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About me

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 reserve the right to be silent human, at least until I‘m turned 😛

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how in the fuck is Alex a sunwalker. Like the power scaling hasnt been powerscaling. Hes literally like a few weeks old no?

Not sure if Alex is one? In any case: Age does not equal power in the VC. Though blood ages and gets more powerful in time.

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That whole scene of Louis giving Armand grace and understanding despite what horrors he’s done was basically Lesmand dynamics from TVL book given to those two characters and I don’t know how to feel about it

Well, I do know how I feel about that. *laughs*

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Lestat says that whoever are there are there either because they are either murdered by him/his fledglings or memorably traumatised. I’m guessing babystat and marius are the former?

I don't think they are. I think that list is some of who were most influential to him and who he loved most.

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I'm choosing to live in delulu land

For me the season ended with the pinky touch.

:))) A good ending.

Though I personally loved the beheading and the episode ending there.

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It was a mixed bag for me, but it really brought a tear to my eye with the small NOLA tidbits, to hear that beautiful New Orleans accent from louis again😭😭 And a particular character that helpful lestat

All the actors did a great job, we're lucky to have them

We are.

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the Paul scene was nice and everything but whyy was Paul even there

Spirits, ghosts, heaven and hell... work a bit differently in the lore of the VC.

It's... complicated.

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Wait could you actually talk about some of these separately because I had so many of the same thoughts as these anons😅

... so which one do you want to talk about? 😅

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I saw all the angry fan comments under Jacob's IG post. I remember the same thing happened after the disastrous Game of Thrones finale... the actors took some of the shit directed at the showrunners... they were harassed and it wasn't their fault.

Jacob is still burned from that experience and I don't want him to leave if they keep screwing up with his character. Maybe those who weren't part of the GOT fandom don't realize how hard it was (that was the reason Jacob wanted to quit acting before IWTW and other Got's actors ended up in rehab or struggled with depression or alcohol). I'm seeing the first signs that something similar could happen again if Rolin and the writers (Hanna) don't change their tune...

*sighs*

Yeah. People are quite short-sighted in their... disappointment.

Doing shit like this will only make Jacob withdraw. And nothing else. -.-

Though I think (and hope) that he is now more... settled back wrt comments like these now, because of his experiences with GoT :/

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Like, you, I will give them S4... to see how they deal with their stuff but..... I'll be VERY disappointed if we don't even see the concert and Akasha... They have the possibility to do an EXCELLENT 4x01... I don't know if they'll do that. I have a bad feeling about them trying to find excuses not to put the concert (because of budget maybe Idk).

I think the concert is too important to skip.

And, I mean, they have all the music ready - AND experience filming concerts, too.

I think we'll see it.

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one of the corners the writers have written themselves into is Armands now view of his "slavery" to Louis. Because everyone is saying the much older vampire was triggered in his relationship with Louis. Rehashing old wounds. And im like......well now you gotta have him with the same dynamic when he see's Marius. You cant have him roll over if he was angry about being used and abandoned.....

Yes... that's true.

It will be really interesting to see what they will be going for there.

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Next season we'll need 8 episodes of 1 hour long but I know unfortunately we'll have probably episodes of 50 minutes as always x) But they have so much stuff to put in it!

Yes! I mean... we know they know how to pack a lot of things in.

But still - soooooo much ground to cover next season.

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So I binged the whole season, and it honestly works so much better that way. I enjoyed it a lot more watching everything at once. I think my expectations played a big role in why I hated the finale subplot so much, and I'm hoping I'll come to accept it more once I've had time to digest everything.

I also finally figured out my main issue with the whole Loumand thing. It's not even that it doesn't make sense character-wise for either of them, because I can learn to accept that Armand might genuinely believe Louis owes him an apology. I'm even willing to go along with that.

What bothers me is the setup leading to it. Was all the bullshit Armand did really just to get that apology? If s4 gives us more context that reframes his motivations, then I think I could accept it, but stil....

I think what really hit the nail on the head for me is that we started and ended this season in essentially the exact same place: the world ended because of Lestat's concert. Literally nothing moved forward. As far as Lestat's arc goes, it felt so redundant.

But anyway, I'm trying to cope because I love this show so much, and aside from the finale, I genuinely loved the season. I want to keep supporting the show and this amazing cast.

I just wish people wouldn't send hate to the cast and writers. It's childish and absolutely insane.

My question is: is there anything they could do in s4 that would make you dislike the Loumand part of the finale less?

If they would finally make good on all the hints and address and reveal things.

That would help 😅

But yes, the season is amazing when binged :) Can confirm.

At least up till ep 6... I still have to do a re-binge of the whole season now, we'll see how that feels afterwards.

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Crazy theory, I think Armands going to lose an eye protecting Louis

They seemed pretty cordial at the auction

“there’s good in you” is going to come into play in s4

Maybe. Though it might also be in s5 then

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Remember how in After Dark Rolin said that S3 is only half the story, and that it served to cast questions which will be answered in S4? And that we've only seen half of The Vampire Lestat book? And that there were a lot of things happening off screen that we haven't seen yet? Including Armand and Daniel?

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I know you really liked ep1-6, and I didn't mind them, but I will be beyond livid if we get actual substantial Armand flashbacks when we didn't for Lestat.

This is still Lestat's tale, and will stay it, even if Armand's story will be told, as said before.

QotD is narrated by Lestat, as told to him by other characters.

I am not sure how the show will do it, but relax, IF they do flashbacks, they have to be in one episode, max, imho.

Because there is already so much in the season, and ultimately this is still part 2 of TVL mixing into QotD. And therefore Lestat's story.

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Okay, I had time to think and go through people's responses (you can delete my previous ask if you want). This episode was messy. I still stand by my saying I was expecting worse from all the responses earlier but I think my initial "eh not bad I guess" was mostly due to having the bar set to the ground. There were still things I really liked, but yeah narratively that was a mess. Like a bad note in the end of an otherwise great season. But I'm still looking forward to another season and I still liked Alan Taylor's directing.

I mean, in a way I'm glad your initial feelings were okay? 😅 I'll take anything good:))

Also, sorry, but the asks are still... counting up 🤪