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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 stuff with the song is a little annoying because it would have been so easy to be like the song is about nicki but just came out in episode when it came out. or even 'here's a way lestat writes about loving nicki that gets co-opted by gabriella'. we're seeing lestat grapple with grief and loneliness.
but that's okay, i'm choosing peace by embracing Death of the Author a little bit here. i love all of the insight we get into making the show but sometimes i'm going to choose to overrule (for me) what gets said. 🙏🏻
Yeah, in this instance I actually agree and align there.
Co-opted? Fine. If they must.
But... it just does not fit as for Gabriella.
To be fair I think Potter simply repeated what he was told by rolin bc he used his same words, in another bit in fact he said Nicki loved Lestat and Lestat is the only person who gave him that love back. Like many others I agree with you there that the acting doesn't reflect that unbalance of love at all
For me that is the biggest giveaway.
Because they have talked about things "one way" before, while there were already clues in the show, detailing another.
They just... don't want to give things away?? Which is understandable.
Let's just... let it click into place.
So, because we're in Lestat's narration, we'll never see any Loustat kiss ever again in the show?
... that is NOT what I said. And it is not book canon either???
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Vampires can’t die from a throat slit though and Louis knew that and he also made sure Lestat would end up where it was a lot of rats so he could possibly heal
Of course there was the uncertainty but he did try to do as much as possible so he would have a chance and then he went and lived with that guilt for years after
He was in a difficult spot where he had to choose between his daughter and husband
No, Louis did not know that.
He assumed it.
not directed at you but i saw that anon and i want a loustat kiss as badly as the next person but i really dont think we weren't shown a kiss between nicki and lestat bc of a sense of "sterility of coldness that will contrast with louis and lestat" if anything we should worry about amc is doing by interceding instead of making it about comparing couples
It's not about comparing couples. It's also not about AMC doing something.
This is canon behavior, that Lestat glosses over the things that have meaning to him, and are intimate.
We are in Lestat's narration.
i really don't understand what's going on with the intimacy this season, we see explicit frames of baby jenks on lestat's lap, we even see larry briefly kissing lestat on the mouth, that scene with jarda and gabriella, and obviously the scenes with lestat and gabriella (although the kisses are kind of obscured), they said they had to sneak the guy in the foursome and nicki and lestat have barely some flashes together, but then again, we also see an explicit kiss between two women, regina and the madeleine lookalike ? i think justifying it by saying it's lestat's protecting the memories can only hold so long. don't get me wrong i do find it relevant that we're exploring his sexual traumas and the more fucked up intimate moments are showed but the only consensual one so far isn't can be a powerful storytelling choice, and one i can appreciate. however with the lack of scenes in general between them and rolin odd justifications about jp being such a good actor he could give him less screentime and now the SONG......it feels a little like a mix of amc censorship, yes, but also not wanting to upset the fans who were very loudly saying they didn't want to see lestat with nicki for years and with the way rolin keeps bringing up what's liked or not liked in the fandom in after dark it's not unlikely to me i'm afraid. there are in fact many fans who are celebrating these questionable choices including the song at this very moment unfortunately.
i think you're one of the very few ppl on here who doesn't get caught up in ship drama and you're honest about which choices you liked and didn't like or opinions from the writers you agree and disagree with so i'd be interested in knowing what's your impression about all of this/what do you think it's going on? or maybe if there's info in ep 6 that casts a light on some of these choices?
No, there is no info in episode 6.
I stand by what I said before: this is canon behavior that is reflected in the books as well:
Lestat glosses over the things that are intimate to him, the deeper feelings and scenes that are implied, but never detailed.
This is what happens here as well.
The other scenes? They don't mean anything to him. It's just sex! He's been used for his body so often! That does not mean anything.
The things that DO have meaning to him though... those he keeps to himself.
I don't think there's any censorship done. The things about the songs... are a different clusterfuck, imho, but the "glossing over"... is book canon.
And we are in Lestat's narration.
I get that killing akasha would kill all vamps but hurting enkil would do that too? Any other ancient vampires who can cause this?
