Rightt like I truly don’t get why he didn’t turn them himself + what even is Gabriella’s arc this season? She reads to me as an extension of lestat and you could argue that that’s how he perceives her but still 😭 the hyperfixation on the great conversion and the accent/wig is just ridiculous. And don’t get me started on the vampire Sam. He can go to hell
see like……maybe things’ll be properly wrapped up in 3x07 (honestly not necessarily holding my breath on that front, unfortunately)….but it really felt like gabrielle was using lestat as a conduit for making fledglings, and while she partially succeeded, i never thought SHE herself would make one too.
though i do think it could be read as gabrielle misunderstanding what a maker/fledgling is like. when she and lestat became vampires together, his turning of her effectively blurred the lines between parent/child/sexual partner (which…as we know, isn’t actually fully blurred, as lestat still views her as his mother and had a habit of referring to her as such when they were in paris). you can tell gabrielle’s discomfort and shock at the idea of alex now becoming her child, as to her lestat had Stopped being her child the moment he turned her.
idk like….gabrielle getting nicked in the womb to avoid having more children, not expecting a fledgling to be like a child to her until lestat explicitly calls her alex’s mother….idk