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My review of Interview with The Vampire season 3 episode 2. AKA The Vampire Lestat episode 2.
A few days ago Maven of the Eventide helped me to realize that what was not sitting right for me was the pure nihilism of this depiction of Lestat. The cynicism and crashness undermines all Gothic ambiance or romanticism. Lestat contradicts his own views from the source material such as going from believing that this is a bright, shining, new era, of hope, to deciding the world is a cesspit. He goes from talking about how human life is now valued more than ever to (at least in the show) instead stating that human life has less value than it ever did.
It’s almost as if this was written by someone who hated the books. So we come to episode 2 where Gabriell(a) looks down in her book while Lestat’s brothers try to break his legs as punishment and child-Lestat is able to stab his older brother and get away with it?!? And the word “chaos” hs been repalced with… “Cabbage” for some reason. Did someone at AMC not know how to pronounce Kay-oss?
I dislike the name change immensely. Yes, Gabrielle is Italian but she married a French Marquis. Did you think Marie Antoinette was a birth name? When you marry French nobility you French-ize the name.
Lestat pointing a pistol at his pregnant sister-in-law is random and bizarre. What did she ever do to him other than commit the sin of following traditional gender roles in the 1700s by bearing a child? And Lestat’s brothers mock his mother’s consumption cough? That feels so wrong, they weren’t pure evil. They were just jerks and there’s nothing in the book to suggest they mistreated their mother. Also Gabrielle shouldn’t be that old. Why is her hair silver-white? She was as blond as Lestat with white streaked in it faintly in the book.
Also they couldn’t have Lestat face the wolves on snow covered mountain? Was snow that expensive, AMC?! It’s kind of important to the story that the wolves were starving because of the harsh winter or they would never have come near the village. Lestat, himself, tells us that in the novel.
And it’s Lestat’s mother who “makes” him go to kill the wolves!? He didn’t volunteer because he was needed? That undermines so very much! Way to miss the point utterly, AMC!
The “cabbages” thing isn’t clever. It’s annoying. Did someone writing this crap think that’s deep?
“Glamping”? Gabrielle, who was a literal forest hermit as a vampire, should NEVER use the term “Glamping.”
This show is so dated “Not yet tariffed Germany.” This goes up there with the already out-of-date Covid crap from season 1 of Interview with The vampire. Also we’re to believe some pampered, rich, business men are on the same level as Lestat hunting murderers and serial killers who feel no remorse? Where’s the vampiric equivalent of Dexter that we had in the books?
I will give some points here for Louis using the alias “Pitt” since Brad Pitt played him int eh movie and I do like that the show knows his name is pronounced “Lou-ee” not “Lewis.”
The part of me that loved the movie Velvet Goldmine at seventeen and loved The Vampire Chronicles at fourteen is torn at this uncomfortable blending of the two, taking the more ...grimy aspects of both and adding unnecessary darkness- the constant vulgar language that never existed in the books, and of course, that weirdly added vampire urination (which Deborah Warner did first with her Demon Under Glass). It seems that urnination scene in episode one of The Vampire Lestat (Interview with the vampire season 3) was meant to be the direct opposite of what we get in the novel since they don’t even urinate in the books.
Also what’s with the smoking? It’s like whoever writes for this show has this antiquated idea that smoking is Gothic and sexy. The only one who smoked in Anne Rice’s novels was Daniel and that was before he became a vampire. Gabrielle- who was dying from a severe lung disease- smokes now? Why? Because someone behind the scenes is a twelve-year-old in 1985 and thinks it’s sexy?
Something that does not sit right for me. Lestat would NEVER have murdered his family. Even though they abused him, he loved them. Right after magnus turned him, one of the first things he did was sent them gifts from his new fortune, including expensive toys for his nieces and nephews. Lestat and his mother may have had murderous fantasies but they never followed through on them.
It was actually Louis who kills Lestat’s father in the novel Interview with the vampire, the man was on the verge of death anyway, and Lestat couldn’t bring himself to do it, despite what the man had caused him.
Lestat talks about Noah’s Arc like it’s literal act and not metaphor? That’s very out-of-character.
The Talamasca wants to hire Louis as a vampire hunter because of vampire over-population? It’s out-of-character for them but an interesting twist. Especially since Killer AKA Bruce r8ped Claudia in the show (He was just a wanna-be Vampire Lost Boy knock-off in the books. Not even an actual enemy of Lestat).
