Ive been completely gone from any media let alone fandom spaces for ...months. maybe a couple years tbh so forgive me if this has all been said... (also one of the reasons I stopped engaging is my phone had gotten hideously bad with its autocorrect to the point writing anything is agony so apologies now if this reads poorly)
But I've just started the new season of interview with the vampire/ vampire lestat and so far these are my biggest takeaways
1- opening credits murdered me dead, its just A Little Bit Alexis
And then who do I see but PATRICK??? Genuinely i thought it was my brain glitching because I was already thinking about Schitts Creek. So i didn't say anything for the first couple episides. Yhen he did this one face in the bus at the grand reveal and I literally said "DAVID!" like he would and my husband has to stop the show he's like "holy shit you're right"
2- i do like how much they are embracing the modern timeline
Historical shows, especially vampire stuff, reeeeeeally love to wallow in time period stuff, and I'm delighted they are doing the same thing with the present instead of being hand-wavey "we are in the present but we don't want this to age poorly ". Which feels so fucking perfect for a vampire show. YES it should age poorly, they are all vampires, let's feel that age on it, babeeeeee
So in that spirit I have to say that
3- im honestly obsessed with thinking about how lestat would be obsessed with Taylor Swift. Like he can dismiss her as dumb pop Princess all he wants, but he absolutely writes a song for a week, finally is triumphant that he got to the SOUL of his feelings or whatever, then his Spotify algorithm (set to emo/ songs to angst over) will randomly choose that moment to play... something he's never heard before like The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived... and then he falls into a moping rage that he will won't ever admit to because she wrote exactly what he was trying to but she did it way better (and NO black licorice IS profound, fuck you, you just don't UGH you don't fucking get it)
If Armand or anyone really wanted to drive lestat fucking insane, they would make HER into a vampire, that way lestat will have to spend eternity knowing there's not a single vampire experience that he will ever have that she won't make a better song about
(Plus she would be an incredible vampire. Ruthless when needed, calculating, masterminding, always coming out on top, but in a way that leaves her with a coven thats fanatical about keeping her safe....which is why they won't. She would be far too powerful. And I'm not saying that as a Swiftie. Even if you don't like her you can't deny that she might be the best cult leader of our life time)
4. Daniel Molloy. Daniel fucking Molloy.
I have nothing to say really except damn is out good to see him again. Im only on ep 3, assuming we're going to get more with him and Armand soon (🤫 no spoilers) but man just hearing his voice sounding the show name change. So unimpressed. Love him. Loooooove him.