Rewind the tape —Episode 2 highlights
One of our favorite scenes is...
…actually, a pair of scenes. Our first highlight is the scene where Louis eats the fox —the performance of it all, making a show of petting the fox and biting it; and his speech afterwards:
“Vampires are killers, apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment, the ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life and having a hand in the divine plan.”
What’s most interesting is how similar this is to what Lestat says later in the episode:
“You will see death in all its beauty, life as it is only known at the very point of death. You alone, of all creatures, can see death with that impunity. You alone, under the rising moon, can strike like the hand of God.”
The other half of our pair is the scene at the end of the episode, in which Louis prepares to eat a human meal (which should, by all accounts, be beneath an “apex predator”) as he tells Daniel:
“I was never going to be a natural. I was never going to savor the aftertaste. I was a shame-ridden second, a fumbling, despondent killer, a botched vampire.”
This second scene functions as a perfect reversal of the first, where Louis is full of bravado, trying to convince Daniel of how vicious vampires, including himself, are. But here, as he admits to being “botched,” Louis allows Daniel to see that, even now, he isn’t a natural at vampirism.
What's a favorite scene of yours? Did you enjoy the first hunt? Were you taken by the humor of Lestat’s mind-reading lessons? Do you love the discomfort of the tenor’s murder?
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