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I agree. Why are we beating up an actor for writer’s choices? That’s silly. I agree. If this new season isn’t your cup of tea, it’s OK to walk.
Personally, I have loved most of Sam’s takes on his own character, he really gets it. And, even though he didn’t agree from all the things I am hearing, his acting is going to go into the history books.
It’s nice to focus on our show instead of all this other mess. Starting to be excited again, been waiting forever!
I dgaf about Assad Sam or their relationship I’m just telling you the truth - Jacob said any day with Sam was a good day, does Sam talk about him like that? He won’t even bring him up unless he has to. Their relationship is not equal so i dgaf
Clearly you do care or you wouldn’t keep bringing it up. Not everyone’s way of “doing friendship” is the same. Jacob is words of affirmation while Sam is more gifts and action. Sam has referred to Jacob as “an actual partner” at the SAG interviews during Samchella. At SDCC 2024, he told Josh Horowitz to back up off Jacob because he couldn’t be there. During the SDCC 2022, Sam physically put himself between Jacob and the paparazzi. We all know tons of Jam lore that shows that when given other options, Jam would rather hang out together than with others. Given the narrative that just rolled out, now is not the time to show receipts. But we have them 😏
Wow, Jacob said he thought season 2 was the end for Louie's character
beginning to make sense while he was asked about season 3 and he said he had no idea
Oh yeah 😅 Because AR basically dropped Louis until like book 16 lol
And we know the writers created a story for him because—he is outstanding, he is beloved, and he is 50% of JamLoustat and we’d have it no other way
That said… I hope we can skip that character all together.
As I recall, david was Anne's attempt replace louis
See how that worked out? lol
Do you happen have a source for that, Anon?
So is the body swap stuff included in this season?
#speculation
No. Per Rolin, this season is TVL with a touch of The Vampire Armand, and a bit of Queen of the Damned. I think a bit of Merrick, too
Next season should be Queen of the Damned, the rest of TVL and a few other things
We have been speculating S5 will be the body swapping Tale of the Body Thief storyline
https://www.tumblr.com/vampirepressclub/815780295709261825/i-just-got-finished-reading-the-books-why-is-our?source=share
Can I start, BO? I get why a lot of people don’t like Armand—he’s objectively done awful things to a lot of people—but you kind of have to understand why he’s like this.
Spoiler alert!❗❗❗
Armand (Amadeo – Andrei) kind of shares some parallels with Lestat, even if things end up going very differently. He was a child prodigy painting icons in Eastern Europe, then at 15 he was kidnapped and sold into se* slavery, something that basically scars him forever.
Then you add that he was bought by his mentor/creator Marius (super fascinating character, but like… through a modern lens? He's definitely a ped*), and their relationship is deeply unhealthy and messy. Armand never really gets to be independent, Marius constantly interferes in his choices—and in a way Armand ends up being his. (Just think about Benji and Sybelle being turned without his consent.)
I’m not saying I feel sorry for him, but like… he’s someone you have to understand a little. Especially considering he was turned way too young too, he was 17 and basically on the brink of death.
Armand is the product of unresolved trauma, a victim who becomes a perpetrator precisely because he never faced his past and never truly “broke free” from the people who manipulated him. He’s never known anything else. Even when he was taken by Santino from Marius’s palace in Venice, it was just manipulation on top of manipulation—so it’s no surprise he turned out the way he did.
That doesn’t justify him, of course. Nowadays, someone like him would need serious therapy to try to work through all of that.
Reason Anon
Thank you for sharing, Reason Anon. Knowing that Anne was working through some of her own abuse history, and how much she said Lestat was who she wished she could be, I could see why she would write Lestat and Armand as being on opposite ends of the spectrum in some respects.
My evidence that Lestat is a mix of Stan Rice’s physiology and Anne Rice’s wishes for the male version of herself.
It's interesting how Daniel was in the books very little, yet the new show daniel character has been prominent in every single season.
As “the interviewer”. Christian Slater was more prominent in the film and Anne did that herself.
