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Watchnight service
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A watchnight service is a late-night Christian church service. In many different Christian traditions, such as those of Baptists, Methodists and Pentecostals, watchnight services are held late on New Year's Eve, and ends after midnight. This provides the opportunity for Christians to review the year that has passed and make confession, and then prepare for the year ahead by praying and resolving.[1] The services often include singing, praying, exhorting, and preaching.[2]
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1 Methodism
2 Presbyterianism
3 African-American churches
4 Anglicanism and Catholicism
5 References
6 External links
Methodism[edit]
Further information: Wesley Covenant Prayer
Following the lead of a small Christian denomination called the Moravians in what is now the Czech Republic that began having "watch" services in 1733, the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley, originated watch night services in 1740, sometimes calling them Covenant Renewal Services.[2][3] The services provided Methodist Christians with a godly alternative to times of drunken revelry, such as Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.[2] Today, a Methodist watchnight service includes singing, spontaneous prayers and testimonials, as well as scripture readings; the liturgy for this service is found in The United Methodist Book of Worship.[1][4]
Presbyterianism[edit]
In the Church of Scotland, the Watchnight service is a popular ceremony marking the beginning of Christmas Day.[5] This is known as Midnight Mass elsewhere.
African-American churches[edit]
Watchnight service has added significance and history in the African-American community in the United States, since many slaves were said to have gathered in churches on New Year's Eve, in 1862, to await news and confirmation of the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, on January 1, 1863.[6]
Anglicanism and Catholicism[edit]
In Anglican or Roman Catholic churches, this ceremony is often replicated in the form of a Midnight Mass or Eucharist.
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b James Ewing Ritchie (1870). The Religious Life of London. Tinsley Brothers. Retrieved 28 December 2011. At A WATCH-NIGHT SERVICE: Methodism has one special institution. Its lovefeasts are old-old as Apostolic times. Its class meetings are the confessional in its simplest and most unobjectionable type, but in the institution of the watch-night it boldly struck out a new path for itself. In publicly setting apart the last fleeting moments of the old year and the first of the new to penitence, and special prayer, and stirring appeal, and fresh resolve, it has set an example which other sects are preparing to follow.
^ Jump up to: a b c Anna M. Lawrence (5 May 2011). One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism. University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 28 December 2011. In 1740, Wesley started watch-night services for the coal miners of the Kingswood area, offering this nocturnal worship as a godly alternative to spending their evenings in ale-houses. The watch-night services consisted of singing, praying, exhorting, and preaching for a number of hours. Wesley meant to establish it as a monthly practice, always at full moon to keep the meeting well lit. In America, this service often supplanted times of traditional drunken revelry, like New Year's Eve and Christmas Eve.
Jump up ^ "Watch Night services provide spiritual way to bring in New Year". The United Methodist Church. Retrieved 28 December 2011. Methodism founder John Wesley originated Watch Night services in the mid-18th century, sometimes calling them Covenant Renewal services. The original services were spontaneous prayer services designed to deepen the spiritual life of Methodists.
Jump up ^ "Watch Night services provide spiritual way to bring in New Year". The United Methodist Church. Retrieved 28 December 2011. The service is loosely constructed with singing, spontaneous prayers and testimonials, and readings, including the Covenant Renewal service from The United Methodist Book of Worship (pp. 288-294).
Jump up ^ "Christmas Eve Christmas Day and Boxing Day Services". The Times. London. 2005-12-17. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
Jump up ^ "Watch Night services provide spiritual way to bring in New Year". The United Methodist Church. Retrieved 28 December 2011. Watch Night took on even more significance during the Civil War. When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was to take effect Jan. 1, 1863. Slaves sat up the night before, waiting for their freedom to arrive at midnight.
