agree with op, on an unrelated note, I’ve seen a lot of people say realstat is a lot less fabulous and larger than life than louis or armand portrayed him to be…how would you look and feel after 80 years of depression induced quarantine in a dilapidated shack 💀
claudia revealing the plan, giving lestat the histrionics that come with it, and throwing his words back at him ( lestat you must think me an idiot), is one of the most satisfying parts of s1, there’s a moment where he looks at her almost prideful, that’s really evil of his evil
lestat finally getting to tell his side of the story and going on a world tour
daniel getting to do a documentary and follow up on his bestseller
louis being free after coming to terms with his vampiric nature and finding himself
armand subplot:
the vulnerability with which he says it, louis really is the emotional touchstone of his life, the marker of one of the happiest eras of his life, the closing of it, fledgling, friend, lover, murder, lestat was everything to everyone but louis was everything to him
reminder that this happened….lmao also the different accounts of this event, when Sam tells it in an interview he’s all “actually it was quite peaceful 😊” and Jacob’s like “yeah no you were freaking out”
“your name is louis, of course it’s louis, you’re the man who made me buy a townhouse in the quarter….I had planned to make a new life for myself in st.louis, that was to be my destiny, and now i know i was right”
me next season when people start liking lestat after seeing his backstory and start seeing him as a three dimensional character after years of purely villainizing him
I can’t think about the dreamstat plotline too much or I’ll get sick to my stomach, do you know how much you have to yearn for someone for them to become a permanent hallucination in your mind, for over 70 years?
the urge to reply “go watch heartstopper bitch” on every qrt that calls into question whether louis and lestat really love each other or says their love is “impure”
guys this just became so much more serious, it really wasn’t working for him and he was trying to tell them, madeleine first picking up on it in 0:08 😔
@angelsputinhell
My roommate was an extra on the show! It was just something that was mentioned in passing but I think they might explore it more in S3!
#iwtvspoilers
daniel single-handedly bringing loustat back to me, making ten million dollars, publishing a best seller, and getting the dark gift all in the span of a single episode is why he’s my # 1 boy
guys this is our last weekend as a small dysfunctional family before the netflix release, the show may or may not get a bigger audience, so think of your most beloved and hated accounts, because everyone that’s here now was here before extended family came over 🫶
don’t imagine louis standing in front of their vanity avoiding eye contact because he knows it’s the last night while lestat sits on the counter just smiling at him because he knows it could be the last time they have a private domestic moment like this :/
this isn’t a hot take but I think he was trying to get louis to get so jealous he ate antoinette, the way he just parades her in front of him and keeps looking back at louis like ‘are you gonna do something?’ he even stops smiling at one point, he did need that reset kill though
ngl the way lestat's cheating starts pisses me off so bad to rewatch… your husband feels too guilty to eat people and loses his libido, and so you… punish him by cheating in front of him… you gotta **** yourself bro
be a real fucking man and start rat munching too wtf 😭
daniel next season after lestat has walked out of the interview 28 times, broken down crying 65 times, and gotten into 107 screaming matches with him and it’s only day 3
“you were there when you and I went to see Macbeth, and I couldn’t stop dancing under the street lamps afterwards reciting the words, and Claudia thought I was so handsome and so witty and clever, and we would all of us always be safe, you were there”
underrated louis w is the fact that the rat diet canonically destroys your libido so lestat hadn't been having sex with anyone anywhere for seven decades by the s2 finale
Sam Reid said he was horrified by what he saw on twitter during s1, and by the way it wasn’t someone saying he got “mogged” in a group picture, it was worse, people saying he should be kept away from Jacob and Bailey, equating him to to an actual abuser as if he WAS lestat
you know what’s so deep to me? this scene, the smile on louis’ face and lestat’s ’don’t you shush me’, the domestic bliss in these fourteen seconds alone, come on tell me this isn’t THE ship of all time
#InterviewWithTheVampire
this scene is one of the scariest parts of 2x05, it’s the first time the audience is perceiving armand as a threat in present day and coming to terms with the fact that he is a menacing figure and not the loving husband we’ve been shown in the dubai timeline until this ep
jacob started saying something about feeling bad about being dismissive of the loumand relationship but then goes, “yeah it’s just they never made sense to me, sorry, I didn’t really feel like they did anything, they just travelled the world together” *laughs*
reminder that by the time louis and lestat reunite here they have been this catastrophically, devotedly, and completely in love for one hundred and twelve years
sam reid is on this interview saying most of what lestat does is unforgivable and he’s a monster working his way towards self-awareness if he ever wants to improve, I do not want to hear ANYTHING about how he’s a lestat apologist, he just understands the character
the fact that lestat and claudia probably read grace and levi’s thoughts and promptly decided they had enough and needed to get louis out of there, like that’s louis’ real family!
