#ivtw claudia

[pinimi]

cannot BELIEVE that they made Louis the one to babytrap Lestat instead

[reyenii]

[interviewiththevicious]

Claudia Claudia Claudia… where to even begin? For an episode called no pain that’s all I felt. This woman has been denied every type of love imaginable from the start. her mother died before she could know her. Lestat never wanted to create her. And louis can’t love her enough. Even when she finds the community she’s traversed a war to find, they don’t want her.

[ultrapoppet]

As a Lestat lover slash apologist I know he's done a lot of fucked up shit but I'm still sad and mad about the season 1 finale.

I know he prevented Claudia from leaving and was shitty to her and Louis. But even in Louise's editorized memories we hear Lestat say if Louis rejects him he'll go away and Louis never does. He can never make up his mind or has the strength to leave Lestat until he murders him for Claudia and my poor murder baby is sitting there and announcing his undying love with his last breath and telling Louis he's happy that he can share his last moments with him while Louis stays silent. That's devastating and Lestat at least deserved Louis's honesty which he never gets.

[ivyithink]

monsters playing in domesticity, ah, how i missed this trope

slightly different colours and atmosphere + some details

[butterfc]

season 2 of interview with the vampire mother of god!

Claudia had it coming!!! as much as that sht pained me she did!!

but lestat was fucked up to do HIS DAUGHTER like that!!!

And this was all Louis fault for bringing her in and using her in his toxic ass relationship!!!

so much hurt so much toxicity !!!

but in the end they loved each other, they genuinely care for one another. all three of them were dealing with their own trauma and unfortunately used it against one another

AND FCK ARMAND!! MF KSKS I HAD MY SUSPICIONS!!! god Molloy was so smart jeesh what a character, MVP for real!!

god this series has moved me like no other. everything was fucked up was wrong af was cruel af. but at the same time it was beautiful and so poetic and so ugh

that last scene of lestat and louis broke my heart. the pain of two parents losing their daughter. i hope they find each other again at one point.

[vandrawsing]

episode 6... one big pyjama party

[bgbrry]

@pikslasrce you asked for my review of ivtw so i wrote up some of my thoughts! been quite busy for a few weeks but i have a few spare hours in the car so i wrote down everything i had brewing in my head. might do a revision some day because this is quite disjointed both with when this was written and having only one (and a halfish) watch. iwtv spoilers dia don't look everyone else probably watched it already.

it's definitely a very intense experience of a show, with the writing probably being the singular most standout thing about it to me. i really enjoy the process of storytelling as a narrative device, so this framing worked super well for me and i was invested the entire time. i liked the way both seasons built up to their explosive finales, with S2 being the one i personally liked more. the theatricality of that particular season really set the tone for the story, highlighting how the way the narrative is told affects our viewing experience. it acts as more something more rehearsed compared to the simple personal conflict of season one, really demonstrating how different the interview is with and without armand's involvement. with that being said, im really curious to see what the particular storytelling style of lestat will be in the coming season, how his certain persona will affect the story being told, and also what that would be.

as a note on the writing - i enjoyed the way the show discussed ones "humanity" and personhood as concept inextricably linked to how they interact with the society around them. you can feel a very personal connection the writers had with the question of taboo, morality and how it affects your perception in society, others you in a very internally understood way. there are a lot of moments of small symbolism but this big overarching theme ended up being my favourite, and im curious how it'll progress with daniel being turned.

i very much loved the characters, they're all fleshed out in a way that feels more "real to life" than just understandable archetypes of a certain character, with the performances elevating this, small moments of expression or reaction i didn't even notice on my first watch but that either elevated the depth of these characters (specifically with daniel) or re-established their innate characteristics (very much with claudia). i don't think i can pick a favourite, as all of them worked incredibly well in the narrative as tools to progress the story, but also the fact that the narrative is largely just a study on how these types of people interact with each other and their relationships definitely helps. and the relationships here are definitely the strongest part, affecting every part of the work. so while there's is a bit of a sadness in, for example, not knowing much about claudia or daniel in the same way we know loius, it adds to a uniqueness in the way the narrative functions. in this way this show is a very carefully crafted and intricate mechanism, with every character, no pun intended, playing their part.

i am curious if they will develop how exactly their powers are supposed to function, as (at least for me) it seems that they work on the rule of cool, which, while not always good, can be frustrating. i don't think a long winded lore dump would fix my problems, but maybe a more in depth exploration of how (for example) one vampire can teach something to another one, and why exactly ones blood can be more powerful in a tangible way.

i had a small problem with the way the show was filmed, while all the shots are very deliberate in the framing, some were quite poorly lit or sloppily executed (ie the nails on the vampires being kinda inconsistent in the appearance?? maybe i missed something but that stood out to me), it was rare but they stood out to me when i saw them.

