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Oh Claudia, we knew it was coming but my fucking god, what an awful way to goLink 1 (Google Drive): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mcqqG0OaYi4P7bOb6-7GPCR6a8bY2KHL/view?usp=drive_link

Link 2 (Dropbox): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4by6708fc4lqqlh4x4g9t/IWTV-S2E7.mp4?rlkey=jxn09yq22x0yntsdokoknm78z&st=ei6rzig6&dl=0

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j-l

im not ready :(

Hali

me neither 😭

Elizabeth Gates

I think Lestat's ring is just meant to represent his "marriage" to Louis. They emphasized in this episode that Lestat asked for Louis's companionship in a church on the alter and he accepted, and he's wearing the same ring during the trial.

Hali

“I could not prevent it” is such an apt title for this episode because I’ve gone back and forth on it but I truly don’t think anyone could’ve done anything to save Claudia. Multiple characters had their parts to play in her death – Louis for convincing Lestat to turn her, Lestat for his involvement in her condemnation, Armand for selling her out – but I think she was doomed from the moment the Paris vampires discovered her diaries/crimes. That on top of the fact that she’s a child vampire, and therefore a kind of abomination, sealed her fate.

j-l

she was doomed from the moment she was turned :( it makes me feel sick to think about, she deserved so much better :(

Hali

I truly do wonder if she ever even would’ve been happy with Madeleine. Or would she have been happy for a while before her mind finally broke and she couldn’t take it anymore? Her whole story is just so tragic ☹️

Hali

Knowing who Claudia is based on just makes her death hit even harder. Anne Rice created a child who could not die to cope with the grief of losing her daughter, and the child still died anyway. I’d love to know why Anne made the decision to make Claudia doomed by the narrative rather than be truly immortal.

Hali

I think Claudia calling Louis an angel also hit him hard because if I remember correctly, at that point in the story Louis had been struggling to let go of his humanity like Lestat wanted him to. Killing the man that sparked the riots was the first time he admitted out loud “I’m a vampire”. So basically, him succumbing to his monstrous nature caused Claudia to almost die. For her to call him an angel would automatically make him see her as his redemption.

j-l

claudias death hurts even more knowing that lestat actually warned her about the vampires in paris back in s1. i wish lestat had told her more about it but i get that he didnt bc of trauma, and i get why she didnt believe him. but god imagine if theyd never gone to paris, maybe shed still be with us :( i know she was doomed and wouldve died either way but maybe she wouldve lived longer and not died at the hands of the coven

j-l

i cant remember what ep but in s2 she brings up that lestat said the vampires in paris are vicious and how he was wrong about that :((( she thought she had found a home in the coven only for them to kill her... that whole coven needs to suffer

j-l

something about louis and claudia being ripped away from each other and louis being shoved in a box feels even more cruel to me than having him watch her die... idk how to explain but imagine being pulled away from your child and buried alive when you know theyre out there being killed. ik he was completely powerless on stage as well but he wasnt even able to be there with her in her final moments :(

j-l

the only positive thing in this entire episode is that claudia was finally put first. ''my coven is claudia'' is one of my favorite moments of the show :(( but its so fucking heartbreaking at the same time, i wish they couldve escaped and lived happily ever after together

j-l

i do think her end wouldve been tragic no matter what, she was cursed from the beginning :( i think lestat and armand were right about that, a child is not meant to be a vampire