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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[neenarchive]

i love you films without sequels i love you limited series i love you stand alone novels i love you self-contained stories

[macylovesfilms]

wow he’s the prettiest man alive

[strangeasange1s]

joining the war on Armand on the side of Armand

[toxicmp3]

if he has abs he doesnt care about you

[toxicmp3]

men with abs aren’t capable of love

[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]

i should have said of course: its armands childhood mutism that they give to lestat in the form of his stutter. lestat, preternaturally garrulous, who loves to bare all, even what he did to david-

and armand, reticent, unwilling to tell his story, reluctant to acknowledge the things done to him

[snequanimity]

adding in some good tags, bc yes!

armand has been hollowed out in the show for the sake of cannibalising his story for elements that they have given to lestat instead

[iwtv-tvl-hot-takes]

Not utilising the documentary as this season's primary framing device is such a wasted opportunity, I cannot fathom why they thought going with these recordings was a good idea and I really hope the pay-off will actually be good. It's just insane to me, because I think making Lestat more reluctant to tell his story could have worked *if* Daniel was there to badger him into giving up more details and to challenge his narrative similarly to how he did with Louis in previous seasons. Instead, nothing he says is ever put into question and he's allowed to go off the rails as much as he wants.

And sure, I understand what they were going for, making everything appear so chaotic and frustrating to portray the mental state Lestat himself is currently in, but I just do not think it makes for good television. I was prepared to deal with it for the first one or two episodes because I was fully expecting the documentaryt to be relevant and for Daniel to help Lestat sort out his own thoughts.

Instead, what we got was ONE scene of them recreating the original s3 teaser where Daniel tries to conduct an interview and Lestat for some reason (despite ostensibly being the one who hired Daniel to make this documentary) behaves like he is a hostage forced to be there. The scene very much feels like another instance of the show going "here you go, now stop asking about it" because the writers knew people were expecting at least something related to the documentary due to the teaser.

It seems like something changed during production and they realised that what they actually wanted to use as a framing device were those recordings but got stuck with the documentary (even though I fully believe actually committing to the interview bit with Daniel would have really helped some of the pacing issues this season has!).

I thought the idea of including shaky black-and-white footage during the first episodes to signify that those were shots for the documentary was great but then it never really goes anywhere? What is the point of it all? And then after one botched interview it seems the documentary is now done away with and we're left with just the recordings.

I've heard that Lestat recorded them not even after this season but even further in the future (s4 or maybe even s5?) which makes me apprehensive because I do not think they are a strong enough narrative device that they should be used in future seasons, not even if there is an amazing reveal at the end that puts them into context. It's not worth losing out on having someone there to actually challenge Lestat imo.

[wulfhalls]

richard those brothers were too in love ur swag was too severe theyre gonna kill u at the awards richardddddd

[jmunchy]

You can't tell me Fitzjames wasn't turned on in this scene

[yaoiblackmold]

We were robbed of that Armand AA meeting tbh, like why did they leave us at a cliffhanger without a cliff? Literally no resolution to the scene at all, I want to know what Armand said!!!! What does he think Arun is addicted too? Why is he in AA? How long has he been doing AA? Tell meeeeee

[jungianmoney]

“It’s chaotic because it’s lestat’s voice and mental state” was an acceptable explanation for ep1 or maybe ep2, but at a certain point, you actually have to tell the story and give the characters substance. This isn’t a 22-episode season. There’s no time for filler. We’ve gotten through 5 eps out of 7 and so far there isn’t even substance to the MAIN character.

[outromoony]

I don’t choose ships. They choose me, and then destroy my life.

[yharnam-is-a-fuck]

[howlerbat]

An underrated Loumand moment from s2 is when Louis claims that they're not that serious then starts quizzing Armand "how well you know your partner" style

He's so funny for that like "See? You don't know me that well" and Armand doesn't even remember what his own name was

[outromoonyy]

"How do people who don't drink or smoke get through a shit day" babe have you heard of ao3

[roanlovesvampires]

you know, loumand shippers are some of my favorite people i swear

hate from every corner of the fandom, canonical divorce, have to start every post with "say what you will about loumand, but..."

and STILL going strong! nothing can defeat the loumander tenacity!

[holewithoutorgans]

Lesmand so good, it could kill a grown man. omg

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015) Interview with the Vampire (2022-) Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

#ipad kid holy trinity