I finished the second season of Castlevania a few days ago. It was good. It was a lot different from the first season. There were a many more characters, including other vampires. That was probably the biggest change. In season one it was Dracula vs. Wallachia. In season two it is Dracula and an army of vampire minions vs. Wallachia. Naturally that comes with the all the back-stabbing it demands.

I also liked the addition of the Forgemasters, who are basically necromancers. In season one Dracula had apparently summoned an army of demons from hell. In season two he instead has an army of night creatures reanimated (and mutated) by his Forgemasters. It gets away from the religious aspects of Christianity and Hell, and makes it all much more earthly, which I liked.

Finally in season one Dracula is filled with righteous outrage. In season two that seems to be gone, and instead he is just... tired. He has no actual plan to destroy Wallachia, and he is content to leave the prosecution of his war to others.

In many ways it seems like they changed writers, but I don't believe that happened.

I also rather liked that the stock d-bag vampire Godbrand (odd name for a vampire), points out that if they wipe out the human race, there will nothing left for the vampires to eat. Turns out this is Dracula's intent. He really does not just want to exterminate humans. He was everything dead.

I liked Carmilla as well. She was the sane vampire. Like Godbrand, she was smart enough to see what was going on, and smart enough to keep her mouth shut and play her own game. She will make a good villain for season three.

Khajiit really likes it as well. Season 3 should be very interesting!

Hey Subbie, have you watched any of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 10 2018, 12:36 AM

You mean THIS Sabrina?

Lol, well it’s the same universe, but it’s a new show on Netflix. Khajiit was curious if Subbie specifically had seen it, given her interest in witchcraft.

I saw it was out there, but have not tried watching it yet. I am a little hesitant, since the reviews I see say that the protagonist is a half-Witch, half human, who must choose between being evil and being a regular girl. There is a lot of head-scratching there. How can you be a half-Witch? Or a half-Christian, or a half-Buddhist? Why does she have to be evil or human?

I have enough other things to watch that I have not bothered to learn more. This is the problem with being a Witch. It is hard not take it as an insult when people so dramatically mis-characterize my religion.

Exactly. Khajiit is not familiar with the comics, but the show associates witchcraft with Satan worship, which is its major misstep. This one means full on “Hail Satan!” (variants of this are even proclaimed by several characters, repeatedly) Satan worship. Khajiit would imagine this would be quite insulting to the Wicca community.

It turns out The Church of Satan is suing Netflix, so it looks like they are insulted too. Here is a blurb of what I found:


Because the statue is featured prominently in the show, The Satanic Temple claims its members are being associated with the "evil antagonists" depicted in the series. The characters of the show, who worship the "Dark Lord" or Satan, engage in cannibalism, necromancy, murder and torture, among other nefarious activities.

The Satanic Temple, on the other hand, "does not promote evil and instead holds to the basic principle that undue suffering is bad, and that which reduces suffering is good," the organization claims. It hails Satan as a "rebel against God's authority, rather than an evil being."

Khajiit is not familiar with how the Satanic Temple operates, but is that statue a certified icon of just that particular sect or is it a universal icon of all Satan worshipping sects (similar to how Jesus on a cross could be displayed in any Christian church)?

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 10 2018, 05:10 PM

I am not really sure. It is a statue of Baphomet, but I don't know if it is just any statue, or if Netflix took a specific one the Satanists own and reproduced it. Tbh, I don't think the statue is what they are ticked off about, but rather the entire negative slant overall.

Oh yes that was well understood. The problem with their complaint now is that, did Netflix particularly say their Satanic Temple was evil? The witch coven in the show is called “The Church of Night”. The statue was a centerpiece in the entrance hall to an academy for “dark arts of magic”. So, if the Satanic Temple can prove that the statue is an icon particular to their specific sect of Satanic worship, then they may have an argument. Otherwise Netflix can always point out that they never meant for the Satanic Temple to be compared to the group in the show, and therefore can’t be held responsible for the wrongful association between the two by a handful of viewers (Khajiit certainly didn’t think of any real world religious groups when he watched the show; the stuff they were doing was just so ridiculous).

Breaking Bad, WOO HOO!!! Netflix is carrying the whole series right now. I could watch this 100X and never get sick of it.

Khajiit made it to like, the last season but grew kind of fatigued with it.

This is only my third time getting to see it; and all three times I binged it from Pilot to the final episode. It doesn't come on often enough for me to get bored yet, lol.

One of my favorite scenes in the series:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73RSSpstkk



Another one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2jhrE15Urg








This post has been edited by mALX: Nov 14 2018, 10:03 AM

Batman (1989) is on AMC right now!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 16 2018, 07:12 PM

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

Batman: You weigh a little more than a hundred and eight.

Vicki Vale: Oh really!



This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Nov 17 2018, 01:35 AM

I started watching the new She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. It is a lot of fun, and really cool. Not what I expected. I am enjoying it immensely.

Watched the Venom movie.

7/10 and that’s because I’m feeling generous. Like the titular symbiote, I find the character development and awareness (more on this later), humor and overall pace to be hungry and trying to get its paws over everything it once.

Tom Hardy is Tom Hardy, and honestly I can’t see him as anything else; with that kind of body language and basically his history of playing badasses, it was REALLY hard to see him as some sort of Peter Parker-esque everyday next-door-loser. His innate intensity is just too ... intense.

The weakest link was the female sidepiece, his Mary Jane presence, the character of Annie Weying. Her reactions to something really nasty as the Venom symbiote is really baffling. Like, I find myself saying, “what in the hell is she doing?” in amazement a couple of times.

The plot was ... well, it’s not bad? I guess? Not entirely memorable, but it functions well I suppose.

Its crown piece would definitely have to be the action scenes tho, which is what you would expect from a movie about fricken’ Venom kekeke

Honestly I could ramble on, but I’m feeling tired and kinda robbed. So like every adult in this fine earth, I gotta sleep it off.