#the way that jacob and assad have done not one interview together this season and yet a million jacob/sam ones…

[lesbians4armand]

personally i find it deeply boring that amc iwtv is so insistent on the main focus always being on loustat/lestat himself. yes he is the narrator of the majority of the books and yes he is a major character, but iwtv is interview with THE vampire, the vampire being louis. the main character is louis. putting more lestat into s2 works well enough to transition from s1-s2 and as a visual means of literally haunting the narrative but amc is starting to seem like its making everything about lestat, when it shouldn’t be (at least not during the events of the first book and this particular interview) it’s about louis. louis’s life, his relationships- with lestat but also with others (claudia, armand, his own family, hell even DANIEL)

tldr i don’t like how lestat seems to be becoming more of the main character than louis.

[mermaidsirennikita]

Why are you worried about iwtv season 3?

I get that The Vampire Lestat is the Lestat show (and to be real, that book has some great one-liners, but I find that the hilarity of Lestat as a character does a lot to overshadow how annoying it is that Anne Rice just... retconned Interview, truly the strongest book in that series) but the show is not the book series, and it's done a lot of significant work to make its own thing.

I get that the upcoming narrative is not principally Louis's, but they made decisions to center Louis's journey as a gay Black man in a way that really hasn't been done, as far as I'm aware, in the same sense on television. I worry that the narrative is going to sweep him to the side. I mean, I already find the comments about Armand's role being minimized... odd, as if anything, Armand gets more involved when Lestat takes center stage. And the way that aligns with the show's complete refusal to campaign for Assad, who not only gave an incredible performance, but was MUCH more significant to the s2 narrative than Sam, really odd.

Never mind that the press tour they've been shuttling Sam on has been completely devoid of any of the people of color, and again, all three of those other leads had MORE TO DO THAN LESTAT. Eric Bogosian had more to do than Sam. And I don't say this to shade Sam. I love Sam as an actor. I am also a Newsreader fan. Sam hasn't said anything to make me feel weird about him. It's when you have a producer on stage, basically crediting Sam for the show's success......

I wouldn't have even watched this show if not for a friend telling me that it handled Louis so well, and Jacob Anderson was the absolute heart and soul of these first two seasons. I get Louis moving away from the central narration in this next season, but if he's pushed aside completely.... Not for it.

Now, Rolin hasn't had a lot to say, and Rolin is ultimately the person who I trust. As long as AMC hasn't taken over more. But tbh, we've kind of seen the film before with a lot of TV shows before, so I'm surveying with a jaundiced eye and hoping for the best.

But yeah. I love Lestat. I love Louis and Lestat together, truly one of my favorite TV love stories of all time. But Louis is my priority, always, and I frankly wouldn't be here if this show prioritized the books above just making the best story possible.