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Tatiana Maslany as Helena in Orphan Black (2013-2017)

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Phantom Thread (2017) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

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CHARLES MELTON Photographed by Tim Barber for Bustle

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Havana Rose Liu Photographed by Rob Tennent for HERO Magazine

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JACOB ANDERSON Variety Studio at SDCC 2026

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I've been so foolish. I've fallen in love. I'm an ordinary woman. I didn't think such violent things could happen to ordinary people | Celia Johnson as Laura Jesson in Brief Encounter (1945)

#brief encounter

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mandywondering

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

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if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

#text

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Important video to share!

#the vampire lestat #house of the dragon #fandom racism

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SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE 친절한 금자씨 2005 | dir. Park Chan-wook

#sympathy for lady vengeance

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it really is kind of interesting how attached people are to the idea of the improvised line and the genuine reaction in film. nearly every single famous moment or line has some sort of claim floating around that it wasn't in the script and was either made up on the spot by an actor or was sprung as a surprise on the actors to get their 'real' reaction. you know, sometimes people do come up with good lines in advance and write them down, and sometimes people can pretend to be have a convincing emotional response on screen

#text

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FREDDIE FOX as GWAYNE HIGHTOWER HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 5, “Unbowed and Unbent”

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LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC Interview With The Vampire - 3.07 The Failures

#louis de pointe du lac #the vampire lestat #interview with the vampire

coldeveryseason

so many creative choices in tvl make sense when you realize the goal of this season wasn't telling lestat's story or adapting tvl the book but using the premise of "adapting tvl" as the justification for a whitecentric rebrand and lowkey reboot of the whole show, as part of amc and rolin's effort to distance themselves from the "black queer show" image and black viewership of s1-s2 in order to pursue the "mainstream" (whiter, straighter) audience they always wanted. this is why most of the major arcs, especially the material given to jacob, delainey and assad, feel like retreads of the arcs they already had in s2, meant to cover plot beats from s1-s2 and overwrite how they were initially depicted in a way that's both more palatable for white viewers. in many ways tvl feels like 7 episodes of a "previously on..." sequence that flits through brief flashbacks and tells, not shows the audience essential information to get them caught up before the real story begins, and that's intentional- tvl isn't meant to be a story that stands on its own as much as a staging point to establish the new trajectory of the show, the new tone and narrative priorities, and invite the audience amc wants onboard and jettison the melanated s1-s2 audience amc thinks it no longer needs before the real story rolin wants to tell begins in s4.

the narrative seems not only spiteful and uncompassionate to its own established characters and audience but almost apologetic for having demanded that viewers hold empathy for black leads during s1-s2, for asking them to center black characters as protagonists and care about their interiority- the brutalization and humiliation of jacob and delainey's characters isn't just the nonblack writers engaging in a gratuitous fantasy of torturing black bodies and "humbling" black characters who've reached too far above their station, but also a way to restore the status quo that asserts the "proper" role of blackness is to be a site of inherent pain and mortification. racist viewers who rejected the show when jacob was cast in 2021 or at any point during s1-s2 bc the idea of getting invested in messy black leads put them off can now comfortably tune back in, assured that the show will never ask them to care about a black person more than a white person or think a black person's material suffering could matter more than a nonblack person's feelings and reputation ever again. the cruelty is the point, in many ways.

it's valid to criticize tvl for claiming to be an adaptation of the tvl book and failing at that on every level, from tone to sincerity to the fact that like. 80% of the book just wasn't adapted, but once you see through the marketing claims and realize the real purpose of this season was just amc's effort to do a soft reboot and relaunch their vampire show as a cynical whitecentric dramedy without drawing the ire of straight-up canceling iwtv, you realize so many of their choices aren't just writerly incompetence but a deliberate creative and network whitelash on multiple levels of production.

coldeveryseason

(tags via @leblogestunmonstre) right like when you look at the roles jacob, delainey and assad are playing, they aren't continuations of where their arcs left off at the end of s2 as much as the show trying to redo the same character beats in s2 in a way that asks less empathy for black characters from the audience and is a lot blunter and more flanderized.

s2- louis is consumed by grief for claudia while being gaslit by armand in the present day, as armand destabilizes louis' perception of reality and what happened in paris to conceal his true involvement in the trial. claudia enters armand's employ as an actress while unaware of the true danger of the paris coven and armand's own capacity for antiblack violence. near the end of the season, louis and claudia are lynched in a humiliating public spectacle that it's later revealed armand directed.

s3- louis is consumed by grief for claudia while being gaslit by armand in the present day- except this time armand just gloats about how much he was gaslighting louis. regina enters armand's employ offscreen as part of armand's elaborate scheme to fuck with louis' head while unaware of armand's capacity for antiblack violence. near the end of the season, louis and regina are lynched in a humiliating public spectacle where armand just straight-up personally tortures them this time.

and even the main "original" plot of the season, present-day gabistat, is just a structural copy of the same way they added loumand to the present day in s1-s2-

in the book, the main narrator (louis in iwtv, lestat in tvl) talks about his story alone, after he's already parted ways with a past companion who only shows up in flashbacks (armand in iwtv, gabrielle in tvl). in the show, this companion is an active part of the present-day story, has the 2nd most screentime of the season and is portrayed as more of a sinister antagonist who has the material power in their relationship with the main narrator and manipulates him and his effort to tell his story (louis' interview, lestat's tour) for their own ends. in the final episode of the season, the main narrator realizes their companion is evil(tm) and rejects them.

rolin's been talking about iwtv s1-s2 with total contempt but he's literally just redoing inferior versions of s2 plots for most of the cast, and most of the material that's truly unique to the season (the live concerts, the songs, the band and tour concept) have gone over with a resounding "it's ok i guess" to "eh it's mid" with most of the general audience. anything actually of substance is a photocopy of what they already did in s2, bc rolin has no new ideas of substance and always wanted to prioritize shallow spectacle and shock value over like. character development and emotional sincerity

