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[murfpersonalblog]

IWTV Musings - LDPDL & Nosferatu 2024 (Pt8: Rats & Plague)

Daniel Molloy: "Rats! Big f**king rats, the size of Kevin Durant's sneakers! Enough blood in them to bring back the dead--especially one in a trunk with locks on the inside. You knew it, Louis! You had to. The biggest rat-eater of them all!" --Interview with the Vampire (2022 - )

CREDIT: Gifs by sophsun1, fucklestat (x x), dailyflicks (x x), armavnd, filmgifs

There's one thing missing from AMC's version that book!IWTV was way more explicit about:

book!Claudia & the Plague

AMC doesn't follow this book canon, but Claudia is DIRECTLY connected to the bubonic plague--it killed her family, and WOULD'VE killed her too, if Loustat hadn't come into her life.

book!Claudia was abandoned by her biological father when their town got the plague--he went to get the milk & never came back. 😅

book!Claudia watched her biological mother die horribly from plague. And then book/film!Lestat mockingly danced with her mother's corpse while Claudia laid there dying; then tripped over Claudia's body that Lou'd thrown own the floor).

I just wanted to quickly mention that, to further see how much Anne Rice's TVC was deeply entrenched in the Gothic horror tradition; and how much of it AMC retained with their adaptation.

I've seen tons of folk complain about not liking that AMC included mentions of the pandemic in S1. I'd never cared one way or the other, but it's only once I'd seen Nosferatu 2024 that finally got how much AMC was tipping its hat to the Nosferatu/Dracula formula. Kudos!

[glesbianupland]

[mckitterick]

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thank you, Chuck Tingle: X

[andee1011]

I made a pun. I hope everyone is healthy and safe!

[littlehobbit13]

With TV productions shut down for COVID-19, networks have to be considering ways to fill the time slots. Instead of trying to find live, unscripted ideas on the fly, you know what would be fantastic? Comb back through the catalogues of 1-2 season series that were prematurely cancelled...and rerun them.

Some series were just before their time, with their general premise having seen success in later shows. Others simply had bad time slots. (Many were just genre shows predating nerdy things being considered cool.) A good number of cancelled series have since gone on to find incredibly powerful cult classic popularity which implies not every show is cancelled for being “bad”.

Why not give some of those cancelled series a second chance to capture viewers? More recently cancelled series might end up getting renewed attention, giving networks easier contenders for post-covid launch. Maybe some older series can capitalize on their fandoms for a Lizzie McGuire or Veronica Mars maneuver, picking up a story down the road in real time in-universe.

It just feels like, if you’re gonna shut down new productions for the time being anyways, give some shows you axed a second chance before you turn to cheaper unscripted shows. Do a rerun of Firefly (in the right order this time, perhaps). Put Pushing Daises back on. Time After Time. Limitless. Forever. Dirk Gently. Constantine. The list could go on.

Everyone could list a show canceled too soon. If there’s space in the line-ups to fill, then maybe the shows who were cut for space reasons deserve the first crack at filling that time. And if nothing else, people have plenty of additional hours to fill at the moment, and they’re just looking for other series to watch.

[magdolenelives]

So apparently a famous reality television personality threw a gigantic ridiculous party for her 40th birthday and people had some thoughts about that. (Source, source, source, source, source, source, and source.)

[localcottagefaerie]

The cottagecore community is really THRIVING in quarantine, huh?

[losttiinspacee]

Day 5 of quarantine: