r/VampireLestat

I’m watching the uncut version in my rewatch of the season. It’s cool to see things that weren’t there the first time. But for the love of God could they actually cut to commercial at the right time?!

During Why Do I Have to Feel just as Lestat stops the crowd and flies to Louis it’s cut off by a commercial. I’m going to watch ep 3 tomorrow and I bet it cuts off at an integral part. I’m so annoyed!! I guess I have to go back to the regular version if I want to not be. GRR

I really love the music of TVL in general but I really like the songs from The Failures that have this like push-pull tidal feeling idk how to explain it but if you listen to "Why Do I have to feel?" you'll probably get what I mean.

The thing is idek where to look for bands with music like this, a lot of the rest of the music and aesthetic is more glam rock which doesnt really feature this sort of prominent polyrythm (its been a long time since I was in music class but I believe thats the right term).

Anyway any band, artist, genre and song suggestions/help is greatly appreciated.

Edit; Been spending a few hours looking on forums and music apps and this is a the songs Im using on my playlist so far;

The lestat songs mentioned above (+petit coup lestat ver. and plastic fiends)
Black Dog by Led Zeplin (!)
Ten Years Gone by Led Zeplin
Heart of Stone by The Rolling Stones (!!)
Quicksand by David Bowie
Kiss from a Rose by Seal (!)
Life on Mars? by David Bowie
20th Century Boy by T-Rex (!)
Telegram Sam covered by Bauhaus
A Horse with No Name by America and George Martin (!!)
Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones (!!)
Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones (!!!!)
The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie (!!)
Kashmir by Led Zeplin (!)
Psycho Killer by Talking Heads
So Lonely by The Police (!!!)
Changes by David Bowie (this song isnt exactly what I was looking for but it feels lestat core)
Dont Worry about the Government by Talking Heads (this reminds me of plastic fiends)
First Week/Last Week... carefree by Talking Heads (I just find this a fun song)

The songs marked with ! are the ones I think really line up with my goal in the original post. The Rolling Stones ended up being nearly exactly what I was looking for, Paint it black, Sympathy for the devil and Heart of Stone are just so strong.

I have read IWTV, TVL, & QotD, so I “know” how the storyline unfolds.

The way the writers have framed each episode and timeline… genius. It makes sense in the way the story is told via Lestat’s point of view. I know the book keeps is relatively straightforward but the jumping back and forth between past and present works.

And Armand? It added layers to a character that was treated as an NPC in the book versions.

I can’t wait to see how the writers translates QotD to tv.

I like supporting artists and I used to buy art on Etsy but lately it’s a nightmare to sort through the AI garbage to find real art. Does anyone know a better way?

Edit:

I’m getting DMs from artists but it would be best if you all could drop the links in the comments or names below so that everyone can find them

I just love this song. It has grown on me lately and for 2 days I have been listening to it non-stop. I think it has become my favorite.
The lyrics are so powerful and the emotion….
“We’re immortal lovers now / This is immortally cruel” just kills me. 💔 It sounds so good. 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️ It just breaks me, for a reason.

And the song is filled with quotes almost exact from the books:

“Rapunzel with the scarlet ribbon” and “a kiss to cut the lions mane” are references to Gabriella’s hair that Lestat helps her cut every night.

“Hunters of the Savage Garden / Splendid devils and a sea of jewels” this is taken from the books:
- Lestat is bringing Gabriella jewels that he think she would like (especially masculine rings)
- “Her fingers moved as if they had life of their own, could feel delight, and again she laughed. ‘Ah, but we are splendid devils, aren’t we?’ [she said.] ‘Hunters of the Savage Garden,’ I said.” (Vampire Lestat the book)

“let’s go darling” is also a direct quote from the book, one of the only times that Gabriella uses a pet-name like “darling” for Lestat, right after she is turned: “Is this true? his is a reference to a line in the original novel right after Gabrielle’s turning, “‘Let’s go, then, darling,’ she said, and she kissed me. I couldn’t move. I wanted to go back to the tower and just be close to her.” (Vampire Lestat)

“in my loneliness, he is everything” also taken directly from the book: “I have loved him as I have never loved any other being in creation**. In my loneliness, my son is everything to me.** How is it you can’t interpret what you see?” -Gabrielle, The Vampire Lestat

Daniel is a genius. I cannot believe how much love and attention these people give to the books and the characters. It’s amazing. ❤️❤️❤️

I see Louis missing Lestat, missing his spontaneity and reciprocal love. All he has with Armand is lip service and spite. He never intended to forgive Armand for setting up Claudia to be killed. I think between the resets Armand created in Louis’ mind, Louis would have left him much much sooner than that last witnessed suicide attempt. I hate to say it but Armand saved his life because he might have accomplished it without his intervention.

Lestat would have been there for him if only Armand had a spine. Soulless, spineless, rotten boy who I hope gains some bit of all that he is missing from his future companions.

In the end I believe Armand finally finds real love, and he deserves it by then.

There is an actress that appears in both the beginning auction scene in episode 1 and then again in the vampire restaurant scene in episode 6....I can't tell if she's a vampire in ep1, but she is in ep6 and I think it might just be a case of re-using extras....but. I noticed it. Anyone else?