I hope they make it clear in Episode Seven (or at least at SDCC) that Eric/Daniel won't be replaced. Otherwise, i won't make it through the next years. Besides, that would hopefully shut up some of these "fans" once and for all. The last few weeks have been really hard 😮💨 i just read a comment saying that Eric doesn't post as much as he used to, which is supposedly a sign of him leaving the Show. This is despite the fact that the good man posted something just 30 minutes ago. Before that, he wasn't posting any more frequently than he is now. I mean, what do they expect? That he's going to post crazy spoilers?
I'm so tired, anon. Why do people want to get rid of Eric so badly?
(I know why, it starts with an 'a' and ends with 'geism'.)
I really want to say I hope the cast and creators aren't aware of the Great Eric Replacement Panic, but with how online Eric is, there's just no way he hasn't seen the TikToks or the IG videos or the explosion of Twitter nonsense about this.
Which has got to fucking *sting*.
Eric is SO excited about being on this show. The last thing he posted before his most recent post was how incredibly proud he is to be a part of it.
He has wanted to be a vampire for decades. He tried to get in on 1992 Dracula, he was in one of the Blade movies. This is literally his dream role.
Imagine waiting half your career to land the part you were born to play, and then in your late 60s, you GET that part and it's on such a good show and your co-stars are all amazing and it's the safest set you've ever been on. And people LOVE your character. They think you're amazing and hot and people who had never heard of you before are like, "Wow, look at that man go! I can't wait to see him fuck!"
And then you're finally getting to the queer romance your work husbandgrandson has been hyping you up about since you first met and the fandom just...starts falling over itself about which hot young guy they'll have to replace your old ass with. 😑
Because they've already decided you need to go, they just can't agree on whether your romance storyline that's been book canon since 1988 and which the show has been setting up since its pilot episode should go to the tertiary character your love interest spent 20 seconds in the same room with, or if your character needs to be aged down so LBF can take over your parts, or if they're sticking your spirit into Real Rashid's body, or if they're just writing your character off entirely by killing him dead dead dead.
OMG, Eric, get BEHIND me! 😭
And I know how these rumours started. People have been theorising about Daniel taking over parts of David Talbot's role for a long time. Which makes sense! Especially with Talbot now canonically confirmed dead. In the show, Daniel is Thee Journalist who interviews Louis and now also Lestat, which makes him a logical choice for 'character Armand tells his life story to'. But that means *more* Daniel, not less, and it doesn't have to mean he's also getting David's Body Thief storyline and/or ending.
And, yeah, this season has been yelling about Daniel dying since ep1, which Eric later 'confirmed' in After Dark. But, guys, Loustat just literally got beheaded and we know for a fact that they get better! Why on earth would Daniel stay dead if two other main characters can get over losing their heads?! Claudia actually is dead dead and she's still around!
This production is also incredibly good at keeping secrets. The S1 Armand reveal wasn’t leaked, no one knew which character Justin Kirk was playing until Raglan introduced himself on our screens, Jennifer Ehle had already been filming for weeks before her casting was announced (and no one even clocked her in the blurry bts pics some fans took). They bleeped the shit out of Eric for doing spoilers in that same After Dark episode, but they're all just going around casually confirming Daniel is going to perma die? And you believe them? Like how our gullible asses believed Assad when he said he’d never heard Armand being referred to as Daniel’s Daddy when they had absolutely already read if not filmed their ep4 and ep5 scenes?
No one actually involved with this show has said Eric is leaving. Eric "Spoilertron 3000" Bogosian hasn't said it, Rolin and Hannah haven't said it, Mark Johnson hasn't said it.
They HAVE said that they're planning on many more seasons of Devil’s Minion, and Autumn had to bleep Eric on Encore because he was doing S4 Daniel spoilers.
ERIC IS NOT LEAVING THIS SHOW!
So yes, please, for the love of our collective sanity, let them announce S4 and S5 and Night Island at SDCC and confirm that Eric is in all of them.
