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its just so baffling because it seems like they deeply resent that they have to like deal with the fallout of horribly abusive relationships or like think about the implications of what they wrote but its like literally nobody forced you to make the show just about abusive relationships like this you did this.. this was the adaptational choice you made why are you mad
#no seriously they CHOSE to do this #they CHOSE to change Louis's Claudia's and Armand's race they decided on this no one twisted their arm about it??? baffling #and now that I'm thinking back... what did Rolin say again about why he cast a black man as Louis? like don't quote me on this #but wasn't it bc he didn't want to deal with the fallout of having Louis being a plantation owner??? #actually do quote me on this I just found the article from Den of Geek where he talks about it: #'To be perfectly frank I didnāt know how to tell the plantation owner story. I wasnāt going to be the writer to do it.' #like... in hindsight that was a warning sign this man did NOT think the race change through he simply didn't want the story to have to deal #with having to write around a topic he clearly considered too complicated and uncomfortable to engage with #and so decided 'okay what is the farthest away from white stuffy plantation owner in the 1800s? I know a black pimp from the late 1900s' #on top of that they CLEARLY didn't anticipate the fallout of the drop during episode 5 and they've been playing catch-up ever since #I firmly believe that's where a lot of the resentment comes from #rolin's writing team during s1 created a story about abuse and privilege and multi-faceted complicated characters. #but rolin himself always wanted a fun vampire romp with no consequences and sexy lestat and iwtv was meant to be prologue to that #but after season 1 he had to engage with topics during promo and interviews that he never wanted to deal with #like how much responsibility Lestat carries for the abuse heaped on his black family and how his privilege allows him so much more space #and gives him social power and influence over them and how that creates a palpable wall between them which makes his abuse even worse #rolin never WANTED iwtv to be this sort of success where people engage with it so deeply and care about all the details and the stories #of the characters that rolin himself - from the way they have been shown in tvl - clearly thinks are just side-pieces to Lestat's main show #he wanted to be able to focus on Lestat and only Lestat (the ooc version of him that lives in his head) #and instead people were asking Lestat be held accountable and for him to be shown as the flawed complicated difficult character that he is #and Rolin - as shown by tvl - clearly doesn't like that #that's also why the s2Ā finale had the narrative bend itself (and the characterization of several characters) into pretzels just to make su #that we got the Loustat reunion and Loumand divorce #bc they had to hurry the story along and into a direction that looked contrived then and looks actively malicious now #like that was when the cracks were really starting to spread but clearly that was forced into the story so they could start with tvl #and through tvl they continued to systematically dismantle the story that they build for the first two seasons #those... are a lot of tags sorry but god this really - in the end - once again comes down to a writer not thinking through their decisions #when they start a story and then flinching away from the consequences of those decisions when the narrative demands a fallout
I think the issue is that people are describing this as a bad TV season, but it's really much deeper than that. The final season of Sherlock was a bad season, the final season of Game of Thrones was a bad season. TVL / IWTV 3 is anti-Black. It is misogynistic. It has an open and glaring disdain for its Black and brown characters, and chose to be virulently anti-Black in a time of increased anti-Blackness. You are watching the corpse/ghost of a Black girl hurl racist garbage in a time where Black people are regularly being called slurs for simply existing. You are watching a Black man be branded... BRANDED! You are watching the whitewashing and babying of an unquestionably racist white man who beat his Black partner / helped lynch (yes, lynch, not stone) his Black daughter. You are seeing this done at the expense of a brown man.
Keep in mind, the characters are not making independent choices, you are not watching a documentary āyou are watching the deliberate choices of an all white writers' room and a white show runner in a period of time where seventeen Black people have been lynched this year. In a time where countless Black people have been murdered in cold blood in June and July 2026 alone. This shit doesn't exist in a vacuum and pretending it does only adds more insult to injury. There is no turning your brain off in the midst of a slow genocide of Black people in america.
I see people arguing that the slave remarks in Episode 6 of The Vampire Lestat were a callback to the slave remarks in Episode 6 of Season 1 of Interview with the Vampire. If that's true, then it is the perfect example of why black writers were needed in the room. And I mean black writers specifically, not just "people of color." The contrast between how the two episodes handled the subject shows that.
Before I get into that comparison, I want to make something clear. I didn't like the introduction of a slave-master narrative into the unholy family dynamic. The racial implications made me uncomfortable. However, discomfort and offense are not the same thing. While I found it unsettling, I did not find it racist or anti-Black, and that's the key distinction.
