supersonic

arun; sanskrit

Armand chasing Lestat and Gabriella down to beg them to stay confirms that, from his point of view, Lestat did callously abandon him after he was no longer useful. And from Lestat’s point of view, it confirms that Armand will react violently and endanger his loved ones if he feels hurt and he was right to be afraid of him. In other words, it establishes the dynamic they’ve been stuck in ever since, and which I think is less than obvious to the viewer who hasn’t brought knowledge from the books.

And of course we have to set this against the number of scenes we have got which seem utterly pointless, like the long sequence in last week’s episode of the cop boarding the bus. I get budget comes into play here, and that was probably a cheap sequence to film. But that cut scene feels so important to me, they should have been bending heaven and earth to get it done. Why is the show not making more effort to focus on its core characters and their relationships, to tell an actual story that we care about, instead of gimmicky nonsense?

She had shut her mind off to me for some time then. And so I was left to revisit old haunts, desperate for connection. "Claudia, come home. I know I hurt you. I know I can make it right again."