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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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The Vampire Lestat 3.06 "Montreal"
delainey on claudia saying she hated louis:
“I think she has a lot of hate for louis but at the end of the day I think she still does love him, she does admire him, but she’s jealous of louis like, she was the ultimate vampire that’s the life I should’ve been living.”
Yes. I saw that.
And your question?
Now that the episode is out, can I just say something that's been bothering me about this season? I think the writers are too terminally online, or at least someone in the staff is, because some of the things this season feel like replies to the fandom and the discourse.
The best the writers can do is ignore social media and just do their thing. Just focus on their vision. Acknowledging this or that fandom discourse is pointless because those people won't change their mind and the majority of their audience doesn't know about what iwtvtwt or tumblr is whining about this week and doesn't care.
... not an ounce of self-awareness in some of you.
I don't mean that in any ill way to you particularly, but please, for the love of god, think about all the commentary this show has done before, about how they comment on REAL LIFE ISSUES and then think about what has been said about the writers, the cast and the crew, and that WE KNOW THAT THEY KNOW and how it affected Sam, who has spoken about it, and how the writers abandoned their Twitter account, how they had extra security at SDCC because of the shit some pulled and how allllll that fandom SHIT SHOW IMPACTED THEM IN REAL LIFE.
Like, seriously.
This season deals with someone being used and abused constantly, and people only see him as an object, not as a someone to see beyond the cardboard villain or sex object to use or insult as they see fit.
MIRROR FUCKING MIRROR
hii, I really appreciate your posts and your insights on stuff but even though I really liked episode 6 I don't understand if the train scene actually happened or not like did lestat still dragged her back home? what was it about?
Well. It didn't happen as told.
There were many clues in the show already, and now we know that Claudia lied about it after.
We might never know the actual truth of it.
There was a train, Lestat brought her back.
That is all that stands as fact.
"I offer you the possibility of reckoning your crippling guilt." Do you think Lestat talks about Louis's guilt regarding Claudia and Lestat or specifically the guilt Louis feels regarding what he did to Lestat?
Both
https://www.tumblr.com/nalyra-dreaming/821961155803316224/i-might-just-be-dumbbut-why-did-it-look-like
am I tripping or didn’t she say daddy lou looking at lestat?
That doesn't mean she confused them, nonny.
Both Louis and Lestat think so, too, so I get where this is coming from, but do factor in the later reveals, and her last held gaze in life having been with Lestat.
And then suddenly that ignoring of Louis and the words spoken over the held gaze with Lestat take on a very different meaning.
With all episodes that have been released to screeners out now, do you have a theory on what the different poster colors mean? Why some character posters no matter the color, have two shadows of the person while others only have one?
Hey!
So okay, I don't have a theory on the colors of the posters. I truly have no real clue what is going on with that, currently.
But when it comes to the shadows on posters, I very much do have thoughts and theories about that.
So first off, all living vampires have two shadows behind their physical selves. We see this with Lestat, Louis, Armand, and Gabriella's posters:
While all humans, either living or dead, only have one shadow:
Now, the reason all LIVING vampires have two shadows behind them is that one shadow represents their soul/etheric selves and the second shadow represents their vampire-selves, which are connected to either their Makers and/or the Sacred Core/Amel itself.
There is a whole lore thing about subatomic links all vampires have, and how a part of Amel resides within them after someone is made a vampire, and how that works, that is explained in the book Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. You can read a more detailed breakdown of how it all works, wrt Amel and those subatomic connections here:
💬 0 🔁 139 ❤️ 340 · Beginning of the Vampire Chronicles lore guide I've been making for people interested in the series. This batch covers
Anyway, regular humans only have one shadow to represent their souls/etheric bodies. I explained about the soul/etheric body in this post in my prediction about Daniel's death:
💬 21 🔁 15 ❤️ 110 · Theory: What I think is going to happen to Daniel's character, and an actor switch from Eric to Luke with it · Do you h
Now, take a look at the posters for Nicki and Magnus:
Each of them, even though they are vampires, only has one shadow, right?
Well, that is because, even though they were vampires, they are both now dead.
When a vampire dies, that severs their connection to Amel and the part of them that is Amel, and made them vampires, is now gone.
The only thing that exists for Nicki and Magnus, in truth, is their souls, their etheric bodies. And while their soul/etheric selves are likely no longer on Earth, they are somewhere. (In fact, in PLatRoA, we learn exactly where Magnus ended up.)
So with all of that in mind, and given everything we know from the first six episodes, take a look at this:
So, IF my theory about these posters is correct? Then TC and Salamander's time as vampires might very well be short-lived, I think.
