okay, here's a list of my episode 7 predictions (ranked from the most sensible to the most unserious):
akasha woke up not because of lestat's music, but because of gab's machinations
we don't find out the context of the auction
all violent outbursts that lestat and akasha had are actually amel's fault (i hope that's not true, buuuut...)
DM won't kiss and loustat won't kiss, but loustat's heads were touching sensually while being transported in daniel's bowling bag
armand will talk to lestat's head so he will finally listen to him about the great conversion
everyone in the band dies rip
lestat actually liked getting his head cut off. this inspires him to do some inner work
salamander is team armand and he's crucial for stopping gab somehow
daniel uses lestat's head as a bowling ball (curtesy of @danielarmandship)
opossum who licked licked vamp's head that louis cut off comes back to lick more cutoff vamp heads
it's all armand's fault. it's ALL armand's fault. armand is everywhere, armand controls everything, armand is amel
wow i was so silly. so stupid for thinking that lestat is getting tortured by armand. silly me, he gets a dream sequence where nothing happens, he realises nothing about himself and gets no closure and/or penance.
and we don't even see the concert, why would we expect to see it in a season centered around lestat's rockstar persona? stupid, stupid me
bowling was there for no reason obviously, just a set setting for daniel to tell problematic "jokes" with no thematic relevance to anything
armand really is just evil tho! and he's evil because he was traumatised as a child, of course! and they cut off loustat's heads FOR NO FUCKING REASON
oh, and kissing was made illegal. what a season finale, beautiful.
