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hey, if someone wanna follow me because of my old iwtv posts, my warning is that in the next few weeks this blog will be mostly negativity which i post under "iwtv rant" tag. also i still haven't decided if i'll leave or stay in iwtv fandom but i'm definitely not gonna post as much meta about it anymore (and fanart is a random rare thing anyway, so you should not follow me for fanart lol).
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You know everyone and their mother is yelling at Louis to stay away from Regina and yes he should stay away from her, but no one wants to talk about what led him there. People love the "never been about me" to say how selfish Louis is to not let Claudia rest on account of his guilt. And sure maybe there is some selfishness- but Gods do people truly think it trumps the grief he feels? Do people think grief, anger, guilt, loneliness, selfishness, and even hope, all of these are not intertwined within Louis? The fandoms want complex characters but then somehow can't help but reduce those they don't like- women, characters of color and even within them black characters- to a one tone note, and then blorbofy the next white male character that comes along. How different would it have been if Louis had a friend whom he could trust- did this fandom ever ask that? And that's another thing: for a long time the moment Louis started to trust someone, he immediately had his trust broken ( Lestat/Armand/Daniel) . So tell me how different would it have been if after everything Louis found someone who was willing to just sit and listen to him as a friend would do. Would he still be chasing after ghosts of dead daughters?
I once read a beautiful meta about how at his core Louis is lonely character. He withholds telling his lovers how much he loves them- but does that not in turn make him lonely too? Louis De Pointe Du Lac was a gay black man in Louisiana during Jim Crow. How much did he withhold- how much had he had to cut and trim himself like a bonsai to survive? Weight of the racist world, weight of a family who wants him to take up the mantle and be the MAN of the house, worry and love and grief over his brother...my God can you even imagine? All of those things bottled up within him. How can anyone ever expect him to shrug off all of that weight of him? And so who to tell so as to not compromise the image you have built to survive? Whom to share with? Who is there? So he used to visit Lily. And he brought back Daniel and talked to him throughout the night and into morning. And he reached out again to Daniel and invited him back to Dubai.
What I am trying to say is Louis needs a friend. Someone to sit with on a park bench and to talk and talk like old men do. And maybe he will have that one day; he was afterall trying to gently rebuild a friendship with Lestat before it all imploded with the release of that damn book and Lestat going "oh woe is me!!!" Yes 100% Regina shouldn't be swept up in Louis's life story, just like Claudia shouldn't have felt like she had to be her brother's keeper; but gods the way you all start to talk and then keep on talking about Louis- as if it is impossible to imagine someone lonely, who has been fucked over by life, to try and grasp at ghosts of a deceased loved one. His spark in the dark, remember?
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This is not intending to come off as harsh to you directly OP but it’s going to be direct in general.
Even if it is meta, it’s still racist marketing to sideline your POC cast and compromise, as stated in another post, their visibility in order to do so and there are still promotional materials that Sam is doing solo as Sam Reid, the actor so there is no explicable reasoning why Jacob could not do the same as Jacob Anderson. We weren’t the one who called him co lead or co main. It was the showrunners themselves who have been reinforcing that and reassuring fans of that so why is it not being reflected in the marketing?
Can we honestly say that if we were a new viewer tuning in fresh, thinking that this is a new series as so many already are due to confusing brand changes and conflicting marketing on whether it’s itwv 3 or tvl S1, that we would know by this promotion alone that this is the ‘Loustat show’ or that Louis was a central character in previous seasons or that JA is supposed to be co-lead of this season?
No because he has been thoroughly disregarded when it comes to promotion for it and the same DID NOT happen when Sam was co-lead of season 2 even with reduced screen time
We still haven’t even got a clear answer as to how much of the show our co-lead and supposed to be second in the cast list is going to actually be in. From the way screeners are dodging the question which is a very simple question to answer without spoilers, the guess is not as much as his co-lead label would suggest
Some POc fans predicted this would happen; that it was being referred to as the Loustat show and Sam was being so heavily featured in marketing for a season he wasn’t in as much only to reassure white audiences and a racist network that a white led season three was coming. They laid out exactly what would happen from Jacob’s sidelining (with particular focus on him because as co-lead, he should have been a dead cert for shared promotion) to redefining the show with a solo white lead to the network going all in with marketing and promotion and I honestly wanted to believe it was an overreaction but everything has played out just like they said it would
Sam was put forward for an award for a season he wasn’t in as much alongside an episode 5, considered the most critically acclaimed episode and focusing on only Louis, Armand and Daniel, and yet it was Sam’s performance that got the award attention (and he deserves the awards but the question is why does his Black co-star who carried S2 not get the same attention?)
