[annushka97]

I really don't like the narrative choice to have everything be Lestat's POV. When Louis and Armand were telling their stories, they were biased, but they were telling about themselves and the thing they saw. And if I understood correctly, here we somehow have Lestat telling us about Louis and Bruce, Louis and Regina, Louis and Daniel, Daniel and Armand. When he wasn't there. I don't like the implication that those emotional moments between other characters were filtered through Lestat's pov and weren't the real thing in the real world. It is confusing. Like... I was waiting for DM for so long and now I should think their moments could be made up or misrepresented by Lestat? Should I think he ships Daniel and Armand and thinks Daniel would push him against the wall and Armand would get hard about it? But in fact it could be all different? But then the plot always moves on as if Lestat was right about everybody, which he couldn't possibly be? Some contradiction would surely surface? Or did the writers just fucked up and mashed 'the Failures' with real world events in a confusing way? Help me figure it out...

[chewy425]

As someone who wasn’t really super interested in lestat after watching seasons 1 and 2…I was really hoping that this season would make me change my mind. But if anything, the way they have framed the narrative makes me like him less. Now anything that I don’t like about the show, I’m not sure if it’s the writer’s fault or if it’s because of lestat’s narration.

We’re now more than halfway through the season, and I understand that most of the big reveals/re-contextualization came in the last two episodes of the previous seasons (louis and lestat both saving each other’s lives, claudia’s turning, armand directing the play) but we also had multiple moments per episode where louis was challenged, by both daniel’s questions/comments and claudia’s diary. We have had very few moments that make lestat challenge his own opinions or have him self-reflect.

Sam reid is doing a fantastic job with the material he’s been given but the writing has not done much to paint lestat any differently than the first two seasons. It’s giving us context for his continuation of the cycle of abuse, but he’s not confronting the fact that he did continue it.

They have 3 episodes left, and I’m hoping they do succeed in proving me wrong, but at this point in previous seasons I wasn’t hoping for all the previous episodes to seem better once the end of the season re-contextualized everything.

[vorreitenertiqui]

AUTUMN: In this season, Rolin and the writers have talked about, you know, due to creative and budgetary reasons, they can't do all the scenes from the 18th century within the 18th century. So they're moving those plot lines and character journeys into the present day. And I really think that–

ASSAD: If there's anything you don't like or you're confused by, just call it creative and budgetary reasons! That's the party line.

AUTUMN: Well, so here's the thing, too: I think this season really do have to rewatch and you do have to hold out for– Because I'm learning so much upon all of these rewatches where I'm like, wait a second. 

ASSAD: [...] I think structurally it's such a... I'd be really interested, and I know that this isn't me interviewing you, but actually I'm way more interested in hearing how you and also the rest of the audience are navigating this new almost– Because I– I was having sort of um, peaks and troughs of going on a journey myself as I was reading the scripts. And trying to um, reconcile with this form, and how it was so different but also um, taking on a new voice that this was the only way that– this was the perfect way to sort of take it. I was struggling with understanding where we were and where the crux of the story was going to land. [...] But I um. Yeah, I went on a journey. I went on a real journey with this season... as an audience member trying to understand it. Trying to... get into the same rhythm. How has it been for you, this rhythm? Have you...

AUTUMN: No, it's been very very different from my previous two experiences. I'm really glad that I'm not doing my weekly reaction videos because how I'm feeling immediately after watching episodes is very very very different to how I feel now after like immediately re-watching it then and there, and then also rewatching it with the context of the episodes that I have now, which of course I still don't have episode seven but um, there's so many moments from episodes one, two, three and four that make a lot more sense once you reach, up to episode six and everything.

ASSAD: Yeah, but this is it, and one of the things that I found fascinating and I think is really genius is the fact that you're made to feel such– I felt so strongly, for and against some of these things that were happening early on, but they are then revisited later on and acknowledged and completely recontextualized... which I found really fascinating, because I was like, what? why am I going on a bipolar journey here? Sometimes I'm devastated and then other times I'm looking back on that and going, why was I so devastated or... I don't know. But it kind of tracks with Lestat. Lestat is this amalgamation of so much emotion and instinct and performance and chaos and all of that stuff. And I think we should be feeling that as well! We shouldn't be like, you know; Louis was beautifully classy, and beautifully put. His story was beautifully put together and understood with the help of Molloy, because he let Molloy in and helped him navigate and understand the story, so we went on that journey together. Whereas here it's like Molloy is trying but Lestat is like, "Fuck you, I'm gonna tell this my way and I'm not going to tell it in any order that makes sense to you. I'm going to tell it how I feel at the time and I might go back and revisit something that seemed inconsequential to you, but I've just realised something about that thing so I'm going to look at that again. By the way, I'm going to go for a shit, and then I'll come back and tell you some more." and we're all like, "W-What...? Okay..."

AUTUMN: Trying to keep up with it all!

ASSAD: Yeah.

(Source: 00:10:55)

[veryintricaterituals]

Friendly reminder that THIS was the character calling Armand a "friendless bottom twink sociopath" 😬

[thebisexualwreckoning]

I do think it’s a really poetic sort of justice/irony that Lestat forces Claudia to watch Charlie’s body burn in the incinerator after she accidentally kills him so that she will never forget the consequences of her actions and Claudia turns to Lestat as she burns to death and stares him directly in the eyes so that he will never forget what he did to her. Like father like daughter we end at the beginning

[snowchildz]

it's been getting colder and darker, so to cope i decided to write a contrapunctal poem about louclaudia.

