>>121247Yeah, my post was probably pretty incoherent.
What I mean is that it feels like ALL fans focus on with Dracula is "omg...famly...;_;", and portray him and Lisa as like the most perfect loving enlightened Science Parents™ who are too good for the filthy masses of this world that forced Dracula's divine vengeance against them etc. etc. and it's pretty sickening. Like, I think Dracula's obviously an asshole to commit genocide and, in Netflix, for the fact that his first reaction is to attempt to murder his son when he suggests not to do genocide. I think LISA even comes off pretty badly through knowing just how vindictive Dracula is and was and staying with him anyway ("Don't make him kill you"? She's an enabler and honestly kinda got was coming to her).
My point that I'm probably continuing to get at badly is that from the impression the show itself gives, the family relationships might've been a bit more dysfunctional than everyone portrays them. Hell, even Alucard brought the sword with him right away upon initially confronting his father. It literally feels like everyone in that family was one bad day away from directly or indirectly starting a bloodbath. Which happened.
In the games, yeah, there's more of an argument for things being fairly peaceful before Lisa's death. But the show's not the games and I find the super saccharine happy family stuff that everyone loves to be pretty conflicting with what the show itself portrays, and so those depictions just annoy me more and more lately
I hope my point's coming through here, since I still feel like I'm getting at it kind of indirectly. Mainly that yeah, Dracula has some justification, but I think that once you've crossed the line to genocide you're no longer much of a "sympathetic" character, and that I feel like fans overplay it + Netflix maybe went too far with him killing a ton pre-Lisa.
and yeah i'm the kind of loser with my finger on the pulse of Netflix Castlevania fans. it's addicting, sue me