External links[edit]
Look up watch night in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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Rick and Morty
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Rick and Morty
Genre
Animated sitcom
Science fiction
Dark comedy
Created by
Justin Roiland
Dan Harmon
Voices of
Justin Roiland
Chris Parnell
Spencer Grammer
Sarah Chalke
Composer(s)
Ryan Elder
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
31 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Dan Harmon
Justin Roiland
James A. Fino (seasons 1–2)
Joe Russo II (seasons 1–2)
Producer(s)
J. Michael Mendel
Kenny Micka (pilot)
Running time
22 minutes
Production company(s)
Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions
Harmonious Claptrap
Starburns Industries (seasons 1–2)
Williams Street
Distributor
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network
Adult Swim
Picture format
1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Original release
December 2, 2013 (2013-12-02) – present
External links
Website
www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/
Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science-fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his fretful, easily influenced grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures. Roiland voices the eponymous characters, with Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke voicing the rest of the family. The series premiered on December 2, 2013.
The series originated from an animated short parody film of Back to the Future, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, created by Roiland for Channel 101, a short film festival co-founded by Harmon. When Adult Swim approached Harmon for television show ideas, he and Roiland decided to develop a program based on the short.
In January 2014, Adult Swim renewed Rick and Morty for a second season, which premiered on July 26, 2015. In August 2015, Adult Swim renewed the series for a third season, consisting of 10 episodes. The third season premiered unannounced on April 1, 2017; the rest of the series aired weekly from July.[1] The show has received critical acclaim for its originality, creativity, and humor.
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1 Premise
1.1 Characters
1.2 Setting
2 Series overview
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Writing
3.3 Animation and voice recording
4 Philosophy
5 Release
5.1 Online distribution
5.2 Home media
6 Reception
6.1 Critical reception
6.2 Awards and nominations
7 Impact on popular culture
8 Other media and products
8.1 Comics
8.2 Video games
8.3 Tabletop games
8.4 Other
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Premise
Characters
Main article: List of Rick and Morty characters
The show revolves around the adventures of the members of the Smith household, consisting of Rick Sanchez, an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist, who eschews many ordinary conventions such as school, marriage and love; Morty Smith, Rick's 14-year-old grandson, a kind but easily distressed boy, whose naive but grounded moral compass plays counterpoint to Rick's Machiavellian ego; Summer Smith, Morty's 17-year-old sister, a more conventional teenager who worries about improving her status among her peers and sometimes follows Rick and Morty on their adventures; Beth Smith, Rick's daughter, a generally level-headed person and assertive force in the household, who is dissatisfied with her marriage and self-conscious about her professional role as a horse doctor; and Jerry Smith, Beth's husband, a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.
Setting
The adventures of Rick and Morty take place throughout the multiverse, which consists of an infinite number of realities. The characters travel to other planets and dimensions using a portal or Rick's flying car. According to Justin Roiland, the family lives outside of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington.[2]
Series overview
Main article: List of Rick and Morty episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 11 December 2, 2013 (2013-12-02) April 14, 2014 (2014-04-14)
2 10 July 26, 2015 (2015-07-26) October 4, 2015 (2015-10-04)
3 10 April 1, 2017 (2017-04-01) October 1, 2017 (2017-10-01)
Production
Development
Creators Dan Harmon (left) and Justin Roiland
Rick and Morty was created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. The duo first met at Channel 101, a non-profit monthly short film festival in Los Angeles co-founded by Harmon.[3] At Channel 101, participants submit a short film in the format of a pilot, and a live audience decides which pilots continue as a series. Roiland, then a producer on reality programming, began submitting content to the festival a year after its launch, in 2004. His pilots typically consisted of shock value—"sick and twisted" elements that received a confused reaction from the audience.[3] Nevertheless, Harmon took a liking to his humor and the two began collaborating. In 2006, Roiland was fired from working on a television series he regarded as intensely creatively stifling, and funneled his creative energies into creating a webisode for Channel 101. The result was The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, an animated short starring Doc Brown and Marty McFly, characters from the Back to the Future film trilogy.[4] In the short, which Harmon would dub "a bastardization, a pornographic vandalization", Doc Smith urges Mharti that the solution to all of his problems is to give him oral sex.[5] The audience reacted to it wildly, and Roiland began creating more shorts involving the characters, which soon evolved beyond his original intentions and their obvious origin within the film from which it was culled.[5][6] Harmon would later create and produce Community, an NBC sitcom, while Roiland would work primarily in voice acting for Disney's Fish Hooks and Cartoon Network's Adventure Time.
