[the-vampire-madeleine]

Still absolutely mad to me that the show expects me to believe that Claudia would, when faced with both Louis and Lestat, decide to build up Lestat in order to tear down Louis. That this Claudia, after nearly 80 years of wandering the afterlife unable to find Madeleine, would declare the man who, to the best of her knowledge, willingly took part in (if not orchestrated) the murder of both her and Madeleine, as her favourite. (As well as literally everything else about the way he treated her?)

This speech made sense in the books, with the book relationships, when ghost Claudia has only Louis to speak to and try to hurt. Trying to copy and paste it like that just feels like incredibly sloppy writing.

[neverloumandover]

S3 be like: has Louis apologised to you🫵 if not, you are entitled to a compensation, call now at—

[letpeoplecritiquethings]

btw i don't think louis did anything wrong by putting up claudia's dress in his house. reading her diaries to bruce, sharing them w/ daniel, i understand her feeling upset/violated about that. but seance claudia being pissed off about the dress felt so weird to me, especially considering how poignant that s2 final scene felt.

like, the two items given pride of place in that space were claudia's dress and the portrait of paul. it was a space memorialising the family louis loved and lost. in some ways it might've functioned as a reminder of the ways he felt he failed them – an attempt at atonement (god knows louis is harder on himself about claudia than lestat/armand ever were). my favourite thing about that s2 scene was that the space focused on the people who were family to him, rather than defining him by his romantic relationships. he was finally on his own after many painful years with lestat and armand, and it felt like he was reconnecting with the people in his life that perhaps mattered the most. i didn't see it as selfish or self-indulgent at all. i don't remember anyone reading the scene that way when the episode aired.

but now in s3, we have louis saying it was "meant to honour [claudia]" and seance claudia angrily saying "oh yeah, cause that's what i wanna be, car fuel for your self-pity"... i don't understand the purpose of this exchange beyond the writers just wanting to shit on EVERY action/choice louis makes!!! like they just want to once again hammer home this season's narrative of him being supposedly an awful selfish bastard. WELL I'M NOT FALLING FOR IT!!!!! of course louis is imperfect but ur not gonna convince me that he's bad or selfish for memorialising a loved one wtf lol!!!!

[the-vampire-madeleine]

… so I guess Armand doesn’t have an apology planned for Louis then?😂

[the-vampire-madeleine]

I mean maybe he does and Louis’ gonna wake up after having his head glued back on to this:

“I have been enduring intense conversation with myself. And as part of this journey, I wish to read you something I have written from the deepest regions of my soul…”

[the-vampire-madeleine]

…well

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Anyway most important takeaway from the finale is bobstat real and confirmed

[the-vampire-madeleine]

This was the job advert for the TVL writing room btw

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Ok episode 7 pitch:

Lestat and his head get left in storage while Louis gets healed/awoken, and the three of them sit around and passive aggressively discuss the events of the season, culminating in Louis revealing that he did not in fact know about Armand’s stalking, thus leading to another explosive season finale breakup

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Daniel Molloy’s daughters watching their asshole estranged fathers distinguished career devolve into weird incestuous vampire role-play revenge porn

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Thing about that scene, which was otherwise amazingly executed, is that it feels to me like they really half-assedly shoehorned Lestat into a scene he was never in in the book and I do think that changes things more than the show wants to admit?

[thearmandthinker]

why is LOUIS apologising to LESTAT????? what is going on in that writers room?????

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Daniel Molloy’s daughters watching their asshole estranged fathers distinguished career devolve into weird incestuous vampire role-play revenge porn

[the-vampire-madeleine]

… so I guess Armand doesn’t have an apology planned for Louis then?😂

[the-vampire-madeleine]

I mean maybe he does and Louis’ gonna wake up after having his head glued back on to this:

“I have been enduring intense conversation with myself. And as part of this journey, I wish to read you something I have written from the deepest regions of my soul…”

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Daniel helping Armand do this… it’s going to be even funnier if Armand straight up lied to him about Louis knowing about the stalking

[the-vampire-madeleine]

… so I guess Armand doesn’t have an apology planned for Louis then?😂

[the-vampire-madeleine]

See if I was being really cynical I’d say it’s Louclaudia but Lesdaughter because only fans of one of these dynamics consider Claudia’s feelings

[mossycakes]

the reason louis knows about jar jar binks is because star wars was one of armands hyperfixations send fucking tweet

[the-vampire-madeleine]

Look say what you will about Loumand but if Louis had found some human guy and said “hey he’s fascinating let’s keep tabs on this guy” Lestat would NOT have matched his freak