omg i hate seeing reductive takes that reduce all of the reasonable reasons why people (esp black viewers) are upset with claudia’s recent portrayal just boiling down to “oh you hate the show where the characters are bad and they do bad things” or “you just can’t handle an evil female character”
no one has a problem with either of those things, like in the first claudia kept a journal just to write down the last words of people she killed and kept souvenirs from them and everyone clapped and cheered
people are upset that a black character who was written in those first two season to be pro-black and a complicated, nuanced relationship with louis be reduced to a one-dimensional  caricature
claudia in the first season compared lestat to a white slave owner and said that he treated her and louis like house slaves but that she would set them both free.
why now, does she barely have any words for lestat and the part he played in the trail instead ALL of her ire is directed at louis
she even says that it was lestat’s blood that made and louis ain’t no kin to her. that’s insane to me, claudia would be mad at louis for everything he’s done but she would never say that when she didn’t even want Madeline to have lestat’s blood in her
and in the second season one of the reasons claudia initially liked and trusted armand was because he was brown like her and louis
now we’re just completely ignoring the role race plays in this show to have her dig into louis while absconding lestat of all blame
the other take i’ve seen is “oh well this happens in the books” yes but in the books claudia is 5 year old little white girl and louis was a white plantation owner, he literally owned slaves. like i think we’re a bit past everything having to be exactly like the books get a fucking grip
and i know for a fact if claudia said half of the things she said about louis to lestat and tore into him people would be singing a much different tune
