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5. The Pacing

Castlevania isn't well paced. From the outset, everything feels a bit rushed. The first episode seems to include protagonist Trevor Belmont in the last few minutes purely just to introduce him to the series, and it fits really badly with rest of the episode's plot.

It looks like they had to cut out an episode, and this set everything back ten or fifteen minutes, creating jarring moments whenever it's clear that something has been cut out. For example, the aforementioned scene introducing Trevor Belmont crosses over the end of the first episode and the beginning of the second, but there doesn't seem to be a reason to separate them.

Towards the second half of the season, this becomes less of an issue, as it's clear these episodes remained mostly intact before anything was cut from them. The first few moments of the final episode do, however, seem to appear more as an ending to the prior episode than setting up what is to come.

With the second season getting twice as many episodes, this should be a relatively easy issue to clear up.