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We called for the Avengers and these guys showed up instead????

I don't think we need to use "weird" when "erasure" is the better word. The adaption erased Armand from Lestat's narrative, giving absolutely no room to have that kind of commentary. It was an adaption choice to do so.

The devastating issue with all of this, is by choosing to erase Armand fro, Lestat's story, which he was an INTEGRAL part, they avoided the potential to have anything interesting to say about racism. Okay, make Lestat goofy happy weird, and then have Armand be the bucket of cold water, because he is a reminder that no, everything is not okay goofy happy weird.

I wouldn't have liked it, but it could have said something about Armand, and the white male lead facing his narrative mirror who doesn't get the luxury of whiteness and carefree perspectives.

And instead. They did not. They made a choice to not adapt that.

Which is erasure, because TVL had space for Armand to exist in its pages. You can't tell a good story about Lestat without his narrative foil, which is Armand. If they had adapted the book, they would have had a chance to capture Lestat and Gabrielle's racism and orientalism they would have seen Armand with, and then contrast it with Lestat's "failures" in the present day, because hey we know that would be pretty fucked up now. They purposefully erased Armand from Lestat's story, so that they wouldn't have to. I can only make a guess, with all the other strange and upsetting framing choices they made this season, that it was racially motivated.

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“Midnight Sons,” Marc Spector: Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2026), #6.