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[platoapproved]

by candlelight you used to teach me how to kiss

[jaypentaghast]

AMC's Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Lestat (2026), Season 3 Episode 2 | Jennifer Ehle as Gabriella de Lioncourt & Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt

[knighteirian]

Gabriella & Lestat de Lioncourt THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2026–) 3.02 "Toledo"

[ambiicarus]

This is such a fascinating moment! I think this is the purest glimpse we get into the difference in how Gabriella and Lestat view their children.

[jmsvhl]

One thing I really like about episode 5 is how much it is about all the different ways one can fail as a parent. Gabriella and Marius who failed their children and are absolutely unapologetic about it: they know they caused harm — they simply couldn't care less. Louis and Lestat, who've failed Claudia and regret it so deeply they can barely function: what's done cannot be undone, it's too late for atonement — she is dead, and no amount of remorse will bring her back to life. Armand and Daniel trying to mend their relationships with their children without realizing that there are things that cannot be fixed: even if they manage to reconnect, something between them will remain broken forever.

And then there are Akasha and Enkil — parents of all vampires — except most of their children don't even know they exist. And they still have such a strong connection to their absent parents they would literally die if anything were to happen to their Mother. In a way, every vampire in existence is a lost child forever searching for answers to questions that only parents can answer: "Who are we?", "Why do we exist?" and the like.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether you were driven by malice or had good intentions. Maybe you even had no intention of becoming a parent at all. You still failed, your children's pain is your fault, and they'll have to live with it. Your failures are never not going to hurt them.

[hatcherrys]

“they are overdoing the incest it’s so unnecessary” nope they’re just taking us through lestat realizing he is being abused and being unable to stop it!

ep 1: feeling lonely, he seeks her out all ep as he literally spirals bc of drugs.

ep 2: speaks of her fondly, doesn’t really address how abusive she was as a human. gabi in present day crosses his boundaries and he blames it on both of them.

ep 3: lestat recalls how cruel she was in the past with nicki, and she punishes him for setting the no sex boundary by fucking jarda loudly to humiliate him. he becomes upset with her.

ep 4: she has left him again likely as a punishment for leaving her after the interview, triggering his abandonment issues (which she caused). he recalls more of her coldness and we see the first time he’s coerced into having sex with her to earn her love.

then we see him actually confront her about it when he says “why do you come back? why don’t you let me hate you?” (like he tried to the first time they had sex after he brought up that she touched him inappropriately when they were still human) and just like before, she just ignores his distress and he find he is still so powerless in their dynamic.

idk it’s not unnecessary when it shapes literally every part of lestat’s personality. ppl say they’re depicting it badly when this is one of the few shows i’ve seen depict incest as what it is: abuse. mfs out here watching house of the dragon where incest is like…. normalized… but a show actually taking you through a victim understanding he was abused is too much?

maybe this aint the show for you idk idk

[humanveil]

Scoo... "Puh." You have to put the "puh."

[yaoiblackmold]

The best part about Gabistat is that Gabrielle lowkey isn't even like that into it, she's just kind of ambivalent, which means Lestat is still being emotionally neglected by his mother that he is literally in an incestuous relationship with.

[sugarcarnation]

gabriella sending out lestat to kill the wolves hoping and expecting that they would kill him isn’t an idea that had occurred to me before but i’ve been rotating it around in my head ever since. it simultaneously being an act of fucked up care – granting him the final escape from their family – and her manipulating him into a a situation that risks his life and also robs him of the only comfort (his dog) he had outside of her. all this wrapped up in her framing killing the wolves as an act of proper manhood and thus elevating lestat into the role of a husband substitute. it’s such a messy situation that really lays the groundwork for how weird and entangled their relationship is about to get

[zombie-bait]

thinking about the horrific implications of Gabriella loudly fucking Lestat's body double while he actively re-lives his traumatic memories of being turned and assault by a monster who only preyed on men that looked exactly like him

[lioncourtz]

he's so silly

[sleepdeprivedsurgeon]

Armand got in on the ground floor of that 20 year old loser. kept checking in on him like he was proofing sourdough until he had a beautiful geriatric fag ready to go into the oven of vampirism and emerge the perfect companion. he saw Daniel sniffing around for coke at Polynesian Mary's and said give me fifty years I can make him the hottest guy you've ever seen. and Louis was just happy he was finally taking an interest in investment because it gave them something to bond over besides missing that blond man's pussy. like it's the only long con Armand has ever successfully pulled. hard work pays off in the form of a 70something boytoy who looks suspiciously like your evil father. i'm so proud of him. my weird bug.

[g1rl1nreverb]

just came to a realization that gabriella told jarda to wear his wig so he looked more like lestat omg she’s so sick it disgusts me…

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[reticent-vampire]

Luke Brandon Field & Eric Bogosian as DANIEL MOLLOY insp. by @bratboymolloy

[cassandrva]

love between vampires can be one thing, or it can be countless things. however you want me, i can be that for you. you said you want me to be present as your maker? i can be a maker for you. i want to be your maker. disregard the last 500 years in which i was repulsed by the idea. i don't have any complicated feelings about that at all. you said you want cool vampire powers even though you're a three year old fledgling? i can help you become a daywalker, a skill that apparently takes centuries to develop. you're an investigative journalist, don't you want a scandal on lestat? i can give you a scandal. i want to help you finish that job. lestat fucks his mom. isn't that good? aren't i useful? aren't i worth keeping around?

[sodhya-deactivated20181218]

A man who knows how to be soft and gentle is so attractive to me. A man desperately ignoring emotions and trying to preserve his hyper masculinity is such a turn off to me.