#episode 5

i love the 3x05 loustat scene in the car bc we’re immediately right back where we started. louis launches into a monologue about claudia, trying to process something related to his responsibility towards her, and all lestat can think as he sits there listening is why isn’t he asking about me. he might as well be lighting playing cards on fire; it’s 1x05 all over again. louis is unable to move on (“claudia, come home. i know i hurt you, i know i can make it right again”) while lestat feels abandoned and retreats into jealousy and victimization. “next time someone tries to murder me, pick up the phone” is 95ish years removed from “i have patiently waited in vain for you to love me as i love you”, but they mean the same thing. they expose the same vein in lestat. so much has changed. this hasn’t changed. claudia is dead. but this hasn’t changed. do you think they find something a little comforting in that?