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What bothers me the most about Armand's arc this season is his characterization as a premeditated schemer. It turns him into the cunning, one-note villain the writers and cast kept insisting he wasn't. The concept of him demanding an apology from Louis and genuinely believing Louis owed him one is fine. Although that wasn't their dynamic in the books, the change does bother me because why transplant that dynamic onto Loumand when Lesmand is right there to explore and deepen? Plus, Armand has already done enough to Louis, and the optics of the situation do matter, especially if you're going to have Louis give him a sincere moment of connection and frame it as earned and somewhat heartwarming.
But if you were going to do that, I think a much better approach would've been to have Armand come to Louis with his own apology while expecting one in return, only to become angry and violent on impulse when Louis refused to give it to him. It would've made the point about how dangerous, delusional, unstable, and sadistic he can be without betraying the characterization the show had already established.
Because almost every time Armand has done something violent or harmful, it's been impulsive. San Francisco was driven by emotional weariness, anger, and impulse. His lie about the extent of his participation in the trial, and about saving Louis, was a spur-of-the-moment decision when he saw an opportunity and seized it, not something he'd been planning beforehand. The only thing he planned carefully over a long period of time was the trial, but that wasn't his idea in the first place. Someone else came up with it, and he went along with it.
A person who is constantly in survival mode, who stays on sinking boats because they're too afraid that if they jump and swim they'll never find land, only an endless sea that will drown them, just isn't someone who takes initiative as a master planner. They aren't the kind of person who orchestrates something as complex as the entire Regina scheme or constructs an elaborate torture scenario. They'd improvise it instead, just like they did in San Francisco.
Up until this season, the show consistently characterized Armand as someone whose manipulation and violence were primarily reactive, adaptive, opportunistic, and rooted in survival. This season shifts him toward a more proactive, long-term scheming role, and to me that feels like a meaningful change in characterization rather than a natural extension of what came before. I also think it's a less interesting and less psychologically complex version of the character.
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My way by Olivia Rodrigo is Loumand from Armandās perspective but in like a pathetic try hard way ā” Armand you are never beating the rebound allegations
That One Scene In Donāt Be Afraid Just Start The Tape. So as I was writing this post I realised the train inspector was standing over me so I took my headphones out and apologised for not seeing him and he went āno worries, I was just giving you a chance to finish :)ā did he think I was texting or do you guys think he ships Loumand. I think he probably ships Loumand.

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My way by Olivia Rodrigo is Loumand from Armandās perspective but in like a pathetic try hard way ā” Armand you are never beating the rebound allegations
Remember NOLA Louis? I love NOLA Louis. Remember how we used to run.
no im still on it. they really were like āyeah <3 lestat is going to go to heaven <3ā meanwhile claudia is in literal hellā¦?????
I havenāt watched the finale yet but. Itās not all vampires in hell? itās based on moral character? And LESTAT deserves heaven more than CLAUDIA????
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AND ANOTHER THING. To me Louisā character arc was always about letting go of shame. Shame for being gay, being black, being a vampire, being a victim, being manipulated. And when the Regina thing happened I thought okay, his shame over Claudiaās death is making him cause more harm, so he needs to let go of it. Only for Claudiaās ghost to blame (almost only) Louis for everything, and have not one shred of love for him? I can see her being angry, of course, but also sad. Sad because she thought it was you and me, me and you, and then he trusted the word of armand over her, both causing and after her death. Making it so that lestat, fucking Lestat was āalways her favouriteā is so dumb. And she canonically lied about the train scene to, what, her own fucking diary? Thats the most blatant retconning Iāve ever seen. They clearly wrote Lestat to be someone whose own experiences with abuse had made him abusive, then this season decided that actually he did nothing wrong and Louis was a liar/idiot the whole time. Fuck off.

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I'm gonna become even more obnoxious about defending ldpdl now. He did nothing wrong. Louis de kind du lac. Louis de brave du lac. Louis de empathetic du lac.
me watching season one and two: oh wow! claudiaās quest to understand vampirism and to learn where they came from and why they existed really reminds me of bookstatās quest to find marius to answer those same exact questions! canāt wait to see that play out in season 3!
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i cannot emphasize enough how detrimental it is to the quality of the entire show when you have writers who donāt understand and care for louis enough to write him with the love he deserves. as a black person, as a victim of abuse, as someone with complexity who isnāt reduced to his past. he used to be written with love, but suddenly heās written with contempt that doesnāt even try to mask itself as love. this seasonās level of disregard for him makes everything else feel soulless and empty. is this just how he's gonna be written now? is he going to be the narrative's punching bag every single season? we cannot continue like this
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& even if s4 does happen & knocks our fuckin socks off it will not make up for the abhorrent bigotry & offensiveness for offensiveness' sake that marked this season & will probably mark the show going forward

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I have to say the slavery analogy in episode 6 really pissed me off. Because in season one, Claudia says that theyāre both slaves to Lestat, meaning that they have no choice and are treated as lesser beings. In season three, she calls Louis a slave as an insult, like itās a personality trait rather than something done to a person which is. Just so fucked up.
You can really tell the writers team is all white because did nobody think that was reminiscent of historical propoganda promoting slavery?? Like nobody fucking noticed that???
Plus the idea that Claudia never loved Louis is not just aggravating but flat out wrong. Why would she want him to go with her if she was using him? Why would she feel so betrayed by him if she never cared?
The whole tragedy of their relationship is that she loved him, and he loved her but never enough, that she was always second to someone else. Having ghost-Claudia in the seance scene say āactually I never liked you I always hated you hahaā takes away all the impact of that. I had really hoped that this (and a lot of things this season) would be subverted and theyād lean into the unreliability of lestat as a narrator, but from what I hear of a finale it actually does blame Louis for everything and absolve lestat.
Itās like if one of the weirdos who insist that everything Louis says is a deliberate lie but lestatās script at the trial was 100% accurate got to write this season.
This is unlikely but Iām getting it out there now: what if there reason Claudia canāt find Madeline in death is because she didnāt die? We see her death but Louis is the one telling the story, and he wasnāt on stage at that point. He found out from armand, or else assumed it. AND he canāt read Madelineās thoughts so how would he know??