the light side of the moon

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[yusiyomogi]

hey, if someone wanna follow me because of my old iwtv posts, my warning is that in the next few weeks this blog will be mostly negativity which i post under "iwtv rant" tag. also i still haven't decided if i'll leave or stay in iwtv fandom but i'm definitely not gonna post as much meta about it anymore (and fanart is a random rare thing anyway, so you should not follow me for fanart lol).

[professional-rat-eater]

Lestat: I am an unreliable narrator. I love to lie.

Half the audience for some reason: I can’t believe how reliable this narrator is. He would never lie to us.

[bevsi]

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, “they’re literally me” etc but if that’s the only way you engage with stories you’re kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also you’re going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You

[yusiyomogi]

maybe one day i'll write an actual critique of tvl writing, because i think for now my love for iwtv is blinding my objectivity and i can't do proper "judge it for what it is, not for what it's not" approach. but i can already say that the season suffers greatly from:

1) jack sparrow effect where wildcard character who had best one-liners in the show is the protagonist now and this behavior is way too condensed on screen to be enjoyable (he's literally talking in one-liners in almost every scene, it's very frustrating).

2) inconsistent comedic style, which is probably because the comedy wasn't the focus for original writing team & most of the new members were brought in for "musical journey" part of the show. if you pay attention, you will notice that the writing is basically an endless flow of the jokes, trying to one-up one another. every line is written in a different style of comedy which makes some of them land better for different people. it feels like a trick where the goal was to make dialogue funny but writers didn't have the same style of humor and didn't feel confident in it, so they're putting as many jokes as possible into every interaction (by pure chance some of them will land!). overall, it makes the dialogue feel empty and awkward.

3) not going full in. like, i know people are comparing tvl to iwtv and obviously it looks embarrassing and corny when you put it like that, but this was the point. the problem i have that they're holding themselves back. it's not corny and embarrassing enough to thread the needle of absurd comedy. as a result, it just feels like a messy storytelling, where some people expect drama and some expect silliness, but both get something muddy in the middle. and here where i suspect producers/amc were meddling, but also it could be just poor decision to adapt the book like that.

[yusiyomogi]

i have no problem believing that amc didn't want trans characters in the leading roles, but why everyone assumes that it was amc's decision to make gabrielle poorly written hyperfemme milf trope instead of the character she was in the books?

i mean, carol is highly beloved and popular female character in the walking dead series (which is another amc original), and she's in her 50s, one of the most ruthless survivors, has strong pragmatic and somewhat avoidant personality, prefers short haircuts (depends on the season) and usually dresses in masculine clothing. she's also a survivor of domestic abuse.

just look at her, we could have gabrielle(a) looking like that!

so amc is allowing a character like that to be the co-lead in their mainstream series but suddenly not in tvl? i have hard time believing that.

[orenjisan]

"Oh. I'm...back, back to the bottom of the water"

[yusiyomogi]

people really do think that rolin cares about louis beyond his relationship with lestat? very funny. there were (and possibly still are) writers in the team who definitely cared about louis and claudia but it's not rolin. every interview he's choosing to sympathize with louis' abusers over louis himself and treats claudia as the most simple plot device (i’m not sure he can write women at all tbh).

like, yeah, that man hired right people to write louis' story, and that's why it was good. but let's not have delusions... he wanted lestat's story and he wanted louis to be complex enough to have multi-season conflict with lestat. it's all about lestat (and sometimes, armand) for him.

[calliticebergs-blog]

Louis knows Lestat is hurt, but so far he doesn’t take any responsibility for it. Is he going to finally start realizing that HE hurt Lestat with the book? And start taking some accountability?

Yes the season ends with Louis finally realizing how badly he hurt Lestat. He wants to run to him and apologize immediately but suddenly starts vomitting with flower petals. He googles it and finds out it's hanahaki disease. Lestat doesn't love him anymore. Louis is too late. Daniels Hart's take on "Apologize" by One Republic starts playing

[huariqueje]

Hatch - Mia Bergeron , 2026.

American, b. 1979   -    

Acrylic on flat panel , 6 x 6 in.

[yusiyomogi]

i'm glad i'm not on twitter because it's one thing to get angry lestat stan in my askbox and it's another when the actual professional critic qrts your opinion because they're defensive of their own

[yusiyomogi]

okay, it's the second attempt to interfere and "calm down" the fans by critics/media outlets. i take my words back, they're definitely getting paid to do damage control & it has nothing to do with defensiveness of certain individuals. i hate the state of modern journalism, why do we even listen to their opinions at this point lmao. the whole industry is one big advertising agency, it's useless!

[srdcovka]

i dont think blond french men need to tell their side of whatever story they're in

[yusiyomogi]

jacob has a spirit of true louis fan, because he's always critical of him and his flaws, but loves him & empathizes with him beyond measure. it's like louis is his best friend who makes mistakes but is loved unconditionally. i feel like that's what we do here. jacob is like our guiding light.

[yusiyomogi]

once again, jacob is one of us because he kept saying that the legal negotiations scene was absolutely wild, and apparently, the "wild" part was a slight mischaracterization of louis de pointe du lac. the wildest shit imaginable indeed

[yusiyomogi]

not people stanning christine, this fandom will never beat the allegations

[kinkydorah]

Do vampires have group chats? ❤️‍🩹🧛🏻‍♂️🧛🏽‍♂️🧛🏾‍♀️❤️‍🩹

[guelwaar]

iwtv s3 is crazy cause if they ended at s2 i was prepared to be like yknow there are failures here but overall, it seems like at least one person making creative decisions was thinking about the way racism perfuses anne rices work, and the show's not a totally unsuccessful attempt to explore those dynamics... but instead they had to keep going like anne before them & from the second i saw the very first trailer for s3 it was abundantly clear in fact no one working on the show has any interesting thoughts about anything wjatsoever & any conceptual coherence in the first two seasons is purely coincidence & does not reflect the views of amc or roland jones. some fascinating ip there in that it evidently contains its own killswitch

[yusiyomogi]

i'm glad i'm not on twitter because it's one thing to get angry lestat stan in my askbox and it's another when the actual professional critic qrts your opinion because they're defensive of their own

[yusiyomogi]

when i understood the proper meaning behind gabriella's "i see why you took her back" i was like. ofc gabriella immediately assumed that when louis had a daughter, he didn't want lestat (his husband) anymore. and ofc she guessed right that lestat wouldn't wanna "share" louis with claudia, because she's directly responsible for this worldview. that was actually a pretty good bit of writing there... now can she go back to the woods?