thoughts about the vampire lestat (not really positive! i have really mixed feelings about this season) (also, spoilers duh)
-great ideas, for the most part! bewildering execution!
-when i saw the first scene and the framing device, i was immediately hooked and interested how the records were going to affect the pacing and the tone
-uhhhh. yeah. the pacing was so strange, mostly because i think there wasn't a good balance between the flashbacks and the present day stuff; parts of lestat's backstory were glossed over so quickly
-particularly nicky and magnus; like, when i watched the first two seasons i had not read the novels, but i didn't feel like i was missing anything. here, on the other hand, i'd read the first half of the vampire lestat and if i hadn't, neither nicky nor magnus would feel as important as they are tbh
-gabriella. sigh. i don't like that she's been flattened into the originator of all of lestat's issues, i think it's the most boring direction they could have taken with their relationship
-why were the writers so cruel to louis?? what'd he do?? the regina storyline was pretty interesting, but...idk it's weird that he had to apologize to lestat and armand
-there was way too little armand!! if he's plotting, if he's desperate, couldn't we see him be desperate? a bit more build up? something? even the whole setup with louis in the final episode could have worked better if we had any reason to believe armand was so angry at him; having it as this gotcha! twist felt really cheap and just made no sense at all (refer back to the writers being cruel to louis)-- maybe it would be better if we got more development between lestat and armand?
-daniel molloy. i liked how obviously lost he was as a vampire, and the knowledge of armand's interference in his life should have triggered a profound crisis we should have seen-- because him and armand suddenly being companions? again, it could make sense! it is compelling! but the delivery is so uneven! i have no idea why daniel is acting the way he is in the last two episodes or what would motivate him to follow armand. that's an issue!
-in general, it feels like there was a lot of telling, to make up for what they didn't have the time to show. but, couldn't they have restricted themselves to half of the book? i feel we don't know that much more about lestat after this season, and i feel everyone else has been flattened. it bums me out!
-overall, i'd say this season just had so much misplaced focus, and i find it hard to belive it was done entirely on purpose. and it doesn't hold a candle to seasons one and two! which is a real shame in this case. :^/
-overall, is it just me or is screenwriting in general a lot worse these days? it strikes me as really odd that a room of profesional, educated people came up with this. the acting, the production, the music-- all of these are stellar. yet, the writing! what a baffling season.
PS!!!!!!!! No one talked about the trial!!! THE TRIAL was not addressed once!!!!! huuuuuge ommission!
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