It's just video after video of people cringing and going "i don't know if I can be okay with this" or "Ok, it's different for vampires, but still weird" or "the episode is spent trying to tell us that 'it's different for vampires, sure', and the episode is telling us none of these things??????

I get that incest is a really taboo, confronting subject, and that might make it difficult to process, but the show is telling us so much about Lestat's feelings?? It's right there! What exactly is it about the story that is telling you you should be okay with the incest??? If it was just a handful of people reacting like this, I wouldn't be as surprised as I am, but it's pretty much every video I've seen?

Even the responses that aren't just knee-jerk disgust or reluctant acceptance barely draw from what the show is giving us, and in one particular case resort to Freudian "strong mother figure" Oedipus complex nonsense?? Or then it's just a game of thrones joke.

Again and again, Lestat's perfunctorily flippant voice over addresses the elephant in the room, and his arguments/assurances get progressively weaker. We are shown multiple times that Lestat has never been in an equal position to his mother, and that she has taken advantage of that since their mortal life. There is an inherent power imbalance to their relationship (parent and child) that was only exacerbated by their abusive surroundings, and despite Lestat's arguments, immortality has not, and will not change this!

Lestat isn't an enthusiastic active participant in their sexual relationship! For God's sake, look at his face! His expressions alone should tell you everything you need to know!

daniel "a splinter of coldness in you" molloy: