It should’ve been Lestat, not Louis. Armand would do that, but he would not do it to Louis. That’s the issue. This was the replacement for the trial torture because they’ve made Lestat actually complicit (good decision) but the act itself was not the point. It was who it was done to, and it carries very different connotations in the book than what it would in the show. In the book, it is to whitewash Lestat of wrongdoing, in the show it would be the opposite.
I had been praying for the sexual side of Loumand’s relationship to be addressed because it always made me so uneasy, and every word Louis said echoed how I’d felt in season 2. It was a conversation that needed to happen between them. I just don’t like how it happened.
And this change wouldn’t fix the season, but it would make sense of all the constant Armand references being made around Lestat. It would mean his avoidance of their past together amounted to something. Lestat has been running from real accountability the entire season and Armand makes it so he can’t run anymore. He has to face it, and we get to see, in real time, all the ways in which they’re similar and all their differences.
But we wouldn’t get the “twelve” bombshell. That had to be Loumand, I think. It was important for it to be them.
I think the Loumand apology should’ve been sincere. It should’ve happened earlier in the scene. Switch places with the Lesmand apology perhaps, and make this the Lesmand apology instead. Armand ought to be angrier at Lestat. He’s given him a hundred more reasons this season alone.
