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22 | 🇮🇪 | following wherever my autism leads me

[yusiyomogi]

the real tragedy of this season is that everyone is acting so ooc and inconsistent that i can't even bring myself to be angry. i'm just bored because it's too nonsensical. the characters seem mostly bored too, because no genuine emotions are allowed in this show anymore.

[dreadfuldevotee]

blah blaaaah blah blah "the loumand kisses are in shadow because the relationship is a scam, a performance, dwarfed by the hurt and lies between them waaah" The Loumand kisses are in shadow to help visually signify the codependency being fostered between them. They kiss and their features meld into eachother. They gravitate back towards eachother when they pull away because the love that ties them together is insidious and destroys the boundaries between where Louis ends and Armand begins

[the-heavenly-option]

I'm still waiting to wake up from a coma to discover this entire season had been. like. the worst nightmare ever

[userarmand]

i don't know why they didn't just adapt the book. it was literally right there. in rolin's stupid fuckin hands for two whole years.

[userarmand]

so let's make a list in the case of armand, the writers:

made the trial into a lynching in which he also tried to kill louis

further diminished his relationship with louis by having him manipulate and mindfuck him for 77 years (when in the book, louis was aware of armand's part in claudia's death)

diminished his relationship with lestat by making it solely a one-sided obsession on his part

diminished his relationship with daniel by removing the romantic aspect of their past together and only leaving armand stalking him

made a trafficked csa victim distribute revenge porn (still with zero exploration of his own history of sa)

have him complicit in the beheadings of both lestat and louis (characters he genuinely loved in the books and who loved him back)

literally have lestat say that he did more damage than akasha

and you genuinely want me to believe that they're not intending him to be viewed as the villain of the show?

[yusiyomogi]

"the best claudia scene we ever wrote is in episode 6" don't let this be forgotten :)

[glitteringpoet1685]

And it's like a lot of these things I trusted the writers to address was not even because I had faith in them because of the quality of the first 2 seasons, but because I thought that there was like even a tiny bit of thought and planning put into the intentional changes to the source material. I thought that adding something as serious as the domestic violence had to mean that they knew at least somewhat how they were going to address that. But fuck me I guess I'm the fool for thinking that thought went into this show. Fuck me for wanting things to matter ig

[glitteringpoet1685]

What is it with shows nowadays that they're not content to just make a bad season they have to try to retroactively ruin the seasons before them with fuck ass twists

[glitteringpoet1685]

Little vent to add to the stew: This season has been so ooc I felt nothing at the end scene, just of yeah of course. Like none of these people are the characters I care about (not to mention them making it blaringly obvious that of course nothing bad actually happens to them and this means nothing). This season has had so many lines and so many moments I'd have dropped a fic for instantly.

Do feel free to vent in my inbox it brings me life

And yeah I have constantly compared this season to fanfic, don't get me wrong I love fanfic, but beyond just the horrific characterisation and dialogue, it's this lack of serious engagement with inconvenient parts of the past 2 seasons that really drives home the bad fanfic vibes. Like I can forgive a fanfic for glossing over characters and canon for the sake of it but not the actual fucking show.

[excretal]

every time they made louis apologize TO LESTAT. one million nerves shrivled up in my body

[excretal]

i think this is the character assassination that will finish me off for good i think i will never find love again wow

[excretal]

never in my life did i dunk on a show this much look what they did to me this used to be my favorite show

[armandgoth]

just checked, because i am petty like that, that armand has had 11 minutes of screentime this season. assad i am so sorry

[ajaystillblue]

Re: Jacob Anderson enduring these scripts in s3

[metathesisblog]

this is so not a pressing matter given the everything else of ep 6 but i kind of have to laugh at reviewers saying, "don't worry! armand is in every episode but one!" meanwhile he only has a significant role in like episode 4 where hes acting kind of ooc... in most eps hes not speaking or has like one scene... like you guys didnt have to lie lol... just say his role has been reduced it would be less insulting

[yusiyomogi]

well, at least we're almost done watching this. it's like a prolonged torture they keep gaslighting us into enjoying and i'm glad it's almost over. i think i'm gonna block iwtv tag for a year or two after the final episode. let me know if they somehow fix this thing in s4. i mean... if they'll say that it was all lestat's weird dream maybe lmao. i really don't wanna unfollow my iwtv mutuals, so if you all find new hyperfixations after that, i'd be glad…

i don't regret loving iwtv s1&2 btw. i mostly regret that i trusted the writers because i thought we had something there and i was wrong. i'll probably forget s3 pretty soon because it's so easily forgettable and then i'll be able to rewatch the first two seasons. if anyone wants to make a fandom space for iwtv without tvl, i wouldn't mind participating (when i'm done grieving).

[excretal]

this does not make a lick of sense. they fully fully lobotomized louis it’s over.

[excretal]

god. he did not give. a single fuck he just walked it off. literally a walk in the park