Fay’s Blog

My one prevailing thought after watching the finale of The Vampire Lestat, and all of the episodes really, is that this season needed WAY more breathing room. 12 episodes rather than 7. That was A LOT, and everything felt rushed through (or not given enough attention in certain cases *cough cough*). Yeah, the post about how episode 7 felt like a mid season finale was bang on. I'm seeing a lot of negativity in the tags so I dunno how much I'll be on here for TVL, probably a little while longer, but thank you to those here that make the gifs and great analysis posts of the show, you brighten the fandom by being in it.

lestat's plot, the alleged a-plot, being nothing but literally a recap of the season we JUST watched. girl they don't even care about their favourite white boy at this point 😭

I'm sorry, but if they positevly needed Armand to brand someone they could bring LBF back and give us a juicy torture-sex episode with Armand writing A on Daniel's chest, murmuring "You are mine, beautiful boy" and Daniel loving it as his masochistic dogboy simp, being sad it will heal too fast. But it would involve exploring DM + showing intimacy between men (gasp!), so they've decided to write kkk torture instead.

Most of this brutalization just did not exist in the og tvc books and they decided in the show where they racebent louis and claudia to be black to have all the gratuitous violence put onto them, to the point of louis getting lynched twice in two seasons, meanwhile literally no white characters got that same treatment at all, even violent thing that happens to a white character except for the pilot episode with the priests happens off screen. We dont even see Bruce the RAPIST get torn up and branded the way louis gets torn up,branded, and put on a pike like the runaway slaves he talked about in s1e3, right after hes called a slave 3 times in 1 episode like wow. Its either black characters like Regina and Louis and Claudia get straight up tortured or theyre completely written off or only used to make a white character look better like Lemuel, Dee and somehow Paul and Louis. And its the fact that producers like Rolin Jones and Hannah Moscovitch thought this was a good use of their black characters like above all it just feels contemptuous and extremely racist. I need that whole writers room giving apologies at sdcc