Nicki should have been on the head of that soul Table as a creator of Lestat.

GabrieLLE got him his dogs, guns, and horses, sent him to the monastery when he was a kid... No-one thinks about those things when we picture Lestat. We think maybe theatre, we think blasphemous lover, we think drama queen, art, delirium, religion tragedy and so much love.

You know who made human Lestat bawl his eyes out with the beauty of music? Nicki, the first time he played in front of him.

You know who told him to go to Paris even if they meant he would play music on the streets?

You know who brought up the witches' burning to discuss religiousness and then took Lestat there and played music to HONOR THE BuRNed WoMen??

Who showed Lestat the conflict of someone who has recently stopped believing in god? Traumatized him in the process and made him found himself again?

Nicki was a rebel, he defied his father and cared very little that the whole town knew he was disobeying just to play music.

He wasn't his first love. HE WAS A GREAT LOVe and a maker!!!!!

Without Nicki and the love Lestat felt for him, he would have never encountered the Paris coven, he would have never woken Akasha playing the violin. Antoinette was supposed to be a violinist because when his relationship with Louis stopped working, his mind went back to NiCKi!!!!! Lestat became a musician a RocksTar BC of Nickii

Nicki, it should have been you, Nicki, the horrors should have been you. Magnus' trauma should have been replaced with the desperation of Lestat looking for you, fighting for you, being heartbroken for you. Stop loving you, seeing how the light went out of your eyes because of his actions. Loving who you were and couldn't stand who you've become.

Like, they tried to bring it up in episode 7 by having human Nicki in the same spot Lestat first saw him playing the violin but it just didn't land for me. Too much was left out, breezed past, glossed over, etc. Too many questions were left unanswered.

If our life is to be series of lies, at least lie in our bed.

💕

Yeah, I... wasn't happy with that either. As with Lesmand I also felt there was something building there....

I also felt the gathering of The Failures very hollow. There was no catharsis in it for me. *shrugs*

But I also thought there was a clear pattern of deliberate obfuscation of Nicki's importance by way of Gabriella (which was perhaps unintentional with the Hit the Lights reveal? Unless, as some people have told me, was to avoid spoilers. Personally I really don't want to get my hopes up. Especially now). Along with the first love/great love confusion that was never properly addressed in the finale either. Was Nicki a first love? A great love? Am I just biased?

I was really only anticipating a 'one and done' with Nicki. I love him, but I'm not so far gone as to expect the show to dwell on him too much. I know he's dead.

But I also know that Lestat himself considers him his greatest failure, so I thought the show would really reflect that.

Right now there is an incogruense between what we learn of Nicki in seasons 1 and 2, and what we see in season 3. And I really don't understand why.

Why retcon and change things if you're not going to do anything with it? Or can I expect more mental gymnastics as to why it isn't a retcon, actually.

I think Sam Reid does an excellent job selling just how much Lestat did actually care about Nicki in episode 3 but it honestly feels like the rest of the show did not get that memo! There are so many things missing, so many inconsistencies, and the finale did nothing for me in that respect.

In the finale, I understand why Nicki was standing separately from the others in the crowd (because of him uniquely fostering Lestat's love of music), but then when he looked at the other group (Louis, Gabriella, Child Lestat, Marius, TC) and said that he really did love all of them, I honestly expected him to at least glance over at Nicki. Just for a second. But no, not even that.

Personally, if they do just leave it at that I would be deeply, deeply unsatisfied with the show. Will Joseph Potter come back? I mean, I hope so. But there is still no guarantee that any of my questions will be answered in a satisfying way.

This is not a secret mystery door- Lestat was cheating on Nicki with Armand. That is the show canon. That is what the show is telling us. It’s fine to dislike the choice, but denying it atp is ????

Lestat denied it.

I love them <3

Okay, so: greeeaaaaat, my gut feeling was right 😅, and... I don't know how to feel about this change.

Like, seriously.

Because think about it - the lyrics were intended for Nicki, right?

Making "By candlelight you used to teach me how to kiss" absolutely heart-breaking.

Why? Because this is AFTER Lestat comes to Paris! (And they already knew where they were going with the characters! So:)

... Implying Gabrielle did not kiss him. Like that. Gently. Carefully. Learning each other.

Not ... like first kisses are supposed to be.

.... imagine.

*sighs*

I think episode 7 might reveal a lot of things, yes.

I am also not happy about what they did there. Because for ME Nicki and Gabriella are NOT interchangeable, at all. The lyrics do not fit for her. The lyrics are alluding to Nicki's fall into depression, and for the sweetness of their time, as short as it may have been.

And Gabriella telling Lestat how she felt? Really? When she did that she did it to disarm him, and then to touch him, very inappropriately.

Like, that is something very, very different.

Which is EXACTLY THE POINT???

And yes, if it had been written for her, and apparently now is wanted to be interpreted by them it IS predatory, I didn't deny that??

Okay, so: greeeaaaaat, my gut feeling was right 😅, and... I don't know how to feel about this change.

Like, seriously.

Because think about it - the lyrics were intended for Nicki, right?

Making "By candlelight you used to teach me how to kiss" absolutely heart-breaking.

Why? Because this is AFTER Lestat comes to Paris! (And they already knew where they were going with the characters! So:)

... Implying Gabrielle did not kiss him. Like that. Gently. Carefully. Learning each other.

Not ... like first kisses are supposed to be.

.... imagine.

*sighs*

I think episode 7 might reveal a lot of things, yes.

I am also not happy about what they did there. Because for ME Nicki and Gabriella are NOT interchangeable, at all. The lyrics do not fit for her. The lyrics are alluding to Nicki's fall into depression, and for the sweetness of their time, as short as it may have been.

And Gabriella telling Lestat how she felt? Really? When she did that she did it to disarm him, and then to touch him, very inappropriately.

Like, that is something very, very different.