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Like retroactively implying lestat could’ve actually killed him just for him to have a kind of Christian/Godly moment where Paul gives his approval and says Lestat is a good lover for Louis is insaaaaane insaaaaane INSANE

I know this is just Paul-in-Lestat’s head but I don’t think even Lestat is bold enough to be like “I traumatized and/or maybe killed Paul but he would approve of me with his brother :)”

Like HUH

Talamasca (idk spelling idc) is fucking around and influencingh the great conversion. No one in Talamasca who shows up is more than the caricature, there's no depth, we know none of their plans, they are just dudes who are always One Step Ahead all the time

Great conversion is happening... we meet... no new vampires besides Gabriella (technically an old character), Nicki (dead), Magnus (dead), Marius (not around in present day), Lemuel (disappears halfway thru the season), Bruce (not new, dead), Baby Jenks (disappeared) and the band (who never rly have their own arcs)...

Furthermore, lestat and louis are not active participants OR instigators in the great conversion like they do nooooot care... lestat wants to make music and figures vampires are the only one who will like it but ultimately has little to no opinion on what the vampires are doing. louis likes having a bigger customer base that's it?

Sooo... Lestat's band is an essential part of teh conversion but no one in the band cares about it... also the band stops making music in the finale like no final song... no actual point to having these characters be named and around... no one cares that christine and dee are gone or that larry is dead or that alex is working with gabriella who is working with armand/daniel

Armand and daniel are companions now. This is largely offscreen and all this accomplishes is showing how much the each of them suck, together and apart. 90% of the ways they suck is just through literally torturing Louis

Louis is tortured. This does... nothing to his character arc besides giving a half assed narrative reason for claudia to either never come up again (bad) or for her to come back as a vengeful ghost again (not great)

Incest happens. This is sort of used to explore the ways Lestat and Louis failed Claudia but not really. Lestat is sad about Claudia for maybe 10 minutes of runtime. Mostly it's about his mom whose personality traits can be summed up as "horny child molester" and "unwilling mom.” These things overlap but not as much as you’d think

Regina happens. Through this we learn... Louis is grieving, Armand sucks, and Lestat is ALSO grieving but in a different, more rational way I guess? Hm

We learn about Akasha. She does not come up again.

We learn Armand was wrong about Marius. He for some reason is more relevant at Lestat's Long Table of Grief than Akasha. why? Who can say?

We knew from episode 1 that things go to shit and it's Lestat's fault. The season ends confirming things REALLY go to shit and it's Lestat's fault. No, we don't get to see how it goes to shit yet. Wait two years to find out.

Soo.... that's... it?

Great Conversion (none of the main characters care about this at all). Armand sucks and is a mustache twirling villain with a sad backstory. Louis is grieving. Lestat is struggling with incest and gets to say no to his mom who he tbh was fine not seeing for hte last century so... not the biggest deal. Daniel will hook up with Armand to be more powerful. Claudia is hurt and suffering forever in hell, a fate that awaits all of these men if they die too. But they won't. Because they are men. Akasha will punish them at some point but obviously not enough to kill them or to be alive/present for the auction we see in episode 1.

Does... anything else that actually matters going forward happen?? MAYBE baby jenks attempt at vengeance?

At this point, I would accept full absurdist, episode turned musical type fare as a way to at least justify why we skipped over soooo much (the months where Lestat talked Louis out of the Regina-obsession, the flashbacks to Lestat's life, a RETURN TO THE TRIAL SO WE ACTUALLY DEAL WITH WHAT HAPPENED) but... no?

Just... Lestat threatening one last performance and... that... is it?

I get that it may be intentional anti-climax but uhhh you can't dedicate like 20% of an already too short season to the music and then just have the instrumental of a song we already know play in the background of some scenes and then wrap it up

And also just... weird writing for Daniel and Armand like they're both just like "leave his head in a bag" why? Just let the timer run out while doing nothing...?

It served no purpose and didn't feel cathartic and what happened with Louis wasn't like... tense or doing anything besides showing him being tortured because we already knew how it would end AND really only served to give Armand some emotional development which...doesn't mean anything like oh someone finally acknowledged his past... I don't think he'd actually care? You can't have "I did this thing just to fuck with you" and "Oh, you said something nice, I'll let you live" in the same episode

So we watched physical and emotional violence inflicted on Louis and Regina for no reason

For a finale this episode just spun its wheels I don't feel like I learned anything new or anyone changed as characters. "Lestat said no to the concert" could've been an email and Louis being forced to say he wronged Armand should've been nothing at all