just a little mushroom

What is the plan, exactly, when you rename the entire show from being Interview with the Vampire to being The Vampire Lestat. To convey the plan that you'll be moving on to Lestat's story now and/or adapting the next book in the series. Giving the audience the expectation that one, the other, or both will be happening going into s3 of whatever the fuck we're calling it now.

But then you... do not actually meaningfully adapt The Vampire Lestat the book?

But I guess you can't, really. Because you heard people were upset that Louis might not be in the show as much. Which makes sense.

So, okay. You could make so many changes that in some way, Louis continues to be as central of a character to the show as Lestat is in the next season, and in the rest of the series. I mean, it would be an incredibly odd thing to do now, that you have changed the entire name of the show to be about Lestat. But you could do that. You could plan a season around Louis being as present and there as Lestat. It would wildly change the adaptive vision of the next book/rest of the series, but you could do it. You have the rights to the whole thing. No one can stop you. (If you're actually smart, you could even figure out a way of doing a good adaptation and honoring the whole thing while still making clear that Louis is very much a part of the show/story. Personally, I think, for better writers, that would be very doable.)

But instead you... make Louis less of a character, still. While... you keep the name of the show The Vampire Lestat... and then your fuckass studio exec tells everyone there are no plans to change the name again in future??

And then... you essentially... you change the story so much that you are, in fact, NOT even really adapting The Vampire Lestat????

What was the branding logic here? What was the narrative logic? What was the marketing logic? What was the adaptation of a classic series logic? What was the honoring of your existing audience logic?

I cannot fathom sitting in a room and thinking, "you know what Anne Rice missed? Piss. Just so much talk about piss and a piss scene." Which also ties into my frustration that where a difference in blood and mess and sex in s1 and 2 was a great visual medium for subtext, emotion, intimacy, here it's just... fucking mess. A comfortable old queen's tacky attempt at splatter.

If the point is that his music is derivitive on purpose, okay, but I'm not interested in massacreing Lestat's relationship to art and music, on top of making him a Rockstar curmudgeon, when even in the pain and self harm of it all he is genuinely moved by young mortal's attempts at counter culture and self expression (which is completely lost because the band members are so fucking irremarkable).