In Episode 6 of Season 1, there are two instances where Claudia uses the word "slave". The first time, she is referring to both herself and Louis. She is essentially saying that they are under Lestat's control, trapped in Rue Royale, prisoners of Lestat, his slaves. In that context, "slave" is being used to describe their lack of freedom and autonomy. The second time, she refers not only to herself and Louis, but also to Lestat. She draws a parallel between their situation and Lestat's situation with Magnus. Just as Claudia and Louis are trapped under Lestat's control, Lestat was once under Magnus's control. He was Magnus's slave, and he ultimately killed him rather than continue living that way (we know that's not what happened but that's what Claudia believed). In both instances, the word "slave" is tied to a circumstance, not an identity. It is being used to describe a power dynamic: control, imprisonment, coercion, and domination. You could replace the word "slave" with "prisoner" and the point would remain intact. More importantly, the narrative makes a deliberate effort not to tie slavery to Louis and Claudia's race. Applying the same language to Lestat is what makes that distinction clear. The point is not, "Louis and Claudia are slaves because they are black." The point is, "Louis and Claudia are slaves because they are trapped under Lestat's control," just as Lestat was trapped under Magnus's. Now, viewers can absolutely be uncomfortable with the racial implications of using that metaphor in the first place. I certainly was. But I don't think anyone can honestly argue that the use of the word slave in this scenario was racist.
The writers managed to create discomfort, arguably one of their goals without resorting to anti-Black rhetoric. That's exactly the kind of nuance the black creatives involved in season 1 brought to the story.
Now compare that to Episode 6 of The Vampire Lestat. Claudia calls Louis a slave and then goes further, suggesting that slavery is part of who he is. She implies it is in his DNA as demonstrated by her saying that "slave" is etched into his ribs. Add the "nappy-headed" remark on top of it, and the conversation is no longer about a power dynamic. It becomes an attack on Louis's identity as a black person.
That is the fundamental difference. In Season 1, slavery was used as a metaphor for control. In The Vampire Lestat, slavery is framed as something intrinsic to Louis himself. The word is no longer describing his circumstances; it is describing who he supposedly is. The narrative shifts from "you are being treated like a slave" to "being a slave is part of your nature."
Those are not remotely the same thing. You cannot write a scene in which a Black character tells another Black character that slavery is essentially woven into his DNA, pair it with a racialized insult like "nappy-headed," and then act surprised when viewers, particularly black viewers find it offensive. So if those remarks were intended to be a callback to Season 1 Episode 6, then the callback was an utter failure.
What made the Season 1 dialogue worked was that it treated slavery as a condition imposed on people. What makes the Vampire Lestat dialogue offensive is that it treats slavery as something inherent to Louis. One is about oppression; the other flirts with the idea that oppression is an innate trait. That is not a minor difference. It is the entire issue. And if you genuinely cannot see the difference between using slavery as a metaphor for imprisonment and using slavery as a marker of a black character's identity, then I really don't know what to tell you.
The contrast between the two episodes is precisely why having black writers in the room matter. Season 1 showed that you can explore themes of domination, control, and power between black and white characters, while navigating the racial implications with nuance. The Vampire Lestat Episode 6 shows what happens when that nuance is absent.
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nothing like getting all dressed up for a self tape and setting up all the lights only to realize that not only does the monologue i planned to do not fit the character, none of the monologues in my book fit the character. back to the drawing board
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i feel like i donāt make as many original posts as i used to, the same as i feel i donāt infodump in real life as much as i used to, and thereās a part of me that canāt help but wonder if itās the higher doses of medication iāve been put on in the last few years. like, i have memories from as late as my third year of college of just gleefully unloading on people, like of being home and my mother asking who i preferred, trapper or bj. and i had a long-ass answer and explanation. and i donāt think i could explain that now without trailing off a million times. i think itās the meds or itās long covid
i feel like i donāt make as many original posts as i used to, the same as i feel i donāt infodump in real life as much as i used to, and thereās a part of me that canāt help but wonder if itās the higher doses of medication iāve been put on in the last few years. like, i have memories from as late as my third year of college of just gleefully unloading on people, like of being home and my mother asking who i preferred, trapper or bj. and i had a long-ass answer and explanation. and i donāt think i could explain that now without trailing off a million times. i think itās the meds or itās long covid
there are so many lines in I Saw The TV Glow that go so hard. "there is still time" is the one everyone talks abt, understandably. but also
"I found my heart, Isabel. I found yours too. And it was still beating."
like. even if you don't know it. your heart is still out there. YOU are still out there. it might be far away, on the other side of the tv screen, but it's still there. and it's still alive. it refuses to die.
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