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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | Season 3, Episode 1

#the cuntessa!!#i yelled hahaha #lestat de lioncourt #daniel molloy #fareed bhansali #tvl 3.01 #amc the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers

lioncourtz

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 01.01 | "In Throes of Increasing Wonder…"

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 01.01 | "Detroit"

#yesssss #iwtv 1.01 #tvl 3.01 #amc interview with the vampire #amc the vampire lestat #louis de pointe du lac #tvl spoilers

magnusedom

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE / THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (3.01) | DETROIT

#babbiiiiiesss #lestat x louis #they're going to be a nightmare next ep i can tell already #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #tvl 3.01 #tvl spoilers #amc the vampire lestat

https://x.com/wolflioncourt/status/2063347937174839411

I'm walking into traffic, anon.

#but honestly this is gutting but also so THEM #this episode did allay some of my worries about how they're handling gabrielle and lestat's dynamic #just her utter distance and unwillingness to close it unless lestat's really broken #like that's them!#i've been thinking a bit too recently about how she won't pay for him to escape until she's dying #except for the monastery school for him to get an education as a little boy #which is in 1.01 so should be adapted here too #and i've never considered it as a final breaking moment for her before but now i kind of wonder if it could be #given it's the only time she truly fights for him to get out of the chateau without her following him #only for him to be beaten and broken and brought back to her that way #especially given the monastery school is something she actually cared about in that they would teach him to read in a way she wouldn't #or couldn't emotionally depending on how you read it #(which doesn't make it not abuse - it still is of course - but there's a different emotional interiority there for gabi imo)#what schism happens there #when you know there's no way out for either of you #how does it shift a dynamic even between a parent and child #how does it shift her relationship to him as both proxy and key to a world beyond their abuser?#as she increasingly becomes another abuser too #really interesting to think about!#gabrielle asks #lestat asks #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01 #lioncest asks #cw incest #cw abuse

solardrop

i think he's handling things really well.

#incredible op #lestat de lioncourt #amc the vampire lestat #tvl 3.01 #tvl spoilers

AGHH that one shot of Magnus slashing his throat and its juxtaposition with Louis slitting lestat’s throat. I need a rewatch cause I feel like a lot of the narration ties in really well with the visual parallels. Just having these bits flashing through Lestat’s mind, just so fascinating. This ep felt erratic in the best way. Can’t wait for the next one, I’m sure things will settle when we get used to this particular way of storytelling (which is SO on brand for lestat, I can’ttt)

I was really hoping they'd keep the fact that Magnus basically waterboards Lestat into vampirism by slashing his throat over Lestat's unwilling mouth, and I'm really glad it seems like we might get that too!! I hadn't really considered it in contrasting with Louis slitting Lestat's throat, but you're right that it makes for a super fascinating parallel (or perhaps, rather a juxtaposition, than a parallel), It's going to be super interesting to see how the show plays it, especially as cornerstones of his two deaths!

And yes!! I actually really loved the chaos of it, especially because in the episode, nothing felt extraneous at all. Deliberate and intentional chaos is so hard to write, and I really do think they pulled it off, which is incredible, especially given it's so essential to Lestat's character! I can't believe we have to wait a week for the next ep, although I know it'll be here before we know it, haha.

#magnus asks #lestat asks #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01 #cw rape #just to be safe #lestat's turning

texasbama

LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.01 ''DETROIT'

#louis de pointe du lac #he's soooo beautiful #tvl 3.01 #amc the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKJySBpWMAA0MxD?format=png&name=900x900

WHAT THE FUCK

This is going to sound insane probably, haha, but I'm lowkey really pleased about this - Magnus has no teeth except his vampiric fangs in the book, and I always thought there was a really profound metaphor there from Anne in having someone who appeared toothless be one of the most violent predators of all, and while I didn't think it was a disservice necessarily to not feature that in some way in the adaptation, playing it like this, where his teeth are weak and rotten apart from his fangs carries that horrific metaphoric intent in a way that just really, really works for me.

#that stark juxtaposition between the potential romanticisation in the music video versus the ugly violent traumatic reality #just makes so much sense to me too #but yeah the toothless thing or now perhaps weak/rotten toothed thing isn't necessarily about grotesquerie #but rather how we associate predatory power with teeth #in a way that i just find really compelling as a horror metaphor #and here the beat feels like it'll land again #with a weak-toothed man suddenly bearing these huge and real fangs #the mask of weakness and decay covering an unimaginable capacity for violence and violation #magnus asks #tvl spoilers #cw rape #vampire non/con meta

i just watched it.

That was incredible.

The scene where Gabriella walks in and that small monologue. That was one of the most gutting things I've ever seen. Sam's face. What he can do with his face.

