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I was thinking about TVL earlier, as I often do, and, not to sound negative, but I do think a large amount of what frustration I do have with the season is about Gabriella. It's hard not to view the season as a whole, at least so far, but so far is a pretty decent chunk in, as being really about Lestat's relationship with her specifically. And this is such a ballsy move in my opinion, given that she's a totally new character to this season and barely even mentioned in the show's first two seasons. Yes, a famous character in the book, but the show should stand on its own, in my view.
One aspect of this that's annoying to me is that those first two seasons established so many interesting dynamics and relationships and characters, and a lot of those dynamics are getting sidelined in favor of Gabriella. I didn't even come into the season with high expectations on this score. I knew it was the Lestat backstory season and that would take precedence over, like, Daniel and Louis talking, especially since we got two seasons of that. I even had fairly tempered expectations of Louis and Lestat, at least in comparison to other people. But it's different when a lot of Lestat backstory is itself being shafted (I'm sorry, I'm still not over how fast some of these flashbacks are) for this one relationship in particular, important as it may be. Like instead of this we could have given some of the established relationships more scenes, or even given Nicky some more character, or shown more of Armand in Paris, or literally whatever. And I know the season isn't over and S4 hasn't even started but I also don't think it's unfair to talk about how time was spent in the first half of the season, regardless of how time is spent later. Also, I'm not dumb, and I have some idea of how to read a narrative, you know?
And the other, related annoying aspect is that I think the idea was that the audience would love Gabriella so much that it wouldn't matter that she's taking time away from other things/plots/characters. Like, she's not "taking time away," she IS the time. She's essential as a plot line and fascinating as a creature and it will be fun. And I just can't stand her. I really think she's supposed to be funny, charismatic, and magnetic, but I find her annoying. She's had a couple funny moments, but most of her is not. The accent is atrocious. The evil-ness is boring. The traumatic background is, first, something you need the books to know because it's not actually there in the show, actually discussed so much except for a bit here and there, and second, not the equivalent of character traits. I'm not, like, mad at her because she's abusive to Lestat, because Lestat is not real. Her worse sins for me as a person watching TV are being insufferable and sucking out air from the room. I also, ee, probably shouldn't say this because it does sound terrible, but again the characters are not real people--I do find Lestat less interesting in relation to her. Again, maybe I am just dumb, maybe I am just not getting it, but I actually don't think the abusive nature of their relationship is complicated.
Anyway. I feel bad for the rant. This is just the shorter and more to the point version of the thoughts I was riling myself up with this morning on the way to work because it's soup outside and I don't like walking out in that in the summer. I'm not looking forward to the weekly new episodes being over but I am sort of looking forward to being able to see the season as a whole. Who knows, maybe I'll change all my opinions when we get to that point... I do sort of doubt it. I know there's a lot of 'you have to wait and SEE, stop being impatient' as a response to at least some criticisms, but only some critiques can be solved or answered with the magic bullet of additional information or re-contextualization.
The most important thing is that I'm glad I'm not really in the fandom proper. I hear these ghosts and whisperings of supremely bad takes out there. But not for me! Not in my safe little bubble!
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As the show explores what makes Lestat tick, Louis will get a new story, one that strays from the source material. Jones felt he had to give Anderson more to do — and the same goes for Delainey Hayles, whose Claudia is back this season, though the "how" is being kept in a locked coffin. (Jones will say that the haunting of the muses is coming "like a f---ing freight train.")
What we can say is that Louis isn't quite done grieving his daughter just yet.
"Claudia is playing on Louis' mind a lot, and that's something he'll never heal from," Hayles says. "The grief is part of him."
"I feel like they so beautifully encapsulated Louis and Claudia's relationship [in season 2,] and I felt like I and Louis got a really definitive sense of closure. And Rolin kept saying to me, even while we were shooting season 2, he was like, 'No, no, there's more there.' And I was like, 'I don't think there is, Rolin.' It took some convincing to get me on board.
"It could be a real reboot," he says. "But when we looked at the last image of season 2, we said, 'Seems kinda cute and cuddly, doesn't it? It seems very neat.' We were always looking for, 'How do we drive him back to Lestat?' So we had to put him through something."