listen, I’m gonna get ratioed but it always stuck out to me that madeleine said “why don’t you tell him how much you love him” when it’s implied in 2x03 that loumand has been telling each other the “I love you” for a bit since at that point they say it casually
do you think lestat would’ve taken claudia trick-or-treating on halloween as a special hunt of sorts where they just went as vampires covered in “fake” blood and just ate anyone that was rude or gave small pieces of candy…I feel like that’s something they would’ve enjoyed
magnus turning lestat is abhorrent, but that part after where he goes and explores his powers in a nearby village, zooms through trees, jumps around, literally dances, breaks a tree over his leg, and then just randomly starts doing somersaults is top comedic material 💀
this scene in the pilot when louis tells lestat he’s glad he got off the boat in new orleans, that st. louis was “dull as dishwater”, for the first time ever louis wasn’t lonely anymore because lestat was there, before louis and lestat were anything else they were best friends
guys relax, they’re only saying no jacob at comic-con because he’s gonna come in and surprise sam reid like those soldiers that come back from deployment to see their wives with no prior announcement
oomf pointed this out so now everyone has to suffer, do you notice how lestat’s left arm is bent here? it’s because louis is holding his hand with the arm that isn’t holding his body….
genuine question, not trying to offend shippers, why do you guys think louis never says “I love you” to lestat or claudia but says it to armand if that wasn’t a deliberate narrative choice to show louis can’t say it to people he really loves, I’m open to discussion
the importance of lestat seeing himself as this uncontrollable monster who’s almost an addict to his wrongdoings and louis now saying it didn’t matter what version of him had met lestat he would’ve loved him anyways…he saw that monstrosity in him and loved him, chose him anyways
“How perfect he seemed to me as he stood there waiting with such kindness and such patience. And then, like a fool, I came out with it. ‘Do you love me now?’ I asked. He smiled; oh, it was excruciating to see his face soften and brighten simultaneously when he smiled. ‘Yes’”
-TVL
“You were there when I stumbled onto these shores and found you; and you were there when we lived all those decades together, you, me and Claudia, and you are the only one living who remembers the sound of her happy voice, her young voice, or the ring of her laugh.”
to everyone saying lestat didn’t make louis out of love, Idk what to tell you, it’s been confirmed that louis would’ve killed himself if lestat hadn’t found him in the church that night, lestat wanted him to live without apology because he loved him and saw his potential
hardcore corn plate alert: I just noticed these two dresses have similar designs but the colors are inverted, not even sure if it was done intentionally but it’s cool
“How totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a manycolored and luminescent thing, what would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have luxurious head of yellow hair.”
-IWTV
do you think about how post s3, when lestat is taken by akasha and louis is left wondering if she’s killed him, and after lestat spent 50+ years thinking louis was dead, they’ll probably want to go out together, because existing in a world without the other is unsustainable…
“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room. A sickness rose in me more wretched than anguish when I saw what my dreams were doing. I wanted him alive!”
-IWTV
thinking about how the show could make it so louis intends to tell lestat he loves him before a show in the s3 finale but then decides to wait until after, one of those “I’ll tell you later” moments, except there is no later, because akasha takes him
"’Come home with me’ he said. Such a human voice. So kind. If anything in the world could have truly comforted me, he would have been the thing—with just the beguiling tilt of his narrow head or the way that he kept looking at me, protecting me obviously”
-TOTB
@_barghest
this is made funnier knowing that not only did he make this having a blonde, white, blue-eyed husband, but he made the sign sitting directly next to said husband
“The two had found each other only last night, and theirs had been an extraordinary reunion. Louis would go where Lestat led him. Louis would perish if Lestat perished. But their fears and hopes for this night were heartbreakingly human.”
-QOTD