BlueBell

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There's episode 1's "C'est cool." And the whole episode is Lestat talking about how hot and sexy and fun his life as a rock star vampire is. Sex, drugs and rock & roll, baby. (But, of course, it's a mask to hide a bunch of serious shit in both the present and the past).

There's episode 2's "Fabulous. Moving on." And the whole episode is Lestat glossing over all these traumatic shit from his past. Very much the embodiment of 'it's fine, don't worry about it.' (But, of course, we can see in Reid's performance that these events have affected Lestat more than his narration says).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSkPg1VRws&pp=ygUmZGVuIG9mIGdlZWsgaW50ZXJ2aWV3IHdpdGggdGhlIHZhbXBpcmU%3D&ra=m

You know how long the ENTIRE Auvergne section is? 34 pages. But that’s including all the Golden Moment conversations with Nicki, which the show hasn’t done yet.

So if you just count the pages which cover Auvergne up until the point he meets Nicki, it’s only FIFTEEN PAGES. That’s it. I know you built it up to be much longer in your head, but it’s only 15 pages.

By contrast, Armand’s backstory in TVL is 14 pages, and Marius’s is a whopping 60 pages.

So thank your lucky fucking stars (and Rolin and Hannah!!) that we got as much Auvergne as we did in ep2, and we’re not gonna have to sit through Marius’s backstory this season.

In 'Detroit' the editing is frenetic and psychadellic, and the storytelling is sort of flippant. Lestat is putting on a mask, he's high as a kite, and he's deflecting.

In 'Toledo', the flashbacks are short because Lestat doesn't want to dwell on the past. A sort of calm and relief descends upon the viewer when Louis is onscreen not just because we all love Louis and feel comfortable with him and his voice but because Lestat loves him and takes solace in him.

I hated sleeping without you.