only the impossible...

I feel like seasons 1 & 2 took the most powerful and beautiful parts of the book and built on them. I could really feel Anne's voice and the essence and meaning of the books, even amplified by the changes made to the characters and storyline. I'm just not feeling that with the new season. Yes, the tone of TVL book is different to that of IWTV book, but there was still a beautiful introspectiveness with profound prose and philisophical questioning. It wasn't the complete 180° in tone that people like to say it is, and that the show has seemingly ran with. Lestat is a very intelligent and beautiful character, with a voice that should be used for more than cracking a million dick jokes and spewing brainrot. For me, the show has not really built upon or even emphasised any of the most powerful parts of Lestat's backstory and childhood. Yes his relationship with Gabrielle is integral to his character, and I do like what the show is doing with it, but I worry they're focusing on it too much at the expense of the other influences on his development (the wolves, the theatre troup, the monastery, etc). And as for the more subtle details, I feel the tone of his childhood home and what made his upbringing truly awful has been really lost.

lestat spending the episode trying to get around explaining the incestual relationship with his mother and then at the end defensively saying that it's different for vampires even though they have to come up with cover stories for other people and both acknowledge that it's not normal and lestat told louis his mother was dead to avoid explaining it