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Nalyra ⏛ she/her/they I love complicated characters and relationships. Vampire lover of old. I like a lot of things, so do mind the tags, please.
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I didn't love the first six episodes as much as you did, but I also agreed with you that everything felt in-character, justified, and in-line with character dynamics. So to have the finale switch up so severely is so confusing to me. I feel like I have to run through hoops just to justify Lesmand being given to Loumand, and Armand and Daniel's motivations.
Yes
Okay, having had some space from the ep -- I don't actually think we're meant to take Louis' apology as necessary. I think we're MEANT to be like "wtf Armand," recognize this is torture, and see Louis' final "apology" as a last ditch attempt to get Armand to let Regina, himself, and Lestat go. Louis hits a nerve and gets real, and Armand didn't actually want him to. So he leaves. And/or realizes he's run out of time, and leaves. Lol hear me out. We know the actors know where the story is going. Both Sam and Assad have talked about the Lesmand dynamic like it's the canon book dynamic. We know these writers drop hints and intentional misdirects, and Rolin has said this season is very much a Part 1. They also made Armand *explicitly* villainous, and set up things they know they haven't addressed. We still have no idea why Armand had Daniel take Lestat's head far away from his body; why he was screwing with his band; or how Alex is involved. We still haven't seen things the show's dialogue or subtext has implied (Lesmand assault, Lestat coerced into the trial). They keep mentioning the Paris coven without showing us what problem Lestat "threw money at and ran away" from. We still have no understanding of why Armand built up his new coven, no understanding of what's going on with Daniel. They left a bunch of hanging threads. I think they WANT us to look at the disconnect between Armand's words and actions and think "...is this really what you were up to, Armand?" I don't know, that moment with Armand over Lestat's body felt intentionally icky to me: he trails a hand over Lestat's chest in this grossly possessive manner when he says "enjoyed ruining for the sake of ruining." Maybe it's my Book Goggles, but that feels too "no joy on earth like the raping of an equal" to me to not be intentional.
Could be.
Look, I'll say this: hope dies last.
I'm... not sure I subscribe to Louis' apology not being honest there, or a last ditch effort.
Louis was dying, he was only able to communicate telepathically.
There was ZERO reason for him to believe that Armand would actually save him or let him be saved, because it's been firmly established Armand does not really do that.
So no, I do not think that apology was fake, actually. There's levels to that scene on all sides that I find icky.
But... yes. They talked about things. The actors I mean. And yes, hope dies last.
So, since everything has come out regarding episode 7, and my poor little fan loving self is now depressed. Would it be awful if I just go with the delusion that the episode leak was intentional and the “real” episode 7 will be aired Sunday morning? Is that bad and how much therapy will I need after Sunday?
If you really buy into that delusion? A lot 😅
*sighs*
Look, I know how you feel.
They... aimed high and fucked up.
Let's hope we won't have to wait a year till s4.
https://www.tumblr.com/nalyra-dreaming/822409315211149312/i-will-miss-the-show-being-a-part-of-our-universe
what does this mean? it’s not the first show to be based on our universe but go post apocalyptic
Read my other asks, please.
gotta be honest and i’m not trying to be mean but i can’t think of any non blunt way of saying this but i wasn’t expecting you of all people to miss the point of that so badly about louis “apologizing” to armand like it was not a genuine apology it was a “i may die if i don’t do what they guy wants me to” apology the entire situation laid that out armand literally had to decapitate bro to have a conversation like nothing about that scene was meant to make armand look human so how did yall read that apology as a genuine thing
It is not about the apology being honest.
It is about the writers feeling that Armand would feel the need for Louis to apologize to him AT ALL.
As I said in my thoughts on the episode, Armand canonically actually understood Louis quite well, and he never shucked the guilt of killing Claudia either.
That said, that apology seemed pretty real to me, because they connected it with Armand's backstory.
If they had wanted to just make it "fake", they'd have Louis tell Armand what he wanted to hear, instead of reiterating that Armand actually wasn't the love of his life.
Prompted by someone else's ask - I have to imagine the "armand did more damage than the queen" thing is talking about on a personal level or something, because I cannot and have not been able to imagine how that's possible.
yeah. Me neither :)
the way Sam kept talking about the Lestat and Armand dynamic really had me thinking there would be more of it. Idk it just fell flat in the end and I never thought I’d say that.
Assad, too. Assad was also talking about it.
IDK. It just feels soooooooo weird. Baffling, really.
Sooooo, how come oracle!jenks and magnus (esp wrt TC) talked about things that hadn’t happened yet :D
I mean, this is a visualization of Lestat's memories while dictating The Failures :)
He's omniscient there. And so are the characters within the narrative.
I usually trust and respect Rolin's creative decisions but I have a horrible feeling this episode started from a place of "Wouldn't it be shocking if Armand and Daniel decapitated Louis and Lestat?" and then the writers worked backwards from there to try and find a way to make it happen. Do you know what I mean?
Maybe.
But the reasoning as to the why still makes no sense with what Armand did this season.
Did Armand actually say the N-word, or was I so focused on trying to make sense of the whole scene that I started hallucinating?
*blinks* I did not hear him say that n-word?
Or which do you mean?
Louis calls himself something, but that has been used in the show before.
Lestat and Louis met after the beheadings as if nothing major had happened, like it was just an ordinary Tuesday evening. I was expecting… a bigger reaction. And while Lestat’s reaction was more vivid and intense, he held back his impulses when he saw Louis. But Louis just sat there like a log. I get that he’s been through some serious ordeals and he’s exhausted, but couldn’t he have reacted to the return of the love of his life in some other way? No wonder Lestat doesn’t feel loved.
I wouldn't subscribe to him not feeling loved there (anymore), but... as said. I also didn't feel much about it.
Too little, too late, in a way. Especially after the build up of the last episode, and the anchor of their fingers touching.
Yeah, they touched each others scars.
And while I did not expect a kiss in that moment, there... should have been a hug. Not this fleeting thing that was then overshadowed by Lestat screaming at Gabriella.
l’m pissed and sad ):
This almost ruined the whole thing for me. The only good thing out of that mess is that now Lestat knows he’s the love of Louis’ life…..
Anyway…. In terms of narration, how do you think they will do it in s4?
Well, The Failures are still the narrative frame of it all, whether we like it or not.
That said, they had Lestat close the tapes off there. BUT the story within the tapes has not been revealed yet.
So. I... actually anticipate something similar.
There has been way too much changes to Lestat’s character for me to keep ignoring them
It's not really the changes in Lestat's character that annoy me, because his CHARACTER is actually fine, imho, just closer to the later books.
It's the dynamics to certain other characters.
Why did Lestat change his mind and went on stage? He told Gabriella he wouldn't go..?
Gooooooood question.
I'm interested to see what Jacob thinks of what they did to Louis character this season🤔
Me too!!! Looking forward to upcoming interviews and the SDCC and the eventual... podcasts.
Two years have passed since the end of season 2, and we still don’t know:A) what happened at the trial, how Lestat ended up there, and, most importantly, why.B) the relationship between Armand and Lestat is still a mystery. And now that they’ve shifted part of their book‑based dynamic onto Louis, I have no idea what to expect.And we have to wait another two years? That’s just brutal.
Yeah. As @cbrownjc said so fittingly in her review:
Because they HAVE been dragging their feet with the reveals.
And it's... getting stale. And yes, very much to the point where no-one gives a shit anymore, including me.