Fans eagerly awaiting the release of the third season of Castlevania will soon be rewarded for their patience, as show director Samuel Deats states that the team is currently hard at work on the final episode, but it is certainly not ready. The news came in response to a Tweet, long since deleted, that mistakenly listed December 1 as the release date for the next season. Deats tweeted a reply to questions about the third season that removed all doubt that the December 1 list date was a clear mistake.

For some fans, the show can’t arrive soon enough. Against all odds, the television adaptation of the popular Castlevania series has become a hit among viewers. The show is loosely adapted from the 1989 game Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, featuring protagonist Trevor Belmont as the principle defender of Wallachia, a nation menaced by Dracula and his demonic minions.

The show was first planned as a film as early as 2007 with a script ready for use, but like many projects, it was stuck in development hell until 2015. For the unfamiliar, development hell is a common term within all media industries to denote a project that in principle is ready to move forward but remains stuck or progresses at an abysmally slow rate. It is not exactly cancelled at first, but it can linger with little to no work for years at a time until it is forgotten or cancelled.

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It was eight years before Adi Shankar joined the project, and Netflix picked up the pieces for a show to be made. Seasons one and two have been well received in terms of storytelling, though one constant critique has been the high level of gore and violence throughout. This is unlikely to change in the upcoming season, but Shankar, who is also hard at work adapting Assassin’s Creed and Devil May Cry for television, clearly has a vision for what the show is and where it is headed.

One of the more intriguing — and controversial — decisions for the show has been to make Dracula appear as a sympathetic character, at least at first. The first season lays out a world in which Dracula only became a bane for the people of Wallachia because his wife was accused of Witchcraft and executed, driving the character to punish everyone, not just those responsible for the act. This appeared to be the direction for the character, but we have since seen an almost endless parade of senseless violence, so much so that the initial effect of sympathy is all but a distant memory. This may become relevant again in the coming season, but we will not know for a while longer.

Source: cnet.com

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