#the vampire lestat #text

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RHAENICENT in disguise

#house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower

dlsintegration

As the dust settles and i can bear to think about this season, it is quite telling that despite the heavily racialized violence enacted towards louis (and the treatment of every single black character on screen), racism as a concept is quite literally never brought up in the narrative. Even the scene where daniel tells louis tv execs weren’t interested in a black man’s voice ("no, we want the white guy") meant nothing: what we originally thought was the foundation for broader racial commentary within the season and a way to question audience reception bias and sidelining of black voices (in line with the scene of the trial and its examination of white-centric fan reception) was just a throwaway line in an unending list of throwaway lines, and feels almost cynical in hindsight. Yeah! We sure know you wanted the white guy; it has been made abundantly clear.

At the end of the day, iwtv will always be remembered as a beautifully written, beautiful researched text interested in the intersections between race, gender and the concept of monstrosity and immortality. TVL will go down as a reactionary tv show that isn’t just apolitical and uninterested by race but is actively and cynically antiblack as well as being fundamentally anti-victim.

#tvl spoilers #the vampire lestat #text

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Having sat with my thoughts for a few days now, I think the thing that i keep returning to when it comes to the way tvl failed (outside of the pacing issues, which i think are a huge problem but i don't really have anything more to say about them that they exist) is the focus on Lestat. I don't mean making Lestat the main character, of course, I think there is a way that could have worked. I mean the way they went about it here specifically, and I think I can split the problems it created into two distinct sections.

First, the writing for all the characters who were not Lestat suffered. Gabriella, as interesting as she could have been, was extremely one note, shallow (and misogynicstic). Daniel was reduced to a much less complete and three dimensional version of himself than the one we have seen during previous seasons and so was Armand, though I would argue slightly less so (I did like his apology tour as a concept). Everyone in the band was completely forgettable and I remember absolutely none of their names completely. Nicky too was very one note. Claudia was written..... hm. I liked the idea of the scene and the idea of her being rightfully mad at them but I hated how that scene was written otherwise and I don't like how she was portrayed. The only other character who I think had any good material at any point was Louis and that too comes with a huge "BUT". For good or for bad Jacob and Sam have insane chemistry which did really show every time they were on screen together and I did genuinely like the whole idea of the Regina plot (outside of the reveal that she was an Armand plant which ??? added nothing and in fact made her a lot less interesting 😑) because I think it had potential to really explore his complicated mental state around Claudia, but then I hated what they did to him in the Claudia scene and I really didn't like how they framed him in this last episode either. As a white person I don't feel entirely equipped to go into the specifics but I think a lot of the criticism about the racism in this season is very very warranted. Many have said the writers hate Louis, which I don't a 100% agree with but I do think it is true that it is clear they like him much MUCH less than Lestat in a way that is both deeply telling and super embarrassing and causes them to fuck up when it comes writing him a lot. Which brings me to:

This season also did no favours for Lestat. Which sounds weird bc this whole season was about coddling and babying him and being in his feelings, but that is what I mean. THAT is bad writing. Part of what made the first two seasons so interesting was the slow unraveling of subjective truths, memory and denial. Louis is so compelling because he is so lovable and sympathetic and yet also clearly flawed in very human understandable ways. Daniel's whole role in the show was to poke and prod and challenge Louis to get at a deeper truth, so that the viewer and Louis himself could understand his life better. This season did none of that. Lestat was almost always in control of the narrative. Even when Daniel was challenging him, he was doing it in juvenile and shitty ways. At all points we were supposed to be on Lestat's side. Instead of the complex, flawed, dangerous and yet simultaneously loving and complicated character he was in the past seasons, he was presented as a guy who was mostly thrown around by circumstance and mainly reacting to the people around him, instead of being an active participant in his own story. His breakdown began but didn't go anywhere. He started seeing the muses and at some point the show kind of forgot about that. He was doing bad and loved his shitty mom and we knew this in ep 2 and then nothing about either of those things changed until the end of the last ep and even that was a very small moment and not much of a catharsis. What did we learn about him? He is sad? Bad things happened to him, most of them outside his control and he feels bad about it? He's a in denial about being a victim of some of those things and people? Were those new things? These things were told and then told again and again and again and again and again and none of it went anywhere. And through it all, he was challenged very rarely, and never by the audience. There was never a scene where we were supposed to not be on his side. Even when he was being challenged and questioned we were not supposed to also challenge and question him, we were supposed to want him to stand up and show everyone the middle finger and walk away. But I wanted the show to challenge him. "I have the blood of akasha, I can't help myself" is a bad excuse for his behaviour that the show should have spent real time interrogating but nope, it was barely questioned. Daniel truly interviewed him once and that ended with Lestat mind manipulating him. Claudia barely yelled at him and only focused on Louis (and 🤢 that scene... ugh). The roundtable at the end only again repeated all the stuff we already knew and ended with what? He's a failure but at least he is trying? He survived that stuff and now is trying to move on? That is an uninteresting angle to a character who by this season had been nothing but interesting. This season wanted to explore him sure, but it did so poorly because it refused to challenge him, and instead focused on showing all the ways in which Lestat's behaviour and problems are totally understandable and sympathetic and not in his control which... to a point yes, but also to a very big point, no. The show never coddled Louis like this, never painted him in a similar light as a merely victim of circumstances, and I am glad bc it would have been boring! Because this was boring!! And I am really disappointed about it.

#the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers #text

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A second thought save them all from my provoked rage...Where is Louis?

#loustat #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #tvl spoilers #interview with the vampire

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