IWTVL S3 Musings: POSTHUMOUS AUCTION?! 👀

AMC thought they were reeeeal cute with all those props auctions, huh. 🤦‍♂️🤣

"Lestat's narrative, similar to Louis' in IWTV, is the story within the story--told via recordings at a posthumous auction of the golden-haired vampire's belongings. But very little about what's going on in the present is revealed until later on in the series, which gives priority to its narrator's enchanting, if unreliable, account."

This is a FASCINATING premise. Now it makes sense why the journalists were saying S3 would be non-linear; and why Rolin Jones hemmed & hawwed so much about Lestat's mortality. etc.

Ok, so I'm assuming that S3 is basically already in the post-QotD timeline, a la the books, where the public thought Lestat had "died" after his disastrous concert in Death Valley when Akasha showed up.

But there's also something else I think is going on, too:

Cuz I have a niggling suspicion that Lestat's music sucks at first because he's being unreliable AF (high/drunk, mad/sad, dishonest & avoidant & ducking accountability, etc). But the more he looks inward & faces the ghosts of his past failures, instead of processing it healthily, he internalizes the guilt & self-loathing and IS "trying to end it," as Rolin Jones said--a la book!Lestat's suicide attempt(s) in TotBT. Esp. if all his music's really amounted to was unleashing a literal horror onto the world by waking Akasha up--another thing Lestat hates himself for.

But ofc like Sam Reid said, Lestat's already drunk so much of Akasha's blood that he CAN'T die in the sunlight--"he'll just get a tan."

So are the recordings auctioned off while Lestat's laid up somewhere already burned (& healing) but knowing that his career's over because he CANNOT be redeemed thru his music? 🤔 So he sells his recordings & memorabilia off as his final bow? (Will Memnoch visit him as he convalesces?)

Is Akasha already dead, OR is she just getting started (so she's holding him hostage while this auction takes place)? 👀 (My main suspicion is that it's Akasha's voice we're hearing on The Failures, and that she's lying to him & controlling the narrative more than HE is.)

So while it would make total sense that the humans all think Lestat's dead & gone--what do the VAMPS think? 👀

Main question: How many coats does Louis own? 🤔

Cuz I assumed that was Louis with the cane at the auction, and yeah, apparently he IS there:

In 3x1 "the dynamic between [Armand, Daniel, & Louis], who are all attending the auction of Lestat's recordings, is unclear."

So my question's just if Louis' wearing the same coat in multiple different scenes / points in the timeline--before & after the auction? (I would truly hate it if it's all different times in the same coat, that's so boring, costume department-wise. Give that man different fits! 😭) Cuz we definitely see him WITH Lestat in some of those scenes, in what looks like the same dang coat? So, WHEN? 🤔

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