No, Enkil does not carry the core.
amc you want to fuck up and drop the episode tomorrow so baddd 🤞🤞🤞
*snickers*
Amc should put us out of our misery and drop episode 7 together with 6 xD
If that cliffhanger is what I think it is then who can wait a week 😭😭😭
#real anon and while they’re at it they can drop the secret ep8 too, my delusions can lead us to magical places 🤩🤩
:)))) I mean, I said it before, while I don't believe in a secret 8th episode, it is not as if I wouldn't LOVE it :)
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Louis didn’t go through with it though that is what the whole point was at the end of season 1 and how it led into season 2 with Claudia mad at him for it
But actually while I’m talking about the murder I don’t see how the “Claudia knew she could only manipulate Louis into killing Lestat” argument works in the show because of course it would be easier here then in the books because Lestat was already treating them horribly and there would’ve been no justification for Lestat to agree with it since Louis hadn’t done much to him
.... oh, so, Louis's saving grace there is that he didn't BURN Lestat?
Slitting his throat wasn't "going through with it"????
REALLY?
turning a big dial labeled "victim" on one end and "perpetrator" on the other back and forth and constantly looking back at the audience for approval
Did you say something happens where lestat comes to some kind of realization in episode 6 that Louis is his great love?
If so, I can't wait to see that 😭
No, I didn't say that :)
But... I don't think LESTAT needs something to happen for him to know that.
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I have an idea that the show is building to an epic kiss between Louis and Lestat in ep 7. Because even kisses between Lestat and Gabriella are barely shown: notice that the angle or their hair always hides their faces, and what we see is brief. There's a pointed lack of intimacy between Lestat and ANYONE. In episode 1, we see him have the elevator orgy with two women and a man, we see him kiss both male and female groupies and be kissed by Larry, we see flashes of him kissing Louis and in bed with Louis, flashes of him with Nicki...since then, it has only been brief shots of him with Nicki in episode 3, and brief and/or obscured shots of him with Gabriella. Nothing that lingers. It feels like he doesn't want to think about it. And maybe I'm wrong, but it creates a sense of sterility or coldness that I think will contrast with a Louis/Lestat moment in episode 7.
What do u think Nalyra????
I mean, I have said BOOK CANON kiss in my header??? 😅
They BETTER.
I do find it interesting that everyone brings up the drop when it was a heat of the moment situation that I feel like shouldn’t be held over Lestat as much especially considering he tried to stop it before it escalated to that point but never the fact that Louis and Claudia planned his death for months before actually going through with it
Interesting, isn't it.
The tale shaped the justification so well this is always forgotten.
It will be interesting to see what this fandom will do when the Amel finally takes away the "outside and drop" partly from that justification, and when it becomes clear that [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
💅🏼
(No, actually I know exactly what this fandom will do, namely scream about how this reveal is anything but book canon, as is already happening. I wonder why they do that.... 🙄)
So when Rolin Jones says that Lestat didn't love Nicki as much as Nicki loved him
potter said that as well, he said he personally felt that way
*shrugs*
I don't think the acting actually reflects that, but... *shrugs*
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I think Season 1 could be a great meta commentary about how sensationalism and emotional talking points have effect in an audience and how Louis knew that when he presented his tale. But sadly that analysis will never be allowed because this fandom is composed by a bunch of over emotional 20 year olds that can't see past Louis and Claudia's 'relantability'.
Watching the show and then seeing some of the bad takes is crazy. Fans are either counting how much screen time their favorite character has or focus more on the ships. The takes on Lestat and Gabriella relationship is weird, people acting like it’s a real romance when it’s not, and the show isn’t painting it that way nor is Sam Reid playing it that way. I get people wanted more Nicki, rather than Gabriella. But she wasn’t barely in the last episode which in my opinion was the best episode yet. So much was going on with Akasha, Lestat, Louis and Regina. Yet people are complaining about Gabriella or the band. We all came into the season knowing the focus would be Lestat and his music. We’re probably getting another two seasons, Lestat will not be singing in them.
*weigh head*
I mean, we only got half the songs this season.
