Vampireloverboys

i follow a ton of fan artists and none of them have been making art based on the events of tvl. it's either iwtv era stuff or AU art. many have just moved on completely to other shows. i also noticed a lot of people decided to start reading the books and they're now retroactively disappointed at what was left out.

the writers didn't need a big budget to do this season justice. they should've stuck to filming in europe and kept the one concert scene to the final ep. they didn't need to be on the road and visiting different cities. it didn't add anything whatsoever to the story.

rolin got snippy and blamed the budget because "you find somewhere that looks like europe and north america" but 1) many productions have achieved this. europe is a frequent stand in for north america and 2) you didn't really need to. europe has hotels and concert venues. it also has many, many old and grandiose churches. it has forests and huge country homes with acres of land, largely unchanged with time and it doesn't always cost that much to film in these places. there are period-accurate costumes for hire. you didn't need to have scenes of a tour bus on big wide north american roads or to film in canadian cities as stand ins for US ones. all we needed was daniel interviewing lestat interspersed with flashbacks. they had the fucking formula perfected. it was right there. then they could've shown the band rehearsing in any studio and built it all up to the concert

they could have given us a satisfying adaptation with the budget they had and the reason they didn't is because they didn't want to

they had a vision of rockstar lestat touring and fucking and doing drugs and recording music and that's what they prioritised over any actual story

what was the point of the failures? what was the point of lestat consenting to a interview with daniel he didn't want to give?

rolin repeatedly said the audience didn't just want two guys talking in a room again, that we didn't know what we wanted, that this season was going to be fast paced rock n roll. he made exactly what he wanted to make

Armand stans are furious because he only had like 15 minutes in total this entire season and because, once again, he was turned into the unhinged, ultimate villain of the season, just because the audience needs a punchbag, and the writers decided that it's always going to be Armand.

Louis stans are furious because he was made to apologize for being a bad partner while being horrifically tortured and abused. And because he has suffered various racist micro-agressions throughout the season by various different characters, including Lestat.

Lestat stans are furious because he literally got nothing to do other than having introspective hallucinations and he has no agency or personality outside of his victimhood and woobification in this season.

Daniel fans are angry because he keeps using racist slurs and tries to sound like an edgy wannabe teenager while he's supposed to be a Pulitzer winning, serious reporter.

Claudia fans are angry because even in death she's disrespected and used by Loumand to reestablish their toxic love for one another.

Nicolas fans are furious because the character appeared merely in flashbacks for like 3 minutes in total and then as a fuckass hallucination.

Gabrielle and Marius fans are angry because they are nowhere to be found (no, what we got was not them guys).

Loustat stans are angry because they didn't even share a kiss and their relationship progression was hasty at best, completely unearned, and extremely disrespectful to Claudia.

Nickistat stans are angry because they got absolutely nothing except for one flirt scene at a tavern and then absolutely nothing at all.

Loumand stans are angry because their relationship had a violent ending rather than the emotional, mutual understanding and reconciliation that we were hoping for.

Lesmand stans are rightfully furious because they made the ship completely one sided, with Armand truly being in love with Lestat while Lestat only ever saw him as a hole to shove his dick inside, and otherwise as boring and pathetic and not worthy of his time. While, in the books, the two of them are absolutely fascinated and in love with each other, and Lestat is always super affectionate with Armand, and even after all the bad blood between them, they still DEEPLY love and trust each other.

And, of course, Devil's Minion stans are also rightfully furious because we have been teased for four years and properly baited for two years to get us to show up and bring our online engagement for TVL, with all our enthusiasm and love for our ship, only to receive pathetic crumbs and implications, and to have Armand and Daniel's 12-year-relationahip turned into a 52-year, one-sided stalking (fuck you, writers).

even armand saying armends and girlies was so weird to me like pls bffr.

this guy was still saying electronic mailbox just a few years ago in the shows times now he’s apparently on tiktok?

“but am i as boring at the blather committed onto the ferric tapes of your fascinating boy”

or

"we're still doing that scene from merrick tho, right?"

"GUYS, hear me out: armand diss track"

"i know, lestat is a rock star now, he should have a sex tape leaked"

"haha redd-EET"

"daniel and armand doing youtube videos together!!"

"#justiceforantoinette"

"let's fucking behead lestat, NO ONE will see that one coming"

"do you think it's okay for claudia to call louis n-word?"

"awww shit we forgot about DM. let's throw in some DM real quick"

Can you imagine how good that scene could have been if they were just sitting in a room together? No body horror, no weird fish eye filter, just Jacob and Assad delivering the performances we know they can deliver with the chemistry of the s2e5 fight???