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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[dlsintegration]

louis has been getting dragged through the mud and repeatingly humiliated by the man supposed to love him/by the narrative in egregiously cruel ways but i should empathise with said man’s whining about louis not rushing to his side when he got inconsequentially shot at. The same man who’s abandoned louis to his gravel filled grave and agonizing torment in 207. The same man who let Louis burn in the sun as a punishing fatherly lesson in 102. The same man who’s been cruel and insulting towards Louis for 5 episodes now when Louis’ first appearance in the season has been marked by his concern for Lestat. The contempt for louis embedded in the writing itself is not even enough for this virulently antiblack fanbase who will take nothing other than louis grovelling and can’t stand the thought of lestat finally being the one helping and taking care of louis whose mind is literally unravelling at the seams. We have to come online and be witness to people gleefully repeat the words of the man who methodically organised the lynching of louis and claudia as proof for louis’ own cruelty but we’re supposed not to tell people to kill themselves. I don’t know man

[tara-the-star]

i love the phrase 'i dont go here but...' like you're so in awe of my work you have decided to trespass into a fandom you dont belong to just to appreciate it. i love everyone who doesn't go here

[decomposingfungi]

i'm done with the vampire lestat. what they did to claudia and louis this new episode was it for me. i'll watch episode 7 since it's the last of the season but i will not be watching season 4 if there is one. i hope not. i truly hope they cancel this fucking bullshit. i'm so angry i can't barely put my feelings into words. i can't believe they destroyed two beautiful seasons of television like this. i can't believe this season has been the constant humiliation of louis and armand, and the disrespect of claudia. i can't believe how they have taken away anything that made lestat interesting trying to absolve him of any decision he's ever made. i can't believe gabrielle has been turned into a misogynistic caricature without depth. i can't believe anyone can write a story this bad. for me, s3 can't be fixed. anything that comes after that is ruined for me. i'll remember the two first seasons as a good show and ignore everything else, because i refuse to keep wasting my time with bullshit.

[dykecinema]

Me when we got ANOTHER full performance of a shitty Lestat song instead of much needed character exploration/development

[neverloumandover]

The writers this season

[armandology]

[glitteringpoet1685]

They somehow managed to make the scene where Louis reads Claudia's diary to Bruce even worse this episode. Because now we know that scene exists purely for Lestats benefit. It was never meant to be genuine engagement with how Louis violated Claudia's privacy and autonomy (not even getting into the discussion of whether reading the account of her rape to her rapist was in character or not). The only point of Louis' involvement in that scene was so they could throw it back at him later by him saying a line so heinous and out of character that even Louis had to mention so after. Like so many things this season, the diary scene and the seance actually had very little to do with Claudia or Louis but rather exist for cheap shock value and to absolve Lestats actions at the total expense of Louis' character.

[cocteautwinsgirl]

and to think i really thought this season we were gonna get a whole dedicated lesmand episode with the scene at the ball and the trial fallout and a century i had waited, and you did not want me!

[yaoiblackmold]

I've been noticing that a lot of people seems to be saying Lestat regrets his past abusive behaviour towards Louis and his participation in the trial whereas Armand isn't. And it makes me so confused because Lestat has not said sorry to Louis about anything, not even once, not a single sorry, please forgive me, I've done so much wrong, I want to atone for my wrongs, zero! Yet people are saying he feels remorse about it? If he does, he's certainly not showing it!

[reticentvampyr]

"shock value over story" is the crux of the issue for season 3, and it's breaking my fucking heart, man.

the creators (and some of the cast) had the audacity to call the first 2 seasons boring, to reduce it to "two guys in a room talking." two guys in a room talking produced some of the best television i have ever seen.

daniel was challenging louis at every turn. meanwhile here there's no pushback for lestat and no real development. i get we're inside the head of a very unwell person, and i didn't expect everything to be tied up in a neat bow (far from it--the first book was better for being split into 2 parts even if it wasn't the original intent), but again my biggest problem is i'm not seeing any story. no development of the characters we got to know from louis' POV for two seasons. i'm seeing....music videos and incest and racism played for shock value. important dynamics (dm, loustat reconnecting between ep 5 and ep 6) are implied or referenced in a few lines, often offscreen.

i hate saying this because the books have helped me to understand and love lestat as the complex character he is, but if i was a show-only fan i'd be....so lost as to why i should care about this guy. if this was supposed to be a season that explains why lestat is the way he is, i've gotten very little of that with the exception of gratuitous imagery of his abuse at the hands of his mother.

shock value over story.

[neverloumandover]

People defending the writers' choice to make Claudia say all that, remind me a lot of the people that went out of their way to defend amc and the lack of promo for Assad. When will it be enough

[konoko]

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

me as a silent hill protag : what the heck …?

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

what the hell just happened …

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what in god damn is going on here ..?

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

what on earth …

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

this door is locked.

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

what is this ?

[2-beadyeyes-deactivated20251104]

whats going on …?

[tasteofgrave]

“go to hell” is basic. it’s boring. “i hope your favorite book character of all time gets adapted in a way that has the majority of the fandom viewing them as a villain and rapist” is real. it’s terrifying. and it’s happening to me.

[simoneashley]

if the writers themselves are saying that you have to rewatch the episodes multiple times and the actors are saying they kept rereading the scripts to be able to understand the characters maybe the writing is not very good !

[ourholiestlove]

it’s crazy how much people are using the “unreliable narrator” excuse to justify bad writing and pacing. there was no need to do so in the first and second season because everything flowed perfectly, the characterisation made perfect sense, every little scene had weight and narrative consequences. no devil’s minion isn’t incredibly rushed because lestat doesn’t care about them. it’s bad writing. no, louis didn’t completely ignore claudia’s terrible state in the afterlife and simply went on to flirt with lestat because lestat is an unreliable narrator. it’s bad writing. no the flashbacks aren’t two minutes and very cheaply made because lestat doesn’t want to focus on them. it’s bad writing. open your eyes!!!

[sapphicides]

if that was “the best claudia scene [they] ever wrote” then i don’t think anybody involved in it should write again