Dragon's Dogma was a silly game with a silly nonsensical story and characters. This is true for everything and everyone in the game save for the titular dragon and it's mythology. The story in the game goes from 0 to 100 real quick after the defeat of the dragon.
Before the dragons defeat in both game and show, it is just a typical fantasy flick. Poorly written without any interesting characters or developments. At least the game was carried by the gameplay.
Post dragon death however the story really takes off. The world is unraveled to be a mysterious web of interconnected worlds, ruled over by godlike beings called the senechal. Populated by humans in the physical realms and by pawns in the inter-dimensional spaces in between. An Arisen is simply a replacement for the current senechal. Chosen by the dragon, tempered by his taunting and final battle. An Arisen must kill the dragon for more or less personal reasons. After which the arisen must challenge god whether he wants to or not. Succeeding in this task an Arisen becomes the new senechal, breathing new life into the current world in place of the old and tired senechal who only wishes for death after countless lifetimes on the job. Failing the task of defeating the senechal sees the arisen cast out of god's realm and become the next dragon.
This is the Dragon's Dogma. To help bring new life to a dying world by selecting and tempering a new god. If this new god fails to replace the old one, he becomes the dragon and the cycle repeats until a successful arisen becomes senechal. He is not evil, but forced to do evil things by god.
This is what I feel like the show should have focused on. A tale of gods, dragons and inter dimensional beings. Not the silly bit in between about typical fantasy tropes.
Before the dragons defeat in both game and show, it is just a typical fantasy flick. Poorly written without any interesting characters or developments. At least the game was carried by the gameplay.
Post dragon death however the story really takes off. The world is unraveled to be a mysterious web of interconnected worlds, ruled over by godlike beings called the senechal. Populated by humans in the physical realms and by pawns in the inter-dimensional spaces in between. An Arisen is simply a replacement for the current senechal. Chosen by the dragon, tempered by his taunting and final battle. An Arisen must kill the dragon for more or less personal reasons. After which the arisen must challenge god whether he wants to or not. Succeeding in this task an Arisen becomes the new senechal, breathing new life into the current world in place of the old and tired senechal who only wishes for death after countless lifetimes on the job. Failing the task of defeating the senechal sees the arisen cast out of god's realm and become the next dragon.
This is the Dragon's Dogma. To help bring new life to a dying world by selecting and tempering a new god. If this new god fails to replace the old one, he becomes the dragon and the cycle repeats until a successful arisen becomes senechal. He is not evil, but forced to do evil things by god.
This is what I feel like the show should have focused on. A tale of gods, dragons and inter dimensional beings. Not the silly bit in between about typical fantasy tropes.