Well, I, for one, have been waiting four years for this reveal about Louis and Claudia...
Because I knew, from the moment I first watched Episode 1x04, when I saw the show gave Claudia more than one diary, that we were headed for the reveal from the book Merrick wrt to them both, taken from this passage from Claudia's diary:
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So yeah, I knew that this reveal, that we just finally got in EP306, was coming at some point.
I'd been saying so since Season 1, actually.
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And because I did, I saw all the signs of it being set up, starting all the way back at EP105.
Yeah, when Claudia walked back into that house and was trying to get Louis to leave with her, I knew right then and there that she'd already come up with part of her plan to try to manipulate him into doing what she wanted.
That said, though? I didn't even guess about the train scene, that it was something she made up to do so -- not until a few weeks ago at least. I already thought it was false, but for other reasons, related to Armand trying to prevent Louis from wanting to end his life.
So yeah, I feel like I owe Armand an apology for that. He really had nothing to do with that scene and Louis' recollection of it. He, however, just knew how ruthless Claudia was, and was -- at least back in 1973 -- just trying to get Louis to open up his eyes to that.
Anyway, I do think Claudia did have love for Louis. Very much so, or she wouldn't have hated him as passionately as she did. Because, as has been said, the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
And Claudia was never indifferent about her fathers.
They failed her. Both of them. And there will never be a way for them to correct that.
And I will honestly never begrudge Claudia and her vengeance against them for it all.
But she did have it. And she acted on it. Because she was ruthless. A true vampire, a killer. She was raised to be such. And so did as such, even, yes, with Louis. Who was always just as culpable as Lestat was for the situation she was in.
Louis is self-aware of his selfishness at this point, as we know from EP305. Yeah, try to work on that fact about yourself, man. It won't ever make things with Claudia right, that will always be impossible. But hopefully it will help as you continue on.
And maybe... if you and Lestat ever have another daughter together (hi Rose!), this time you'll not fail her in the same way you did Claudia.
*sigh* Four years. Four years waiting for this reveal and moment. It really was, like, the second thing I most anticipated being adapted after Devil's Minion.
I wish they had just done it back in Season Two, at the trial, and gotten it over with then, but okay.
And it was so nice seeing Merrick Mayfair in the flesh, whom I honestly never thought the show would bring on! Long may she live and not die pointlessly like she did in the books. 😑
