#iwtv rant

Rolin has some real nerve having shit talked s1-2 and how s3 is SOO much better because “stuff actually happens” and then NOT delivering a better show.

I love TVL don’t get me wrong, but I’m agreeing with reviewers so far that’s it’s not quite up to par w s1-2 so far.

The story telling feels rushed at times, and it doesn’t let you sit with an emotional moment and feel its weight. My first reaction so the first two episodes of s1-2 were both filled with tears, me on the seat of my edge, feeling everything.

And yes I understand we’re supposed to be in Lestats head and he’s running from his feelings. But the story telling suffers from it.

Stayed away from Louis after dropping him from the sky which left him incredibly injured out of a profound sense of shame

Saved Louis at the trial, yes, but then left him to starve in ‘exile’

These are both situations where Lestat has knowledge that Louis is in pain and doesn’t check in with him. Many viewers can understand that Lestat can both care for Louis and his pain and yet be too human to rid himself of the shame of causing that pain and therefore withholding himself. However, when it’s Louis suddenly he must immediately divest himself of all pain to cradle Lestat. Louis is supposed to feel bad about publishing the book and causing Lestat pain and yet if that manifests in a way that isn’t groveling then it’s wrong.

I need to vent because I am incredibly angry about the absolute trainwreck that is Gabrielle’s adaptation in the new season. They completely destroyed her character for no reason at all.In Anne Rice’s books, the moment Gabrielle is turned, her 'Mortal Idea' dissolves. Her human morality and maternal bonds vanish; she becomes cold, detached, and rejects the human world entirely to live a wild, solitary existence.

She doesn't care about vampire politics. She SHOULDN'T care. But, no, the show turned her into a stupid cliché, power-hungry villain leading a 'Great Conversion' cult.

It’s an insult to the source material. Anne Rice is probably rolling in her grave.

And worse, this cheap, explicit sexualization of their dynamic was completely unnecessary. As an asexual person, this deeply upsets me. Anne Rice’s vampires don’t have biological sex; their intimacy is spiritual, aesthetic, and conceptual, centered entirely around the blood. The fact the show lore changed the gutted me, but now, by turning their complex, gothic bond into an explicit incestuous shock-value kiss, the show dragged a beautiful metaphor down to the gutter.

And to make matters worse, many critics are now viewing this through the narrow lens of modern human psychology, applying standard moral frameworks to beings that were meant to be beyond them.

It misses the essence of what these vampires represent in the literature.

Even if the show wanted to explore the darkness of their bond, it should not have been done through the limitations of human morality. It is so frustrating to see a masterpiece of gothic literature transformed into a cheap drama that relies on shock value and humanized over-sexualization.