And how Armand's trauma was so prolonged and sustained and almost predictable in the most awful way possible and how he was in pain for so long. And Armand is the one who messes with people's minds and waits and watches and lies. He's a painting, he isn't an active participant in his life.

Ridiculous

and in the same vein, something just as romantic is that daniel doesn’t even remember those years with armand, but they still haunt him relentlessly. they fuck up his life, bring him to his knees. he feels armand’s absence until he dies without even knowing what it is. daniel is so proud and so cruel and bitter and yet he is weak to armand, too, without even being aware of it.

ctd under cut

Armand chasing Lestat and Gabriella down to beg them to stay confirms that, from his point of view, Lestat did callously abandon him after he was no longer useful. And from Lestat’s point of view, it confirms that Armand will react violently and endanger his loved ones if he feels hurt and he was right to be afraid of him. In other words, it establishes the dynamic they’ve been stuck in ever since, and which I think is less than obvious to the viewer who hasn’t brought knowledge from the books.

And of course we have to set this against the number of scenes we have got which seem utterly pointless, like the long sequence in last week’s episode of the cop boarding the bus. I get budget comes into play here, and that was probably a cheap sequence to film. But that cut scene feels so important to me, they should have been bending heaven and earth to get it done. Why is the show not making more effort to focus on its core characters and their relationships, to tell an actual story that we care about, instead of gimmicky nonsense?

— Who are you, Louis? Who are you outside of me? If there was no me, and there was no him, who would you be? What do you want? How you gon' get there? (Interview with the Vampire, Season 2 Episode 2)

Guys please

He’s dreaming about Louis