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And we the viewers deserved better than a season that was primarily an exposition of incest. How many different ways will they show Lestat boinking his mom? We’ve actually not seen as many scenes, in three seasons, of Louis and Lestat having sex.

My question is why, instead of dragging Louis’ character down low enough to make a relationship with Lestat believable, didn’t the writers choose to make Lestat’s current actions redeemable enough to be worthy of Louis? Or better- simply leave the imbalance. That’s real life. Terrible people are still able to be in relationships.

Instead:

-Lestat DID NOT make Antoinette cut off her finger

-Lestat DID NOT choose to have a sexual relationship with his mother. This is coming instead from pre-vampire trauma and he’s being taken advantage of. Didn’t you see his panic attack?

-Lestat DID NOT threaten Claudia on the train.

-Lestat DID NOT let Claudia die by burning. He was incapable of saving her.

-Lestat DID NOT callously introduce his spouse to his vampire mother/lover. He was just subconsciously trying to expose his trauma.

For all the viewers who keep preaching - “they’re all monsters so Louis and Claudia can’t be victims”- where is your monster now? Lestat is fangless this season after stripping him of all these interesting facets that actually made him a true monster. Instead this season has framed Lestat as the ultimate victim and the same fans who claimed him as a monster are now posting “See, look how selfish Louis is- poor Lestat”. Ok.

The writers forgot to think about how bad Lestat sounded reminiscing about the good ole days at the opera when Louis was carrying his jacket as if he was his servant. Frankly I prefer this oblivious Lestat to the beige imitation of the monster we’ve known him to be. I want the Lestat who I want to cuss at through my TV back along with fleeting moments of absolute delight when he’s sweet.

What the fuck?? All that good will earned for handling black characters well in seasons 1 & 2, flushed. For what?

Meanwhile the two co-leads are complete dolls and extend endless grace and warmth towards each of their onscreen partners. This has been my observation and I don’t like it tbh 😒

Shane alleviated some of that scrutiny by getting into a very public relationship with Rose, but I don’t understand the writing for Ilya.

David says Ilya has a “reputation with women”. Is that reputation not having any because we don’t actually see Ilya having any kind of public hookups. He isn’t even really using Sveta for that since when he brought her up to Shane, he had no knowledge of her after many years. Given they are both around the league and famous in the league coupled with the fact that Shane would have been obviously curious about Ilya, him not knowing means Ilya wasn’t taking Sveta to public outings.

Sure his teammates would have seen him in bars and taking women home but years with no girlfriend- absolutely nothing coming from those hookups - would have been suspect.

Perhaps the book showed Ilya having public girlfriends but at least in the show, tongues would have been wagging after “all these years”.

When Ilya told Shane he never hears about him hooking up with “gworls”, Shane should have looked him straight in the eye and said “And I never SEE you hooking up with girls, despite your talk. Clearly you’re obsessed with me.”