What exactly they put him through, we can't reveal. But as Anderson adds, "I was shocked. He's having a really, really rough time."
I have been enduring intense conversation with myself. And as part of this journey, I wish to read you something I have written from the deepest regions of my soul.
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I'm so worn out today for some reason. I was working really hard at work, and even at the time I wasn't sure why; like there was some sort of deadline but I hadn't clued myself in on what it was. Maybe just trying to feel less swamped, maybe letting anxiety out in distraction and productivity. I also had two meetings, one of which was about the job search, and then we had another impromptu search committee meeting later... It's just a lot. And there's so much to do.
I wanted to have a restful but still... somewhat productive and awake afternoon but when I got home all I wanted was to be in bed, so I did. I don't even regret it because being under the sheets and not feeling like I have to leave is something that actually feels good.
Feeling some sorta yearning again but I'm not sure for what. I suppose I probably didn't get what I needed out of the weekend. I just feel... scrunchly again.
And I have to go grocery shopping tomorrow. I just... don't wanna.
Watched ep4! All of these episodes are so much all the time that I kind of don't know what to say about them and maybe it's not worth saying anything until a second watch. Also maybe I should try harder to avoid spoilers before I actually properly watch because I do think knowing some things, even out of context, here and there kind of alters my thoughts on it maybe.
Anyway. Weirdly, I did like the episode but all the thoughts that come to mind first are negative, and I'm sorry about that.
First, I'm done with Gabriella. I'm so boooooored with her, I physically can't even stand it. This comes from three places in this episode. It was something I decided when she gave her little 'you're not evil enough, we must bring evil to the world' speech. Snooooozefest. This show is very interesting and complex and layered and that was the most boring bit of dialogue I've heard in my life, to the point of being offensive. She offends me now. I also just truly don't think she's that deep. I don't think her character is deep and I don't think her story is deep. I don't even think the abuse story line is that deep tbh. I basically got her incestuous hold on him in the first episode and nothing has made it much more complex since then. Which brings me to my second annoyance: that we spent an entire ep's flashback sequences on more Gabriella stuff when, again, Nicky and Magnus were stuffed into one episode. That's insanity, I'm sorry. I know the flashbacks were also a smaller portion of this ep's run time, but it's still ridiculous. All that time to learn Zero New Things!
And finally, Gabriella is obviously closely tied to this Great Conversion nonsense which I could not possibly care less about.
Also, I hate to agree with the conventional wisdom of criticism but it did bother me that Lestat used Louis' description of their wedding to talk about Gabriella. That was uncalled for, frankly. It felt sort of meta-offensive, in a way.
Anyway, other than that. Obviously this was a big Armand episode and I am... interested. I feel like there's so much going on in the dialogue of his scenes that I will need a rewatch to get it. One interesting thing is I fully believed he turned Daniel in Dubai not long after Louis left and that it was basically a fit after being thrown against the wall. That he waited until they got on a plane together and were flying over Newark to do it is weird and I don't know what to make of that. Daniel also made it sound like Armand was meant to kill him (Talamasca orders? idk who else it could be) but didn't because Louis told him not to (except Louis said don't hurt him, and making him a vampire is uh hurting him I would think). I don't know. Interesting but something to contemplate.
On the one hand, friendless twink bottom is a brutal read. On the other hand, I don't trust that gremlin.
The Louis story with Regina was heartbreaking. (Also kind of disorienting to hear Delainey Hayles' real voice ngl.) It's interesting that apparently people are upset at this story (?), or so I hear vaguely mentioned on the internet--that people are mad at Louis for it. Idk but this is quite IC for Louis in my mind. Are we collectively forgetting this man was a pimp, like...? Are we forgetting that his relationship with Claudia was always hinted to be both smothering and vaguely inappropriate? The story was a respite from Lestat's breathless narration (I know this is also Lestat's narration), which I liked. And, while I have found very things in this show really scary, Regina looking straight into camera and speaking in Claudia's voice was chilling. I'm fully ready for this to get MUCH more fucked up, probably soon.
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