but to balance out there were a lot of visual elements that i loved or appreciated (specifically the costuming, not an expert but it looked delightful to me). both cgi and practical effects worked well, and i loved the multimedia integration of animation in the theatre sequences in particular. it's such a small detail but it elevated every scene set in a theatre for me tenfold.

overall, it is definitely a show that leaves you with room for thought, i do not think one can walk away neutral from this, which is always a compliment to a work. i can't speak on faithfulness of the adaptation, but as a standalone i was left impressed and curious to see more! honestly a really good time

[hailwestexas]

i’m gonna admit something to you guys when i first watched ivtw i didn’t realise claudia was recast until like 2 episodes in

[phoenix-alive]

IVTW spoilers

the trial episode really got me because of how seeing the trial unfold showed us insight into not just the coven's perspective but lestat's perspective that previously would have been written off as his narcissistic twisting, but now louis himself was remembering things he'd been in denial of and giving ground to some of lestat's feelings and actions. particularly the part where we see what really happened with the creation of claudia into a vampire, and the fight that has been depicted before as lestat's violence towards louis, when in fact had been a mutually violent affair. I love seeing the ugly side of louis because it's not just that we're seeing it, but he's remembering it, acknowledging it, and the narrative we've been fed where he is the victim of lestat is opening up into a greater narrative, where we see a vulnerable person who harbours his own violence intertwined with someone who brings out that violence in him

[mejomonster]

I have been listening to Interview with the Vampire audiobook since hey the amc show is in October and I missed the vampire chronicles and

1 I forgot so much of the later half of book, my memory really means things are brand new after like 3 years ToT rip

Im very much appreciating that it was a big book to switch to telling a vampire story from vampires pov, which I realize now I do appreciate a lot and it's probably why now I enjoy when monster stories decide to go monster pov route

Hearing that it was sort of a historical fiction (from maven of the eventides lovely youtube videos) so much clicks into place. How Louis is a symbol for his generation of rebellion and feeling he doesn't fit, feeling so Much. How all the vampires personalities and traits to some degree serve as historical parallels or references to feelings of a time/place/attitude, how a lot of the settings and general plot showcases location and daily life. Yes it's vampires, but it's also just 2 dudes living in New Orleans, then 2 dudes having a daughter they spoil in New Orleans, then 1 dad and his kid traveling Europe and eventually settling in Paris. The kills of the vampire life are occasionally focused on but it's like... mostly everyday life scenes with a vampire twist and historical setting showcased. Armand and Louis conversation in the tower with Armand saying how Louis is attractive and desirable for BEING an embodiment of rebellion and feelings and change really hammered that home for me. It's an aspect I like a lot about the novel that I barely noticed let alone appreciated the first time I read.

The narrator pronounces Louis the English instead of French way, which I just can't get used to lol cause the movie imprinted on me ToT so that's the funniest thing to me in the audiobook

I have come to appreciate how much vampires get written as sort of creatures Separate to human. Yes Louis sometimes views becoming a vampire as a dark gift/curse, but overall there's vampire stories that treat vampires like dead versions of their alive selves with magic aspects. Then ivtw treats it more like: theyre alive so long as vampires, personality evolving with time as expected, that their vampire life is like a New Life as a New Creature. A creature who sees diffetent, eats different, feels differently, and wonders in its lonely life if there's other creatures and what their own meaning of existing is. It's like humans in the sentience, but a new species of animal wondering what their purpose is and their morals are or should be or what society is or should be and if there's god and if humans are equal to them in worthiness, or if a human to them is like a mouse or ant to a human, which is to say so much less in the consideration of sentience some humans don't much think about if they accidentally step on an ant or if their dog manages to eat a mouse at least not to the degree of thinking it's a huge crime. I have seen some vampire stories go more this route as it feeling a wholly new creature, and others swing opposite and make vampires feel very much like humans still but cursed/altered (like Shadowhunters, and my own writing usually).

Louis has awful taste in men lol. This is subject to change if future books make Lestat seem better (as I never finished future books lol), but like. My dude Louis gets hitched with who he thinks is a dull gold digger, for some reason doesn't break up though. Then when his lover "dies" he keeps mooning over him with longing like Louis! A little late to recognize u liked him a bit! Then u like Armand, who couldn't care less if ur dear Claudia dies. And u really say u love him! Wow Louis, worldliness really appeals to u huh. If Lestat talked about great thoughts and mused over it despite u know, knowing nothing like Armand doesn't truly know much either, u would think Lestat was charming way earlier dude! Louis is the example of that person who likes an emo guy singing in a band cause "he seems so deep mom" but then given a similar guy who doesn't sing is like ugh he's so uncreative and bland and material. When it's like Louis honey get to know both ur jumping to a lot of I Love You conclusions after so little time ToT.

[vandrawsing]

my blorbette excellente ✿