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navree · 1 year ago

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i think that, compared to the memories we see of him being so much larger than life, so bombastic, so terrifying, compared to even the last episode where louis builds up his return as this great imposing moment, lestat slinking in the shadows as he inches closer and louis intones about how He's Coming only to be revealed with a great flourish, it's very interesting that the first time we see lestat, the real lestat, devoid of bias from anyone's memories, seeing him through our own eyes for the first time, he's anything but. we see him for the first time and he's fragile and, in spite of his nature, very human.

#personal #iwtv #iwtv spoilers #is this anything? who's to say i slept like ass and i've been nauseous all day #but there's such an interesting contrast in lestat's return in 2x07 #where again it's this moment that's built up with so much anticipation and this glorious return (in spite of the circumstances)#but the first time we ourselves see lestat it's not at all like that #there's no flourish there's no grandiosity #just this fragile all too human man who feels so very normal #like the personality is there and whatnot but the energy is different #and part of that is circumstances and grief and all of that but it's also just #he is still a person at the end of the day and a lot of what we saw from him in louis and armand's memories was almost that of an idea #the intangible Essence of lestat rather than lestat himself #whereas here there's no biases or illusions to come into play and muddy the narrative it's just lestat #anyway sam reid's performance was godtier

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