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forbiddentaako · 18 hours ago

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ok im making the post bc my roomate confirmed i'm not being dramatic but its short and mostly me complaining

My enjoyment for nocturne season 2 was so severely held back by feeling like they did Olrox so dirty this season. Like I found his storyline and character in s1 to be extremely interesting and a great setup for season 2, but it feels like he was so pushed out of the narrative this season and lacked a lot of the subtext related to the themes around him that were present in s1. He just isn't having substantial moments that build on what was set up previously and I feel like the only context he really existed in this season was related to mizrak when his position in the erzebet/sekhmet storyline was also SO IMPORTANT/INTERESTING.

Like yes he had moments that were related to it but they didn't feel nearly as impactful as the s1 scenes, and overall Olrox simply didn't interact with other characters enough or even have interesting scenes on his own. Not to mention even in the scenes with him and Mizrak I felt like there really wasn't substantial progression or an arc building off of season 1 either, which overall made me feel disappointed at them not doing anything interesting with what they set up in the s1 ending. And that just made the s2 ending with him and mizrak in the last episode feel so insulting.

#I literally have written an essay about this man #FOR AN ACTUAL CLASS TOO NOT JUST FOR FUN #and i feel like if you gave me olrox s2 i could not write nearly as strong of an argument as I could with olrox s1 #this season genuinely made me like mizrak/olrox LESS too which baffles me and its bc their ending didn't feel earned #and its bc again it felt like that was the majority character focus for both of them and yet there was no satisfying arc #and until the ending scene with them i was just gonna chalk it up to boring but i genuinely got angry with that last scene #bc had their arc or focus throughout the season been different i would have loved it but it just felt like adding insult to injury #like listen man i am a very easily swayed person when it comes to things a show wants me to feel so im just baffled that nocturne couldn't #anway i loved richter and annette as always and maria's storyline was also really compelling this season #I felt like at times there was a 'too large ensemble cast pulling focus' issue but i thought letting certain characters like alucard/juste #fall more into the bg did help with that and i did really like that they not only brought drolta back but made her a central character and #gave her the majority of flashbacks to establish the current plot #I didn't hate the season but I was just so disappointed in how it treated olrox that i don't know if i can say i liked it #if I dont think about Olrox yes I liked the season just not as much as season 1 #but if i think about olrox i get upset #castlevania nocturne #syd rambles

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