The thing is... i've always been a "Louis treated Armand like shit and their respective pasts was always the big elephant in the room that was oddly never discussed on the show (or by the fandom)" truther since season 2 aired in 2024! And i really felt like i was the crazy one for a while there bc this was (still is?) such an unpopular opinion
I did not like how the show turned their relationship into this whole rebound situation, i never bought into the "everything is actually part of their Mutually Consented bdsm dynamic" interpretation that was popular in the fandom to explain away any negative aspect of their relationship, etc. In fact the way their relationship was written has always been at the center of my One Hill to die on about this show (that is: the writers fucked up writing in Armand's backstory into season 2 and the show was already super weird and insensitive about his history of csa/his character in general way before season 3)... but also...... i truly cannot overstate how much a random torture revenge scene at the end of an abysmal """adaptation""" of TVL was NOT how i ever wanted this to finally be adressed. I dont even feel much vindication over it bc this was so overkill omg...
And the worst part is, i did like the dialogue from the scene and there was some beautiful acting from Assad Zaman during it! I think this could've been so good if that conversation between them happened, let's say, at the end of season 2 during a closer to book canon version of their break up (instead of that nonsensical reveal about the trial lol). That was retroactively very naive of me but throughout season 2 i really kept hoping that something like this was where the story was heading for them at the end. Or really... let's imagine if this had happened in literally any other context than this and did not smell so strongly of the show writers' weird grudges against their own audience/the books they're adapting/even against their own characters?, racism and plain writing incompetence that have plagued the entire season. Imagine if he could have acted this part in an actually good scene opposite to the also always fantastic Jacob Anderson instead of HIS RANDOMLY DECAPITATED HEAD. No but truly what the hell was that 😭😭
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