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honestly gabrielle is truly the biggest missed opportunity of this whole damn season and frankly the writing of her is so appalling and misogynistic and shallow it makes me honestly way less generous in my readings of past seasons because i struggle to believe they actually cared about these themes to begin with like… its genuinely so depressing like her character could be such a rich text to underline all the work they have done previously in regards to the tension of does becoming a vampire liberate you and seeing gabrielle the aristocratic white woman liberated by vampirism allowing her to essentially claim an empty wilderness/dark continent colonial fantasy for herself and how this informs lestats idea of vampirism and what it offers as a contrast to louis and claudia to explore further the kind of fraught complicated relationship the tension between neglect and forceful molding into your own image and so forth the horrible marriage of lestats parents and how all this would more clearly illuminate and explore lestat and his relationship with louis and claudia and the familial bonds he brings in that this could be a new and interesting way to work thru lestats previous experiences of abuse and abusing others as a mirror to gabrielles own experience to clarify these messy intermingled familial relationships and again just showcase interest in exploring womens interiority and like you know show gabrielle as a sympathetic but also abusive her own experiences with violence like this could all work so well with the previous seasons and the fact shes been made into a comically evil freudian mother root is just god why is this happening and its truly hard to take their previous work seriously when this is what theyre putting out its so depressing

just remembered that my middle school bullies were named Chase and Hunter. what was up with that. what was going on there.