Daniel

Well nothing in this show is incidental so someone is definitely getting decapitated. My bets were on Daniel at first because of how often it's mentioned he's going to die, but that would be too obvious of a choice. Not saying that Lestat wouldn't be an obvious choice, I just found more ground for speculation on that.

I rewatched the rolin cut trailer and there are some interesting things in it. Especially ones that look really out of place and unreal, the ones that are clearly happening in Lestats head or imagination (or he's going to be high again).

This shot (amongst many interesting shots) is especially interesting to me, with lestat being out in daytime and this specific dialogue playing over it. It might be a bit of a stretch, but I do think Lestat is going to die, by of course decapitation and come back, somewhere at the end of this season.

And it might have something to do with the bowling alley or just Daniel (there are old leaks of him in a different outfit carrying a bowling bag).

I can not, for the life of me, understand why they are making every single female characters’ story revolve around sex (with the sole exception of Louis’ mother and sister)

They took Antoine, adapted him into Antoinette (initially a good opportunity to add more female characters to the story) stripped the elements of the character reminding Lestat of Nicki and reduced her to being “the other woman”, just to have her die at the end of season 1 while her male book counterpart survived to modern day in the books

They (very understandably for logistical reasons) aged up Claudia and decided that since the “eternal child” struggle wasn’t as much of an issue anymore, the way to justify her staying with Louis and Lestat was to have her be sexually assaulted by another vampire, shaking her belief that she would be able to live independently despite being able pass for a college student

Since Claudia’s arc was changed, they decided that since Madeleine couldn’t be a grieving dollmaker mother who saw her lost child in Claudia anymore, the best course of action would be to have her be shunned and slut shamed for sleeping with a Nazi/being a collaborationist

(Listen, I’m a queer woman, I LOVE that we got Claudleine out of these changes, however, I think it’s quite telling that this was the thing they came up with for her new backstory, they could have come up with literally any other reason for her to be an outsider)

Estelle, Celeste and Eglee spend most of their time being catty to Claudia and competing for Santiago’s attention

I have a lot of things to say about Gabrielle’s transformation into Gabriella… mostly bad things… (see my previous posts) maybe exclusively bad things… they took my horrible terrible negligent mother who wants to be a cougar instead of a person and turned her into a hypersexual milf (still a cougar in a way I guess) who will probably end up joining Akasha’s motion to “wipe out the Y chromosome”…

Christine spends all of her screen time belittling other women (what she said to Dee, calling Gabriella “mystery vagina past its sell by date” and possibly pimping out Lestat

Dee Pharma is just there to do drugs and have sex

Baby Jenks is just there to be a honey trap and be groomed by Bruce (which granted, isn’t a huge downgrade from the book, but she was an interesting Outsider POV character for modern vampires and their understanding of the bigger events at play/world building )