“We are lucky to be getting any DM at all. They do not exist until QotD” The thing is personally I’d rather we didn’t get any dm at all if this is how their introduction would be to the general audience. I was definitely not expecting them to kiss and fall in love right away. What bothers me is how fast we get confirmation of their being in a relationship without any build up to it at all and it happened entirely offscreen. Without even seeing why armand loves daniel in the first place, because he stalked him for 52 years? We haven’t even seen evidence daniel loves armand as much before we got confirmation of a relationship. I would have liked it so much better if they revealed all this in a time where they can actually have focus and if that was in season 4 or 5 that would’ve been fine with me. They deserve actual care to their story.
I think this introduction makes perfect sense. Daniel being resistant at first and then joining Armand in whatever he’s doing tracks with Daniel’s character. He missed his maker, here he is.
When Daniel says he’s seeing someone, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re already deeply in love and we just didn’t see it. They’ve just been working together.
And did it happen off-screen or did it happen in the background? Because those are different things. The implication is that we’re not going to go back and get any additional context behind what’s been happening between them and that just doesn’t add up considering we haven’t seen what Armand is up to. Rolin said numerous times Armand’s arc is incomplete. Specifically, there is more context to the Larry scene. So we are revisiting that, why wouldn’t we revisit anything else? We’re going to learn about what Armand is doing and Daniel has been with Armand for a lot of it.
Waiting till season 4 for past!DM makes sense to me. We bring them back together, we establish what their dynamic looks like now, as tumultuous as it is, and then we build on that. We get the non-book readers used to the idea of them together, because it is a strange concept if you don’t have prior context. They’ve been hammering home Armand turning Daniel in a fit of rage for wrecking his marriages. You need to allow time for that to subside.
Armand is in love with Daniel but we do not know how Daniel feels yet. Having him fall back in love with Armand around the same time as we learn about their real past just makes sense to me. It’ll be season 4 though. Season 5 seems like too long a wait.
They do deserve care being put into their story, I agree. I just don’t think that hasn’t been the case so far. It’s a slow burn and we’re missing a whole lot of context right now. I do get where this worry is coming from, but Episode 7 will likely have some answers as to the current nature of their relationship. And season 4 will be QotD, which is a novel with an ensemble case. This was still Lestat’s season, so it would make sense that most of the screen time would be his.
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