“Saint Germain, your humble servant in, umm... whatever you may need.” This scene taken out of context is honestly heartbreaking ngl. Watching a man tweak his resume and pitch his skill set over and over to no avail is, well, kinda relatable, isn’t it?
Such as life. I'm actually quitting my job, trying to get better pay and learn new skills, so I can't help but see a reflection of myself during this scene 😅
@@PatrickRatman bruh, My phone is like $75 and I have had it for the past 3 or 4 years... and as for food, I only have one meal a night, and it costs $6-12 I think I can get away with saying fuck the rich...
I kind of wish that they had just kept her a mystery if they weren't actually going to give her any dialogue. At the very least I thought it was interesting not knowing the depths of her and Germain's relationship in season 3. We never saw her face, or knew if they were family, or partners, or if she was even human. Now we know that she was just a quiet tough lady he had a crush on for a while and not much beyond that.
@@YorkJonhson It does seem like their was more beyond that. She was most likely a scholar like him and both of them were clearly interested in the infinite corridor and exploring the mysteries of the world. They were clearly in love but never got a chance to confess to each other before they were separated in their pursuit of knowledge. We never got a confirmation on how old she was or how long they knew each other we know Germain has lived a very long time considering he said in season 3 that he was immortal. She might have been the same and they most likely spend a long time together. As for why she was travelling the corridor it was a mystery. Death said she left that realm but death might have been lying and she might have been there waiting for him for who knows how long. I do wish that we either found out more about her or she stayed a mystery but for 10 episode season I say she got a lot of development.
@@nabinoorshahil2715 Yeah, what we got is fine, but like you say if they were going to touch upon it at all I just wish that they were able to do more with it. Of course I feel like a lot of the character arcs would have really benefitted from having another season to work, but I think they were pushed to wrap it up with just one so they had to juggle things around a bit.
It's hilarious. And also the fact that he's so tired and fed up with everybody's power plays and posturing he honestly doesn't give a shit anymore, just wants to rush to the ending :D
It wasn't his station that was deteriorating, it was the world. Humanity was losing - vampires were ruling in most of Europe, the eastern and southern countries were basically culled, creatures of the dark were everywhere, the Belmonts had been decimated, and the organized armies of man were gone. He was fighting a losing battle all his life, and it took its toll.
I would have loved for him to at least kiss her or tell her he loved her. He could see her one last time, but man, was it unsatisfying. After all he did, I knew he couldn’t see her again. That was the moral for the viewer: do not sacrifice your ethics and morals for a loved one because then you won’t be able to face them. He should just kept looking for her. And I doubt she loves him as much, she watched him dying she could have jumped and keep him company in his last breath. What a girl you loved Saint Germain. I wish they see again, even if it’s in hell maybe then they would love each other how it should be. And she could take him out of hell since it’s presented as just another world of the many that exist. For a being that can travel the Infinite Corridor it would seem that death is pointless since you could get out of hell when you liked and get anyone you wanted out. Maybe this way Leonor could live again.
@@larissaeverleigh3332 you're assuming he's actually dead and gone. Assuming St. Germain didn't have a contingency against his death, there's nothing to say his lover, who is still in the corridor, couldn't go get him from wherever he wound up...even Hell. (she was human, after all)
@@alexsolomon7991 That a thought that consoles me. I think he is dead, he had a blade go through his heart, but for the people that control the corridor hell is just another world from which they can travel in and out. Let's see what they say in the new spin off, maybe there's some sweet relief there, even if it's just a mention or a good cameo.
@@lonedemonofdeath666 x2 but when it comes to relationships is different. You shouldn't do anything that might hurt the person you love even if it's for the sake of seing them again. When you face them, would they be relieved of ashamed and disgusted at you became? Remember the man or woman they fell in love with and try to keep the things they still love of that man or woman.
I fucking knew I knew that voice, I fucking knew it, and now, now I hear it, from vampire lord, to vampires bitch and resurrector, DAMN can Bill play the part.
I like how every relationship in this show is punctuated by tragedy Dracula: Wife dies. Saint Germain: Girlfriend fell into an mc Escher painting. Alucard: The twins... Hector: Gets cucked by Lenore and enslaved, then later kills herself. Carmilla was in an abusive relationship for countless years. But the best part is that every character that gets cucked in their relationship is a vampire or a human who acts like a vampire. Moreover. Dracula: Was so overcome with grief over the death of the one person he cared about. That he decided to punish the world and disown his son. Alucard: Was so starved for attention and in the pits of dispair for killing his father that he craved attention any attention leading him to trust people he shouldn't have. Carmilla: Used her trauma as a justification to act on her ruthless ambition rather than move beyond her past and heal as a person. Hector: Was too dedicated to his simping ways, Saint Germain: Was overcome with the desire to see his girlfriend so badly that he abandoned his humanity. In all of these cases...I guess you could say...they DRANK TO DEEP! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@sealevel5961 Yeah Trevor and Sypha would have the same relationship if Trevor would have died after killing death. Before Trevor came back, she was depressed and even Alucard trying to cheer her up with his jokes, she still had sad impression.
Saint Gemain only love the idea of her, and not really her. He’s seeing his idealized version of her, how he remembered her being. Notice, she never talks once in this entire flashback. No signs of her personality, no nothing. She was just the one that got away, and Saint Germain will do anything to get her back.
I don't believe so. He seemed to truly love her and her him. We may have not seen her speak, but maybe that was the point. She was portrayed to be perfect. Especially to him
I wouldn’t say that. She was the only one who acknowledged his existence and made him feel like he had value as a human being. We don’t know much about their relationship, but it was real enough for him, even if she did walk away in the end. But by that time, the man she knew was already long gone
That initial montage was decieving as hell. It really gave off the impression that this Germain , like in the games, was an immortal time traveler and that here he was slowly becoming more and more tired of his eternal traveling while everything faded around him Only to learn that its just him travelling from court to court
Honestly it was kind of heartbreaking that Germaine fell off the deep end but at least he was as clever and smart as before and managed to somewhat redeem himself in the end of only slightly
@@kirikakirikakirika I mean, "death" in the castlevania world means going to "Hell" which is just another world the infinite corridor connects to. He's definitely "dead" but he can just leave hell of his own volition if he can figure out how to open the corridor from that side
"[And he will have sex again]" is the worst line in the entire series, robbed him of much of my sympathy and honestly it just feels like....argh forget it. He had a bunch of chances to sabotage the ritual, but je didn't. And it makes me angry because I loved him. He was a scholar, like Flyseyes, and he was trying to survive in a world controlled by violence. And for such an enigmatic scholar to be fooled by the first unknown alchemist he meets is just - Sorry for the rant. Just finished S4. Love the ending.
@@TheSimmus but wasnt the whole thing that Death was manipulating him and dragging him down to be as bad as everyone else, and by the time he tried to revive dracula he was basically broken?
@@Snowfox-gm No, he didn't unfortunately, which was a shame. But he knew he made a mistake when he realised he had been tricked, and he redeemed himself, so at least he didn't leave the show being an idiotic villain.
@@DemonSesshyy He opened the infinite corridor before he died, so indeed he brought very important people back to life at the cost of his own, in my opinion is a tragic character, he never reunited with his loved one.
@@freudylad he was a simp to a point, but I have enough respect to not call him that when he came in clutch for Trevor. Also,he was just tired... After years of servicing royals and shit, he finally found someone he loved and then he couldn't even have that. Then got played by death, like sheesh
I think the whole idea about her is, she really never wanted to be found. That was what she wanted in the beginning. She was more interested in the infinite corridor and exploring the mysteries of the world. She chose to travel from dimension to dimension. Saint Germain was just chasing shadows.
@@BBBnessShe threw it back to him because she didn't need it anymore. She wasn't going back, so she gave it to him to say 'I don't need or want this, you take it and discover this corridor for yourself'. Even if she used him, he was unyielding in his devotion to his work and her, so she felt pity for him.
"You're humble servant in...whatever you may need." Aw man. I may not have liked where this side story ended, but big props to the VA for making this line sound so pitiful. Like damn, I'm already emotionally hurt as is, Germaine isn't helping.
Germain saddened by the loss of his morals after killing the scribe and anger that he had no choice is such a sad moment. He's trapped, and frustrated, and I feel that.
Upon retrospect, how cruel would it have been if Saint Germain found out that the woman he was trying to find this whole time was actually Death in disguise?
