#cheezythoughts

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Wtf do you mean you ship devil's minion but you don't like Daniel? HE IS LITERALLY SAID DEVIL'S MINION.

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Did everyone forget that the reason we liked Daniel in the first place was because he's an asshole who read Louis for filth or did the fandom decide to have another case of amnesia as a half baked excuse for infantilising Louis?

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I'll be honest, all the complaints I've seen about the new Frankenstein movie boil down to people who just don't like Guillermo del Toro movies because the movie turned out to be exactly what I was expecting based off of his previous work and I had a blast.

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Something something fandom for a show largely dealing with unreliable narration and the fragility of memory refusing to believe anything said by a character who we have only seen from the perspectives of previously established unreliable narrators......

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I think now is a good time to remind people of The Internet Archive which has a metric shit ton of shows and movies for free and won't give your computer any viruses cause it's not a pirate website.

Or Tubi, which has a metric shit ton of stuff free with ads, and you don't even have to make an account or download the app. Same with Pluto, although Pluto is pretty slow.

Even YouTube has a lot of free stuff, and I don't just mean the official YouTube movie channel. I mean, there's a bunch of channels that upload movies you can watch without having to click a link to some shady website. YouTube also has a lot of audio book uploads too.

So don't worry about not getting brand new shows because there's so much media out there's that you haven't even consumed yet.

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Rewatching season 2 and I'm really struck by how in 2x04 there's the scene earlier in the episode when Louis is showing his photos to a gallery owner who sees the photo of Armand and says "there's something fragile about this man" to which Louis essentially responds that if you know Armand then you know he's not fragile at all.

Then later that episode we have the scene where Armand shows Louis the painting he was in way back when he was still called Amadeo, and he gives some back story about himself. This is by far the most vulnerable Armand has been in the entire first two seasons of the show. Yet, we have dreamstat over here with his very loud "HA!" at Armand's story. Taking dreamstat as some sort of representation of Louis's subconscious, I find it interesting that in Armand's most vulnerable, truthful, one might even say fragile moment, there is a part of Louis that is angry and disbelieving of what Armand is saying.

Now, the actual reasons for Louis thinking this don't necessarily matter to what I'm getting at, but yes, there are reasons for his reaction. However, my point is that for all the time they spent together, I wonder how much Louis really did see, or understand Armand. A total stranger took one look and saw through Armand's facade, yet Louis, who was literally in a romantic relationship with Armand, could not fully believe or accept that Armand, with all his power, is still kind of super vulnerable.

I just think that's some really strong set up in the episode for showing why their relationship, for as long as it went, was kind of doomed from the start. They don't see each other. Not fully, at least.

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Rewatching in preparation and I'm always so struck by Armand's "I could not prevent it" not just as a statement but as the episode title. Because we know it's bs. He absolutely could've prevented it but chose not to, yet the scene is nonetheless chilling and I don't think it's just because of how he turned this powerful lie into a sort of mantra.

I think this strikes me so much because while Armand is lying when he says "I could not prevent it," the show itself is not lying. Because the show really could not prevent Claudia's death. Because Anne Rice could not prevent Claudia's death. As much as the "I could not prevent it" is a lie for Armand, it moreso feels like a statement from the show, the writers, Rolin Jones, and Anne.

They could not prevent it.

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Tbh I do think it's funny that people are calling Guy and Jasper queerbait. Like, there's a difference between intentionally leading people to think some queer rep will happen to trick them into watching something and having two guys who just have really good chemistry and intense character dynamics.

Like idk I think the meaning has gotten lost a little. That being said, if amc full blown started queerbaiting with this I'd still be on board so wtf do I know.