the difference between louis' unreliable narration and lestats is that with louis we had a framing device that was anchored in reality and daniel was constantly asking clarifying questions or finding holes in the story and we got to see louis in present day go through journey of examining how he remembers his past and what hes choosing to ignore or gloss over. the show never made you forget that this was a story being told from a limited and bias perspective. but in tvl, we lose that framing device. we are technically listening to lestats recount of the events of tvl on the "failures" recording but there is absolutely nothing besides the occasional bit of narration and daniels "youre listening to the failures" twice an episode to remind us. we have not revisited the auction. they promotional material and interviews really gave the impression that this was gonna utilize the format of a documentary/concert film much more heavily than it did. it drops that approach right away and settles on only the occasional reminder that everything were seeing is technically from lestats pov. but we also see things that happen way out perspective of lestat. how does lestat know about the conversations between armand and daniel? how does lestat know that louis and regina went on a pedal boat at night? how does lestat know about the conversation that larry had with that fan? in iwtv, we were deliberately tied to louis' perspective and whenever the story reached beyond that it because we had things like claudias diaries or armand chiming in or daniels recording from that night in '73. and those perspectives raised questions about how they lined up with louis' story and who was telling the real truth. but in tvl everything that is technically lestats retelling is just framed as the objective, present day reality. nothing in the show is asking me to question if what im seeing is the full truth or something tainted by lestats feelings. the closest we get is that interview where he talks about nicky BUT even then that is an interview told WITHIN lestats retelling of events. i feel like they had such an obvious yet clever route to go with adapting tvl and completely tossed it out the window.
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