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I genuinely really hope this episode highlights just how bad these characters are 😭😭 like "hi yes let me resurrect my dead daughter and act shocked as to why she doesnt want to see me. and then make it about me two seconds later after the whole ordeal" Claudia is right, it was literally never about her. like these guys SUCK. and that's ok!! you can like characters who are bad people, doesnt make you a bad person, but starting fan wars because people like certain characters is genuinely insane for this series. you cannot play morality Olympics with these characters because theyre all tied for dead last.

sam reid going on a rant on after dark about how claudia is the most vicious vampire out of all of them and deserved to be hell was tough to watch.

the unholy family dynamic and storyline will forever remain the best written tragedy ever. louis, claudia and lestat are doomed as a family even before claudia is turned and we know that, watching the story unfold you understand at some point that the outcome will be the same no matter what. you can sympathise with all of the characters at different times because we get to see their motivation and thought process behind every action, thus it’s impossible not to see that there was love between the three characters. of course love isn’t always pretty and it’s not always enough. love doesn’t change the situation, justify every action or magically become solution for everything. but it does make the story even heavier and meaningful and personally I will forever see louis, claudia and lestat relationship as the best and most profound depiction of a complicated family dynamic

I actually love the Louis and Regina subplot because it really is a continuation of the way Louis has always treated women, as a source of emotional labour that he can throw money at and have them make him feel better. It’s Miss Lily all over again, it’s “paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with him”. Making Claudia was always about Louis’ feelings under the pretence of saving her from the fire. He wants to save Regina from poverty but it’s all to make himself feel better. She sees through him but she’s so broke that she can’t afford to say no

Also really interesting to me that Louis only proposes this after he finds out she does sex work. Like, I don't know if it's necessarily a conscious connection he's making, but he definitely feels like this is someone whose time can be bought. Just like Miss Lily's time could be bought...

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