Before reading, please note, this is not my review of the series. This is commentary I don’t intend to include in the actual review, which will be a neutral look at the production values and the technical side of the storytelling. That all said, let’s get to ranting about the obvious.
The first Netflix adaptation of Castlevania was awesomeness on steroids. Our review was highly positive. All the way up to the final season 4, it was good. When it comes to the action, this new series is no different. But this must be pointed out, because it’s a fine line that Netflix’ left-leaning writers are walking in asserting their belief system in their fiction. The first series had plenty of these elements as well, checking many boxes of the progressive want-list. The difference is, the progressiveness was a spice, it was paced well. The difference between the two shows is the extremity.
The Church was corrupt in the first series, yes. The Church is corrupt in this series, yes. But now they’re working together with the fucking vampires. Okay, makes sense, it’s a weird time they’re all living through. The self-interests of priests and vampires align like some stellar alignment, because the French revolution is threatening both factions. I see what you did there.
None of this is objectionable. Depicting human activities as muddy and morally grey is cool and realistic. But then, one of the several dark-skinned vampires has gay sex with a white burly crusader. Now we’re both interracial and being gay, and as cherry on top, spitting on Christianity.
Even that’s not objectionable in a vacuum. Certainly, the gay impulse exists even inside of people who call themselves Christians. I understand this, because I have such inclinations as a bisexual.
Also, Belmont’s mother was a vampire slayer. Oh, and black vampires. Oh! War between social classes. Black slaves and white vampire slave owners! Let’s just stop here for a moment.
Do you notice where this is going? The sheer extremity of the muddiness, the moral greyness, the relativity, the racial tensions, the gender equality; the post-modernism is ramped up to the maximum. You shouldn’t go this far. But then again, on what authority do I say this as a green Lovecraftian Tentacle-Bearded God-Monster? I am the minority.
And herein lies the reason why wokeness pisses off green audiences. Because those of us who are not brainwashed by the mainstream liberal media understand that demographics are destiny. We understand that we’re becoming minorities in our nations. We have taxation without representation, thanks to transnational organizations that increasingly supersede democracy. So when you progressives are voting to open the borders, plaster unfiltered anti-green hate speech in your essays and blog posts, when you promote interracial sex and homosexuality and abortions, and then flood my entertainment with this propaganda at the same time, like some coordinated pincer attack, I see what you’re trying. Oh, replace the word “green” with “white”, if the roleplay is confusing.
I point this out, because it must be pointed out, despite having stuck my tentacles in black bitches.
Yes, that’s right, this is how complete my understanding is of all sides. I stuck my green tentacles in black pussy, not just once, but several times, memories which I still relish. I find that black sluts suck the best dick. They suck it like you stuck it in a vacuum cleaner. I got nothing but love for every race and age and religion. But that love does not extend beyond reasonable limits. Good fences make for good neighbors.
Please get what I’m saying, the fine line we’re talking about is indeed fine as fuck. The issue is not the content, but the intent behind the content. The issue is none of these items in isolation, but putting them together. In the case of this anime, it’s not a fine line the writers walked. They set the line on fire, dropped their pants and pissed on the flames.
When you go this far in checking all these boxes, you’re making a statement. You state, in very clear terms, that you don’t give a shit about sensibilities of tentacle monsters of my skin color. You promote the full spectrum of ideas the ultimate aim of which is to make green people minorities in their own nations, so we can be oppressed and replaced and our cultures erased.
But the goat has already crossed the Rubicon. We know this is the agenda.
