Hi, love! What are your thoughts on the Lestat's "HA!" scene while Armand was telling his story?
I saw many people being confused by it and disliking it, seeing it as rude, disrespectful and unnecessary! For me, it was truly uncomfortable but brilliant at the same time. My take on it is following:
No matter how heartbreaking the whole scene was, Armand surly had his “ulterior motives” for telling the story at that exact moment and in a certain way. I believe, from one angle, he slyly built it up to eventual comparison between all those terrible "original" vampires and Lestat, positioning him to be as bad as them, and basically playing around with his biggest trauma. Armand made a silent equation, e.g. Magnus/Lestat = Lestat/Louis that leads up to eventual Magnus=Lestat. In that way, Armand and Louis are both their makers' victims, which is another vital connection and unbreakable bond between them! Also, it shows that Armand still can't disregard Lestat from any of his narratives and he knows Lestat is on Louis' mind as well!
However, Louis saw right through that last little move (his Dreamstat was silent throughout the whole Armand’s story up until that “comparison” point) and reacted very harshly afterwards. Louis knew how Lestat suffered under Magnus, so Armand's silent twisting of that to, for example, make Lastat look bad for the sake of strengthing their relationship was the breaking point for that uncomfortable "HA!" (I knew you were leading it up to this, you manipulator!) moment to happen.
I am so sorry if this doesn't make sense and if I was wrong for something! I would love to hear your thoughts!
oh it makes sense, but, if I may?
@virginiaisforvampires answered something very similar here
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and I absolutely agree with her answer there! Louis reacted to a very specific part of the tale… in a very telling way.
Which in turn hints at what is to come, and what Jacob has hinted at in the recent TV Insider interview as well.
“It’s possible that he has reason to be suspicious or to just feel like there’s just something not right,” with Armand, Anderson continues. “I think he also got into that relationship knowing that there was an edge to Armand, but he kind of just chose to focus on the sides of him that were gentle and sweet and seemingly the opposite of any of the relationships that he’s had so far.“
Louis‘ inner Lestat knows.
(And yes, I also thought it so very well done!!!)
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