DoctorDaemon

[yurarcher]

the thing that always gets me about the failed proposal story is how affected daniel is by it. an unfortunate memory, to be sure, and certainly painful at the time, but he did end up marrying alice after all, so they got over whatever supposedly "gave her no reason to trust him" at the time. if anything, there should be some sense of pride there. sure, the 32-year-old daniel molloy was not worth a "yes", but then he earned it, he "fixed" whatever needed fixing. i guess you could argue that the subsequent divorce stacked on top made him feel like the failed proposal was a premonition and a representation of his ultimate failure in the relationship, but it just doesn't feel like it. the memory of paris is what seems to hurt the most. and why is it what hurts the most? why did he feel freer to hold "alice's" hand there? why did armand's face from the past come to him like a vision as he was forced to recall the memory? why does it still almost bring him to tears, so many decades later, having married alice after all? why does it fracture him so easily? why does armand's attitude shift at the same memory? why does he pull "alice's" own feelings in the moment out with such ease? why, why, why...

[interviewvampiredaily]

Assad Zaman & Eric Bogosian via Instragram

[doctordaemon]

some real gems in rotem’s final dm piece for the season

“you’re here too” is peak romance honestly

source

[entretienavecunvampire]

louis to armand: i always loved lestat more than you. our whole relationship was really about him, i was thinking of him every day for those 77 years. i hallucinated him just to have him near to me. what i felt for you could never compare to my love for him

louis to lestat: *small smile* *little fingers touch slightly*

[starlitsequins]

they want to fuck on screen so bad please let them

[magsdoodle]

a 20 minute armand because I missed my bff

[doctordaemon]

so I didn’t love the finale. which SUCKS. this is the first time this show has let me down; I spent all season with a lot of question marks in my head, firmly insisting that I trusted the writers and that it would make sense once I saw the finale. it did not. in fact the finale ended up snarling plots I thought I already understood. but I think I wouldn’t be left feeling this deflated if this adaption of the vampire lestat had actually ended with the ending of the vampire lestat!! not ending with the final concert and akasha abducting lestat made the whole thing just fade out instead of ending on a declarative note

and I know they’ve said “oh this is part one of two” but that’s bullshit, cause they’ve actually already covered (loosely, barely) all the plot of tvl. it’s not like iwtv when the first season ended halfway through the book.

what it reeeally reminds me of is house of the dragon season 2, where the strikes mid-production meant they had to drop the planned two final episodes. that season had weird slow pacing and wasted a lot of time on characters and plots that were going nowhere while not deepening significant characters and relationships, before ending without getting to the big battle the whole season had been building to.

tvl episode 7 did not feel like a finale to me; it felt like a penultimate episode. if we had next week to look forward to the big concert and the abduction, I don’t think I’d feel as deflated. I just cannot believe they missed the opportunity to end the season with akasha pulling lestat screaming from his shared bed with louis as a bookend to his abduction by magnus.

it would be so much more exciting if we spent two years with lestat missing and folks who haven’t read the books loosing their minds about it. like I’m thinking “frodo lives” pins vibes. instead we’ll get one week between episodes of “ooh what’s going to happen”. what should have been years of wild speculating will now be reduced to “oh can’t wait til next episode to see.”

it’s like if they ended season 2 with madeleine and claudia leaving paris and a couple of shots of santiago looking shifty.

[ruinscollector]

my beautiful princess with several disorders

[anonymousbee48]

when armand wants something (love, attention, an apology) from someone (louis, daniel, louis again) so he tortures them until he gets it and then gets distraught when it doesn't feel real

[hannibal-lexter]

daniel’s publicist: hey, i just wanted to let you know that a bunch of your fans think you’re, uh, sleeping with that 20-something.

daniel: ok, and?

publicist: do you not have a problem with that or—?

daniel: are my book sales tanking?

publicist, reluctantly: no, they’re actually higher than ever before

daniel, completely deadpan: then i’ll keep fucking him

[bloodyspector]

LET THEM FUCK AND DRINK EACH OTHER'S BLOOD

[4th-make-quail]

God. Looking at that gifset of Armand saying "it's with my companion" got me thinking. This is like, the first time someone's wanted to be his companion. Louis denied it in Paris then all that time spent together was living a lie. We see both angles on Lestat and him (although neither may be true who knows, I'm talking just show only here) and again. Not chosen.

And now we have Daniel. Armand's loved him for 52 years. Followed him, saved him from himself, watched him and who knows what else, and now we have Daniel telling Louis and Lestat that he's seeing someone. We have Armand calling him his companion. Working together, filming his little truth bomb with clear delight on both sides. Learning how to walk in the sunlight. Beheading together, dramatic costumes and setup and all. Daniel clearly all in on the plan.

His fucking companion

[the-patrex]

[userarmand]

ASSAD ZAMAN The Vampire Lestat: After Dark • After The Failures

[doublepriesticide]

so lemme get this straight. this season, armand was masterminding the whole regina thing, stalking alex, getting up to some fishy business as an AA sponsor, sabotaging lestat’s rock career, inadvertently becoming the figurehead for a cult, and involving himself with illicit vampire medical research? there should be a union for antagonists. putting in this many evil hours has to be against canada’s evil labor laws.

[userarmand]

ASSAD ZAMAN The Vampire Lestat: After Dark

[doctordaemon]

it’s just… LESTAT is the person he needed closure with in the season titles the vampire lestat in which the titular character recalls their prickly past and publicly humiliates him and uses him as the punchline repeatedly

like what if he’d had that convo with his dark brother instead???

also armand not appearing in lestat’s nightmare dreamscape was weird. every other important immortal (minus the queen) is there but not the guy who has a whole chunk of the book named after him?