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3x03: Vidyard, WeTransfer

*Apologies for the slightly harsh audio in places, a new audio setting sounded great in testing and then betrayed me. </3

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Lucian

You reacted to that whole car sequence the exact same way I did. I swear I stared at the wall in devastated silence for a solid couple minutes after that scene.

Emma

I need that “serving cunt has its consequences” cross-stitched on a pillow!

Vee

does everyone (non-vamp) on the tour bus have oral herpes?? what is going on. okay first of all here’s me pretending i don’t hear all these daniel death flags. second of all, he got turned on july 18th, but the interview ended roughly at the end of june? what happened there…… the magnus music video took me out but lestat does love to romanticise his own abuse. he calls it ‘the seduction of magnus’ in the books lol. great visual adaptation of him trying to repackage and sell his trauma to you (or daniel, or the public, or himself). “i want you to love me enough to give it to me” not gonna comment on that but book readers probably know who i’m thinking about. i mean yes on the theatre double entendre but i also heard “and have your cumbersome words in my mouth again?” as a kind of meta line because the last flashback we saw of this scene was from armand’s POV. him completely erasing gabriella’s presence is hilarious though. hates her ass! but #interesting that he never mentioned any of this or the nicki stuff in S1&2 even though it would have worked in his favour by making lestat look worse. also lestat’s “what is us?”, harshest of throwbacks to “are you companions?” and louis saying no. true re:lestat asking if louis hurt himself in S2, and he must have also wondered if armand would “help” him like he “helped” nicki. nicki's “I wished to serve the god of the dark wood” seems like an Inferno reference to match S1 louis' “If I was to join Dante’s Wood of the self-murdered” to me but i might be reaching. but it does visually mirror the scene of louis begging lestat to turn claudia. so "you will regret [turning her] for the rest of your life" is. hm. + nicki getting thrown into the fire adds perspective to lestat forcing claudia to watch charlie burn. daniel beaming at finally getting to lestat emotionally and making him cry, yeah that's armand's fledgling alright! i do like that lestat protected nicki’s privacy knowing claudia’s wasn’t. had to walk it off as well, i think i was handling it even worse lmao. i appreciate that louis' revenge feels kind of empty (you can’t escape the loneliness etc etc). and mind you he’s STILL using claudia! reading her diaries! it’s STILL not about her! really great scene. magnus and gabriella leaving the concert at the same time, you love to see it. is regina’s waitress outfit a yellow dress like claudia died in? cool. imagine being alex though. you learn vampires are real, you quit your band, you go to your AA meeting like a responsible person and the first thing you're faced with is this mf with his giant orange peepers staring right at you. anyway. what a show. can't wait for the backstage sections and your thoughts at the end of the season!

Olivia

desperately want to see more from armand in these coming episodes, the little snippets and scenes arent enough aha i need more! the daniel of it all is one thing but the mention of marius already has me on edge so im very curious to see where we go from there!

Seb

DEFINITELY the best episode this season and by a long shot. that sequence paralleling claudia and lestat was fantastic and genius but made me want to rip my skin off at the same time

Remi

Ep1, Daniel told Lestat that Louis told him about his stutter.

Remi

Witches exist in that universe, but I don't know if we get them in iwtv/tvl. AMC wanted to set up an Immortal Universe with the series Mayfair Witches (renewed for a 3rd season) & Talamasca (cancelled after 1 season), which are supposed to expand iwtv lore or even allow crossovers. Consensus of the fandom is that both flopped or that they can't hold hold a candle to iwtv/tvl (mind you, haven't watched them, so I'm neutral, just saw both of them getting dragged).

