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[de8thm8rt]

i ran this season’s racism was loud as FUCK but having claudia call louis “a nappy haired slave” when all the first two seasons were spent with louis talking about the trauma of experiencing racism his whole life and then while immortal like that was a poignant part of the show and its themes and now that the focus is on a white french man they’re putting their hood masks on omg this is really disgusting

i literally cannot watch after this season. this is it for me and i feel like it’ll be it for a lot of other black viewers as well. there’s no excuse for this.

and i know there will be people saying “oh well, claudia said that about louis in the books.” yes and claudia in the books was a little white girl and louis was a white plantation owner. clearly some things in the show have changed from that, so why in the hell would they decide to keep that.

especially when claudia in the first season mocked lestat by referring to him as “massa” in clearly sardonic way ridiculing him and making lestat visibly uncomfortable and upset with being compared to a slave owner

and in the second season claudia liked armand initially because he was brown like her and louis

so why in the hell would she EVER refer to louis as “a nappy haired slave.”

[jungianmoney]

loustat reconciliation was completely unearned after all the overtly racist writing and reductionist characterization throughout the season. Not the fault of Andersen and Reid at all, but there was no catharsis there.

[valiantlyinvainn]

[celestialsky198]

the damage the line “let the tale seduce you” has done to certain corners of the iwtvl fandom wrt engaging with critiques of the show genuinely needs to be studied

[lvmi-nary]

i have recommended and shown iwtv to too many people for them to be playing in my face like this now

[veryveryvomit]

After refusing to adapt tvl in any meaningful way all season they just HAD to ruin louclaudias relationship in order to remain accurate to a throwaway chapter of merrick?? And of course throw in some racial slurs

[desertbuddie]

I'm mostly just saddened and coming to terms with is just even after all this time I guess we still don't have adaption of tvl. Well I guess the closest is still the 2006 musical. So somehow despite its own flaws its more coherent and faithful to the characters.

[rooksilver]

practically no armand. barely any louis and all he does is grovel. gabrielle reduced to a misogynistic stereotype and all complexity erased. one episode of nicki. claudia ooc and used only as a tool for the male mcs. lestat’s there but all he does is sing terrible songs and deliver cringe attempts at modern references clearly written by people in their mid to late thirties. dm rushed. lesmand erased. loustat completely unconvincing. existence of loumand completely ignored. gabistat disgusting. show quality not upheld. book not adapted. so what exactly have we accomplished this season and why

[weather-mood]

my beloved characters are trapped in there with these writers

[gaypeople]

so i’m gonna need rolin and the two white men who wrote this scene to sleep with two eyes open for the rest of their lives

[glitteringpoet1685]

thank u for providing a vent space and for your amusing hateposting

atp I'm just waffling between trying to pretend s3 never happened and leaving the fandom altogether. and I'm someone who was obsessed with the show before it even came out. it's just so bad now and ooc and weird ajsnbdbejsjis

I really don't know if and how I'll be able to keep engaging with the fandom post s3. Because I do still love s1-2 and Armand in the books and the show is still one of my favourite characters ever but if the majority of fans just accept this version of events without any pushback I just can't. I can't stomach people hand waving all the racism and misogyny away. I'm hoping we'll at least get some banging fix it fics out of this.

[glitteringpoet1685]

they made everyone else unsympathetic and unlikable to make Lestat seem likeable and sympathetic

And the thing is it didn't even work. They've made Lestat this unrecognizable passive character whose past doesn't matter. I don't care for him at all. Why was a hallucination of him in s2 a more charming, romantic, and enjoyable character than the supposedly "real" version of him now. The only character this season who I've had a real sympathetic reaction to something happening on screen is Louis and I attribute that 100% to Jacob Anderson and 0% to the writing.

[deadbeatmaker]

hannibal and will weren’t even toxic. all of that was normal

[deadbeatmaker]

armand is also normal

[caffeinefree]

1 more episode and then I'm done with this lol. Genuinely what a waste of time. I have no problem abandoning crap tv, with the amount of content there is out there I won't waste it on the insulting crap they've put on screen.

Entire season feels like a fuck you to those of us who enjoyed season 1-2. Going out of their way to retcon, joke, humiliate and deride everything about those seasons. Shit even Antoinette wasn't safe.

Fuck anyone who enjoyed Louis and Claudia and Armand. Hell if you liked Lestat and Daniel...fuck you too lol! Because those characters have been changed completely! Also are you going to see character arcs on screen? No, take the shitty music and concerts and characters nobody gives a genuine fuck about. And with a heavy ASF fuck pinch of racism!

Wrap it up and pack it up. These writers have lost the plot.

[raisinchallah]

saying claudia made up lestats threats to manipulate louis really i mean its a race to the bottom for most vile thing they did this episode even just around claudia but jesus christ

[raisinchallah]

in some ways i think there were maybe more discrete scenes this episode that could have worked if they you know connected to each other and felt like they you know impacted the next scene like im honestly just dumbstruck that louis didnt even seem to care that much about ghost claudia saying she hated him forever and he mourned her wrong that should be like you know the biggest thing on earth that should be like the center of the entire show and the scene next its like oh well huh crazy that happened am i right between louis and lestat like WHAT

[raisinchallah]

i do think ive somehow even lost the joy of complaining like genuinely im just numb to what this season is doing its so fucking depressing i cannot fucking believe they just did this to claudia and louis dear god..