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"I also feel, by the way, that if we let it [the show] rest here, we've reached a natural caesura because, basically, if we end here, it's the story of a man who is destroyed by grief, who also happens to spend his time with dead people, and who goes on a kind of inner and spiritual journey to process his grief by spending more time with dead people. And I think he gets to a point by where we leave the third season, where he's not sure what's going to happen next, but something is growing which he thought never would – and where that sliver of ice in his heart is maybe starting to thaw... that's good enough for me.

I'm ready to leave it behind now, I've had a good time, but I'd also happily do more." - Bertie Carvel

(TW: Incest, sexual assault)

An episode where we resurrect the dead daughter of Louis and Lestat and what could POSSIBLY be the main focus of it? The dead daughter of Louis and Lestat, perhaps? No, you silly goose! Lestat fucking his mom!!! That's what this whole fucking season is about!!!!!!! Incest!!!!!

I cannot even sit here and write sensible critique anymore at this point because I am just so tired of this absolute bullshit. They have reduced Lestat's character down to nothing but a poor little vampire lacking any agency, and trace almost every single problem and decision hes made in his life back to Gabriella (NOT Gabrielle, because this show has nothing to do with her). Like you had a 500+ page book examining all his complex traumas and struggles and instead decide we're going to center it around ONE FUCKING CHARACTER! And not only that, center it around abuse he never suffered at her hands!! She was an awful mother, neglected him and abandoned him, but the one thing she did not do is SA him. It is so boring, uninteresting, and lacking of any nuance what so ever that the only reason I give even a little shit is because Sam's acting is so heartbreaking and it's objectively a fucked up situation that's disgusting.

And thats not to say I don't think Lestat is a victim. Because he is. And they had that coming straight from the books with Magnus' kidnapping and rape of him; Episode 3 was really, REALLY good in exploring Lestat's perception vs reality of his turning, and I think that could have been a season long battle he had with himself instead of suffering at the hands of mother dearest literally every episode. Even episode 6, in which the focus on Claudia was taken away so they could instead talk about Gabriella:

The lead up to the seance wasn't about tension building between the two grieving fathers about to summon the daughter they killed from the dead, and perhaps the old trauma and abuse it would stir up, but instead about a sex tape (that we just HAVE to see to understand btw) getting leaked between Lestat and Gabriella. Lestat has a break down in the streets not because of anything related to reminders of past traumas between him and Louis or the guilt/grief he feels towards his dead daughter but instead because Louis demeans him for abuse the show runners have made up. And then the seance happens, and when I tell you my draw dropped when Louis and Lestat sat on that bench after learning that they have damned their daughter to eternal suffering and Louis essentially goes "soooo, that was crazy 🤪 anyways about you fucking your mom". WHAT??? We don't think Loustat would be a little shaken up over that? We don't think its a little ironic to overshadow the characters who's whole issue is being overshaodwed? Over INCEST of all things??

Recently, after years of graduate school, supervision, and an exam, I reached the highest level of social work licensure in my state. The schooling and Board requirements are the least of what it took me to get here. It would take me years to explain what this means to me.

I have no doubt that my experiences with sexual violence and the enormous trauma they caused led me along this path.

Somewhere out there, in another world, another version of me might be living a life that looks very different.