[chewy425]

TVL Ep 4 Spoilers

I’m genuinely so confused on armand saying his love for daniel distracted him.

I was sort of under the impression that armand wanted out of the relationship with louis and missed daniel so he let daniel walk back into their lives knowing daniel would destroy his relationship with louis (like armand let lestat destroy the coven in Paris, armand wanted out but thought he couldn’t be the one to do it).

But the idea that armand was distracted by his love for daniel instead of motivated by it…hm. Like he wasn’t expecting his relationship with louis to end? So then why did armand agree to the interview in the first place? Someone help me out here i’m not understanding

[queenoftheimps]

Favorite minor detail of the bowling alley rant: New Yorker Daniel Molloy being pissed off that his vampire turning happened in New Jersey

[louclaudia]

— Put on a yellow dress and sit in your lap? — No, no, none of that. — Yeah, all of that! "Here's the money, get in my Escalade, be my dead daughter."

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.07 "The Thing Lay Still" THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.04 "The Devil's Road"

[chewy425]

TVL Ep 4 Spoilers

Lestat’s fucked up relationship with his mom bleeding into the way he recounts the reunions between devil’s minion and even louis and claudia regina

First two seasons we had lestat referred to as “lover, murderer, maker” and “master” in regards to louis, but I don’t remember there being many parent and child comparisons between them…if there was, they didn’t do it often

At the end of season 2, daniel refers to armand as his maker. But in season 3, lestat constantly calls armand daniel’s father and in ep 4 during their reunion daniel calls them dad and son

And we even see this bleed a bit over into louis and regina, with louis mentioning her OnlyFans and regina asking if louis wants her to put on a yellow dress and sit in his lap as if it’s some weird fetish he has

And this is all lestat’s pov, so of course he’s still trying to normalize it and make it seem like all vampire bonds (and non vampire bonds) get hazy between parent/child and maker/fledgling and lovers

Except according to louis, lestat said it’s not as simple as choosing a new family configuration…which means gabriella and him always had a fucked up relationship (which we knew already from the wolf aftercare cleanup) and it’s clear lestat knows too but even after trying to give up explaining it in episode 2 he’s still trying to normalize it in episode 4 through his depiction of other relationships

[chewy425]

I know spontaneous combustion isn’t real because I haven’t heard any reports of Devil’s Minion fans spontaneously combusting after watching TVL ep 4

[chewy425]

Louis babes i love you but genuinely what the hell are you doing

[chewy425]

TVL Episode 3 spoilers

I’m used to taking everything that happens in iwtv flashbacks with a grain of salt, but that is now also being applied to the modern scenes as well since everything is through lestat’s pov (which the show constantly reminds us of through the failures record playing)

Like I definitely think lestat made up that contact photo louis has for lemuel bc lestat’s middle name is jealously

Applying this knowledge to the scene where louis reads claudia’s diary pages…I don’t disagree that louis has exploited claudia numerous times but in this instance? Yes I absolutely believe he read those pages to bruce, which is messed up, and then he told lestat about it. But did he tell lestat what exactly was contained in those pages? Or did lestat come up with his own narration of what he thinks happened? Did lestat purposely make it similar to his own assault? And either way, whether it was claudia’s own words or lestat’s, louis wasn’t the only one to exploit claudia there. Lestat chose to include it on the failures, exploiting her even further. They both keep exploiting her and failing her even in death

[chewy425]

Hm hm yeah okay so we hear the moans and then see the sex scene between gabrielle/a and jarda but only brief flashes of nicki and lestat that you can barely see what’s happening over the course of three episodes with no sound oh okay

And both times women have kissed this season it’s been framed for lestat’s pleasure

Oh and the doorman was there for like .2 seconds I guess

And we don’t see any physical intimacy between louis and lemuel which makes sense that lestat doesn’t want to narrate that except we saw lestat and antoinette in louis’ narration okay anyways

The first two seasons had so much queer intimacy in them, and while we had some queer sex scenes we also had the intimacy outside the context of sex (loustat cuddling in their coffins, loumand dates in paris, everything about claudeleine)

It’s left wondering how much is a narration choice vs amc trying to make the show more marketable and mainstream through thinly veiled homophobia and racism

[simoneashley]

To love is to look back.

[chewy425]

TVL Episode 2 Spoilers(ish)

Having lestat tell his story through his own recording is such an interesting choice.

When louis was telling his story, we had claudia’s diaries and armand himself to corroborate most of what louis was saying (even though all of them did lie here and there, it would be unlikely for all three of them to lie so consistently with the same details (especially claudia who did not have armand altering any memories)), and we also had daniel to question and poke holes and fill in the gaps of when louis was omitting or misremembering things.

With lestat, we get none of that. No one to corroborate, no one to help (or force him to) bridge the gap between what is truth and what is a lie. We don’t even know if the conversation between daniel and louis in ep2 actually happened. In s1-2 we had scenes that the audience knew were real, pretty much any scene outside of the interview, because it wasn’t a story being told by one of the characters. I think the first scene to open the new season is the only time we got anything not solely from lestat’s pov in the first two episodes.

I don’t know why the writers chose this method of delivering the story but i am very interested in finding out.

[chewy425]

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