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Interview with The Vampire Season 3 episode 6, episode 6 of The Vampire Lestat review:
Lestat’s rock career is now a rallying cry for vampires interested in “The Great Conversion”!?? Umm… No. That’s the opposite of the book. Lestat, in the novel, literally said if there was a war between mortals and vampires he’d side with the humans. This is the most shallow, barely-literarate interpretation of what he was doing in the book. It’s like someone too lazy to read the book asked an AI what Lestat’s motivation was. Lestat never really thought he’d die, nor did he want to die. And he would never have taken part on the side against the human race in such a conflict.
Why did they have Lestat dress as a Grim Reaper for Halloween? He literally had a Halloween costume in the book. A cliché, Dracula-esque, outfit. It was like half-Labyrinth Bowie and half Drcaula.
And now instead of Quinn Blackwood being a character, his name is an Easter Egg alias of Lestat’s?!?
And now they’re mocking 80s fashion. What is with this trend of thinking everyone wore shoulderpads? Is this because of that one episode of Bob’s Burgers with Working Girl the musical?
Well, let me tell you. I remember the 80s. I HATED shoulder pads. And I wasn’t the only one. My mother said they made people look like “Football players.” If I bought clothes with shoulder pads, I made sure they were the kind held in with two little stitches and easily cut out, or velcrowed in. I ALWAYS cut out and threw away the shoulder pads. It they were in the shirt’s lining and not-removable, I simply didn’t wear (or buy) the shirt.
More proof that this was written by a man or someone who didn’t live through the 80s or both.
And they tried to lampshade Antoinette cutting off her finger. “She did that herself. She thought the gift would make her grow it back.” But whhhy even remove the finger? Louis and Cluadia wouldn’t know her finger from any other woman victim.
And now Lestat’s concert is specifically for vampires?!?
Why- oh, why did they make Gabriella evil? She’s materialistic, controlling, and wants to make an army of vampires in Paris. It’s like the anti-Gabrielle. I don’t think she ever even made another vampire in the books.
Also the character Merrick didn’t even exist until 2000, fifteen-years-after The Vampire Lestat was published.
Louis had NO problem about Lestat having made Gabrielle into a vampire in the books. But then again, the vampires don’t have sex in the books.
I’m cutting ahead a bit here. There’s no way in Hell Armand and Daniel would take part in decapitating Louis and Lestat. WTF!?
Now for the part I can’t deny. The acting is excellent. I will never complain about Sam Ried’s acting. The acting in this episode- from everyone- was excellent. Especially Lestat’s panic attack and Louis cofronting him about Gabriella. The scene was stupid, the acting was great. And the invocation of Claudia’s ghost was also excellent. It doesn’t happen for another fifteen years in the book, still excellent.
I’m not happy with the show’s concocted, fabricated, tension by having a timer deadline on when Lestat and Louis’s heads have to be re-attached or they’ll die. The books had their own drama. Had they followed the books they wouldn’t need to add betrayal and decapitation drama.
The acting is excellent. It’s the writing and show running that is terrible. Though that scene with Claudia’s ghost is pretty accurate to the book (a book published fifteen years after The Vampire Lestat, mind you) even though Lestat wasn’t present for the ghost summoning in the original version. This is one of the few scenes pretty accurate to the book. I’m also glad that train scene is now decanonized.
So yeah. Showrunning = bad, acting = good.
Lestat’s rock career is now a rallying cry for vampires interested in “The Great Conversion”!?? Umm… No. That’s the opposite of the book. Lestat, in the novel, literally said if there was a war between mortals and vampires he’d side with the humans. This is the most shallow, barely-literarate interpretation of what he was doing in the book. It’s like someone too lazy to read the book asked an AI what Lestat’s motivation was. Lestat never really thought he’d die, nor did he want to die. And he would never have taken part on the side against the human race in such a conflict.
Why did they have Lestat dress as a Grim Reaper for Halloween? He literally had a Halloween costume in the book. A cliché, Dracula-esque, outfit. It was like half-Labyrinth Bowie and half Drcaula.
And now instead of Quinn Blackwood being a character, his name is an Easter Egg alias of Lestat’s?!?
And now they’re mocking 80s fashion. What is with this trend of thinking everyone wore shoulderpads? Is this because of that one episode of Bob’s Burgers with Working Girl the musical?
Well, let me tell you. I remember the 80s. I HATED shoulder pads. And I wasn’t the only one. My mother said they made people look like “Football players.” If I bought clothes with shoulder pads, I made sure they were the kind held in with two little stitches and easily cut out, or velcrowed in. I ALWAYS cut out and threw away the shoulder pads. It they were in the shirt’s lining and not-removable, I simply didn’t wear (or buy) the shirt.
More proof that this was written by a man or someone who didn’t live through the 80s or both.
And they tried to lampshade Antoinette cutting off her finger. “She did that herself. She thought the gift would make her grow it back.” But whhhy even remove the finger? Louis and Cluadia wouldn’t know her finger from any other woman victim.
And now Lestat’s concert is specifically for vampires?!?
Why- oh, why did they make Gabriella evil? She’s materialistic, controlling, and wants to make an army of vampires in Paris. It’s like the anti-Gabrielle. I don’t think she ever even made another vampire in the books.
Also the character Merrick didn’t even exist until 2000, fifteen-years-after The Vampire Lestat was published.
Louis had NO problem about Lestat having made Gabrielle into a vampire in the books. But then again, the vampires don’t have sex in the books.
I’m cutting ahead a bit here. There’s no way in Hell Armand and Daniel would take part in decapitating Louis and Lestat. WTF!?
Now for the part I can’t deny. The acting is excellent. I will never complain about Sam Ried’s acting. The acting in this episode- from everyone- was excellent. Especially Lestat’s panic attack and Louis cofronting him about Gabriella. The scene was stupid, the acting was great. And the invocation of Claudia’s ghost was also excellent. It doesn’t happen for another fifteen years in the book, still excellent.
I’m not happy with the show’s concocted, fabricated, tension by having a timer deadline on when Lestat and Louis’s heads have to be re-attached or they’ll die. The books had their own drama. Had they followed the books they wouldn’t need to add betrayal and decapitation drama.
The acting is excellent. It’s the writing and show running that is terrible. Though that scene with Claudia’s ghost is pretty accurate to the book (a book published fifteen years after The Vampire Lestat, mind you) even though Lestat wasn’t present for the ghost summoning in the original version. This is one of the few scenes pretty accurate to the book. I’m also glad that train scene is now decanonized.
So yeah. Showrunning = bad, acting = good.
