Now the whole season is a wrap, I have mixed feelings.
Ep 5 and 7 just about rescued the season for me. Overall, it did not hit me in the same way as S1 and 2 did. What immediately drew me in for the first 2 seasons was the historical details and the specificity. Louis being Creole in that specific time period where he was of an in-between race: lower than Caucasians, but above Black Americans. I loved learning about Storyville, I loved learning about post-war Paris. Louis carried all the baggages of his time, race, religion and sexuality.
What I wanted from TVL was the same deep-dive into Lestat's backstory. Instead we spent more time with the band, whose music I did not care for 90% of the time. I wouldn't call myself a book fan but I have read it. Book! Lestat had a wealth of materials and trauma to mine. Somehow, they picked Gabrielle/a as the biggest villain and painted her with the broadest strokes.
What did work: that glimpse of Akasha. Her monologue was absolutely a return-to-form for me. Armand planning to take his revenge as early as having been thrown into a wall by Louis. Even though you could say all that child's cruelty should have been directed at Lestat.
What didn't: Gabrielle, I cherish the glimpses of a Gabrielle who wanted to be free of morality, societal expectations and her feminity, alas, there's the rest. Nickistat having so little development; I personally don't think Loustat being each other's forever home is incompatible with Lestat having many loves. I think this elevation of Loustat is at the detriment of other relationships, be it romantic or familial, in Lestat's life. The music, which was perhaps the biggest shock, since I adored Daniel Hart's compositions in the first 2 seasons.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
A filling-in-the-blanks for both DM and Loumand, set between the first interview and Alice being pregnant with the couple's first child. Armand describing Louis waiting for details of him stalking Armand was catnip to me.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Armand/Daniel Molloy, Armand/Louis de Pointe du Lac
“You were there when all these streets ran with mud and river water, and when you and I went to see Macbeth onstage, and I couldn’t stop dancing under the streetlamps afterwards reciting the words, ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,’ and Claudia thought I was so handsome and so witty and so clever, and we would all of us always be safe, you were there.”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Smoke and Stack character study with background canon ships. My preferred fix-it route where they *spoiler* become vamps together. Becuase that's always a good thing in my book.
A moment ago he’d have given anything to have Stack smiling, talking bull.
He knows that Stack is on the other side, staring back. And if he puts his ear to the wall, Stack will whisper the very thing he knows he’d be saying if their positions were reversed. Let me in, Elias. Why would you keep us apart?
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