Don’tDrinkTheLuminol

Love your reaction, rewatched it, flower crowns to you! A few things to ponder for your rewatch (my thoughts, no spoilers, I haven’t read the books and none of this is based off cast interviews): We’ve got Louis using the cloud gift at Bruce’s house! When did that start? After Louis reconciled with Lestat and could push away the trauma of being dropped by Lestat because of the big apology from Lestat on stage during the trial? We’ve got Daniel knowing there was something of significance behind the stutter (it started after a traumatizing experience watching people burn alive, like Nicky later does!). When Lestat seems to contradict Daniel, I think it’s a “yes, and…” because two things can be true at once. Lestat brings the music box to America because Nicky was a great love, yes, but also to remind himself of what he’s capable of — breaking the one he loves. This calls back to him on stage in S2 in the trial and saying Louis was broken, Lestat knows, because Lestat is the one who broke Louis. OMG you pointing out the parallel of Lestat asking Louis if he hurt himself! While Armand was there when both Nicky and Louis hurt themselves. You’re amazing and this is why I literally pay to hear what you think. And I flash back to Lestat making Claudia watch Lestat burn her first love, Charlie, when Lestat talks about watching Armand burn Lestat’s first love, Nicky. In the recollection of Louis (finishing up Armand’s story) from S2, Lestat learned the fire gift after that night in the theater when they watched Nicky, then fucked off because he’s selfish and all about himself. NOW we know that Lestat fucked off because Nicky died very soon after that and Lestat was traumatized watching that. I HAVE TO KNOW what’s up with Magnus saying, “All the light is going out of your BLUE eyes.” Lestat had brown eyes as a human in this show! And the show made sure to bring this line back in the same ep where Louis tells Daniel that if he repeated something, it’s probably important. So there’s SOMETHING there with the BLUE eyes, I just can’t put my finger on it. I am not a book reader, but I’m convinced that things with Gabriella started before Lestat was turned because he looks at her when he says Nicky was his “first love.” Nice bookmark with opening with Lestat killing newlyweds and then Louis killing Bruce on his wedding night. And Baby J’s vampire nails when she finds his wedding ring in the ashes — she is going to be a problem. Louis isn’t sexy covered in blood, he’s sexy covered in vengeance. When he’s tossing cards with Claudia while he’s recovering from the fall in the first season, he starts to ask about Bruce, hinting that he can go after him. She asks if he’s going to be her vengeful knight (something like that, can’t look it up at the moment) and Louis says, I am a knight. I think that’s why he goes to Regina the waitress after avenging Claudia’s SA — that’s the closest he can get to telling her that he was her vengeful knight. My heart can’t take all of this, I need self-care now. Thank you for every thought you share, you’re the best reactor for this material.

Don’tDrinkTheLuminol

Oh, re: Armand’s scene at the end, the estranged guitarist at AA looks a bit like young Daniel. I wonder if Armand looks at him and worries about his fledgling’s new blood addiction. I also hope Armand is using AA to practice vulnerability and communication, but I’m hopelessly optimistic about Armand being better than what we’ve seen.

E. Soup

oh wow, your comparison of Nikki's death sound "oooohhhh" and the song lyrics that Daniel was joking about. oh. oh........ ...

Raefyn

Just want to add my 2c that the Mayfair Witches books are good (didn't really watch more than a few eps of the series), and yes in they are in the same universe as the Vampires Chronicles

ali

I watched all of S1 of MFW & it was alright. Some interesting stuff set up, but as a show-only fan, I can definitely 2nd the "doesn't hold a candle to IWTV/TVL." I didn't really feel that compelled to watch more of MFW. This is the 1st I'm hearing that it got renewed for not only 2, but 3 seasons. Kinda upset Talamasca wasn't better marketed. Had no idea that was happening at all. IWTV/TVL makes me wanna try to read the books (despite 3 separate failed attempts in the past).

Vee

oh btw! i was so distracted by the. everything else in this episode that i forgot but: did you notice louis fly up to that window when he was looking for bruce? (around the 15mn mark in your reaction) cloud gift louis has come true 👏👏👏

JML

Louis de Pointe du Lac and the inability to stay single for more than 5 minutes, with the couple photo of Lemuel and the check-in call and the assumption of a shared home with his "emotionally unavailable hookup." My guy this is what happened with Armand - you were having a hot and fun time flirting up a storm for a good few months and then you got obligated into being around so much people are calling you companions against your wishes and then you sunk-cost fallacy-ed your way into 70 years of marriage.