It wasn't and this is for some reason you think it very often, tho I think if death showed himself in the same place in the corridor probably he just killed her and said she is elsewhere ( still we see her vision when Germain is about to die )
When you put it like that, that would have been a better twist: Germain manages to create the Rabis, he takes control of the Infinite Corridor, and when he finally finds his lost love, it just turns out to be Death itself. That would have made Germain's ending a bittersweet one, after all he's done he could atone for his mistake and give Death a big "Fuck you!" in the end.
@@fort809well yes, however the further he went AWAY from the center of cultures that are linked with the renaissance and in its earliest forms and in this sence the closer he goes back tl the dark ages anyways. Besides if we are serious theres not even a Belmont alive in the dark ages since its really only the high middle ages up until Charlemagne after which the feudal age is well ongoing even if not in its final form, a few centuries before Leon, so really we only say dark ages in this case in the sence the renaissance people wanted to give the middle ages, less civilised folks, which is historically wrong but heeeeeeh
About the woman: 1) She was problably the one that throw Belmont off the infinite corridor and back to Wallachia. 2) She is problaby the main character of the spin off that they´ve announced been working. Other options are Dracula´s origins or Leon Belmont´s storyline.
When I found out Jason Isaac's voiced the Judge, I knew he was going to be evil. When I found out Bill Nighy voiced Germain, I knew he was going to be tragic.
Bill Nighy might be the most versatile actor around. And his enthusiasm! You can tell he’s not just here for money! He attacks every role with this passion!
Spoilers: I was really disappointed we didn’t find out what happened to his mysterious love interest though. We never even got to hear her talk or know her name
One of my biggest questions after watching the whole series....who was the woman? Was the woman ever even real? I could easily think that it was just another illusion of the Grim Reaper luring Germain to the Infinite Corridor, as she is more of a "McGuffin" than a character- but then again, when Germain dies...he sees her one last time as the Corridor closes. Was that just a symbolic vision that he had, as his dreams and life slipped away....or was she actually real?
@@pygar256 there’s literally a flash back of how he meets and loses her. He sees her multiple times through the corridor and its implied that death lied when he said she moved on too a different place because at the end when he opens thr portal too her shes in the same place as before and she instead of reaching a hand out like all the other times she turns her back too him and closes the corridor. He knew she knew what he was doing and understood he failed and lost her forever thats why he made is last act saving trevor
@@sond.lollipop8919 I like that possible explanation....I also wonder though- Did Germain actually die, or did he open the Corridor to save himself? (while co-incidentally saving Trevor too? ) To detract from your theory- even though Death does not reveal the mystery woman as one of his disguises, it is very clear Death can disguise himself as human or vampire rather easily and for long periods of time. Also, even though it isn't directly explained in the show....it could even be that the mystery woman isn't even a disguise, but was always just some kind of dream manipulation on Deaths part to lure Germain into his plot....In Germain's dream in season one, He loses the mystery woman in the place where he later finds Death disguised as the "Oracle" or apparent keeper of the Corridor, and she tosses him the mystic stone that can track the Corridor- when Germain wakes from the nightmare, he talks to himself recalling the time in his life when she was with him, and says "Then there was you...Did I dream when you were here?" and that he is trying to "Get back to the good dream again" as he writes in his journal and stares at the mystic stone. Death uses Germain's obsession to find the woman and the corridor to get Germain to do his bidding, and plays him like a fiddle...like Death knows all of Germain's thoughts- and so the mystery woman could easily just be just another part of the big lie. I dunno, the fact that the mystery woman doesn't even have a name and only has her face shown once make it seem to me that one way or another she was never real.
Technically, we did know what happened to his lover. There was a brief scene in episode 7 where in one of the armored caravan that's coming to attack Dracula's castle, there were vampires (or night creatures, not sure) sewing together the Rebis that would be used to trap the souls of Dracula and Lisa. In a crate of body parts the vampires were using to make the Rebis, there was a scene showing the corpse of an arm with the same ring Saint Germain was wearing. At first, I thought this was a binding ring but the binding rings (that Lenore used) are red and silver, whereas Saint Germain's and the corpse's were red and brown(?). So that would mean that the corpse's arm belonged to Saint Germain's lover, meaning that somehow she got killed. Death most likely knew about this, but never told Saint Germain so that he would continue with bringing back Dracula. And when Saint Germain died, he probably didn't really see the figure of his lover but rather just imagined her to still be somewhere in the Infinite Corridor, never knowing that she was long dead. So in a very twisted sense, Saint Germain was reunited with his lover before his death.
