"tvl is structured like that because this is from lestat's perspective and that's how the book is. the second book is a huge tonal shift from the first"
no...no it's not. have u guys read the vampire lestat??? this criticism and other "book accuracy" takes frustrate me because they're not true. the tvl season is nothing like the book. we barely get any of the flashbacks that are shown in the book, and when they are, they are incredibly rushed.
also,, i see plenty of people discussing how how the tonal shift from iwtv s1-2 to tvl s1 is accurate to the shift from books 1 to 2,, but i'm sorry i have to respectfully disagree. imo, the vampire lestat book is actually structured very similarly to the interview with the vampire book. it's even told in a decidedly not disjointed narrative, with a a large portion focused on the vampire's past. I'd say the most jarring difference is Lestat's narration -- but that's because he's a different character to Louis.
also also why the fuck is the rockstar element and the that fuckass band such a central element of this season. never really cared about them in the book and didn't have to. this season is trying to force me to care about these characters. like. i cheered when that ginger died can we please cut back to the actual characters.
Not to keep harping on this point, but I got to the part in the book just now where Lestat finds Nicki, post-turning, in the abandoned theater and he begins playing his violin for the first time as a vampire and the four surviving coven vampires begin dancing around him like marionettes and I’m sorry we could have had THAT but instead we got… several interchangeable extremely mid pop concerts?? Make it make sense.
