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Quentin tarantino should die like I think it’s time. lord he’s ready. Take him

the show sure seems to be about race when the writers have the opportunity to write racist jokes at the expense of the black characters. but not when it comes time to acknowledge the suffering of those characters.

Hallucinations being relegated to a convenient narrative device this season is pissing me off. In the first seasons louis hallucinations were part of a narrative throughline which was Paul's psychosis. We see louis tendency towards magical thinking (he's got tricks is all) his tendency towards strange speech patterns when upset. you see his childhood based on competition with paul, his position as the favorite son being both labourous and conditional, and his hallucinations fit neatly within that. Now Lestat hallucinates too because he's high or traumatized or something like that.

AMC really struck gold with the unreliable narrator idea because now people will insist that any flaw in the storytelling is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a fallible narrator, any pacing issues are actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters psyche, and any lack of character development is actually a genius premeditated reflection on a characters refusal to face their own trauma, and having cheap looking production is actually a genius premeditated reflection of a characters memories, and any unwarranted deviation from the source material is actually a genius premeditated lie that will be proven false at some unspecified point, and any poor handling of sensitive subjects is actually a genius premeditated commentary on the characters own failings, etc, etc.

iwtv has the courage to say women are not only whores; they are also mothers and daughters

I'm so tired of claudia/lestat parallels in the show, fandom, and interviews with the cast. They're overdone, oversaturated, and so very boring. They ultimately only ever serve as masturbatory laments on lestats traumatic upbringing and they disservice claudia as a character by reducing every one of her traits and actions to falldown from her white abuser. The ripped out pages scene was particularly egregious but theyve been doing this for a long time.

trying to put a finger on it but the insinuation that lestat is deeply bothered by claudia lying about him threatening her with rape (which I already find to be a v distasteful plotline) and the show making a comparitive layering of the scenes of assault they experience doesn’t particularly sit right with me because it homogenises the state of Being Raped and ignores the material conditions which facilitate it. the choice also a) fails to account for how claudia’s sexual abuse is directly facilitated by his own failures as a father which drive her away from her home b) ignores the nature of the incestuous environment he brokers in their household, the disregard he has for maintaining parental boundaries, and his active violations of those boundaries when he chooses to begin her vampiric and sexual instruction side by side at lovers’ lane - later going on to further demolish those boundaries by offering to have sex with her and assessing her body in a sexual light. I’m not impressed!

Quentin tarantino should die like I think it’s time. lord he’s ready. Take him

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

“its supposed to show interplay between characters” um they can do that in church 🤨

Gabriella's portrayal has failed at every level - from conceptualization and writing, to presentation and acting. Frankly, the weakest part of the season for me and I would appreciate the season much more if they had stuck to her character from the books. The incest doesn't bother me, what does bother me is making her so one dimensional and hypersexual when it comes to Lestat - very misogynistic writing. Frankly, her presence has been so grating, Armand was doing us all a favor by leaving her out of flashbacks last season. Armand is so kind 🥺

One of my many unpopular opinions about what's going on this season (both what's being written, and the way that fandom is responding to what's being written) is that it doesn't really matter if Lestat was sexually abused. That is completely immaterial to his overt textual depiction as a patriarchal racist. Which is like. The biggest elephant in the room, when it comes to what it is he needs to grapple with, reconcile, and grow past. In order to for him to deserve Louis taking him back; for it to make sense that Louis can move forward and actually see him as a partner and not a threat. (And in order for the fandom to see him as someone worth growing to actually love beyond being a pretty face and campy performance)