The same way we will suddenly see Rolin ‘we don’t care about the hardware, awards don’t really matter to us etc’ switch up when it comes to award season for 3 (or TVL 1 because that what it appears to be)
We have Mark Johnson on record giving Sam sole credit for the show’s success and doubling down when he tries to recenter the attention on the ensemble cast (to make it absolutely clear, Sam is not the problem. The system is)
Go back and look at the promotional run for S2 and you will see how a lot of it focused on pre-promotion for season 3 instead of the actual season in question. You will see how even with Lestat’s limited screen time, he is still very visible in the promotional material
They have absolutely mis-sold what this season actually is. It is not the a continuation of the ‘Loustat’ show, it is not a show with two main leads, one of them Black—it is a NEW series spin off that is even being promoted as separate on the very network platform itself and it is a new series with a SOLO white lead
The reason why they can’t feature Jacob Anderson more in the actual promotion is because they haven’t actually made a show where he is still co-lead and where ‘Loustat’ are still the primary focus
this ask is from may 27th.
i agree with everything you said, anon. in retrospect, it becomes very clear that they didn't promote jacob/louis more because they didn't have enough material with him and didn't even plan to give him a lot of screentime. and again, we all know about the book, we know that louis wasn't really there for the most part, but wasn't the goal of expanding modern storyline is to include other characters more? apparently not.
and louis will have a bigger role in the next three episodes, but i don't think louis fans will find it particularly satisfying. louis doesn't have a lot of development this season, it's just a rehash of his trauma and grief again which eventually leads him to lestat. and his trauma and grief and even love for lestat were explored with much more nuance and attention in the previous seasons. and while i don't mind them reopening his wounds again, it really feels like the don't know what they wanna do with the character anymore.
basically, yeah. all of it was intentional. they wanted old viewers to return for this season, so they baited us with "more louis" and loustat. but the goal was never that. i think the goal was to get new audience for long-running series with low stakes that's easier and cheaper to produce. and they didn't want this series to be associated with a gay black man as the main character.
but really, it doesn't matter in my eyes now. they strategy didn't really work. most of the people who watch the current season are people who liked the first two. and a good amount of fans are disappointed by the changes in the tone and quality of the writing & production. while this strategy of focusing solely on lestat could pay off in a long run, it seems like what happened is that they mostly alienated black fans of the show, alienated book fans even more and didn't really get more of the new viewers to boost up the numbers. lestat is also... not super compelling in this season as the main character. it's not the same as the books. idk if everyone would wanna watch more seasons that are focused on him only.
Hi, I was wondering something about Daniel fans. Do you think the majority of Daniel fans are genuine (like he’s their number one) or just DM shippers? I know he’s a white man in the fandom so there’s a lot of them because of that. But I was wondering the ratio between genuine and dm shippers. Is it a lot, even, or small?
i think most of daniel fans are dm shippers because, let's be honest, his weird relationships with fucked-up vampires is the most fascinating thing about him. i don't think there are many solo daniel fans who also don't ship him with armand and/or louis. but they exist and i'm pretty sure i interacted with some of them.
i think there's also a group of people who find luke or eric attractive, so they focus on daniel mostly because of it... they enjoy making up headcanons about him, turning him into much more complex character. and i'm not saying that he's not complex in canon, but i think he's the least developed character out of main five (in the first 2 seasons, i mean). and maybe there's also a group of fans who enjoy that freedom as well! i usually prefer to focus on supporting characters because i can expand much more on their backstories and characterization. louis is a rare exception lol.
I get where you’re coming from not feeling too great about the new season. There’s something just not connecting for me and I don’t know if it’s the meta promo that’s throwing me off and making this season feel emptier or what. I’m not convinced that they’re going to retain that gorgeous gothic tone and vibe that I fell in love with because I’ve seen none of that in the teasers or trailers but what is really putting me off is the emphasis on pure misery that I keep seeing from everyone involved and the screeners. S1 & 2 weren’t always the easiest watch but everybody is selling this series as a complete downer and I’m not sure I want to emotionally invest that with likely another 2+ years long wait until any resolution comes and everybody keeps selling this season like we’re gonna need therapy sessions after it
And the fact that Louis seems to be getting the worst of it like we haven’t watched two seasons of him getting betrayed, racially abused, beat up, manipulated, lynched and now we can expect even worse? And Rolin seems to delight in putting him through it too. Like is this show just gonna be seasons upon seasons of them trying to level up on how much misery they can put Louis through and how they can top themselves on beating up on him?
