The Lestat Apologist

...only to finally sit down to watch it (in proper quality) and it being fucking INCREDIBLE, and UNHINGED, and EMOTIONAL, scored so brilliantly i CRIED, and basically everything i ever want from this show times a million.

the two black lead writers iwtv had 1) didn't work on the same seasons, 2) were men and only one was black american, 3) were always co-writers never sole. we have no idea if they have sensitivity readers/editors.

we've all heard heinous shit from family born in the 40s-60s. claudia was born in 1903. she is gonna say some wild shit to louis bc black ppl say wild shit to each other especially when we're mad. we should not be judging claudia by our 2026 pro-black standards. she is rightfully angry and trying to hurt louis. i say this as someone who's only read excerpts of merrick, they adapted her anger very well from the book seance.

The people in that room were all the people he loved and respected as well as all the people he had drained and killed in the last 200+ years. And he remembers every single one. From people who seem insignificant to the significant.

Paul wasn’t someone he drained, but someone he had unintentionally drove to suicide just as he did Nicki. He messed with a mentally unstable man and it led to poor consequences.

But Paul isn’t there for judgment nor penance. He’s there to remind Lestat on the few things he did right in his life. And one of them was loving Louis, as grotesque as that love may have seemed to him.

You could call Paul an Angel or some form of divine messenger. He’s just a gentle presence for Lestat to lean on as a quiet in the loud chaos when the lights go out.

fandom when the evil character does evil stuff: