The DM reunion scene is quite funny because Armand had a speech prepared, and you can tell from how wordy, clunky, and specific it was that Daniel had a speech prepared too. Brother must have rehearsed what he would say to Armand a thousand times in his head. They are really birds of a feather, soulmates if you will.

iwtv continues to be so smart in its portrayal of memories and trauma, the way lestat’s memories of his family are so obnoxiously loud, everyone’s screaming all the time for no reason and everyone’s acting like caricatures, like an actual assault on the senses, as if lestat’s mind is filled with unbearable noise every time he thinks about them. lestat’s memories coming at him all fragmented and loud and violent, attacking him and beating him into submission as he desperately tries to escape them is such an interesting contrast to how louis would carefully weave a thread of his past pretending the glaring holes in it weren’t there

I think they did a great job of showing how degrading lestat found life with his family. as a lover of beauty, he found the ugliness of their minds and their lifestyle unbearable. something that really touched me about that part of the book was how dazzled he was by the cleanliness of the monastery.

When you open the JASPER folder in one of the Talamasca devices

Excuse me