And, out of all the members of Lestat's band, only Alex will be the one to survive (at least this season).
Yeah. Gabriella's fledgling. Which, given her being all-in on the Great Conversion, and given what Lestat just said to her about Alex in EP306, maybe she'll be one of the reasons why he will.
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Now, a few other points. First, Akasha and Daniel's posters:
Both vampires, but both only with ONE shadow. Why?
Well, Akasha, being the one who HOLDS Amel/The Sacred Core within her, and Amel's presence being the thing that made her a vampire in the first place, THAT, IMO, is the reason Akasha only has one shadow.
Because Akasha's soul and Amel's soul/spirit are entwined with each other. That is the specific thing that happened when Akasha lay dying after a failed assassination attempt. As her soul began to leave her body (her Silver Cord having snapped), Amel snatched up her soul, entwined himself with it, and then forced them both back into her dying body.
Amel's spirit/etheric body was deeply infused with the synthetic polymer Luracastia when he did all this, and it is that polymer that was instrumental in Amel making Akasha into the first vampire. With him as the source, the "seed," the Sacred Core of that.
As for Daniel? Well, I have long thought something similar to Akasha is behind him being a vampire, and I already have a long written-up theory about that here:
💬 2 🔁 17 ❤️ 93 · My now updated theories and speculation about Daniel Molloy, body-swapping, and his turning · So I've been holding off on
Needless to say, I do not think Daniel's turning was in any way standard, i.e., that it happened in the same way other vampires are normally turned.
I also think there is a reason that Daniel's shadow-self in his poster is not a mirror image of his primary/physical self, like it is for every single other person who has a poster.
And now, last but not least...
I think a certain someone (Jarda) might just get turned off-screen.
As for Raglan, I think his two shadows are not that he'll become a vampire, but instead a hint about his unique abilities, i.e., his ability to move his soul from one body to another.
Because there is a whole thing in PLatRoA that explains what is going on with souls going into bodies that are not their own, and the tethers involved if their original bodies are still alive and such.
In fact, the body we see Raglan in right now on the show? Just might not be his original body for all we know right now....
Awesome!! Thank you for laying it all out.
As per the "teams"... Ryan Kattner changed his color to pink in an IG post, indicating the "teams" aspect of it all. Though it isn't really "Team Lestat", more that yellow... are... frauds. Or... do something / are something they are not.
Pretending to be someone else.
Fake Lestat. Jarda.
Armand pretending to do the steps, while having an agenda.
Alex helping Armand behead Louis and Lestat, hiding behind a mask.
Daniel not really/fully a vampire (and sometimes possessed?).
Raglan... well. Is Raglan. The body thief. He has his own agenda.
Regina, pretending to be Claudia. "Fraudia" as they called her in and outside the show.
Now, AKASHA is red, because she is just herself. Uncategorized as of yet, if you so will. A force in and by herself, too.
THE QUEEN.
This MIGHT just be me being exceptionally Alice in Wonderland-pilled, but when Akasha's 'red queen' poster came out my brain started fizzing. Because there are a number of Alice references this season (specifically the 1951 Disney animation) and not just the obvious "off with their heads" part, although...there IS that. The whole keeper!stat sequence felt very Down the Rabbit Hole-coded to me but particularly the part where Lestat was tumbling through the air, and the visual styling of the Long Table scene from the finale seems like a nod to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Even the styling of the posters reminds me a little of the card soldier designs from the movie.
Bear in mind that I'm insane obviously, but the specific colour-coding choices on the posters make me think of the "of Cabbages and Kings" rhyme from Alice. Especially with the frequent references to monarchy in its various forms and...uh, cabbages. Exactly how that distinction is being drawn in context I don't know. I'd guess that those who are in favour of vampiric rule & liberty (either through the Great Conversion, or just in the more anarchic Savage Garden sense) are the fuchsia-coloured "Kings" and those who oppose it, either because they are human, or wish to avoid change and cling to the old ways, are the yellow-green "Cabbages".
I'm not disputing any aspect of this theory as it stands btw, this is really just my two cents on what the colours could signify.
As someone who knows the Alice books backwards and forwards, because they are my favorite children's books of all time -- especially Through the Looking Glass, which is my favorite between the two -- I am KICKING MYSELF that I didn't make the connections here! 🤦🏾♀️
Though cut me some slack, both Alice books were published way after Lestat became a vampire. Over 60 years at least. So when it came to the cabbage's term, I didn't even think of the poem in question.
Which would be the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter" from the book Through the Looking Glass, the second of the two Alice books.
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."
(I memorized this whole poem when I was in 4th Grade, btw, just for fun)
In the book, it is a poem that is told to Alice by the characters of Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Anyway, there are a lot of literary critiques of this poem. Some say the poem is just whimsical nonsense, like a lot of things are in the Alice books, while others have a different reading of it. Which, yes, one of those interpretations being that the poem is a commentary on greed and preying upon the innocent, given what the Walrus and the Carpenter do by the end of the poem.
Here's a video of actor John Gielgud reading the poem:
As to Akasha, her poster being red very much could be a reference to The Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass, as well.
For those who don't know, the whole story of Through the Looking Glass is set up as a worldwide chess game, and Alice is in the role of the white Pawn. The Red Queen is, of course, on the opposing side of Alice. By the end of the story, Alice has "taken" the Red Queen, checkmating the Red King, ending the game.
Anyway, one of the famous early chapters in the book is when Alice meets the Red Queen for the first time and engages in a race -- or, more accurately, the queen takes Alice by the hand and has them run very fast, and then faster and faster, and then, when they finally stop, Alice notices that they are still exactly in the same spot as when they'd begun.
When Alice remarks upon this, the Red Queen tells her that, to actually get somewhere different, they would have had to run twice as fast as they had been:
"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
The Red Queen is a different character from The Queen of Hearts, btw, who is from the first Alice book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She is the more famous one known between the two and is the one who is the one who kept decreeing for people's heads to be cut off.
Though when the Gryphon was tasked by her to take Alice to meet the Mock Turtle, he made this comment about her always calling for such a thing:
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 'What fun!' said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice. 'What IS the fun?' said Alice. 'Why, SHE,' said the Gryphon. 'It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know. Come on!”
Both Queens were the antagonists of their respective books, but I personally always tended to find the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass to be more ... I guess the word I'm looking for would be imposing, than I do the Queen of Hearts. Mostly because of what the Gryphon said about her and her constant calling for people to be executed, but no one ever actually being so.
Anyway, the show. Lestat's little New Year's Eve party could very much be looked upon as the Mad Hatter's Tea Party for sure.
Both Alice books would have been published by that point in time, and Lestat might have read them over the 10 years he spent with Akasha, given they were both published when he would have been asleep underground.
But yes, if I had to pick between the two queens, I'd say Akasha fits more the Red Queen from Looking Glass. Because her executions aren't going to be just a "fancy" that never actually happens.
And I can very much see Akasha's plan, and those trying to stop her, also being like a giant worldwide chess game, between those who might side with her and those who openly will not.
In fact, before Alice "takes" the Red Queen in the book, and puts the Red King in checkmate by doing so, Alice has become a Queen herself, and is no longer just a pawn.
So also something to think about, especially if Lestat is the one in the role of the white Pawn at the start of everything with Akasha and him, as we saw in EP305.
So lestat saves Louis, They kiss before the concert, lestat has his concert and then is kidnapped ?
Maybe?! No-one knows right now, nonny.
She didn’t want Louis with her nonny.
So why did they come back, her and Madeline, to see Louis after they've been wandering around a bit?
That is the question, isn't it. Because it was not for longing for Louis.
What do you think the death count will be in the finale? Do you see Baby Jenks and/or the band members being killed or will they save that for next season?
Baby Jenks will surely be killed by Akasha, as in the books.
And the band is needed for the concert?
Afterwards... all bets are off.
Re Armand being a villain in the books. He's definitely an antagonist in the beginning. But the way I took it was Anne Rice was going to have him become a villain in the qotd book but changed her mind after the DM chapter so we never got to see what she would've planned for him going full villain/evil. I might be wrong but that's how I read it.
I do wonder if the series is going to lean into the original intent of his character and I honestly don't know what I think about that yet.
I mean, that is literally canon, as in "Anne talked about that", re Armand being a villain up to the DM chapter.
I'm not sure if they're going to lean into the original idea, but Rolin surely knows of it.
I don't think that was Claudia personally,, I mean she actually Got lestat/louis mixed up
No she didn't.
That's just something you made of it.
The truth is a lot more cutting. She was pissed Lestat was back with LOUIS:
I might just be dumb....but why did it look like Claudia confused Lestat for Louis at first?
She didn't confuse them. She looked at Lestat.
Asked him if he was back with Louis.
Louis just thought she meant him.
In the next ep preview there are two shots with timers one over 6 hours and the other over 2. Do you think it's for how long they can keep them beheaded ?
That is my guess
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I’m not sure I understand what claudia meant when she said she would’ve tripped armand on the stairs if she wanted louis with her. Could you explain?
She didn’t want Louis with her nonny. Armand rescued Louis, remember?
