r/TheVampireLestat

Controversial perhaps as I haven't been able to find a post with this opinion.

My husband and I were very excited about this season as we adore the IWTV show. Hubby was nervous he wouldn't like it while I was confident it would be different but still good. Like lots of fans Daniel Molloy was one of our favorite characters if not our number one favorite. His line delivery and clever remarks and questions combatting the unreliable narrators he was interviewing were perfect.

But in this season of The Vampire Lestat? Oof. Every line was hard to listen to. Suddenly a man with an edge and nothing to lose is the Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme. Trying so hard to sound cool and nothing lands. Every line of dialogue is too long, every reference to specific or bizarre. The writing is part of the problem but the actor is just struggling. It's the worst in episode one but the problem doesn't go away at any point in the season. He went from determined to desperate but this change in this character felt unearned.

His rambling angry speech referring to Armand as "Dad" was so awkward and felt out of character to me. Like I get it, Armand turned him and in the vampire world he is like a parent to him, but in the show Daniel successfully bullied the truth out of him, high-key blew up his undead life, Armand turned him, then Armand dipped. Where is this obsession with "You were supposed to be my dad and make me a cool vampire" coming from? It just doesn't seem like the way TV show Daniel would process the event of being turned against his will. Am I misunderstanding something? Did Daniel actually really still want this as an old man and begged Armand to turn him and be his dad off camera to explain his feeling of betrayal? Anger, sure of course, but betrayal? From Daniel's perspective, Armand is no one but a crazy evil vampire who has tortured him. Their bond should be completely one sided by this point until Armand reveals more information.

But even if I am missing details about the Daniel/Armand thing, Daniel's lines as still very cringy in this season of television. And that's my two cents. Is it just me and my husband who feel this way?

This is a beautiful song about loving someone who is struggling with their mental health and it has a gorgeous melody guiding it along. I know people really love “Brutal Love,” and “Stained Glass Eyes,” and “The Loneliness” (all great, although “Plastic Fiends” is my personal favorite of the other songs) and I hope more people come around to “Hit the Lights.” Even the name of the song and the thought behind the phrase is devastating. Ugh. I never thought the Nicky stuff would destroy me the way it did. Props to Joseph Potter. What a delightful human. And the strings are lovely on the just-released version but the “stripped down” original is, for me, the better of the two.

So I watched through all of the show and I swear while watching Marius telling Lestat how to take care of the queen he never mentioned “make sure she stays as stone, make sure she doesn’t rise” all I remember him saying is feed her ash, get her gifts and she will eventually speak to you. Maybe I missed it somehow while watching but dude was basically like Akasha chose you, I’m out. It’s like a trainer training you using all the shortcuts but not telling him exactly what the job was. To me he was a “unworthy” teacher.

I just wanted to say how much I loved the way they did this! I love time-condensing montages, and although I've seen it used backwards before, it's usually only a few short flashback scenes. This just kept going on and on and on. It was powerful and it mirrors the way I sometimes visualize what our brains must go through when the rest of the body is already stopped but we still have brain waves🧠. We must see and experience something during those last few minutes.

Maybe it's like that.

- Armand is Marius' fledgling > Marius chooses Lestat as the next Keeper.

- Armand spends 77 years as Louis' prison guard / errand boy > Louis still views Lestat as the love of his life.

- Armand shares his coven and Theatre de Vampires with Lestat > Lestat writes a diss track about him.

- Armand spends years stalking Daniel > Daniel spends (most of) season 3 openly hating him.

I would also be beyond pissed XD

Poor little gremlin

Anyone pick up on how Hit the Lights (Bare Bones) was almost certainly based on Butterfly by Weezer (on Pinkerton)? Took me a few days to think of where I’d heard it before.

Weezer (Pinkerton) - Butterfly (YouTube | Apple | Spotify)
The Vampire Lestat - Hit the Lights (YouTube | Apple | Spotify)

Daniel Hart did a great job scoring this season, the finale in particular. The rock songs are pretty good—if a little derivative (it is just a TV series)—but the orchestral pieces are amazing.