Yesssss, I'm so glad you enjoyed it too, anon, and god, that last scene with Lestat and Gabriella. Just the layers of emotion that Sam imbues in that sequence is genuinely pretty astonishing, and his stutter returning on her name - - I can't. The regression to childhood, to something small and mortal and in the palm of her hand. I've been so turning over the fact that the earlier glimpse of Lestat over the toilet has him explicitly saying the people in the room next door are having transactional sex, and you hear them still as Gabi arrives, and god just - - all the terrible implications of that as he begs her for an ounce of what's not even affection, but just presence. There's just so many layers to it that I know are only going to peel back further over the season.

#it is #So Much #gabrielle asks #lestat asks #cw incest #cw csa #<- just to be safe #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01

!?!

https://x.com/DVampireEliany/status/2063509578763903326

OH!

#the editing for this season is already insane #i'm just !!!!#enmeshment!!!#lestat de lioncourt #gabrielle de lioncourt #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01

lol I just found this

https://www.tumblr.com/and-fishing-equipment/762247876499980288/ive-started-reading-tvl-and-no-amount-of-posts

I mean, that is the tonal shift, hahaha.

#although as people in the comments point out the second book does dovetail into lestat trauma dumping for 400 pages and pretending he's fine #a character of all time <3

franniesbridgerton

Is it true that you were a stutterer as a child?

ERIC BOGOSIAN as DANIEL MOLLOY and SAM REID as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT episode 1 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

#i love that he confirmed that he was asleep for the 1800s #but the other thing i kind of love about this bit and the donizetti line #is that it really works with the broader narration throughout the episode #where lestat just *rambles* about so many things #part because he has real things to say part shit talking part just filling space (which i love as a character trait)#and it *can* be hard to tell the difference sometimes #that it feels completely believable to me that on that particular note he just said something maybe sarcastically maybe as a bit maybe just #to fill the silence #that louis half-remembered #and canonised as true in his head over a century #like the joey chestnut bit earlier in the scene #there's no reason in 100 years daniel won't misremember that as lestat having gone to see joey chestnut in a hotdog eating competition #while on tour with his band in 2025 y'know?#sometimes everything gets conflated #and there's nothing malicious about it #it just *is*#it feels like it speaks to the way this show likes playing with memory to me #versus the other two things #a clear truth (the stutter) and a clear lie (the train scene #even if Louis believed it)#three different ways to recount a memory #lestat de lioncourt #daniel molloy #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01 #amc the vampire lestat #daniel x lestat

humanveil

I miss you. Come to me. It's been too long... I need you. I'm struggling.

#just ooooof #lestat de lioncourt #tvl 3.01 #amc the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers

I am still reeling from the tone shift. But do you think this episode is really just a prologue? There were so many jumbled up things going on, I will be going through it shot by shot. But like most people who watch it won't be doing that..

Me too, anon, but it encapsulates that shift in the book so well! And I don't know if I'd say it's a prologue, but it's definitely a pilot and it really feels to me like a pretty aesthetic/thematic direct adaptation of the prologue to the book (Downtown Saturday Night in the Twentieth Century), but with the added elements of Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang, the interview, and Gabi, which makes me really curious if they're going to be adapting the parts of the book more directly than I'd previously thought, especially since it feels like we might be headed to Auvergne in the next ep.

#and since we know magnus is ep 3 #that would put us pretty close to the book given it's downtown -> lelio rising -> the legacy of magnus #i wonder if they'll continue or deviate after that #there were of course so many glimpses though for what's to come #but it really felt like the foundation it's intending to build on #tvl 3.01 #tvl spoilers

brujxrio

#!!#amc the vampire lestat #tvl 3.01 #tvl spoilers #the vampire lestat #lestat de lioncourt

sheisraging

The Vampire Lestat 3.01, Detroit

#louis de pointe du lac #armand #tvl 3.01 #amc the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers

https://x.com/griffonage/status/2063509833215868935

Part of me likes the idea of Lestat not bouncing on it for anyone except Louis but they really did film that in a very....clear way....I think

Yeah, I mean, I think they were pretty explicit, haha, and again, the whole sequence is out of order / nonlinear, as that user posts, so I don't think us seeing him come in in a later shot says all that much.

As for Lestat not bottoming for anyone other than Louis, I totally get the headcanon, but I actually think about this a bit when writing him in fic, and I just don't personally think Lestat's relationship with his body - particularly at this point in the narrative - operates in a way where he views any part of himself, or any act as sacred, for any reason. To me, it's kind of the true meeting point of both his hedonism and pleasure seeking, and the extremely deep roots of his many traumas, and I'm curious if that's where the show ends up going too.

#very aware that that's just my reading #but yeah!#i could probably talk a bit about that #but i think lestat will give anyone whatever they want of himself a lot of the time #so long as they want him #which is kind of the problem #(and that's not to say he's not having a good time in scenes like the orgy sequence #it's just - - complicated too)#lestat asks #tvl spoilers #tvl 3.01

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