In 2012, Harmon was fired from Community. Adult Swim, searching for a more prime-time, "hit" show,[7] approached Harmon shortly afterward, who initially viewed the channel as unfit for his style. He also was unfamiliar with animation, and his process for creating television focuses more heavily on dialogue, characters, and story.[6] Instead, he phoned Roiland to inquire if he had any ideas for an animated series. Roiland immediately brought up the idea of using the Doc and Mharti characters, renamed Rick and Morty.[5] Roiland initially wanted the show's run time to consist of one eleven-minute segment, but Adult Swim pushed for a half-hour program.[7] Harmon felt the best way to extend the voices into a program would be to build a family around the characters, while Adult Swim development executive Nick Weidenfeld suggested that Rick be Morty's grandfather. Having pitched multiple television programs that did not get off the ground, Roiland was initially very unreceptive to others attempting to give notes on his pitch.[5] Prior to developing Rick and Morty, he had created three failed animated pilots for Fox, and he had begun to feel "burned out" with developing television.[6]
The first draft was completed in six hours on the Paramount Pictures lot in Dan Harmon's unfurnished Community office.[8] The duo had broken the story that day, sold the pilot, and then sat down to write.[6][9] Roiland, while acknowledging a tendency for procrastination, encouraged Harmon to stay and write the entire first draft.[8] "We were sitting on the floor, cross-legged with laptops and I was about to get up and go home and he said, 'Wait, if you go home, it might take us three months to write this thing. Stay here right now and we can write it in six hours.' He just had a premonition about that," recalled Harmon.[6] Adult Swim was initially unsure of Roiland doing both voices, partially due to the undeveloped nature of the character of Morty. Harmon wrote four short premises in which Morty took a more assertive role and sent it to Mike Lazzo.[8] Adult Swim placed a tamer TV-14 rating on the program, which initially was met with reluctance from the show's staff. The network's reason behind the rating was that it would soon begin broadcasting in prime-time, competing with major programs.[6]
The main theme for Rick and Morty by Ryan Elder was originally used in a rejected Cartoon Network pilot Roiland made called "Dog World", which was also referenced in the episode "Lawnmower Dog".[10]
Writing
The general formula of Rick and Morty consists of the juxtaposition of two conflicting scenarios: an extremely selfish, alcoholic grandfather dragging his grandson across space for intergalactic and/or interdimensional adventures, intercut with domestic family drama.[5][7] This has led Harmon to describe the series as a cross between Matt Groening's two shows The Simpsons and Futurama, balancing family life with heavy science fiction.[11] Roiland stated his and Harmon's intentions for the series to lack traditional continuity, opting for discontinuous storylines "not bound by rules". In a similar interview session at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, he described each episode as being "[its] own point of entry."[12]
The first season writing staff consisted of Roiland, Harmon, Tom Kauffman, Ryan Ridley, Wade Randolph, and Eric Acosta, while writer's assistant Mike McMahan was also given writing credit. Described as a "very, very tiny little writers' room with a lot of heavy lifting from everybody," the show's writing staff, like many Adult Swim productions, is not unionized with the Writers' Guild of America.[11] The writing staff first meets and discusses ideas, which evolve into a story.[3] Discussions often include anecdotes from personal life as well as thoughts on the science fiction genre.[6] After breaking the story—which consists of developing its consistency and logical beginning, middle, and conclusion—a writer is assigned to create an outline. Roiland and Harmon do a "pass" on the outline, and from there the episode undergoes several more drafts. The final draft of the script is last approved by either of the co-creators.[3] In producing the series' first season, episodes were occasionally written out of order. For example, "Rick Potion #9" was the second episode written for the series, but was instructed to be animated as the fifth, as it would make more sense within the series' continuity.[3] The series is inspired by British-style storytelling, as opposed to traditional American "family TV" stories.[3] Harmon noted that the writers room at the show's studio bears a striking resemblance to the one used for Community.[6] In comparing the two, he noted that the writing staff of Rick and Morty was significantly smaller, and more "rough and tumble verbally," commenting, "There's a lot more Legos and Nerf guns."[6]
