its such absolute dogshit what they did with gabrielle, the only thing that really made her 'bad' in the books is a total lack of interest in being a mother and instead of interrogating anne rice's misogyny they dialled it up and now i have to read about gabriella viciously forcing her son to have sex with her. just so she can be the villain to blame for lestat being Like That. absolutely retrograde 50s psychiatry level misogyny, bc ofc a mans problems come from his mommy - and we lose our trans character too so she can be a horny slutty wine mom
its fucked on every level, and all so they can make lestat more sadboi, never mind about the female character who existed in her own right, whose whole personality was about wanting to exist in her own right
and god forbid you have a problem with the show making a survivor of sexual abuse into a sexual predator or that a character that has never being an impediment for any of lestat's love interests is now a threat to main couple of the show...cuz if you say something your desmissing abuse (like who's saying that?? most of us are only pointing out that abuse protaited in the show is not the neglect that is in the books) or that you're saying that women can't be abusive too...she's the only actual female character with skmething to do this season and somehow they manage to make a 80's book more progressive than a 2026's tv show.
