Re: 2x8, Found it eerie that Lestat didn't move (at all? much? his position didn't change, just where he was facing, as if he was chained??) at the tower when Louis confronted him with Armand.
So excited to learn the full picture of Paris arc in the coming season...
It's definitely a little eerie, and I do think the scene will be revisited down the track, but I don't know if I think it means Lestat was chained? Lestat's obviously a frenetic character, but I think the creatives on this show have been having a lot of fun playing around with the idea of Lestat as a hurricane - to the point they even have Armand outright say it, haha - and I think finding these moments in the eye of the storm is a huge part of that.
They've done it a bit, after all.
The reunion is, of course, the most heavy-handed example of it (and I love it so much, but it is heavy-handed, haha), but also his pause in Antoinette's bed, him letting Louis and Claudia kill him, him looking powerlessly at Claudia as she burned. I think they've been really deliberate about finding the beats where Lestat surrenders to the moment, whether willingly or not (often not), and the stillness that comes with that no matter how much he's hurting.
I've said it before, but I think Lestat's surrender in that particular moment is actually a really important part of underscoring the apology during the trial as something real. Regardless of anything else going on, the last time Louis tried to leave, Lestat dropped him from the sky. That is an open wound between them at this point in the story, and acknowledging that he hurt him - as he did in the trial - is something important, but relinquishing any say in Louis' life and giving him the space to make his own choices is as essential a point in their relationship eventually healing, because Louis needs to have absolute autonomy away from Lestat in order to make his own choices and also his own mistakes.
(And mistakes many of them are because this is a gothic romance, so of course the narrative punishes them all for it, haha.)
But yes! Regardless, I do think there's a good chance that the show's going to go pretty all-in on him being in a worse state than Louis remembers, both at the trial and in the tower, and I am also very excited to get the full look at the Paris arc! I'm just not sure how his movement (or lack thereof) might come into play.
