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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[userarmand]

i feel extremely uneasy around the show’s adaptation of devil’s minion based on the revelations they keep dropping about daniel. last season, people were debating whether or not he raped the girl with the paper bag and now there’s ambiguity surrounding his 1990 encounter with that student and it’s just like ……. okay, fine, armand was fascinated by his “splinter of coldness” but there’s something i can’t quite articulate about the victim of csa and sex trafficking can only find love (because the show is determined to have everyone dog on him) with (another) rapist. am i making sense?

you're making sense! tbh i think they're making daniel more straightforwardly evil to 'even out' the morality gap between him and the other vampires

[lou-of-my-life]

i have been very ia but honestly, they are killing my spirit with this season... most thoughts i have about this season are wrt the writers and production more than the story canon. the awareness of the show being a show is apparent that characters don't feel like themselves. I don't even want to analyze their actions this season because that is just a bigoted white writer's mouthpiece now.

[pinimi]

rereading tvl is giving me psychic damage because there are SO MANY good scenes and important character moments for lestat in this book. like i really enjoy it! and then I just remember “ohhh yeah the skipped this part in the show and made no emotional/story beat equivalent of this to exchange it” 💀 like omg why didn’t they make this two seasons and let us actually FEEL lestats turning and the deep horror and grief of having to watch his maker burn and scattering his ashes afterwards. Him crying as he has to spend his first sleep as a vampire all alone. and then they could parallel that to him very deliberately sharing a coffin with louis on his first night so that louis wouldn’t have to endure the same. I’m fuming with rage.

[tendeadrabbits]

rolin jones when i fucking catch you

[glitteringpoet1685]

Remember how economical the first 2 seasons were with their storytelling. Like I don't think the pacing was perfect but they fit a lot into episodes while also giving us enough space to linger on moments that needed to be lingered on. The move to shorter seasons has hurt a lot of good TV shows but iwtv did good work with the format I think and that's why it's all the more baffling how little they've said and done in 5 episodes of tvl. It's so frustrating because I know they're able to do better with the time they have, and I see glimpses of a good show through the flashbacks but they are so averse to the format that worked for 2 seasons for no reason.

[bifauxnenarmand]

[molabuddy]

mutual who i'm still clearly mutuals with who i'm seeing on my dashboard: i had to block a mutual for doing [horrible thing i would never do]

me, immediately: oh my god what if it was me

[furryprovocateur]

they should allow you to report posts for being gauche or passé

[finch-in-a-pinch]

Me @ the writers

[devils-your-minion]

Rewatching season one….

I miss my beautiful show so much, I’m seriously baffled that TVL was made by the same people.

In every single aspect except maybe acting the quality has TANKED, and the actors can’t do much with shit scripts and mediocre direction.

Genuinely confused how this even happens.

[dykesynthezoid]

I know the Regina fake claudeleine kiss is supposed to be offputting and that was the point, but it feels tone deaf after already having another f/f kiss performed for the benefit of man earlier in the season and never having gotten to see any type of physical intimacy with claudeleine in season 2.

Like yes yes you’ve made a point about exploitation and how the world takes real genuine things and strips away their meaning and dignity. But don’t you think maybe that moment will fail to land considering you’ve never given us the alternative? You have never shown genuine physical intimacy/affection between two women, the way you have between two men. Or is two women being genuinely physically attracted to each other somehow automatically not “real” enough? Too cheap, too sexual? They have not earned the right to make that little move.

If anything it’s hard not to interpret it as resentment towards fans who wanted to see that intimacy from claudeleine, as if to say “Well obviously this is why we didn’t show them kissing. See? Don’t you feel silly for wanting that??”

[dykesynthezoid]

A lot of moments this season that are like “hey you know if you fail to pull off satire then you’re just Doing The Thing, right”

And then other fans are like no no you don’t get it it’s on purpose!! Like no I know it’s on purpose. I see exactly what they’re trying to do. It’s just not working.

[snequanimity]

ive already talked about them overloading lestat with non-canon trauma in s3 and how theyve transferred a big narrative element from armand over to him

ive mentioned this goes against the way lesmand are set up as foils in the books because they contrast intensely and are basically diametrically opposite

i also said before i think the writers knew they amped up lestats abusiveness too much in s1 and thought well ppl sympathise with armand bc of the csa so we'll make grooming and abuse by a caregiver a big lestat thing so ppl ~understand

but they made lestat not want to talk. like armand doesnt want to talk. of course armand does eventually in the books for benji & sybelles sakes. but in the show? armand dissociates. he separates his past identities. he has traumatic amnesia. he made louis forget a traumatic episode (according to rolin) on his request. he thinks an inability to dream is reassuring, because its like the sleep of an infant: tabula rasa. book armand feeds by letting the suicidal walk out of their homes and into his waiting arms.

lestat talks. he loves to talk. he loves to regale you with accounts of himself as an affable gentleman devil. he freely lets the mask slip to show something darker underneath. he loves to perform. he loves to narrate. hes the brash, confident day to armands quiet, cynical, fatalistic night.

but not in the show. in the show hes lost all the warmth and openness of his book self and this is attributed to a bunch of random shit the authors introduced. they took the golden boy who was a natural on the stage fron day one and made him the stuttering ape from auvergne, and completely broke the way his character works

and thats why lesmand doesnt work anymore either. we have the bullishness of lestat without his romanticism to balance it. no sleeping beauty, no cinderella at the ball, just furtive blowjobs and degrading dismissiveness.

[snequanimity]

wild that in 5 episodes ive gone from disliking lestat as a person but enjoying him as a campy queer villain to hating every moment we spend with him and not wanting to see him interact with any characters i like ever again. thats efficiency! pretty impressive really

[glitteringpoet1685]

You cannot be saying let the tale seduce you 5/7 episodes into this season, the seduction should be finished I should be seduced. And no the next season does not fucking count, a season of television needs to stand on its own if you want people to wait several years to see any payoff.

[mideias]

Will not get over how in order for us to find out Armand and Daniel had a significant encounter in the 70s we had multiple episodes of Daniel being haunted by flashes of memory + investigative work to retrieve records of that encounter + the reveal being intertwined with the story's main theme of memory unreliability. But something as crucial as Armand being obsessed and in love(!!) with Daniel for decades is revealed to us through... exposition. No subtlety, no build up, no letting the tale seduce me, no correlation with the current themes of the story.

[professional-rat-eater]

On Akasha’s side because if I were stuck as a living statue forced to listen to Marius de Romanus talk on and off for nearly two thousand years while he periodically touched me and kissed me, I’d want to kill every man on earth too.