In the games, when Saint Germain is introduced he already entered The Infinite Corridor and learned all its secrets. He uses it to travel through time but for what purpose is unknow. His motives in the game are left ambiguous.
I fucking love those creepy fish eye shots when the character looks insane as fuck, it’s like the animators just put their entire budget into the fights and those shots
She doesn't speak or even really look at Germain that kindly. He has so much love in his eyes and his voice, so it would make sense for that to be a deliberate choice from the animator's to show that maybe even before she vanished into the Corridor he was loving a shadow.
1:28 there's something so seemingly realistic yet hilarious about this whole sequence to me right from the funny ass "OOoohhh GAWD" yet feels like a very human reaction to have if you were blinded by rage in a moment of dispute and accidently killing someone. Very rapidly going through the feelings of guilt anger grief all in one shot including the ringing noise in the back. But something about the delivery of "well NOW look at you now uhhh look at me!?" just makes me laugh though
I love the theme in the final season, every character who couldn't move past their obsession ended up being consumed by it and the ones who did were able to live on.
She really doesn't need a name to fulfill the purpose she has as his driving motivation in the story. The way he looks at her and speaks to her is all we need to be sold on how he clearly adores her and why he's going to such lengths to see her again.
@@TheFiresloth Yes. They were probably just having fun and living the moment, and only after he lost her St. Germain realized how much he loved and needed her.
@@CidGuerreiro1234 That mystery woman looked pretty masculine, not so much as Striga but she's tough. That's probably what Saint Germaine liked so much about her. But I honestly think she's probably an illusion created by Death to fool Saint Germaine into doing his bidding.
Am I one of the few that watched this in French too? the french dub fits this strangely well, the names of many towns just seem natural in french, and he even pronounces saint the french way in the english dub
Kinda sad they didnt say who Germain's lover was. Her being super quiet and her smile scream "Shanoa's ancestor" to me(inb4 glyphs cost emotions). Maybe the infinite corridor landed her in Bloodstained's dimension.
For real. Is she mute? does she have other motives for the corridor? or even something worse. She might be another evil being disguised as an human? So many questions.
@@nintenbetas no idea what her motives are since I cant tell whether she noticed Germain's portal or not. (EDIT**), the silhouette turned around after all. Yeah, she was probably disappointed with Germain/just used him to get a speaking role in a different dimension.
At first I thought she was an awful person for showing up at right at the portal at the end. He finally created a portal right at her location which she could have used to escape the infinite corridor, at the cost of his own life, and she just looked at his dying form for for a moment through the portal before turning and walking away. He sacrificed so much of himself for so many years to rescue her and in his dying moments he got to see her cold rejection of all his efforts. Damn. However, now on a repeat viewing and noticing how she never speaks, I'm wondering if maybe she was never actually real. Maybe she was all in his head, just a creation of a brilliant but profoundly lonely mind.
i love saint germain sm 😭😭 but his gf only smiling,, something feels so off about her like was she really lost or was there an ult motive on her part? not that shes evil but germain spent sm time looking for her but she seemed fine staying
Yeah I think they wanted to use Germain and give enough of his backstory to get us attached (succeeded) but not too much so we're left with more questions than answers (succeeded). We had no need to hear her voice, her opinions on the matter, or history. We were given just enough to ask "who da fuq was that." Honestly, I hope it stays that way. That image of her hair flowing in the floating library world is so damn iconic that I wish to see no more of it less it degrades that image.
I love the part when he says "Get back in your fing pram". I was not familiar with he word Pram, I looked it up and loled. A Pram is another word for a Baby carriage. xD
I still don't get how this guy went from a caring guy to a sociopathic maniac in like 4 or 5 weeks (since it took time to set up the vampire invasion).
Yeah that dissapoint me. From what we saw in s3 i never imagined him as evil. Yes he was alone and sad at the end of his options even but i think he deserved better. Maybe some more episodes were needed. I still loved this great final season though.
@@usgpillarofark3980 Definitely a great Season! I like this one even more than Season 2 which felt like too much standing around and not enough action being taken by Dracula's forces. I think Season 3 is still my favorite though because of Issac and Alucard's arcs. Issac is a beast!