I might watch the first one or two eps and try to gauge the tone and whether I’m up to watching the whole series from there but I’m really not looking forward to this season as much as I thought I would be. I think if the wait between seasons wasn’t so long, it wouldn’t be as bad but I have a feeling they’re gonna end on a cliffhanger and I really don’t want to be dealing with that so yeah, I understand your apprehension
this ask is from may 24th, i wonder what are you thinking about new season, anon? i feel like all your concerns were justified and most of them have come true. both the fact that we lost gorgeous gothic tone (and not-so-gorgeous gothic tone as well, let's be honest) and the fact that rolin seemingly enjoys putting louis through the worst.
and considering the worst is coming, i wonder what is rolin's thought process: does he resent louis so much or he simply wants to get the most devastating acting from jacob? i know he wants louis to be desperate enough to run back to lestat, but also there's something pointedly sadistic in the way he's treated...
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you can't even imagine how frustrating and lowkey humiliating it is to sit at work and randomly think "gods i hate lestat" every 30 minutes
"louis and lestat's conflict" and i thought it's gonna be funny and heartbreaking and maybe a little more ridiculous than it's ever been, but instead i now think louis is literally a saint for living with that man for 30 years. if i was there, lestat would be rolled into the carpet on day 5.
if i had to guess from the way loustat is treated this season, as well from what they said about lestat being "friendless" when he's recording his narration… i think loustat are going through yet another divorce in the future. very bitter one but not as aggressively petty as their 2025 one? lestat in the future mocks louis' depiction of gothic romance in the book and call him "insane" but makes a note to edit that part out. at the same time, it seems like lestat in 2025 is mostly genuinely upset, petty and defensive about the book, but lestat in the future is much colder about it.
it's like he recognizes that he was acting like an ass in 2025, but also something happened that made him and louis lose connection again and he's genuinely bitter now. what the fuck happened again…
the hate for lestat's new eyebrows is real, everyone who dislikes them, i'm your ally and don't let them silence you. /hj
we can and should have a conversation about exploitation of women in louis' storyline, but let's not forget that lestat pays dee for sex and blood while his lawyer calls her "the drug mule". and he probably doesn't even pay her that much.
apparently people are saying that "it's different because lestat actually hired her" so i guess it makes it better that lestat fucks his employee whose job description doesn't even include sex work?? where the logic?? where any kind of rational thought in this fandom??
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louis & regina storyline terrifies me for multiple reasons, and one of them is that i have a lot of nightmares where my dead relatives come back as weird doppelgangers. it's always the same scenario where i know the person is supposed to be dead but they "come back" and seemingly live the same life but it's never exactly the same person. i even had dreams like that about my family's dog.
idk there's something so scary about that to me... and sometimes it stays in my mind when i'm awake and "replace" some of the memories about them with the same undercurrent horror as i had in my nightmare. if louis starts losing the sense of reality, well...
like sorry but his daughter died a horrible traumatic death and he unwillingly was in a relationship with the man responsible for it for 80 years and then the man he chose to open up to sold him out and that group he sold louis out to used louis’ pain and grief to manipulate him and have him kill the coven and bruce and it opened up all the old wounds and he came across someone who looks JUST LIKE HIS DEAD DAUGHTER. and he’s alone and lonely and hurt and grieving and no one even thinks he’s worthy of or deserves an apology for everything they’ve put him through and yet somehow he’s the worst. he deserves no empathy no understanding no compassion. everything he does must be malicious and selfish and evil. his pain his grief his suffering doesn’t matter at all. it never did.
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Look at this—right in the song 'Big Boss'? AMC shouldn't get away with this. The characters of color are being used as jokes for racists.
hell.... this is unfortunate because it can be explained as a reference to 'kiss' band logo. but considering that they already associated armand with nazis through symbolism in s2e4 (and iirc daniel said something in that vein s3e4, i haven't rewatched), i think it was indeed a deliberate choice.
also... big boss... big brother. lestat is quite literally calling armand a dictator with the name of the song. this writer's room needs sensitivity readers asap because it's getting out of hand.
rolin saying that they scrapped it when it felt too well-written, then assad's "good luck getting through it" and all of them laughing… lmaaao
yknow what, lowkey "plastic fiends" is one of the best lestat's songs actually. not in terms of lyrics, but music and sam's vocals. it actually sounds like a real song if you know what i mean.
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