A few days ago Maven of the Eventide helped me to realize that what was not sitting right for me was the pure nihilism of this depiction of Lestat. The cynicism and crashness undermines all Gothic ambiance or romanticism. Lestat contradicts his own views from the source material such as going from believing that this is a bright, shining, new era, of hope, to deciding the world is a cesspit. He goes from talking about how human life is now valued more than ever to (at least in the show) instead stating that human life has less value than it ever did.
It’s almost as if this was written by someone who hated the books. So we come to episode 2 where Gabriell(a) looks down in her book while Lestat’s brothers try to break his legs as punishment and child-Lestat is able to stab his older brother and get away with it?!? And the word “chaos” hs been repalced with… “Cabbage” for some reason. Did someone at AMC not know how to pronounce Kay-oss?
I dislike the name change immensely. Yes, Gabrielle is Italian but she married a French Marquis. Did you think Marie Antoinette was a birth name? When you marry French nobility you French-ize the name.
Lestat pointing a pistol at his pregnant sister-in-law is random and bizarre. What did she ever do to him other than commit the sin of following traditional gender roles in the 1700s by bearing a child? And Lestat’s brothers mock his mother’s consumption cough? That feels so wrong, they weren’t pure evil. They were just jerks and there’s nothing in the book to suggest they mistreated their mother. Also Gabrielle shouldn’t be that old. Why is her hair silver-white? She was as blond as Lestat with white streaked in it faintly in the book.
Also they couldn’t have Lestat face the wolves on snow covered mountain? Was snow that expensive, AMC?! It’s kind of important to the story that the wolves were starving because of the harsh winter or they would never have come near the village. Lestat, himself, tells us that in the novel.
And it’s Lestat’s mother who “makes” him go to kill the wolves!? He didn’t volunteer because he was needed? That undermines so very much! Way to miss the point utterly, AMC!
The “cabbages” thing isn’t clever. It’s annoying. Did someone writing this crap think that’s deep?
“Glamping”? Gabrielle, who was a literal forest hermit as a vampire, should NEVER use the term “Glamping.”
This show is so dated “Not yet tariffed Germany.” This goes up there with the already out-of-date Covid crap from season 1 of Interview with The vampire. Also we’re to believe some pampered, rich, business men are on the same level as Lestat hunting murderers and serial killers who feel no remorse? Where’s the vampiric equivalent of Dexter that we had in the books?
I will give some points here for Louis using the alias “Pitt” since Brad Pitt played him int eh movie and I do like that the show knows his name is pronounced “Lou-ee” not “Lewis.”
The part of me that loved the movie Velvet Goldmine at seventeen and loved The Vampire Chronicles at fourteen is torn at this uncomfortable blending of the two, taking the more ...grimy aspects of both and adding unnecessary darkness- the constant vulgar language that never existed in the books, and of course, that weirdly added vampire urination (which Deborah Warner did first with her Demon Under Glass). It seems that urnination scene in episode one of The Vampire Lestat (Interview with the vampire season 3) was meant to be the direct opposite of what we get in the novel since they don’t even urinate in the books.
Also what’s with the smoking? It’s like whoever writes for this show has this antiquated idea that smoking is Gothic and sexy. The only one who smoked in Anne Rice’s novels was Daniel and that was before he became a vampire. Gabrielle- who was dying from a severe lung disease- smokes now? Why? Because someone behind the scenes is a twelve-year-old in 1985 and thinks it’s sexy?
Something that does not sit right for me. Lestat would NEVER have murdered his family. Even though they abused him, he loved them. Right after magnus turned him, one of the first things he did was sent them gifts from his new fortune, including expensive toys for his nieces and nephews. Lestat and his mother may have had murderous fantasies but they never followed through on them.
It was actually Louis who kills Lestat’s father in the novel Interview with the vampire, the man was on the verge of death anyway, and Lestat couldn’t bring himself to do it, despite what the man had caused him.
Lestat talks about Noah’s Arc like it’s literal act and not metaphor? That’s very out-of-character.
The Talamasca wants to hire Louis as a vampire hunter because of vampire over-population? It’s out-of-character for them but an interesting twist. Especially since Killer AKA Bruce r8ped Claudia in the show (He was just a wanna-be Vampire Lost Boy knock-off in the books. Not even an actual enemy of Lestat).
