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okay so first impressions of TVL EP 1 DETROIT, no social media, haven't watched After Dark yet, no nothing, is: i'm not sure. oh, yes, it'll most definitely still end up being 5 stars but AS OF RIGHT NOW i am not sure.

really glad i did mentally differentiate it from iwtv beforehand by calling it tvl instead of s3, that was clutch, because yes they are two entirely different shows. the whiplash thinking back to s1e1 is frying me. angsty existential louis du lac and his prose-like pretentious asf narration vs the mess that is lestat's narration. the references to modern pop culture is so funny and so jarring WDYM LABUBU. LESTAT KNOWS WHAT A LABUBU IS CANON. like they are living in OUR world and it is odd as fuck. when lestat was in the bookstore and i saw bright young women, last night at the telegraph club, and sunrise on the reaping on the shelves is when that hit for me. and him saying shit like reddit and discord in his fancy fucking french accent murdered me

okay things i liked. nailed lestat's characterization the entire thing is so him, it is lestat unapologetically, it is fucking weird and camp and i love that they committed to it so fully. this is exactly what i would expect lestat's season to be, just as iwtv is exactly what i would expect louis' season to be.

insane tonal whiplash? yeah. but i am reminding myself over and over this is just the premiere. memory as a theme seems to have stuck, so i feel once we get into lestat's past, especially once we see more of louis, i'll probably be more satisfied. loved what we did get from louis this episode but i miss him :c and claudia too :c daniel carried i LOVE daniel in this. vamp daniel being able to fight?? "dan"?? were u a stutterer as a child? yeah

the list of things i disliked/am unsure about is much longer. mainly being gabrielle. "you like a little dirt on ur sandwich" no i fucking dont. i am not that fucking freaky girl. just. i genuinely crashed out over this because i'm sure there ARE some little freakies out there but genuinely who fucking watches iwtv for the lestat incest. or idk maybe that's exactly the target demographic. my point being, fuck that all the way fuck that i cannot describe how badly i don't want to watch that i can stand literally anything else. i hope we like. idk. idk what they can do to fix gabrielle/lestat this was the ONE thing i never wanted to see adapted from the books, but my trust in the showmakers has not completely evaporated. please let's make it something interesting. putting so much trust in ya'll i'm trying really hard not to take it just at surface level

uh the songs/concerts are quite cunty i'll give lestat that. the violin goes insanely hard however the song lyrics are giving gnarly katseye. not a real problem just kinda funny. yeah i actually can't think of any other actual problems i have with it that won't be solved by just getting used to it/more episodes/getting farther along past just the premiere

adore the louis moments we get. lestat is so down bad. him hallucinating louis on their wedding night?? facetiming, etc etc. going to be really good later in the season i hope. excited. love that we're pointing out inconsistencies within iwtv, that's all i'm really here for. the train, the initials on the pocket, etc.

okay winding down a little. i believe there must a purpose to all this (desperately gaslighting myself). i think the secret lies in the high scenes when lestat's mind is the most open and vulnerable and we see all the flashbacks to his past, to LOUIS, him spinning louis, being unable to stop thinking of him. it's still the odyssey of recollection, the monster that is memory, etc. where louis copes with his past/trauma through editorializing, lying, spinning the story, lestat copes using distractions and ostentatiousness. this episode was SO sensory overload they literally had to put a fucking lights/strobe warning in the beginning. the colors, the sporadic flipping back and forth, those modern references, it was all so chaotic, OH don't forget that fucking effect?? the bubble door peephole effect?? incredibly chaotic. and it's to cover it all up. hopefully. idk that's my take.

1. nie huaisangs right arm

2. lan zhans supportive brother

3. jin lings dog

4. wei wuxians homophobic brother

• never done a bad thing in his life

• yearns a lot

• gay

• capable high-ranked cultivator

• plays guqin

• one of the twin blades of gusu

• long hair

• his endless dedication, devotion, and loyalty to not only wei wuxian throughout their entire time knowing each other, including over a decade of separation, but also to his own morals and values is something i deeply aspire to myself. he manages to find a way to stay true to both of these things despite them seemingly being in conflict with each other; he doesn't give up association with weiwuxian for his clan values, nor does he give up his clan values for wei wuxian. he without fail defends and wholeheartedly maintains his faith in wwx, even as everyone else around wwx slowly disappears/leaves. lwj remains the one steady presence in wwx's life. he risks everything and suffers corporal punishment and social & moral condemnation to stand beside wwx. in this way, he demonstrates how his true loyalty is not to simply commonly held societal ideals of good or the lan clan commandments but to himself, and that his own will always comes before anything else. his palpable fucking love for wwx and his adheration to what he believes is right, and not anyone else's, is what i strive for and greatly respect