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the writers did so fucking well at portraying and deconstructing the over abundant amount that lestat in the text romanticizes his abusers. he calls it the "seduction of magnus" multiple times throughout the vampire chronicles instead of admitting he was preyed upon. when you read the books you have to look between the lines of his flowery prose and avoidance but the show took a corny over the top music video style approach and then slammed it next to a full blown ptsd flashback to make sure the audience did not have a chance to misinterpret or mock anything and i respect them for that

Kinda baffled by the amount of people basically going “ok we get it can we move on!!” about Gabistat like. Are they supposed to quickly brush off the most formative relationship in Lestat’s life that retroactively informs everything about his character. In the Lestat season. Especially when the latest episode revealed Gabriella’s manipulation likely directly resulted in Akasha. Like yeah it’s not fun to watch it’s not supposed to be, that doesn’t make it unnecessary. It’d be more insane if they introduced this dynamic and didn’t expand on how it shapes Lestat as a person. Am I going insane here