Many episodes are structured with use of a story circle, a Harmon creation based largely on Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or The Hero's Journey. Its two-act structure places the act break at an odd location in the stages of the monomyth: after The Meeting with the Goddess, instead of Atonement with the Father.[8] Harmon has stated that his inspiration behind much of the concept and humor for the series comes from various British television series, such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Doctor Who. He figures that the audience will only understand developments from Morty's point of view, but stated "we don't want to be the companions. We want to hang out with the Doctor, we idolize the Doctor, but we don't think like him, and that's really interesting, Rick is diseased, he's mentally ill, he's an absolute lunatic because he lives on this larger scale."[13]
Dan Harmon has admitted that his perfectionism can some times be disruptive and cause writing schedule delays. For the most part, this was the reason why the third season of the show consisted of only ten episodes instead of fourteen, as was initially intended.[14][15] In a September 2017 interview, Harmon said he is hoping they will be able to create more than ten episodes for the fourth season of the show.[16]
Animation and voice recording
Animation for the show is done using Toon Boom Harmony, post-production work is done in Adobe After Effects, and background art is done in Adobe Photoshop.[17] Production of animation is handled by Bardel Entertainment in Canada.[18]
Roiland's cartooning style is heavily indebted to The Simpsons, a factor he acknowledged in a 2013 interview, while also comparing his style to that of Pendleton Ward (Adventure Time) and J.G. Quintel (Regular Show): "You'll notice mouths are kind of similar and teeth are similar, but I think that's also a stylistic thing that... all of us are kind of the same age, and we're all inspired by The Simpsons and all these other shows we're kind of subconsciously tapping into."[11] John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show was another strong influence for Rick and Morty, which is why, according to Roiland, the small "w-shaped mouths" that the characters occasionally make is a reference to a similar expression that Ren frequently makes.
When recording dialogue, Roiland does a considerable amount of improvisation, in order to make the characters feel more natural.[19]
Philosophy
There has been discussion among viewers about the philosophy of Rick and Morty.[20] The show most frequently adopts an existentialist perspective, while Harmon has described Rick as an anarchist, who doesn't like being told what to do.[21] Other philosophies that have been referenced in the characters behavior and observations include: absurdism, nihilism and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche.[22][23]
A frequently-cited example is a point Morty makes in "Rixty Minutes", where he argues that Summer shouldn't run away from home in anger after learning of alternative realities where her parents were happier without her:
Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.
This statement heavily resembles a quote from French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre:[24]
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Release
The series was first announced during Adult Swim's 2012 Upfront presentation.[25] Adult Swim ordered 10 half-hour episodes (not including the pilot) to comprise the first season.[26][27] Matt Roller, a writer for the series, confirmed via Twitter that the network renewed Rick and Morty for a second season, which premiered on July 26, 2015. In August 2015, Adult Swim renewed the series for a third season, which consists of 10 episodes.[28] It premiered unannounced on April 1, 2017, with the rest of the season beginning on July 30, 2017.[29]
Online distribution
Adult Swim has made all of the episodes available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, YouTube, and Vudu, as well as a 37-minute interview between creators Harmon and Roiland at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, and a panel at the 2015 ATX Television Festival.[30] Episodes have also been made available to stream on the series' official website with a cable provider login.[31] The episode "Rixty Minutes" was released early by the network via 109 15-second videos on Instagram.[32] Some of the episodes are available for free streaming on Adult Swim's website; for the rest a U.S. cable subscription is required.[33] Season one was made available for on-demand viewing on Hulu in June 2015. Season two is also available as of June 2016.[34] Seasons 1-3 are available on Netflix in some countries.[fn 1]
Home media
The complete first season was released on DVD (Region 1) and Blu-ray on October 7, 2014.[35] Before its release, Roiland had confirmed that it would contain uncensored audio tracks.[36] The complete second season was released on DVD (Region 1) and Blu-ray on June 7, 2016.[37]
