i like to weep! i must!

I personally don't like the idea of entirely retconning the train scene anyway, but did Claudia ever actually tell Louis about Lestat bringing her home in any particular detail? I thought what we know about it comes mostly from her diary, which we know she intended to be private. I'm sure if they really wanted to the writers could come up with a reason to lie to her diary, but it seems like a stretch especially when so much of the dialogue from that scene could just be repurposed with different delivery and slightly different wording choices as Lestat (from his own pov) being upset and worried for both her and Louis and hurt by another "abandonment." I'd be shocked if the basics of their confrontation don't remain intact, maybe augmented by him bringing up things she simply didn't care very much about, like the fact that a massive war was about to break out and she was running right into it. IDK am I dumb? It seems like a really obvious opportunity for a POV shift where from Lestat's point of view he was desperately trying to protect her and by extension Louis from disaster despite the fact that she hates him and their home life is objectively miserable because he already tried letting her go and look how that turned out, and from hers he's a monster who doesn't care about her at all and is rubbing her face in the worst thing that ever happened to her because he can, while also implying that he could have saved her earlier and didn't. She can be objectively wrong about his feelings and motives without being a liar, and without her interpretation of the scene being unreasonable in light of what he did to Louis and the state of their relationship more generally. The farthest I could see it going is him believing he'd made an impassioned and reasonable argument for why she should come home and she'd eventually seen sense and agreed, while she felt coerced and threatened. I guess we'll find out.

bringing this back bc i'm really hoping the above read is actually how we get the train scene revisit, since sam confirmed we are going back to it. i rly don't want my show leaning into abuse apologia. lestat has made it clear in s3 so far that he has a lot of anger around how that scene is written in daniel's book because again, emotional objectivity is a factor for both his and claudia's POVs. i just don't want claudia (and louis') victimhood denied in light of whatever reframing they choose to go for.

t'lyn in my style