I feel like fans need to understand that tv shows need to tell stories very differently from novels like the multi-perspective thing in the books isn't going to work on tv cause audiences generally do not want to see the same events over and over again from different povs. Viewers want to move on to the next story beat so it just makes more sense to converge them and do it once in a big climax than show bits and pieces over many seasons like we don't need to see lestat's pov in paris in s3 when the audience already knows what happened with the trial and claudia. It kills the show's momentum to go back and rehash things that have already happened.
That's also why I don't think the show will retell much of s1 from lestat either like maybe some additional context but s1 will largely stand on its own for both creative and business reasons. I think suggesting events might not be real and can be retconned over the course of multiple seasons tells the audience what they're watching is unimportant and that they might as well wait until the show's over to watch since it might all be fake anyways.
I understand the protectiveness over louis & claudia's story cause this is claudia's final season altogether and louis's future will always feel a bit uncertain no matter what the execs say cause there's just no basis for his storylines in the books. and really I never trust any white showrunners when it comes to poc so I get it completely. But I really do not think the 1795 bits will take up much of the season (probably close to how much 73' san francisco we'll see aka pretty minimal) but I think getting the full paris storyline in s2 rather than over s2-3 is beneficial to the show and much better storytelling. AR didn't know wtf she was doing and constantly changed her mind years later so the books reflect that but it's really not very effective storytelling especially not for tv.
i'm still thinking about vampire ages and i feel like the exact age these vampires were turned doesn't really matter w/ the exception of claudia. like there really isn't a huge physical, psychological, or emotional difference between a 31 year old and a 34 year old. same goes for 32 and 34, that's basically the same age.
but being turned at 14 (or in the books, 5) means that every single second of the day claudia is reminded of how she's perceived by the world around her. time will always be more substantial to her, the years will weigh far heavier on her than any of the others. there's also something to be said about her being a girl/woman whose interiority is ignored in favor of how the world defines her. she will always be a child even when she's approaching middle age. she will never be able to have independence bc she will never seen as a fully capable adult. i love that she's the one w/ the diary bc that makes her a record keeper, she keeps time. forgetting exactly when you were turned is luxury that she doesn't have that none of the others recognize they do have
He was watching me with that old expression of awe and incredulity that I had seen a thousand times on his face. I was a fool for it, as the expression goes.
His beauty has always maddened me. I think I idealize him in my mind when I’m not with him; but then when I see him again I’m overcome.
Louis was standing in the door of the room opposite, across the hall. I drew in my breath. I didn’t say a word….I was unable to speak….He crossed the hall and put his arms around me and kissed me on the lips. “This is what you wanted, isn’t it?” he asked. Nothing mocking or mean in the tone. Shocked. Unable to respond.
Yet I felt closer to him than to any other visible being in the world.
I took a deep breath and looked away from him, wishing I could say what I really wanted to say. That I loved him. But I couldn’t do that. The feeling was too strong.
If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing—with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously with a confidential calm from what he must have feared for me, and for him, and perhaps for all of us.
i personally think they should stick vampire chronicles connoisseur sam reid and shakespearean stage actor assad zaman in a room together without a script and i can pretty much guarantee they will be able to perfectly replicate the armand/lestat dynamic within two takes. three if one of them is running on decaf