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Should have seen my new obsession coming when this song came to me some weeks ago.

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Haven't seen anyone talk about how neat the opening title card is. I love these sort of visual tricks. In one sense, it's a camera pulling back to reveal a city skyline and a mirror of the skyline, upside down above it. A sort of reference to the sort of classic horror/fantasy idea that the supernatural exists in a parallel world to our own that we simply can't perceive.

Except, wait, those cities aren't mirrors of each other. The bottom one looks like it could be Dubai to me. And I assume the top one is meant to be 1910s New Orleans. So the opening is showing us the two main locations of the season. And they're facing each other, presumably to indicate how the story goes back and forth between the two.

EXCEPT, WAIT...it's ALSO very clearly meant to look like a mouth opening to reveal vampire fangs. Which is just a neat visual indicator of who this series is about...and the underlying threat. Like, the city could suck you dry, if you're not careful.

ETA: And as @desdraculass pointed out, that music in the opening plus the slow reveal of the light, really makes it feel like a curtain in a theater is opening. The music is the sound of a string section tuning (like at the beginning of a musical or concert or opera) and then sliding that tuning note up so it's sharp and a bit off. Cuz, y'know, horror.

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Using my Sideblog so I don't spoil my friends ☺️

Just noticed this is ehat I made this blog for. Because I love looking at onscreen romance and disecting it.

Oh guys I've got so many thoughts about these two.

The team seemed to be very excited to dig into a very messy relationship and wow did making Louis a black gay man help.

Louis is angry and unhappy and Lestat thinks of a sweet suprise the opera. To see a piece he was involved in. A point of pride probably and acomplishment made in secrecy to share with only your lover.

But the world outside disagrees doesn't it? To them he has to be your employee. And to enjoy your sweet bit of Rome away from Rome it asks of Louis to act subservient and for Lestat to play the role of the master.

Now I haven't read the books and it's been a while since I've seen the movie. But this scene and the fact that Louis explicitly says he was acting as if he enjoyed draining the Tenor paints a picture.

Lestat must have taken to being a vampire well. He told Louis family of a moment in which he must have felt endlessly helpless and godforsaken. Being a vampire must have freed him and he musst have hoped someone who felt similarly helpless must enjoy their new freedom just as much.

But Louis is wrecked by shame in the moment he's made. He doesn't really know what he's getting into didn't read the fine print and felt utterly isolated. It's perfect for a messy love story.

Effectively Lestat has isolated him and confronted him with the reality that no one will ever understand him to the core like Lestat does.

But through these obviously recuring fights it has become clear that they deal with things differently and that what should have been a blessing became an increasingly confusing existence for Louis.

Now I personally love this. I've always disliked the idea of vampirism and eternity making wholesome sexy lovestories. This couple is dysfunctional. Because of the age difference, the race difference and because Lestat is filthy rich. That was always gonna be a factor unless they were honest to a fault. But they're not. They're lonely and both seek a partner. One that looks into the softest darkest parts and says I chose you. So they drape themselves in their love for each other and build this shaky affair. And it's toxic and the story knows it's toxic which is why I can enjoy the hell out of it.

I don't hate Lestat if people think that because obviously I'm mostly focusing on Louis. I love characters like him. Who live without inhibitions and live an life of pleasures, but he's not the one telling the story.