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Is Gabriela insane? Has she seen LDPDL?? How could there have been any idea in her mind that this song was about her??? I LOVED this Loustst moment in the show.

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It needs to be clarified that when Louis said “WE need to be together because who else will have US”, that it was a royal “we” and a royal “us”.

Louis was then, is now, and will always be the people’s princess- desired by all.

Season 3 can’t erase that.

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That was a very trumpian era season. I feel bad for Jacob, Assad and Delaney. They deserved better.

And we the viewers deserved better than a season that was primarily an exposition of incest. How many different ways will they show Lestat boinking his mom? We’ve actually not seen as many scenes, in three seasons, of Louis and Lestat having sex.

And TVL defenders, this writing is not deep, despite you fighting for your lives to call this high art “that is going over everyone’s heads”. This season was basic as hell. Every single mechanism used to redeem and absolve Lestat was clunky and visible.

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I love Lestat and Louis together so this is coming from a place of absolutely wanting them together, but being willing to interrogate the writing and characterizations of Lestat and Louis this season. Sorry if this offends you- (whispers) I have the blood of Akasha in me.

My question is why, instead of dragging Louis’ character down low enough to make a relationship with Lestat believable, didn’t the writers choose to make Lestat’s current actions redeemable enough to be worthy of Louis? Or better- simply leave the imbalance. That’s real life. Terrible people are still able to be in relationships.

Instead:

-Lestat DID NOT make Antoinette cut off her finger

-Lestat DID NOT choose to have a sexual relationship with his mother. This is coming instead from pre-vampire trauma and he’s being taken advantage of. Didn’t you see his panic attack?

-Lestat DID NOT threaten Claudia on the train.

-Lestat DID NOT let Claudia die by burning. He was incapable of saving her.

-Lestat DID NOT callously introduce his spouse to his vampire mother/lover. He was just subconsciously trying to expose his trauma.

For all the viewers who keep preaching - “they’re all monsters so Louis and Claudia can’t be victims”- where is your monster now? Lestat is fangless this season after stripping him of all these interesting facets that actually made him a true monster. Instead this season has framed Lestat as the ultimate victim and the same fans who claimed him as a monster are now posting “See, look how selfish Louis is- poor Lestat”. Ok.

The writers forgot to think about how bad Lestat sounded reminiscing about the good ole days at the opera when Louis was carrying his jacket as if he was his servant. Frankly I prefer this oblivious Lestat to the beige imitation of the monster we’ve known him to be. I want the Lestat who I want to cuss at through my TV back along with fleeting moments of absolute delight when he’s sweet.

“There was a little girl and she had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very, very good and when she was bad, she was horrid.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I don’t know what the hell is going on in that writer’s room but the language used in that Claudia scene were anti-black and violent. It is incredibly irresponsible writing. “Slave” repeated multiple times from Claudia towards Louis and the use of “nappy-head” and Claudia denouncing her “miserable black life”.

What the fuck?? All that good will earned for handling black characters well in seasons 1 & 2, flushed. For what?

I am disappointed in Rollin and Hannah.

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The two white male lead actors of our favorite gay romance shows sometimes give mean girl energy towards their POC co-leads/onscreen love interests.

Meanwhile the two co-leads are complete dolls and extend endless grace and warmth towards each of their onscreen partners. This has been my observation and I don’t like it tbh 😒

And to be clear I’m not talking about the characters - I’m talking about the actors themselves.

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A scene that I’ve replayed a million times- the vampire Sam Barkley answering back to Lestat when he asked over the mic why Gabriela had taken him to see the witches.

Sam’s “What??” and then irritated shrug with “I think she’s taking a phone call.” cracked me up every time.

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So everyone saw how Regina did not respond to Lestat’s telepathic message right? RIGHT??? The show made it seem like she did because she looked over at Louis when Lestat mentioned him but she didn’t actually answer or acknowledge his comment.

That, coupled with Mark’s interjection about “believing Lestat” following their interaction, is the tell that tells- that’s Claudia in some way shape or form.

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So The Bear wasted my time for 5 seasons by not giving me Sydcarmy AND, to add insult to injury, put people on game to my favorite Chicago restaurant.

Chris Storer I swear when I catch you outside… 🤬

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GODdamnit! I was fine and had prepared myself to watch and feel little about this last season of The Bear but then Marcus approached Richie about the 7:30 table and Richie called him Cousin and gently chastised him for the last minute request but after a single pause said you got it and I 😩😭

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Someone better call Lestat a motherfucker in the show this season. It shouldn’t even be censored because it’s descriptive.

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I swear to god, if TVL doesn’t stop with these underwhelming ass teasers. Hand-to-forehead, I can’t.

They are making me less excited every time they drop something that gives absolutely nothing. I want this to be good, I need this to be good but I’m not sure they believe it’s good.

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By the time Shane and Ilya decide to be together, they would have both been under heavy scrutiny about their sexualities.

Shane alleviated some of that scrutiny by getting into a very public relationship with Rose, but I don’t understand the writing for Ilya.

David says Ilya has a “reputation with women”. Is that reputation not having any because we don’t actually see Ilya having any kind of public hookups. He isn’t even really using Sveta for that since when he brought her up to Shane, he had no knowledge of her after many years. Given they are both around the league and famous in the league coupled with the fact that Shane would have been obviously curious about Ilya, him not knowing means Ilya wasn’t taking Sveta to public outings.

Sure his teammates would have seen him in bars and taking women home but years with no girlfriend- absolutely nothing coming from those hookups - would have been suspect.

Perhaps the book showed Ilya having public girlfriends but at least in the show, tongues would have been wagging after “all these years”.

When Ilya told Shane he never hears about him hooking up with “gworls”, Shane should have looked him straight in the eye and said “And I never SEE you hooking up with girls, despite your talk. Clearly you’re obsessed with me.”

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So we know what the other potential Ilya looks like (the “Ilya” who was good but not quite good enough to make Hudson believe he was ready to throw Shane on the floor and fuck him) because that actor ended up playing Sasha.

Who were the other Shanes? I demand to see them.

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Like Rose, I too would have put away my well-earned gadar (80% gay boyfriends) after being CHARMED by the absolute adorableness that is Shane during that meet-cute.

He made himself impossible to resist.

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Nipples. Out. And. Stuff.