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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[in-kyblogs]

So sad to go into the devil’s minion tag and realise that most people are here for a love story and not for the gothic romance

[tryamble]

Also why is everyone acting like Lestat’s narration is canonically crazy and erratic, it’s not….? He speaks very romantically about everything and is very sensitive….. DONT PMO

[raisinchallah]

objectively the funniest thing about the name change and marketing strategy combined with the shocking drop off in quality is that streaming services literally treat the vampire lestat as a separate tv show from interview with the vampire one could truly stumble upon interview with the vampire and be like wow i love this show a real shame it never got a third season :( and perhaps in the future that will be more and more people

[artpopfath3r]

[glitteringpoet1685]

Y'know I just can't really buy into anyone saying "well a screener/reviewer/cast member said this" when we're talking about what's to come because it's clear to me that a lot of them are watching a completely different show than me, I just don't believe anything most of them have to say after convincing people that this season is some grand achievement of television

[glitteringpoet1685]

---I may as well be rooting for akasha to win at this point given how no woman in this show is allowed to exist outside the context of a man's feelings no joke I saw a post the other day that said that's the reason for all the misogyny this season and anyone who doesn't understand that is an idiot lol. like the meta misogyny of how Gabriella has been written and how Lestat is telling the female character's stories exploitatively and without care is a deliberate set up to show why Akasha feels the way she does (about who? Rolin??) it's the most insane cope yet and I'm annoyed my dash refreshed before i could respond to it lol

I just... can't do this shit anymore

[mysticalsadgirl]

when episode 7 reveals the failures were all recorded on opposite day, then you'll see how clever this season is 😌

[in-kyblogs]

and ok yes they changed a lot from iwtv book too but to be quite honest with you I never cringed watching iwtv but I cringe quite regularly watching this. and not in the fun oooh glam rock! way

[cuntyarmand]

everyone say thankyou assad 😌

[deadbeatmaker]

changing the name to TVL was actually really awesome because if the last two episodes suck I’m just gonna say I love interview with the vampire and pretend i’ve never heard of that other show

[cryptidslair]

"why would anyone like loumand. they're miserable, they were never going to work out" well first of all that's the point so jot that down. second, two of the most attractive people on the planet are making out on your screen and you're complaining? they're engaging in never-seen-before levels of unhealthy bdsm dynamics and failmarriage and you're complaining????

[warmrainonawinterday]

To paraphrase well-worn criticism of TVL: "Lestat is the writers' favorite woobified blorbo and all other characters are essentially shafted now for his benefit."

I fully agree, and YET they are still fucking that one up! Because s3!Lestat has never been less complex or likable or interesting to follow! In a season supposedly all about him, he is actively stripped of agency and an actually detailed backstory, both of which were central to the source material. He is given trauma that is fully made up for the show (and in parts just cannibalized from other characters' stories, mostly prominently Armand) as if that inherently balances out the lack of care given to the flashbacks, because trauma=character depth shortcut that you as the audience just cannot argue against, I guess. Flaws and admitting (or denying) fault? That's for suckers, too - clearly, it's an external force as nebulous as Akasha's blood that is truly to blame!

And then there is the cringe memeification of his base speech patterns. Louis is defined by his reflective, lyrical monologues. Lestat, meanwhile, is "serving cunt".

The writers have royally screwed over all other characters in the service of absolutely fucking nothing of value.

[stillnaomi]

"I'm a socialist, I just oppose every real world socialist project" has to be right up there with "I support palestine, I just oppose every concrete action palestinians take towards liberation" as laughable political standpoints

[vampireamadao]

BENJI, go into DANIEL's head and look DEEP INSIDE for his SICK little twisted weekend plans please because he WON'T tell me if we are at the Hilton or the Ritz or elsewhere and I WOULD LIKE to know what to wEAR, and if we will match, and whether he plans to shop lift the hotel pyjamas or- Benji, BENJI come back and get in his head for me, please! ...Fine. SYBELLE!

[traumatizedimmortals]

are they gonna give lestat back his agency in the last episode is or it really all gonna be Gabriella's/Akasha's/Armand's/Amel's fault the whole time

[userarmand]

the very real possibility of alex de bandmember getting more screentime than armand next episode

[snequanimity]

connecting the way ppl have accepted this wildly ooc version of gabstat

and the way the show has thrown in huge amounts of sexual exploitation narrative into lestats story generally

making magnus less a mad scientist/white supremacist figure and more of an obsessed sexual predator

and the lestans deciding armand must have raped lestat bc if they had sex it couldnt ever have been consensual

and the fandom ppl who insist book armand raped lestat by drinking his blood (but never say show lestat raped louis or claudia when he drank their blood without consent)

and its very odd. armand is very clearly the character who has been habitually sexually exploited in the books. i would say book claudia is also exploited by louis in a clear quasi-sexual way. their show counterparts obvs have parallels to this in marius and bruce.

but both the show writers and the lestat fans have to come together to insist that actually! lestat should be much much more of a victim than in the books, and in the same ways as claudia and armand.

and rather than tell his story as it appears in tvl they decided he should be 'humanised' through sexual abuse - after he has been shown to be violent and abusive towards louis and claudia

all this - and they made armand and claudia and louis poc. but the greatest sufferer now? well apparently thats the white man who breezes through the books with abounding and buoyant insouciance. INCH RESTING.