an impossible afternoon light

RYAN KATTNER as SALAMANDER

DELAINEY HAYLES as CLAUDIA in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Season 2)

So Louis did not lie, he told what he believed to be true and we later find out how difficult it is to know how much of it is real considering who he was married to for over 70 years. And Lestat isn't retconning everything we previously knew either, he's telling his very emotional version of events. Neither can ever be seen as the real events that took place as one of them had Armand fidgeting in his brain for seven decades and the other is known to use mockery and insults as a way to disguise his true emotions. So why are we quick to call Louis a liar? And why are we quick to take Lestat's word as the truth? Just because it's new information, does not mean it's sincere and does not erase what we had previously known either. This is something the show has repeatedly shown us.

Of course you're not enjoying this season if you sat through seasons 1 and 2 fully believing that the version of louis we saw in dubai was his true self instead of a performance, just as his entire relationship with armand was. Or if you watched those two full seasons, seeing him consistently dismiss claudia and put himself first before her and her memory, but you can't see why she would feel so much hatred for him. I'm afraid you did not get the show at all in the first place.

"I forgot. Love makes you stupid." Again and again and again. And now he dares to call upon her ghost, showing up to this seance with the other man she despised and who abused her, throwing in her face how his meaningless actions of revenge should be important to her or should grant him any of her forgiveness. Why shouldn't she make him feel like shit? And does it even matter to him? Does it truly matter when this version of claudia is no longer the one he had created in his mind and idealized for so long even after her death? A version that was never really truly claudia, as she has never been here to speak for herself and tell her own truth until now.

Innocence- Arthur Hacker