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TVL after dark, I watch it so you don’t have to part 2

here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.

#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 didn’t know how to tell the plantation owner story. I wasn’t 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 s2 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

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(i think theres a lot of mischaracterizations happening around the criticisms of tvl and maybe i will write abt this later. but) i think rlly a lot of the racism in this season is galling not bc we Never expected these characters to do horrible things to each other (obv we did. most of us loved this show when louis was being beaten and darvo’d and was attempted to be lynched. and when louis read a book while his daughter was being ritually humiliated by the french lol) but bc a lot of story decisions, from what degree of violence is acceptable to depict happening to different characters (ahem), to what degree of moral culpability a character seems to be held to within the story, seem to come from a deeply ingrained racialized logic thats like:

Found what I was thinking about