catofPolyphemus

Something I struggle with re: the Devil's Minion horror movie turn is that: I get why Armand is mad at Louis, and I kind of get why Daniel is mad at Lestat -- but I don't feel like Armand really wants Lestat dead, or that Daniel is mad enough at Louis to want him dead, either. Armand still clearly carries some sort of torch for Lestat, and Daniel & Louis seemed to be getting back to friendliness back in 3x02.

My best guess at a workable motive (that doesn't require a huge retcon or making Lestat's POV wildly wrong) is that this is, in a weird way, Armand & Daniel proving to each other the seriousness of their companionship.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.