I know this ain’t your fault, Sam Reid. You just cover your ears, hun.

I feel the ball has been fumbled so completely already I don’t have a whole lot of optimism for the rest of this season. Also, this is making so much sense. This show has never championed its hero. The first 2 seasons were spent magnifying minor characters and this is praised as a great thing yes so fun but it shows right now as the third season, the season about the hero of the over 10 book series, is falling flat and thin for a lot of viewers, especially those that actually care about Lestat and who are attached to the novel TVL. I don’t have a problem with changing canon if it serves the character/story. They’ve changed so much, pretty fundamental and impactful elements ranging from the characters’ backstories to pivotal conflict climaxes like the dropping Louis scene which of course Lestat never actually did and in fact that’s what happened to him. But I can enjoy that because it does kind of make a little sense for Lestat and it was dramatically satisfying, if seductively so. I can tolerate and enjoy controversial and impactful changes to canon. Otherwise I already wouldn’t have gotten so much enjoyment out of the first two seasons. But I am not able to enjoy an entire season that serves as the gaudy spectacle emblem of the shows rejection of its main hero. If Lestat isn’t written right, the story is going to flounder as a whole for me. When they zoomed in on Louis and said “he’s the story” (in Lestat’s concert, during Lestat’s POV season, in the series in which Lestat is the hero/primary protagonist) I thought to myself that is exactly where this show is going wrong. And I’ve been thinking that since season 1 and 2 but those were wonderful seasons and I expected them to show us their skill and their proficiency with Lestat when they got to season 3 and I’m actually surprised by how steeply they’re doing the opposite. They’re showing me, in my opinion, that they didn’t inflate and embellish these more minor characters (yes that includes Louis) as only an addition to the story but also at the expense of the story. I’m going to watch the rest of the season and hope it has a master plan that I don’t understand of yet; and I’m always going to enjoy the first 2 seasons that were spectacular. But these are my current thoughts. Read TVL!