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Rick and Morty has received universal critical acclaim, holding a 97% approval rating by critics on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[38] Additionally, the first season of Rick and Morty holds a Metacritic score of 85 based on eight reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[39] David Weigand of San Francisco Chronicle described it as "offbeat and occasionally coarse... the take-away here is that it works". He praised the animation direction by James McDermott for being "fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script", and states that the series possesses "shades of Futurama, South Park and even Beetlejuice", ultimately opining that its humor felt "entirely original".[40] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times praised the series and stated that it was "Grandparenting at its unhinged finest."[41] Todd Spangler of Variety gave the series a lukewarm review; while he found the series was passable, he contrasted it with other Adult Swim series as "often seems overly reliant on simply being frenetic at the expense of being witty" and enjoyed it as "a welcome attempt to dream just a little bigger".[42] David Sims of The A.V. Club gave the series an "A−". In reviewing the first two episodes, he complimented the animation for its "clean, simple style". He stated that while the series has "a dark, sick sensibility", he praised its "effort to give each character a little bit of depth", further applauding Roiland's voice talent for the eponymous characters.[43]
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2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice Animated TV Show Rick and Morty Nominated
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Impact on popular culture
On May 17, 2015, the finale of the twenty-sixth season of the animated sitcom, The Simpsons, opened with an elaborate couch gag featuring Rick and Morty, written by Harmon and Roiland.[46] Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, described it as "probably the most ambitious and lengthy couch gag" on The Simpsons to date.[47]
On November 30, 2015, the fast food restaurant chain Carl's Jr. and Hardee's released a television commercial, in which Rick brings several sentient burgers into a sleeping Morty's room. The burgers run amok and steal objects.[48]
On May 13, 2017, in a promotional short film for the 2017 film Alien: Covenant, Rick and Morty land on an Engineer's ship in the Alien dimension in response to a distress signal, wherein a facehugger attaches itself to Rick's face and dies from the toxicity of the drugs and alcohol in Rick's body.[49][50]
On October 7, 2017, McDonald's served Szechuan sauce, months after it was referenced several times in the Season 3 premiere, "The Rickshank Redemption".[51]
Other media and products
Comics
At New York Comic Con 2014, editor-in-chief of Oni Press, James Lucas Jones, announced that a Rick and Morty comic book adaptation would be released in early 2015.[52] On April 1, 2015, the series debuted with its first monthly issue, entitled "BAM!"[53] The series is written by Zac Gorman and illustrated by CJ Cannon.[54] Artist Tom Fowler wrote a multi-issue story arc that began in March, 2016.[55] Using the television series' established premise of alternate timelines, the comic book expressly features the Rick and Morty (and supporting cast) of a different timeline, allowing the comics to tell stories without conflicting with the canon of the show.
Video games
In 2014, Rick and Morty's Rushed Licensed Adventure, a Flash point-and-click adventure game, was released on the Adult Swim website.[56]
In December 2014, Rick and Morty: Jerry's Game was released for iOS and Android. The game consists of the player popping balloons and air filled condoms endlessly. Characters show up from time to time. The amount of balloons popped is counted and used as currency for unlocking special balloons, backdrops, and features. The game is based on a game Jerry was seen playing in an episode. The game includes micro-transactions.[57]
On August 10, 2015, a Rick and Morty-themed announcer pack was released for the competitive multiplayer video game Dota 2.[58] The announcer pack can be purchased by players and replaces the Default announcer and Mega-Kills announcer with characters from Rick and Morty, voiced by Justin Roiland.
Pocket Mortys is a Pokémon parody game set in the "Rick and Morty Rickstaverse",[59] released on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game from Adult Swim Games, released early[60] on January 13, 2016. Coinciding with the many-worlds interpretation, the game follows versions of Rick and Morty that belong to an alternate timeline, rather than the duo followed in the show. The game uses a style and concept similar to the Pokémon games, with catching various "wild" Mortys, battling them with a variety of Aliens, Ricks, and Jerrys. The game features voice acting from Roiland and Harmon.
Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, announced on July 15, 2016 and released on April 20, 2017, is a VR game for HTC Vive VR and Oculus Rift developed by Owlchemy Labs, the developers of Job Simulator.[61][62]
Tabletop games
On June 22, 2016, Cryptozoic Entertainment released Total Rickall, a co-operative strategy card game based on the plot of the episode of the same name, where players must determine which characters are real or parasites.[63]
On August 3, 2016, Cryptozoic Entertainment released Mr. Meeseeks' Box o' Fun, a game combining elements of dice games and truth or dare featuring the popular Mr. Meeseeks character from the episode "Meeseeks and Destroy".[64]
Other
On May 11, 2017, the Rick and Morty Don't Even Trip Road Trip made its first stop in a coast-to-coast tour. The Rickmobile, a traveling shop with exclusive merchandise, made its final stop of the tour on October 8, 2017, at Comic Con in New York City.[65]
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References
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Castlevania (TV series)
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Castlevania
Genre
Adult Animation
Horror
Dark fantasy
Based on
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
by Konami
Written by
Warren Ellis
Directed by
Sam Deats
Voices of
Richard Armitage
James Callis
Graham McTavish
Alejandra Reynoso
Tony Amendola
Matt Frewer
Emily Swallow
Composer(s)
Trevor Morris
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
4
Production
Executive producer(s)
Adi Shankar
Fred Seibert
Ted Biaselli
Kevin Kolde
Larry Tanz
Warren Ellis
Producer(s)
Toshiyuki Hiruma
Brad Graeber
Jason Williams
Running time
23−25 minutes
Production company(s)
Frederator Studios
Powerhouse Animation Studios
Shankar Animation
Project 51 Productions
Mua Film
Distributor
Netflix
Release
Original network
Netflix
Original release
July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07) – present
Castlevania is an American adult animated web television series based on the 1989 video game Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse by Konami. The series follows Trevor Belmont, who defends the nation of Wallachia from Dracula and his minions. Originally planned as a film with a script written by Warren Ellis in 2007, the project entered development hell until about 2015, where it was finally funded with help from animation studios Frederator Studios and Powerhouse Animation Studios, along with Netflix. Its art style is heavily influenced by that of Japanese anime and Ayami Kojima's artwork in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.[1] The series premiered on the Netflix streaming service on July 7, 2017,[2] and was renewed for an expanded second season of eight episodes on the same day.[3]
Contents
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1 Premise
2 Voice cast
3 Production
4 Episodes
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links
Premise[edit]
When his wife is burned at the stake after being falsely accused of witchcraft, the vampire Count Vlad Dracula Tepes declares all the people of Wallachia will pay with their lives. His army of monsters and demons overruns the country, causing the people to live lives of fear and distrust. To combat this, the disgraced demon hunter Trevor Belmont takes up arms against Dracula's forces, aided by the magician Sypha Belnades and Dracula's half-vampire son Alucard.
Voice cast[edit]
Richard Armitage as Trevor Belmont, the last living member of the Belmont clan, a disgraced family of monster hunters.[4]
James Callis as Adrian Tepes, also known as Alucard, the dhampir son of Dracula and Lisa Tepes, who seeks to protect humanity from his father.[4]
Graham McTavish as Vlad Dracula Tepes, a vampire who swears vengeance on humanity for the death of his wife Lisa, summoning an army of monsters to destroy all the people of Wallachia.[4]
Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha Belnades, a Speaker and the Elder's granddaughter who wields powerful magic.[4]
Tony Amendola as The Elder, the leader of a group of Speakers aiding the people of Gresit whom Trevor befriends.[4]
Matt Frewer as The Bishop, a clergyman who orders the burning of Lisa Tepes for witchcraft, later being named the bishop of Gresit.[4] He dies at the hands of a demon in the last episode of season 1, saying that his actions to follow God’s will is are merely his own and that he has condemned everyone to death.
Emily Swallow as Lisa Tepes, Dracula's beloved wife who is burned at the stake after being falsely accused of witchcraft.[4]
Production[edit]
Warren Ellis wrote the series as a direct-to-video film before adapting it for a television format.
