i’ve been thinking about the timeline in the IWTV show once again. It’s all up in the air now and they play fast and loose with the books so really, it could be anywhere. I’ve read many compelling posts believing that it could be during the Merrick time or during the Prince Lestat era even and there are good evidence for this, it could be it and it would make sense, but personally?

I don’t believe Lestat woke up yet. Better saying, I don’t believe the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned happened yet.

And this is not based in any evidence in the show, but more because I’m thinking about structural terms in live action TV. As in, if I was the showrunner for the IWTV show, I wouldn’t thinking that The Vampire Lestat modern era/The Queen of the Damned is a story that works well when told in flashbacks.

And that has to do with the audience, too. Because when we take the Interview With the Vampire story we know that, whatever suffering Louis went through, whatever scars his soul has, he survived, because he’s right there, telling us his story himself.

But Interview with the Vampire is a very… internal story. It’s about grief and loss and Louis’ inner struggles with himself and the ones he loves. But the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and the current events of The Queen of the Damned is a much more action packed story. The stakes matter here, and if it already happened, if Lestat is sitting there in the liveroom telling Daniel about his rockstar era, the stakes are much lower. And not knowing what’s going to happen it’s the kind of thing that binds the attention of the audience, especially the ones that don’t know the books and therefore don’t know what is going on or how it will end.

I mean, if Lestat is there, Louis is there, Armand is there, why should the audience take the very real threat of Akasha destroying the vampires (and only sparing Louis because Lestat loved him) seriously? It already happened and the main characters the audience grew attached too are all there, so it means that whatever damage Akasha caused, they survived it. Makes it less dangerous, especially for a general audience, which is the kind that a TV show is always trying to gain.

Ofc they could find ways around it, really - I don’t believe there’s a forbidden way to tell a certain kind of story - but tbh I think it would be more satisfying to watch the madness of rockstar!Lestat and the rise of Akasha happening in real time.

This article has going me hmmmm and not in good ways lmao. I can’t put a read more on mobile, but discussion about ep. 5 below, mentions for domestic violence and rape

When the episode first came out, I remember saying that I thought it was a possible extrapolation of Lestat’s character that was not impossible to exist in the books and it seem it was exactly this the writer’s thoughts. I still retain that it’s an extrapolation that they shouldn’t have done because it’s one of the few lines Lestat never crossed - even in book 4, when he thinks he could hurt Louis in a fit of rage, he leaves the city until he calms down enough because he knows it’s something he would regret.

But the justification of Oh Lestat would totally do it since he raped that random woman in the books and, really? It’s a horrible scene in the books and written in a way that shows that he doesn’t understand that consent withdrawl means rape and it’s awful but even in the book he feels bad for what he did (ofc not that this justifies anything) with a strange woman and like… this is a strange woman, not his partner, the man he knows for years and it’s supposed to love. We never even seen Lestat feeling awful for beating Louis, not even once.

All in all, not a very fair comparition between these events, methinks

I really liked the IWTV finale! I was afraid of some things like… I had the theory that it was Antoinette in the incinerator mostly because it is a very final way to kill a vampire and Lestat doesn’t really, like, die lmao but I was afraid that they would go through this route because Louis is not the sadist kind, not with the ones he love, and if he just stared idle while burning Lestat like that… it would be hard for me to believe he still felt any kind of love for him.

But Louis changing his mind a thousand times, doing it torn between love and hatred, doing it but sobbing in the aftermath and actually violently stopping Claudia from killing Lestat permantely? Him ‘killing’ him in a way that allows Lestat to slowly recover from his ‘death’? Now this I’ll gladly buy, it was glorious to see.

Since last episode I was buying into the Rashid-is-Armand thing. I did think it would be very funny if he was like, and Replimoid, but I don’t think we’re getting into alien lore this early on lmao

Anyway I did like it overall and especially the last minutes, Jacob was so, so good… Louis and his torn feelings in the flashbacks, and his visible confusion and distress when Daniel calls him out… that was very good.

Also got to admit I am sort of interested in old man Daniel and Rashid/Armand being a thing now lmao. Hope they’ll do it, because they did have a lot of very good interactions this season.

On a note about the Come to Me song, it was sooo petty to have Antoinette record it lmao and of course, it worked like a charm.

Also, I think Sam Reid has a GREAT singing voice for Lestat. Lestat’s voice is compared to Jim Morrison and Bruce Springsteen, and it did reminded me a liittle of Morrison’s style - as in, not very standart singing voice but very captivating and passionate instead.

I’m afraid Rashid is not beating up the Armand allegations

We love to see loustat hatefucking but the fact that Antoinette stays with Lestat when he treats her like that, kicking her out of her own house like… girl, leave

I want show watchers only to know that while Anne Rice vampires can’t/don’t really feel sexual desire, this guy here is responsable for basically inventing vampire viagra injections

I’m thinking about mortal!Lestat in the books loving but resenting his mother for being cold and distant and how she would keep herself to her books and that “only extreme pain in me could ever wring from her the slightest warmth or interest”… thinking about show!Lestat watching Louis ignoring him and hiding himself behind his books for seven years, “a thousand nights of sulking”… i’m thinking

Something else I’m trying to conciliate is all the shit that went down in episode five and Louis back in episode three telling Daniel this kind of thing so assertively