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"Season 3 does address the trial and Lestat’s grief about Claudia, but it doesn’t massively recontextualize his reasons to participate in the play like some thought it would.

“There’s always stuff going forward. Look, I think he went there,” Jones tells TV Insider. “For whatever reason, and maybe there’ll be more reflection of this, she did try to kill him. They’ve all tried to kill each other.”

“There’s this sainting of Claudia sometimes that is interesting. I always found when we were adapting it, I think it’s very hard when you read the book. Why is she killing Lestat? The motivation is interesting in the first book,” Jones continues. “So, did he go against his will? No, I think all of this is about [Lestat] was a willing participant and in the middle of the trial beginning to have these out-of-body experiences of, ‘What am I in the middle of?'”

"I think he comes in with great rage. ‘They manipulated me and murdered me and left me in a garbage dump,'” Jones says of Lestat’s motivations. “By the time he’s there looking at both of them [things change]. I think otherwise, that episode, the trial has no dramatic movement whatsoever.”

"In our show, people do bad things,” Jones continues. “Because they’re monsters and these extraordinary figures, they just do what we do in our normal failings, but times 100. And we get to see the extremities of what’s possible in humanity through them. So, you can’t have a series of minor misdemeanors along the way as an immortal soul and as an immortal monster. You have to have crimes in there, and you have to at some point move on or forgive yourself and try not to repeat it and just try to endure.”

Kelli Boyle always asks the real questions! Personally, I'd still like to see Lestat address his motivations more directly and to see what, if anything, happened between Lestat and Armand when Lestat arrived in Paris.

I was re watching Season 3, and caught something Louis says when describing Lemuel in 3x05: "He doesn't count time like it's a badge. I go nights not knowing where he is." It's not simply the words itself, but Jacob Anderson's delivery, as though Louis is equally appreciative of this mindset while being fascinated by it (possibly because he can't yet comprehend).

And to me, not only is that a mindset that makes more sense in a vampire who's been alive 6000+ years. But it's also reminiscent of a line from Khayman's chapter in Queen of the Damned:

>Yes, the moment, the moment was splendid. And the moment was all he ever had. After all, he would forget this time too, wouldn't he? These nights with their exquisite details would vanish from him; and in some even more complex and demanding future he would be loosed again, remembering only his name.

I know there are plenty of theories about Lemuel being Khayman or Seth, I'm not theorising anything new there, there's literally dozens of ancient vampires he could be. But I do think this is a hint that he's definitely an ancient rather than a younger one.

Hey!

I'm excited to see what they're planning for us in Season 4, but there are two things I really need to see addressed, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Basically, my two questions are:

• How likely do you think it is that we'll get answers to these two questions in Season 4?
• And what do you think they'll reveal about these two things? Do you think they'll stay relatively faithful to the books, or do you expect them to go in a completely different direction?

1) More information about the trial.
Not necessarily a full revisit, but at least a few lines that reveal what actually happened for Lestat. Was he threatened by the coven / Armand? Did he come to Paris in the first place because he needed Armand's help after Louis and Claudia tried to kill him?

There are so many hints in Seasons 2 and 3, yet we still don't have any clear answers, and the fandom is incredibly divided. A lot of people still believe Lestat willingly participated in the trial, while others think the exact opposite. We really need some answers.

2) Lestat and Armand's actual relationship.
What really happened between them? In Season 3, other characters refer to Armand as Lestat's ex, and every time, Lestat neither confirms nor denies it. But there are also plenty of hints suggesting it was never really a relationship.

Did Lestat force himself to have sex with Armand to protect himself and Nicky? I honestly have no idea. But again, a lot of people in the fandom believe Lestat simply cheated on Nicky and had a consensual relationship with Armand, nothing more. That would be so different from the book and, in my opinion, would contradict many of the hints we've been given. Even the song "Big Boss" feels like a major clue, as does what Lestat says to Armand in Episode 4 during the shower scene on the bus.

Thanks! 🥰

This is a really good, I highly recommend watching it. It explains the abuse and how it affected Lestat throughout his other relationships…

I honestly never really liked Gabriella in the books either but in a recent interview Hannah talked about how much she cares for her. I don’t know how they will ever redeem her but we shall see..

Episode 3.01 begins with the auction of the failures & a bidding war between Armand, Louis, and Raglan>!(if we're going off The Body Thief: possibly Lestat in Raglan's body).!<

I suspect Louis has the deeper pockets (younger than Armand, but seemingly more business acumen) and Raglan might be the most eager >!(especially in that case)!<. Then again, Armand could manifest 100.000.000 Yuan just through the power of sheer spite.

So who do we think won?

I've been a harsh critic of The Vampire Lestat series from the start to the very end, but there is one thing I have to give it a massive credit for - it doesn't take it too far in an effort to make Lestat sympathetic.

When Anne Rice promoted Lestat to the protagonist in the second book, she tried so hard to make him likeable he became utterly unrecognizable. I dreaded the show pulling the same shit and revealing that, actually, Miss Lily and the two priests Lestat slew in a church while Louis watched were all vicious criminals who "totally had it coming", and Lestat is really a vigilante who only feeds on "bad guys." Boy oh boy, was I not looking forward to that.

Well, they didn't do it. Lestat is still a vicious killer, the narrative doesn't try to retcon away his every sin, and I respect the show for that. They may have taken things too far in the other direction at times, and they've mishandles the story in a dozen other ways, big and small, but this one, most ridiculous folly of the book? Yeah, they've avoided that. I can still recognize Lestat as the character we were introduced to in seasons 1 and 2.

Hello, beautiful unwell! As you know, our vampires are attending San Diego Comic Con this weekend for their panel and no doubt other announcements and shenanigans!

It's not clear if we will get any more content from the convention or interviews today or tomorrow, but we'll see!

Please feel free to use this post to share photos, clips and other bits and pieces of the cast if/when they're spotted outside the official announcements, as well as to discuss SDCC and (if you're there) arrange meetups with your fellow coven members!

Official clips and interviews can also be posted to the subreddit separately.

I can’t figure out why there is all this hand-wringing and worry around season 4, and Lestat somehow playing a lesser role, or not getting more of his backstory.

I feel like they’ve already hinted at more flashbacks. Take the scene with Enzo, for example. What does it tell us?

We know that after the carnage in Paris, Loumand sailed to Egypt, settled in New York for a time, as well as San Francisco. Armand says in between, they were “Here, there, everywhere…and Dubai”.

Could that mean they went to Vienna?

We know that Lestat was there at the Christmas Market, in 1953. Was he following them around the world?

Louis asked Lestat if he’d been in New Orleans the entire time, and Lestat insinuated he had been. But…Lestat lies.

Clearly, he lied about this. Lestat says he was in a foul mood when he killed Enzo. I imagine watching your exes honeymoon around the globe would have that effect.

I think we are going to get a lot more flashbacks, plenty of Lestat, probably some Loumand (blech), and more of the story.

Do not fret! In Hannah we trust!!

Or they could do their own version of the star wars christmas special.