#I'm telling you guys this is what's gonna wake Lestat up

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Lestat is about to wake up by the sheer power of his will just to board the next flight out to Dubai to tell Daniel 'Disregard' about Armand's comment about them fucking

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IWTV S2 Ep3 Musings - Daniel & the Talamasca (SPOILERS)

I can see what the reviewers meant when they complained about the Talamasca & Daniel.

We start off with Daniel nervous AF, tryna keep tabs on all the mindscrewy shenanigans (at the sushi restaurant on his lunchbreak or whatever).

Today's... etcetc Cell phones, google -- Daniel, your handwriting effing sucks. San Francisco. Polynesian Mary's Playboy magazines as a doorstop? doorstep? |CLAUDIA| Mary's cab. Coke...etcetc. Alice. They'll come for me and Kate next--you bet your arse they will! XD THIS TIME I WON'T SAVE YOUR LIFE

He draws an arrow from Save Your Life up to Playboy--I assume cuz those are two incidents with Armand that took place in SanFran?

I really like the Omakase bit--

About how many risks Daniel's subjecting himself to under the whims of these vampires--but also about Daniel's hubris/arrogance breaking the rules of engagement by thinking he has any say over what they do and what he gets out of it, by stepping onto their turf. If you can't take the heat, GTFO their kitchen.

I'm only just now noticing the foreshadowed titles of Dan's books. 🤦 Burning & Blood--AMC swears they're hilarious.

OK, Raglan's been stalking Daniel's career just like Louis did. So my early suspicion about Daniel breaking the NDA was right.

Which is SO EFFING STUPID OF HIM. They're gonna find out! Loumand's literally drawing out this giant tragedy about what happens when vampires--Armand, specifically--are LIED to, and you're gonna pull this mess on them!? You're not even being SUBTLE!

AGREEMENT.pdf--Daniel, you in danger girl.

Raglan, stop tryna gas Dan up b4 they put him off commission permanently. He's no body-snatching psychic CROOK like you.

Get this nosey bish offa my dang screen.

Oof, right in the Devil's Minion feels. U_U

O__O WOAH!? OK, so aside from Dan (played by EB, a white Jew, along with JK) throwing shade at Caucasian European Israelis (which we been knew), he's implying that Armand & Louis might be persons of interest in the UAE by the Israeli gov't & assassins, esp. cuz of their ties to powerful people. But it's funny cuz that's the exact same thing Lou asked about him.

So Dan's telling the sushi patrons there's Israeli spies/assassins crawling around Dubai--STOP, b4 you get that place John Wick'd! XD

Not MI6. 😭 I said JOHN WICK, not JAMES BOND. XD

Raglan's gone full rogue then--if he was still working for the Talamasca he'd have darn near unlimited funds--they got that dirty TEMPLAR money. 💰💰💰

Yeah, and they don't actually call the Talamasca by name in the ep itself--only in the Insider interviews the producers give.

Daniel, why TF are you talking SO EFFING LOUD, when Raglan's whispering, tryna act like he's on the phone NOT talking to you in case y'all ARE being bugged. 🤦 SUBTLETY, my guy. What kinda investigative journalist are you?

I'm starting to suspect they're not gonna do the rockstar!Lestat, and instead this stupid Great Conversion's gonna be what wakes up Akasha/Amel, when their blood/consciousness gets stretched way too thin with all these new vamps being made.

To attempt an interview...? I believe that. We already know Marius & Lestat stalked Talamasca members for decades upon decades. Ain't no way NO vampire ever tried getting close to humans & talk about their lives to someone out of loneliness or something. Esp. the ones not attached to the European covens & all their stupid Great Laws.

Rest in Preternaturalism, Raymond Gallant.

BLENDERS! XD But this is THE most Anne Ricean answer imaginable, cuz everyone lost their ish when she had her vamps flying around with GPS-trackable cellphones in their pockets as they KILLED people. Rookie mistake. 😂

Armand was on a cellphone in S01E07, and he is LITERALLY married to his iPad, so PLEASE, sir. 🙄

There's Santiago's COMPLICIT speech coming back. Ain't no moral high-ground here!

And I figured Armand/AMC was gonna pin it on AMC!Lestat, and his jaded version the Savage Garden.

Armand says technology distracts humans from vampire crimes, but what's distracting vampires from psychic/Talamasca crimes, huh?

ISTG these are the laziest vamps I've ever seen; they care so much about their privacy & security, but aren't reading Dan's mind at all? I hope one of them just casually name-drops Raglan or catches Daniel in the act or something.

Raglan said Daniel's laptop was "comically vulnerable," and uploads a bunch of data files on it from the Bibliotheca Talamasca bestiary/archives--WHY? To help show Daniel he's helpful & trustworthy?

RJ: Omakase? Louis: The conversation was easy and flirtatious.... Armand: And combative. Louis: And combative, yes. Daniel: Arguing as foreplay. RJ: Peruse at your leisure.

I hate this effing show. 🙇🙇🙇

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something that haunted me waking up this morning after ep6 is honestly not knowing which way louis is going to go in ep7?

[what follows is speculation, i don’t know anything/don’t want spoilers, i’m just going off what we’ve been shown in show/in promo]

louis’s in a surprise murder trial and he says he can’t think beyond the knowledge that lestat is alive/here? i did not expect them to foreground that in the trailer.

this is the guy who was wandering the moors eastern europe and paris FOR YEARS hallucinating his dead ex—and for most of those years, apparently, one who was appearing as he last saw him, soaked in blood with a gaping neck wound, right? that “i’m gonna fucking kill you” guy.

paris!dreamstat was a softer iteration. he’ll eat your criticized art photos and talk about his sentimental suit and scoff at the awkward fumblings of your new bf. but he’ll also tell you to show him you love him the only way you gruesomely know how to love.

louis still feels GUILTY. and then his guy shows up alive.

so when faced with these attempted murder charges is louis going to buckle? the man is disoriented, freshly betrayed, and has been cracking under guilt and sadness of the murder for YEARS.

but also: fuck the TdV. fuck this kangaroo court. fuck santiago. louis despises them all. and he has to protect claudia and madeleine.

but lestat shows up to (I'm guessing) to condemn his daughter. how does louis cope?

bc I get the sense lestat has been put in a position where he has to put on a show. the dude was literally forgiving louis as he was cutting his throat open, he's proud of Claudia's moxy (per SR), we know blame's not an issue where lestat’s coming from.

there was a promo photo of claudia’s diaries being used at the trial, and if they contain what they contained in Merrick, it’s an understatement that that’s going to momentarily kind of fuck louis up in regard to his solidarity with claudia, or maybe just his self-loathing. so I can’t guess where it would go from there

(I know ultimately things go to shit and presumably louis goes Carrie White.)

IDK I JUST NEED YOUR SPECULATION. tell me your thoughts about Louis. about everyone.

the others--

as for claudia, I can't anticipate anything but furious outrage. had no problem tossing that dude on the grill, even if she'd known anything about these rules she's sworn to uphold, fuck these vampires.

and Madeleine's just hanging on reliving her post-war mob justice.