In March 2007, Frederator Studios acquired the rights to produce an animated film adaption of Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, intended as a direct-to-video production. Frederator brought writer Warren Ellis aboard as the screenwriter for the series. In an interview with Paste, Warren Ellis said that when he was contacted about Castlevania he had no previous knowledge of the series and discovered it was a "Japanese transposition of the Hammer Horror films I grew up with and loved".[5] Ellis explained how he worked with Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi to fit the film into the timeline of the series, including writing a new backstory, and how he was frustrated that Igarashi wanted eight full re-writes of pre-production material before giving approval.[6] Ellis noted that Frederator's Kevin Kolde, who was slated to produce the work, did not want the film to be aimed at children, allowing Ellis to use gruesome imagery and scenes as necessary to tell the story he wanted to write, something that Ellis had found restrictive in working with normal television animation.[7]
In adapting the game for the film, Ellis did not want to make a point-for-point adaption, but instead provide some material to flesh out the game's world and elements behind it. At this stage, the film was anticipated to be only 80 minutes long, which Ellis knew would not be enough to tell the full story he wanted, so was able to break apart his script into a trilogy of works, each part having a self-contained three-act structure; the first part would be to introduce the characters of Dracula, Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard and with a meaningful narrative resolution. In this manner, Ellis noted that if the other two parts were never greenlit, the first work "doesn’t demand the presence of the other two parts for it to work as its own thing".[7] Due to the limited time, Ellis opted to drop Grant Danasty, a pirate character in the game; Ellis noted that besides "the stupid name", he felt the pirate was misplaced in the setting and that the limited run time would not allow him to develop the character fully.[7]
Sometime around 2008, work on the production stalled, and entered development hell.[1] Ellis had completed his script in June 2008, and the show's production blog had said in August 2008 that they were shopping around the idea as a theatrical release, but no further updates followed before the blog was quietly deleted.[7]
Around 2012, Adi Shankar was approached to direct a live-action version of Ellis' script. Shankar, who at the time had just finished work as executive producer of Dredd, said that the party was looking to make a film in the style of the Underworld films with a similar budget, representative of a small studio with large independent backing. Shankar turned the opportunity down, saying it felt "250 percent wrong", as he had deep respect for the original game and felt the live-action version would not treat it well.[8] Following this, Shankar stepped back from Hollywood to pursue more self-published works, stating that "the major studios were blatantly disrespecting fandom" as a reason he turned down the offer.[8]
The show was revitalized when Powerhouse Animation Studios's Sam Deats was able to negotiate a deal with Netflix for the production, using the existing scripts that had been written nearly a decade prior. Powerhouse reached out to Frederator to help with the show's production.[1] According to Ellis, Netflix was very positive about his original scripts that he wrote in 2007, and so he had to only make a few changes to fit the Netflix format while staying true to the version of the script Konami had accepted.[5] Shankar was approached with the opportunity to produce the work, which he took as neither Powerhouse or Frederator sought to restrict his creative vision from Ellis' scripts.[8][9][10][11] Fred Seibert and Kevin Kolde of Frederator Studios also co-produce.[9] The series was animated by Frederator Studios and Powerhouse Animation Studios and directed by Sam Deats.[12][13][14] Trevor Morris composed the show's music.[5]
The show's art style was heavily influenced by the work Ayami Kojima did for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.[1] They also took ideas from director Satoshi Kon's works for character expressions and series such as Cowboy Bebop and Berserk for inserting humor among the more serious elements.[1] The show is produced using 2D hand-drawn animation, taking cues from Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D,[15] with staff members that previously worked on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.[16] The production works closely with Konami, the holders of the Castlevania franchise, who helped to identify small continuity issues but were otherwise very receptive towards the work.[1]
Two seasons of the show have been planned, with the first season of four 30-minute episodes released on July 7, 2017. This season represents the first part of the trilogy that Ellis has laid out in 2007.[5] The second season will be eight episodes long and is planned for a 2018 release.[17][18][3] Ellis said that the second season, completing the trilogy, is where he had been able to deviate somewhat from the game, and has been better anticipate the show's release on Netflix in terms of scenes and episode lengths.[5] Shankar believes that there is an opportunity for more stories to be told borrowing from other games in the series, noting that overall he sees the series as "a story about a family and multiple generations of this family" with many tales to draw from.[8]
Episodes[edit]
No.
Title
Original release date
1
"Witchbottle" July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07)
In Wallachia in 1455, a young woman named Lisa who wishes to be a doctor seeks out Vlad Dracula Tepes, a vampire with advanced scientific knowledge. Intrigued by her courage and ambition, Dracula agrees to teach her, while she in turn offers to help him reconnect with humanity. The two eventually fall in love and marry. Twenty years later (1475) in the town of Târgoviște, Lisa is burned at the stake after a Bishop discovers scientific equipment in her home and accuses her of witchcraft. Dracula is devastated and furious upon learning of his wife’s death and declares the people have one year to make their peace, after which every human in Wallachia will die by his hand. His son Alucard tells him to instead go after the man responsible instead of all of humanity, but Dracula refuses to listen and attacks him. One year later, the Archbishop hosts a celebration in defiance of Dracula. As promised, Dracula kills the Archbishop, destroys the church and orders his demon army to kill every person left in Wallachia. As the army spreads across the land, the people place the blame on the kingdom's noble families, including the Belmonts.
