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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[ursafuriosa]

[raisinchallah]

you know i was getting so sad about how they dont even care about lesmand in the show and have done unspeakable evils to their dynamic but then i remembered we still do have the musical adapting the most iconic scene ever when lestats like why did u keep me in ur torture dungeon to ruin my life and armands like because i can and also your ex wants me more than he ever wanted you and then lestats like ok im brining up the marius trauma and they also kiss so like we do have that

[raisinchallah]

anyone remember armand.. remember how we used to run

[snequanimity]

we just dont understand gothic romance, its actually very gothic to (consults notes) leak a sex tape online

[sarahstellium]

Assad Zaman getting less than 12 minutes of screen time in episodes 1-6 but having to do an exhausting amount of press. 😑 He’s at every panel interview. Every TVL podcast. In every episode of After Dark. Constantly asked the most mundane questions about Armand’s character…while not even being able to explore it this season. Can Hollywood please start casting this talented beautiful man!!??!! He’s carried every scene he is in and I know so many of us are dissatisfied with his screen time this season. 🥲

[hyperfixation-s]

why does assad have more screentime as fake rashid in s1 than as armand in s3

[tv-kiki]

tvl fails so badly narratively because after two seasons of exploring themes of memory and trauma and grief and four years of discussing said things we are suddenly dropped somewhere with 5 nonsensical framing devices all stacked on top of each other, actions with no real consequences that are given no context, and two second clips of the actual events of the book it’s pretending to adapt. i feel bad for everyone who read tvl between seasons. i feel bad in general.

the season started in media res while also being 90% exposition, relying on shock humor, already dated references to current-ish events, and a gag at the end of every episode that winds up being immensely inconsequential. they do so little with the characters. and i do not care if this is how lestat sees people. if i wanted an un-interrogated narrative, i would read an anne rice book.

[birdplushie]

suicidality is the best trait you can give to a character

[cosmic-day]

In a recent interview, Hannah Moscovitch said that the purpose of the séance scene was to “close this chapter of grief for Louis (and Lestat).” (source) The more I think about Hannah’s comments about Louis here, the less sense it makes, even in light of comments Hannah herself made before the season.

Because they gave Louis closure. Already. They took Louis through an entire two season arc of examining his past, and his failures, and the things he’d forgotten and the things he’d been lied to about. And at the end, he was in a better place. I mean, I interpreted that final scene as the start of a process of grieving rather than an endpoint, but he clearly has reached a place where he could properly mourn Claudia (and Paul) rather than trying to suppress and deny his grief.

So season three then reverses all that. And Jacob Anderson is on record as needing to be convinced because that s2 end point for Louis was so satisfying.

But here’s what Hannah said at NYCC:

“Let’s say your daughter dies and you put a yellow dress up on the wall to honor her,” Moscovitch continued. “That’s not actually going to fix it, right? Like, how long will that really work? And you can say you own the night all you like […] But his daughter’s still dead. And his relationship of 77 years ended. And he has to figure out a whole pile of sh*t.” (source)

So yeah OK, that closure wasn’t really closure, because life is more complicated than that, and people don’t heal that easily and recovery is not linear and the yellow dress on a wall isn’t fixing anything. OK. I can get behind that.

But don’t then try to sell me on Louis achieving closure in one conversation. Don’t act like everything’s suddenly fixed now if it wasn’t fixed then. Especially off the back of something which should have been incredibly traumatic and disturbing rather than healing.

It doesn’t make sense, it contradicts all the build up of the previous three seasons, it’s not how people work and it’s just incredibly bad writing.

[fangs-deep]

“we can’t believe X because it was lestat’s perspective, we can’t believe any of the scenes with claudia from the first two seasons because they were from louis’s perspective”

i’m sorry. i understand that this is the Unreliable Narrator Show but if we’re supposed to be weary of every single scene because anything we see could be a misremembering or a lie, what the fuck am i watching the show for. i want to believe at least SOME of what im spending time every week to watch actually happened. it feels like the writers don’t actually need to have consistent writing for ANY character because they can just hand-wave anything that doesn’t work as being a “biased recollection of events”. so like why should i be expected to care about what’s being shown to me then.

[crithir]

TVL e6 writing so ass they inadvertently validated Armand in IWTV 2x08 saying “You are over this, Louis!”

[ftm-will-graham]

i hoped and wished for season 3 devils minion and somewhere out there the monkeys paw curled

[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