The writing is all over the place and unbalanced. It might be due to the fact that it was originally going to be a straight-to-DVD movie, but then got picked up by Netflix. So rewrites and revisions would explain the weird pacing. But this story could've be told a lot better. For a slightly autistic example;
> The church is a mix-bag of good and bad people. the arch-bishop is generally good while the Bishop Whateverthefuckhisnamewas is not entirely evil, but is extreme in his faith.
> During the investigation of Lisa's house scene, the bishop would eventually just give her a "I'm watching you" warning.
> Sees pendent of Dracula on it, freaks out because he recognizes who that is (flashing back to that time when Dracula was young and killing people), then calls her a witch for "being allegiance with a demon"
> Burning of Lisa happens, Dracula gets pissed and starts a war against the holy order rather than all of humanity.
> Dracula gives the humans an ultimatum; "You all have two choices; God or me."
> Chaos and people freak out, the church freaks out
> Arch-Bishop hires a mercenary army to take on Dracula's castle
> The series would actually use Grant in the story, making him the leader of the mercenaries.
> The army storm in the castle, but then vanishes.
> Majority of Grant's army gets either killed or captured for monster experiments.
> Monsters keep flooding villages, raiding villages that have churches.
> Villagers notice that places with no churches are sparred.
> Mobs start tearing down their churches, priests and bishops freak out.
> The Arch-Bishop gets desperate and calls for the Belmonts.
> Trevor is the last Belmont, Sypha is sent by the church to get Trevor out of his drunken, sad mood
> Christians are openly attacked, Dracula cults are gaining in numbers as those who serve or worship him are sparred by the monsters
> Trevor and Sypha get attacked by cultist of Dracula, revealing Sypha's abilities to use magic spells
> Meanwhile, the vampire generals Dracula recruited are more active and travel in their own war-band of monsters, sweeping the country for any signs of Christianity and Christians.
> "Dracula Unholy War" basically
> Trevor and Sypha run into Alucard, he tags along and they make their way to the Belmount house.
> Along the journey, they fight each the vampire generals in each village, liberating them from Dracula's control.
> Carmilla still tries to usurp Dracula, but is less open about it
> Less time is spend on Issac and Hector because they're not the ones who are leading the armies, they just make the armies.
> Dracula himself is mainly driving the castle to place to place, picking up more corpses and willing slaves to be turned into monsters, and dropping said monsters off
> A couple of times the main cast gets close to catching the castle to no avail.
> Half-way, Grant breaks free from one of the vampire generals control (Lets just use God-brand as an example), kills him in his monster form and gets turn back into a human using holy magic by Sypha.
> Grant becomes the 4th member of the main cast, acting as ship-sailer and rogue of the team.
> Carmilla realized Dracula's following is getting too powerful and decides to try and convince the main cast to join forces with her to kill Dracula.
> Main cast declines and get in a fight with Carmilla and her army. Carmilla is killed.
> Season 2 ends on the main cast reaching the Belmount house, with Dracula still at large and growing more mad.
Point is they should've spent way less time on Dracula's uncle toms rather then the main cast. Its a dark adventure story, so focus on being a dark adventure. If they also wanted to make it an anti-christian story, the writer could have been more open about it and made the church itself, not humanity, Dracula's target.
> The vampires in the show point out the fact that if Dracula killed all the humans, they wouldn't have anything (good) to eat.
A show pointing out its own plots isn't clever, its like tripping out own feet and then saying “I meant to do that.”
TL;DR, I liked everything but the writing.