I’ve been thinking about this tweet everyday since 3x06. It was posted before ep6 came out but still rings true.

Louis & Claudia portrayed in the worst light imaginable. Some of Lestat’s wrongs absolved or reframed as “less harsh” (no you don’t understand Antoinette cut off her own finger, no you don’t understand the queen’s blood makes it so he can’t “restrain” himself.) Antoinette being given more sympathy #justiceforantoinette. LouClaudia’s relationship, most especially Claudia, framed as the wedge between Loustat ala Adam O’Byrne referring to the seance as them “dealing with the problem” the problem being LouClaudia. Claudia framed as a cackling villain eager for their demise in both the coven’s and this season’s portrayal of her, as tho everything she did was just for evil’s sake.

The framing this season makes it seem like the problem with Loustat was Louclaudia and now that Claudia’s dead, it’s just Louis holding them back. And while Louis isn’t perfect and has had his toxic moments, this framing only makes sense if you viewed S1 Loustat as a “mutually abusive” relationship (which is not real!) or as Louis being the abuser in the relationship. And now that Louis has been humbled, ridiculed, and insulted by literally every main character this season, Loustat can be happy now. Louis just had to get over himself and get over Claudia.

I just have no idea how you can create two seasons of this character falling victim to several abusive relationships, and come out of them with this logic. It’s common knowledge that Louis (not Loustat, Louis as an individual) isn’t popular among the fandom or within the writer’s room, but there’s a difference between not liking him as much vs straight up hating him and their feelings are showing.

And the defense that this season is from Lestat’s POV so that’s why things are so biased doesn’t work because when the story was from Louis’ perspective, even when Loustat were at their all time lowest, Lestat wasn’t nearly as ridiculed or framed as horribly by the narrative.