Ron Does Stuff

It has been a minute since I watched this show. More than a month since I watched the previous episode! But we’re back now!

At the end of the previous episode, Armand and Louis demonstrated to the viewers what two blood fat cocks slapping hands feel like. Thanks for that, Claudia!

But we don’t immediately get back to the interview at the start of the episode. Instead, we get to see Daniel from the past. I thought it was going to be how he got involved with Louis again, but when the person started talking about Daniel being watched, I started to think it was the Talamasca. And then the person said he was Raglan James, and that was familiar enough that I had to google it and goodness are they going to go all the way to The Tale of the Body Thief?

Turns out I was wrong again. That wasn’t Daniel in the past, that was in the present day. Raglan James is also in Dubai! I like how early they’re planting the seeds for future plots. We haven’t even finished the first book in the series yet, but we’re already laying down the foundation for the fourth book!

Back at Louis’ place, Armand is telling Daniel about how the vampire lives its life in the present day without being noticed, and it’s because today’s human population is “at the height of willful ignorance”. Armand says it was “Lestat’s prophetic vision”, and since Daniel is a journalist, he tells Armand to tell him more.

It’s here that we get parts of the story pieced together from the different books in the series. Armand coming from the Roman coven is from The Vampire Armand. Lestat’s creation by Magnus is from The Vampire Lestat, the adaptation of which we’re getting next year!

We even get to see Lestat on the floorboards as a vampire, which I haven’t gotten to yet in my re-read of The Vampire Lestat. Magnus has just started stalking him is where I’m at now! We get to see Lestat wearing his wolf-cape, and we even get to see Nicholas! And I know I haven’t reached this part yet in my re-read, but I think this rejection of Armand by Lestat is faithful to the book!

Nicholas is taken by Armand as a way to bring him in to the Paris coven, and I didn’t point it out the first time, but I like how this is all in French? Also, Sam Reid is so good in this, I really can’t wait for The Vampire Lestat.

And I know I haven’t been a practicing Catholic in like decades, but I know that religion has got its claws deep in me when I flinch at him throwing that cross. It’s a reflex at this point!

We also get to see how Lestat comes up with the idea for the Théâtre des Vampires, and again, Sam Reid is so good in this. Armand and Louis then say that after getting what he wanted from Armand — the Mind Gift — Lestat left both Armand and Nicky with the Théâtre des Vampires. Not how I remembered it, but that’s what The Vampire Lestat adaptation is for!

After that detour to the 1500s all the way to the French Revolution, we go back to post-World War II France, where Claudia and Louis are getting their stories straight for the Théâtre des Vampires coven. Unlike in the book, it looks like the coven is kinda welcoming to Claudia? But then again, she isn’t five-years-old in this adaptation like she was in the book. And no, do not make an Interview with the Vampire adaptation where Claudia is actually five, are you crazy?

I love this whole sequence of Claudia being taught the technicalities of running a vampire theater company? I love the theater queen vampire, especially. While all that is happening, Louis and Armand have their little courtship stroll around Paris, or at least Louis thinks it’s a courtship stroll. Armand is digging around for hints about Louis’ creator, who is of course the very same Lestat that destroyed Armand’s coven back during the French Revolution.

Okay, so maybe it’s part courtship stroll, because Louis and Armand flirt with each other and Jacob Anderson? Oh there is room indeed. But while Louis and Armand are looking back on that in the present, Daniel gets a message from Raglan and we get visual confirmation of the existence of the Talamasca. And yes, I know there’s a show based on the Talamasca that just started but just let me enjoy this, okay?

While Louis and Armand are preparing to make the sound of two blood fat cocks slapping hands, Claudia is being inquisitive at the Théâtre des Vampires, and I don’t think she realizes that she’s insulted Santiago by asking about his past as a human. There’s also that little bit about Santiago’s maker being killed by Armand, and now I want to know that story. That wasn’t in any of the books, I believe.

I know it’s been months since I read Interview with the Vampire, but it’s recent enough that I know that this conversation about the gradiations of evil is faithful enough to the conversation they have in the book. Also, did they really find an actor who had the same eyes as Sartre, or did they CGI that thing?

ANYWAYS, Louis finally breaks and admits that it was Lestat who was his companion in America. But Louis doesn’t just break, he breaks, making a scene in the bar where they’re at and kills some stranger while picturing Lestat in his head. Poor Claudia is going to get herself killed because of Louis breaking down. And she’s already been through so much, after what Bruce did to her, which she describes to Louis.

The interview is interrupted by a buyer of one of the artworks that Louis and Armand have amassed over the years, and while they do that, Daniel looks at all the research that the Talamasca has given him. He finds out about the fire that destroyed the Théâtre des Vampires, which then leads us back to that time, with Louis watching as Claudia is set to be accepted into the coven. The scene where Armand and Santiago are conversing telepathically? The music? The tension was thick, I loved it.

Claudia is accepted into the coven, and while the ceremony is happening, Louis is led away by Armand as it is supposed to be “members-only”. But anyone who has read the book knows what’s going to happen. Or at least I thought I knew what was going to happen! I thought this was the episode where Claudia would die, but it isn’t. But she is sorta being punished, because now she’s been assigned the role of a little girl, one she’ll probably be playing for a long, long time.

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