Castlevania Season 2 Review: 7 Ups And 2 Downs
4. Up: The Intrigue
The fact that Season 2 didn't jump into the most straightforward "vampires help Dracula kill everything, trio has to fight vampires" formula, and instead doubled down on the "animated Game of Thrones" comparison, showed off Warren Ellis's writing chops, allowing the complex power structures of a war council to devolve in the most dramatic of ways.
While talking heads can bog a plot down sometimes, the underhanded natures of the council's members, especially that of Carmilla, kept things interesting and on edge, with internal conflict just as prominent as the external.
Though Dracula himself seemed not to care about the proceedings, watching Isaac—who is wholly loyal to Dracula in a love he's not likely to acknowledge—react to Godbrand and Carmilla's betrayal with merciless retribution, and watching Hector try to do what he thinks is right and get screwed over in the process, makes audiences excited for what's to come for all these newcomers in season 3.
It was fantastic insight into the wants and desires of each character, and was much less simplistic than most fantasy tales, allowing for destruction and death to come from the most unexpected places, and allowing for audiences to have multiple characters to root for.