Go back and listen to the pieces playing over Lestat’s witch trial flashback (starts ~25:40) and “‘the soul’ chorus” flashbacks (starts ~38:00) at the long table in the finale (S03E07)—absolutely perfect. The strings during the witch trial… some of the best scoring I’ve ever heard. Can’t wait for the soundtrack album to come out.

i don’t post, like, at all so idek if i’m allowed to do this? but i spent a lot of time on this claudia/crane wives edit and i feel like the audio suits her so well!! i’m shamefully promoting it, it’s like 40 secs lolll

⚠️ SPOILERS!! for both all seasons!!! ⚠️

It was a brief glimpse, but it appears like he is using a running blade as an everyday walking foot. If Louis, a billionaire, century-old vampire with access to the finest technology on Earth, wanted a modern prosthetic for a high end auction, he would be using a state of the art microprocessor-controlled hydraulic foot and ankle (like an Empress, Elan, or Meridium) with custom leather shoe integration. He’d want smooth heel to toe rollover, energy absorption, and natural adaptation to uneven floors. At the very least he would be using even just a mid-level Renegade by Freedom Innovations or an Ottobock Maverick Comfort AT. Not a springy track blade meant for a 100 meter dash!

For every day walking you use a prosthetic foot that is designed to go into a foot shell, which is a covering that mimics the exact shape and size of a natural foot. This allows you to wear a sock and shoe. Those blades are literally just for running.
It’s always wild how television shows will hire entire teams of writers to map out complex centuries old vampire lore, but completely fail to talk to a single person who actually uses prosthetics in daily life. Truly think how ridiculous it is for a suave, impeccably dressed billionaire vampire to be clacking across a high end auction floor on an unhoused running blade.

I was thinking the latter, but then I saw Rolin saying that this season has only been HALF of Lestat's story so....I'm a bit confused about what the next season to come (God willing) will be?

In episode 3x05 daniel is on the street interviewing passerbys and armand talks to him looking like a staranger. Then he reveals his face. He is clearly using mind gifts on daniel to look like a different person. Am I flipping? Is there another explanation?

Edit: coupled with the fact that he can walk in the sun, did Armand fund a bunch of vampire scientists to overcome unpleasant side effects of vampiric powers?

Spoilers for Bojack Horseman

I don't know if it's a common trope, but I noticed a lot of similarities between episode 9 of Lestat and the second to last episode of Bojack horseman.

Where a character dies and slowly realises he is dead through the unrealistic dialogue of people he has killed/ have died around him (or in this case became undead) and then ends up being saved in the end. It's very similar. Was this also in the books? Or is this unique to the show?

It could just be a common scenario but this is just something that came to mind. Let me know if anyone else agrees!

I so badly want to do Butterscotch Bitch and Brutal Love 😭

Brutal Love has a great karoake template on YouTube, but the Butterscotch Bitch one is a little off. Or maybe it’s me who’s off 😅

Which TVL song are you singing?

...is absolutely perfect. 10/10. Literally, I couldn't imagine it being better. It's also very close to my headcanon Lestat as a long-time book reader (from way back, like the 90s lol). The only difference is I dont think Lestat has a French accent in my mind when I was reading the books, but that not even a criticism.

I liked this season, but did have some trouble with enjoying parts of it (you can look in my post history if you wanna know exactly). And I'm unclear if S4 is going to be TVL S2 or QOTD S1, but either way, given how the two seasons of IWTV worked so well, I'm going to reserve ultimate judgment of the show until the next part/season is released and until then I'll just say I overall mostly enjoyed it.

In another thread, u/Swimming_Barnacle_98 said this:

"While I do enjoy the show as a fun vampire show.. this doesn’t feel like The Vampire Lestat.

I also feel kinda bad for Sam because in interviews he talks about how he argued against some of the changes but then was convinced that they made sense for the adaptation, so while Sam wanted so badly to be book Lestat, he was redirected away from the source material."

Given how perfectly the actor seems to understand and captured Lestat, I'm very curious if anyone knows any more info about this? Like where they heard this and if any examples were given?

FWIW this isn't to bash the writers/directors/showrunners in ANY way, nor to cause drama. I'm just insanely curious about that comment. Thoughts? Info? Tomatoes? TIA!

Hello Fellow BU,

Obviously, I’m not a delicate flower, but I do tend to have quite a bad reaction to torture and have seen a few things that make me think there’s a fair amount in the final episode. How much is there? How bad is it? I’d really like to watch it, but keep putting it off because of this. Thank you all so much for any replies!