I was reading your response to the last anon and this statement you made got me thinking….
“Armand's whole character arc in that section is learning to love and accept that he deserves loves and making the decision to turn and not lose Daniel. Daniel's whole arc is wanting immortality, falling desperately in love with an immortal, and finally accepting that he cannot have it and is willing to die at peace in said immortal's arms.”
While I completely 💯 % agree with you on this and it was my biggest complaint of the show it made me think. What if letting Daniel go plays into Armand’s arc? Learning to love him enough to let him go but still wanting him back (reason for 2nd interview). Now depending on where they take the show Daniel may still very much want to be a vampire and is playing it off or perhaps changes his mind once he remembers Armand.
As far as myself I am still trying to reconcile how they destroyed our reporter and I am always looking for ways they could possibly fix DM. But it may be they just completely destroyed it and thats all they wrote 🥺.
Anyways it was a thought that for whatever reason I wanted to share.
I mean, it's entirely possible that will be TV!Armand's arc but the thing about DM is Daniel won't go. Not for good. He can't. He's inexorably connected to the world of vampires, and he's connected to Armand through blood and though love. And Armand, for all the times he must tell himself he would let Daniel go, clearly cannot.
That's not to say TV!Daniel and TV!Armand won't have some story or some history together. But it's just not Devil's Minion and it can't be. They're not the same characters at all. Book Daniel is not a drug addict who only went to gay bars for drugs. And a Daniel who went off and got married (twice) and had kids is not the same person as the Daniel standing at the bookstore watching a woman and thinking sardonically how he's the devil's minion while he's wrecked and in rags and can't find his wallet. They just aren't the same people and their stories will not be the same.
And honestly, that's how the whole shows feels to me. They're telling their own story with their own characters that might have some loose ties to the books, but it's not the same story as the books and, given all the changes to the characters, the timeline, and their backstories, it just can't be the same, because nothing about them is the same.
But again, this is just my opinion and why I'm so sad that this is the VC adaptation we're getting.