2
"Necropolis" July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07)
Following an altercation at a pub, Trevor Belmont seeks food and respite in the city of Gresit, which has been besieged by Dracula's forces every night. As he passes through town, he learns that the townspeople blame a group of magic users known as the Speakers for Dracula's assault. He saves their Elder from a pair of corrupt priests, who brings him back to his home to meet his fellow Speakers. Trevor insists they leave the city for their own safety, but the Elder refuses, as his grandchild has gone missing after venturing into the catacombs below the city in search of the "sleeping soldier", a legendary hero who they believe can defeat Dracula. Begrudgingly, Trevor agrees to retrieve the missing grandchild.
3
"Labyrinth" July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07)
Exploring the catacombs, Trevor realizes that they have been unusually constructed and contain devices matching old family descriptions of devices within Dracula's castle. Finding a stone statue in the visage of a Speaker, Trevor is attacked by a giant Cyclops. He defeats the creature, releasing its curse, and rescues the Elder's grandchild, Sypha Belnades. After returning Sypha to her grandfather, Trevor is summoned to the church by the local Bishop, revealed to be the same Bishop who ordered Lisa's execution. The Bishop orders Trevor to leave Gresit before sundown, as they plan to lead a mob to kill the Speakers, offering to spare Trevor and restore his family name in exchange. With the Speakers refusing to retreat, Trevor has them hidden in the Cyclops' chamber and takes on the priests leading the mob before escaping into the city.
4
"Monument" July 7, 2017 (2017-07-07)
Night falls as Dracula's army descends upon Gresit, killing the Bishop. As Trevor continues his escape, Sypha appears to aid him, revealing herself as a powerful magic user. Trevor exposes the clergy's actions as the true reason for Dracula's invasion and assists the people in mounting a defense against the demons. During the battle, the floor crumbles beneath Trevor and Sypha and they fall deep into the submerged catacombs of the city. Making their way in deeper, they find the "sleeping soldier", revealed to be Alucard, who has spent a year healing from his last fight with Dracula. Trevor and Alucard engage in battle, but after seeing his and Sypha's resolve, Alucard relents and offers his aid, and the three prepare to challenge Dracula and end the conflict for good.
Reception[edit]
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a rating of 85%, based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 7.02/10.[19] It is the first video game adaptation in the site's history to receive a "Fresh" rating.[20] Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, reported that there were "generally favorable reviews" for the first season, with an average score of 71 based on 4 reviews.[21]
The Verge gave a mixed review, noting that the gore did little to create a sense of danger and felt "intentionally flashy". It concluded that "Castlevania is ripe with potential, but also burdened with cliches."[22] Dave Trumbore of Collider gave the series four stars out of five, praising the chemistry between the cast and comparing the violence with anime such as Ninja Scroll.[23] IGN also wrote glowingly of Warren Ellis's script, but felt some of his humor was a little jarring.[24] In a review for Paste Magazine, Dave Raposo wrote that Castlevania channeled the cutaway gag formula that is seen in Family Guy. He dismissed the "absurd" attempts at humanizing Dracula and called it a "milquetoast imitation of Game of Thrones", noting that the ambitions of the script "fly in the face of the simple ideals that unify the best entries in the Castlevania series".[25] Several reviews lauded the voice cast, particularly Graham McTavish as Dracula and Richard Armitage as Trevor Belmont.[24] Screen Rant's Sarah Moran drew attention to the "sarcastic edge" that Armitage brought to the character.[26] Destructoid also wrote positively of Trevor Belmont as a protagonist, but criticized the animation and added that the character designs were "flat".[27] Dan Seitz at Uproxx left a negative review, writing that it tried too hard to find profundity in the story of the Castlevania series. He also cited issues with the pacing.[28]
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External links[edit]
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Castlevania on IMDb
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