Tried to capture the entire Akasha monologue in episode 5 because it's just fantastic and what a moment of writing and acting, some parts are hard to hear, but here's what I have (if anyone can hear the missing parts, please please add them):
she, she, she, it is she, in the vast dark, in the vast dark it is she, it is [...], it is often she [...]
and in the old songs and in the long nighst, she holds him in the softness of her arms, in her arms that are open, in her arms that are wide, that are open, that are always, that must always be open
and in the old ways and in the old laws, this was arranged
and who arranged it? did amel?
and in the long nights and in the soft dark, she is alone/loved [?] and that is the answer, that is love, and that is what it means to be loved
that's why she lies [?] him in the straw [...]
it is amel. it is always amel. it is often she, it is often she is alone/the law, and she is the last and the [?]
into the darkness, into the land where the dead are kept, where the dead are worshipped. and why in the dark? and why in the dark? and why is it me? and why is it still here [...]
and why the days without number? and what am i for? what is this for? and what should amel do with it if not to answer?
and why are they throwing stones? and why is she curled on the ground? and why is wound around but not [...]? and why must she break? and why must he break her? and why with his hands? and why with his fists?
and in my eyes is desire, and why is it desire? and how do you know its desire? how can you know its desire if my eyes must be lowered?
[and if you are alive, then so am i, and all the old songs and all the long nighgs are lies told by old gods and why am i offered, when none of us wants to be offered?] (this part lifted from the script shown in TVL After Dark)
and why does he tell her what god has said? and why amel in their mouths? and why must my voice be smooth? and why must i sing so low? and why is she kept? why must she be kept? and why in this place must she be kept?
and what does it mean if you are not asked? and what does it mean if you are not answered? and what is it to see and to know, but to be told you have not seen? you have not known. and why is her tongue cut out? and why is her death prolonged? and when will it stop? and who will stop it?
and why must they, must we, must i, must he, must they, as the millenia, unfold?
why the girl curled? why her eyes lowered? why on the side of the road? why limp in the straw?
I am the Girl! I am the God! I am the Voice! I am the Song! I am the Night! And I can Answer! I can arrange it! I can say Rise and I can say Speak! And I am Her! And I am She! And I, I, I, I am THE ANSWER.
Oh, Lestat definitely was impacted hard by his ten years with her and that one moment of awakening. And yeah, I can imagine how Louis going "I am the Night" must have pissed her offffffff.
Oh my gods Jacob is so real for this tho (in The Vampire Lestat After Dark): "I asked Rolin, I was like “can I just hear the monologue? Can I just have a copy of the monologue without Chris [Marius] and Sam [Lestat] -” no offence “talking over it so that I can just listen to that.”" YEAH ME TOO PLEASE.
And one big standing ovation for Sheila Atim because she is PHENOMENAL. Akasha is The Queen.
