I'm confused about the response to the Claudia ghost scene.
It's basically the same as the scene in the book but compounded by aspects of Claudia's character from Interview with the Vampire and other books in the series. Claudia is evil and she embraces thatâis that a new thing that you guys didn't realize?
She kills innocent people and takes sadistic pleasure in it. She dismembers her victims and keeps their rotting bodies in her room for her own enjoyment đ. She has no shame and no desire to live up to human morality. Of course she prefers Lestat over Louis because she actually understands and respects Lestatâat least he knows he's evil, at least he embraces being a monster, at least he doesn't try to pretend to be good and human like Louis does.
She's also been wandering in purgatory and torment watching this man who took everything from her do the same fucking shit he's always done while parading the dollified memory of her around so he can use her like an object of his own painâall while fucking the man who orchestrated her murder and wishing he was fucking the man who abused her and reading out her secret diary she never intended him or anyone to read for the world and FOR HER RAPIST??
Not for her. Not for her at all. All for his pain and his desires and her as a throw pillow for when he won't look at her kindly đ. Literally paying girls like they're whores to dress up like her. Lestat knows he did Claudia wrong and he never pretended he didn't.
"But Claudia says she lied about what Lestat said on the train and that's bad" â okay?? Why?? đđ
She lied about Lestat saying one particularly vile and cruel thing to her to get Louis to side with her against him. IDK, she also slit Lestat's throat? đ It's not like she lied about how he treated her and the abuse he put her through. She told Louis a story she knew would get him upset. Why's that bad.
These are all dishonest and unreliable narrators. But Claudia can't be dishonest or biased or motivated in complicated ways cuz she's the pure one that doesn't lie? Like I don't get it.
It's the same as the scene in Merrick. Claudia calls Louis Lestat's slave in Interview with the Vampire(the book). I remember reading Merrick and thinking AMC IWTV would have a field day with this. And like. They did.
I guess everyone can be fucked up and have dark and complicated morals except for Claudia who's unambiguously good. So true.
Hereâs some excerpts from the scene adapted from Merrick. In the book Claudia tells Louis she wants him to kill himself and sheâs going to enjoy watching him do it, so really they held back
They want her to be the perfect victim, the cute doll that do nothing wrong. She is a monster, just like her fathers! This is the fucked up monster show, why are people complaining when they are fucked up monsters???
Like, what the fuck is happening to this fandom??? You don't even have to go that far on previous seasons to see that this woman hated Louis guts. She loved him, yeah, but she hated him too, and that's a fact. The purest of hatred can only come from the purest of loves.
Also saw people saying that "all of that to louis and only a slap on the wrist to lestat". Like??? Are people being dumb on purpose? She already orchestrated his murder! He's not dead only because Louis didn't want to burn him, and actively choked her for good measure. Her hatred for him was already on the clear for decades.
Anyway, Delainey Hayles deserves all the awards, all the flowers and all the praise. What an actress!
I actually find so funny that they find it so offensive that she said Lestat was her favorite. Like, who else is gonna be? Louis, who spend their lives acting like he was superior to her and Lestat because he hated himself about his nature as a vampire?
Louis being the centre of Claudia's life while Lestat was an outsider is completely his own delusion. In the books it was more clear how close she was with Lestat but in the show (like that conversation in the first book where she tells Louis she misses Lestat because with him they were 'complete'), is so clear that Louis' belief that Lestat killed Claudia made him paint their relationship as non-existent sans anything but hatred.
