focused on the Belmont side for now.
It's a lose adaptation of next Alucard/Belmont saga:
- Rondo of Blood.
- Symphony of the night.
- Bloodlines (just some enemies like Countess Bathory and Drolza).
- I did enjoy it, nice production, some poor writing some times, but not 100% nor 50‰, to me it's like 75% at least.
- It's not like source (games) has awesome writing, just a motivation to kill enemy every game.
- I really hope when finishing this adaptation, they follow with next and final Alucard arc in the future (our present).
It’s the weird scene arrangement. Had opera gone to hell at the end of the season, it would have been paced infinitely better and, moreover, it would have been much more poignant. Contrasting the incoming with the outgoing would have been interesting. As you said, I’ll forgive it if they can meaningfully expand on their story in the next season.
I really don't find rt to be useful. Take away the fact that critics are being paid to give positive reviews, it's just a measure of like versus dislike, so 100% of critics liking it is really just saying every critic thought the show was at least decent, but it doesn't give me any sort of scale. It's like a giant pass fail, but there's no indication of whether the show barely passed across the board, or was actually quite good.
That being said, have not seen this series yet, but plan to
While many people actually just say the quiet part out loud, it’s too “woke,” others code it with the “bad writing, bad characters” claim. The writing of course being the “woke” parts, mainly, the characters being those of color, usually.
This paranoid lunatic really believes that criticism of a show's writing and characters is some kind of dogwhistle. The first series of Castlevania was decent, but very silly; it was a 6/10 at the absolute highest. Or, if I was a character from Castlevania, I would say "the first FUCKING series of Castlevania was DAMN decent, but very FUCKING silly and SHIT; it was a DAMN 6 out of BITCH 10 at the absolute FUCKING highest". It's not a particularly amazing series and this one is worse, as continuations are wont to be.
Considering this is a Forbes article, my assumption is that this is a bought-and-paid-for PR statement. Why would you post anything from this corporate rag in the first place, OP?
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I never finished the first show but I thought it was cool. At least a 7 for me. This Forbes review is specifically citing the reviews that complained about "modern day talking points" so I don't doubt they're at least partially correct. The show is probably mediocre to begin with but there's also righties getting worked up over it. I guess I'll have to watch it and see if it's any good.
What's wrong with complaining that a show puts talking points (or however you'd like to refer to the concept) over quality?
Again I haven't seen the show yet but usually when people say that it just means there was a black/queer character and it made them angy
Without spoilers, there’s melanin, gayness, and even character flaws. You were spot on.
And also low quality writing and minimal satisfying entertainment.
Low quality? No, not in the least. It was adequate setup for a 3-4 season show. The emotional arcs would have been fantastic if they had been given any amount of time to breathe or if there had been more visible development between certain characters, but that’s not what the complaints are about, are they? What, my good chud, are they complaining about in their reviews? Do feel free to pull your mask off, you’re among friends.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were the grand arbiter of quality, selected by the universe to be the one true source of objective judgement on the topic.
What an absolutely unhinged comment. And to reply to your reviews, there’s nothing of substance said in half of them. I read them, evidently you haven’t. Feel free to keep the mask on, I guess?
You seriously expect every random person to write an essay describing their thoughts for the reviews?
Attempting to sound older than 16 seems like a small ask. As does… having a review in your review. Speaking of which, you mind linking your review?
The original one was great and honestly Nocturne ain't that bad as well so far.