#the drop

This gifset is about the puppy. You decide who I mean.

The thing you say you don’t like they did like that, is it the drop itself? I mean (sorry, eng is not my first language), the fact that they used the drop as a way to explain or exemplify something?

I have thought before that they will do something with the drop because they showed us a revisit of the fight with new scenes in the recap, and Lestat has this moment in ep1 that I can’t get out of my head (when he’s so mad because the band is playing something wrong) and he starts shaking and his voice changes, I’ve been trying to talk to people about this and they don’t care, I don’t understand, they think it’s just to express how angry he is. But that’s not his voice, how do you even explain that, and he literally looks as though he’s trying to “suppress” this voice and regain control, and then he storms into the band’s flat. So that made me think it’s Amel, that he somehow already has Amel in him. If he has it in him, the question is since when, because it could be since NOLA and that would add layers to the drop.

Sorry for the very long ask, I ended up rambling too much.

To you later part of the ask: that... could be :) We'll see that, eventually. More re that will come in next episode :)

But no, it was not the drop itself, though that also seemed OOC at that point.

But I... like... immediately after that scene I was like... "that is not Lestat", in the driveway and outside I mean. He felt off, immediately. People, of course, did not take that kindly, and, in retrospect: how could they.

But for ME... it clicked into place almost immediately, namely with the next episode, when Lestat says, in 1x06: "I don't know what possessed me that night."

And I was like: "Ohhhhhhh."

*click*

SHIT.

The fandom took that as expected, of course.

And for me... like, I knew where this was going, for YEARS. I talked about it, I tried to point things out, I got called things for it.

I get the resistance to it. I talked about that, too.

But none of that changed anything about it, and then when Sam talked about it in Autumn's interview, it was the final confirmation for me.

When I say I don't "like" it I do not mean that they were not "clever" with the lore to spin it like that. No, they were.

But they also thought it ... IDK... "fine enough" to show a white character abuse his black partner and child with severe domestic violence IN THE YEAR 2022, to let that fester for AT LEAST one hiatus... and they knew they would eventually walk it back, to an extent at least.

And I did not like THAT, from the very beginning.

I do not like that the show set it up like that. Did not, still do not.

No matter the clues, no matter their playing around with the lore, they thought THAT was a good idea.

WTF, seriously.

But, as said before, it is what it is now.

It has been what it is for years now.

I have... more or less forced, made my peace with it.

Next expisode will... establish some things wrt all that *waves hand*

It will cause another meltdown when people realize.

But... there's no way around that.

It's been set up by the show for years.