@@demonwolf570 Glad to know s3 get some love too lol. I was suprised how disliked it has been. Yes it was probably the slowest but the build up was needed and i liked how Saint Germain was introduced. The final 2 ep were dark quite engaging.
Its that one scene with the Alchemist he murders, he clearly breaks down mentally and right after he just completely shut’s out any doubt of emption that would hold him back. But when he learns that he’s been manipulated he breaks again.
@@chasethecringewolf2195 I remember that scene but from what I saw, he was mad he was refused the item he was looking for and thus felt justified in that murder because his tone quickly shifted from sadness to anger. That's a long stretch from murdering entire villages to fuel (basically) a portal controlling necklace.
Personally, I didn't like the twist that he had only been separated from his soulmate rather recently. Given his original incarnation in the games, the third season gave the impression he was an immortal who had spent God knows how many decades trying to reopen the Infinite Corridor. Hell, how awesome would that very first scene have been if it was meant to show how far he had traveled and who all he had served in pursuit of answers. The revelation that he was a lifelong failure stuck on the first woman to give him the time of day was substantially more mundane.
They butchered his character horribly. Okay, he cared for that lady and wanted to get her out. But did he really expect her to throw herself at him after all the atrocities he commited? Did he think she would want mass murderer's love? Any sane woman would retreat deeper into the Infinite Corridor from this guy.
It would have been so much better if the flashbacks of his girlfriend were showed at the start when he was younger, and then we see all the travels he did to find the corridor.
@@pokerface4396 i mean dracula is still loved by his wife despite what he did. She would probably understand since he failed in murdering the world. But he did go about it in a deceiving and douchebaggie way. I'm conflicted
Dragan: blah blah blah vampire stuff St Germaine: What did the 5 fingers say to the face? Dragan: Wut? *feels the might of the pimp hand* St Germaine: Youz a bitch.
I can't tell if he's a weak simp for doing unethical things to try to win back a woman's heart and company or if he's a chad for being able to bitch slap then back sass a vampire and walk away with his life intact.
@@Cruddy129 I think thats an oversimplification. What he really wanted was the love and approval he never got throughout life, the feeling that someone was on his side and valued him as a human being. I think it becomes very difficult to value human lives if you have so few intimate and personable relationships with humans. Loneliness easily turns into selfishness and desperation when met with the loss of that feeling for the first time. Saint Germaine is an incredibly tragic character who continued to become more selfish in his desperation for kinship. This isn't to justify his action, but I think its selling the writers of castlevania short to oversimplify his character.
Saint Germain pimp smacked the same vampire that singlehandedly took on Alucard, Sypha and Belmont at the same time and held his own for a quite a while against them.
Damn after season 3 thought this guy finally caught his break. Talk bout character derailment. Can't help but feel little sorry for the guy. Here's to 🍻 hoping he found her & told her that
SPOILER IN CASE So, I guess I gotta know... Is it possible that he's still alive or what? I know the series ended with a sword having impaled him and the like, but is it possible at all he managed to slip into the corridor? Maybe find help? Maybe I'm just wanting my favorite character to be alive, but darn. Either way, I will always remember this man at his greatest. ;-;
He does say he is immortal. If that ia a lie it will be seen. Death stilmanages to travel worlds as an aspect of entropy, who knows if the rebis thing was true. In the end if the power of the rebis actually granted power over the corridor thwn maybw germain became the aapect of time like in thw games.
This door wasn't closed convincingly enough for me: 1) If the Infinite Corridor sucked in Trevor, Dracula and Lisa, why wouldn't it take SG as well? 2) Yes, Trevor did hint at Germain being dead, but it's his opinion/perspective. He doesn't know Drac and Lisa are alive. So why would he know Saint Germain's alive? All Trevor knew is there was a big explosion and everyone in its radius should have been dead. Btw I'm *not* saying Saint Germain is definitely alive, I'm just pointing out that the possibility of him not dying during the grand finale is there. And he's worth bringing back at some point
@@thepbg8453 Not exactly, or at least not as I understand the situation. The Sukoiden series has a lot of entries but Tierkes was a spin off. So the series is there, but Tierkes ended up as a standalone with not continuation. Mind you, I could be wrong about that, but that's what I've always heard.
@Ainz Own Goal Didn't thought that i had to specify which Suikodens for that lie to work. Or is it so obvious that those Suikodens are better? Okay, I will play them. Thank you for those recommendations.
