Ron Does Stuff

We’re finally here, the season finale. I’ve finally caught up with the rest of the fandom, and HOPEFULLY, I get to watch the third season alongside everyone else next year. But for now, let’s get into the season finale.

The previous episode was definitelt heart-wrenching, especially since they decided to have Claudia and Madeleine be executed in front of the public. But it does give Louis even more incentive to torch down the Théâtre des Vampires.

We start with the names of the vampires in the walls of the Théâtre des Vampires, with Nicholas being one of them. I wonder how he’s going to be portrayed in the next season. Louis is in the walls himself, but unlike the movie and the book — unless I’m misremembering — he stays so much longer in them. Having present day Louis narrating over Paris!Louis’ screaming? Diabolical choice from the production.

When Louis re-emerges thanks to Armand’s “help” — I told you guys I don’t trust him! — he immediately starts planning his revenge, and Jacob Andersen portrays it perfectly. And while that recollection is happening, Daniel is talking with the Talamasca, asking them for something. Something they think is intriguing. OH I KNEW IT ARMAND’S STILL HIDING SOMETHING.

I also love how they’ve extended the destruction of the Théâtre des Vampires outside of the burning of the theater? Louis blowing up Celeste and Estelle’s motorbikes, the back and forth between Louis and Santiago before he decapitates him. ~Absolute cinema~. Santiago definitely got more layers to him in this adaptation than he did in the movie.

The show also extends beyond the burning of the Théâtre des Vampires, because both the book and movie don’t really get into detail of the aftermath, other than young Daniel Molloy telling Louis to turn him into a vampire. Armand makes his promise to make it up to Louis for the rest of his life, but again, I do not trust this gremlin, as Lestat calls him.

And speaking of Lestat? “Nordic blonds on walls, dirty blonds in piles”? HENNY. Always the diva even with death all around him, I love him so much. AND THEN HE MENTIONS HAVING THE BLOOD OF AKASHA IN HIM OH BITCH HERE WE GO WHEN IS SEASON THREE COMING. NOW AKASHA? OH THE BITCHES DO NOT KNOW. THE BITCHES. DO. NOT. KNOW.

I mean some other stuff happened but I blacked out at the mention of Akasha. Anyways, Louis makes it look like the revenge was him leaving Lestat and being with Armand, and he tells Daniel that’s the end of the story, but there’s still THIRTY MINUTES LEFT of the episode, so shit is going to hit the walls anytime soon.

WE FIND OUT THAT VAMPIRE SAM BARCLAY IS A FUCKING TALAMASCA AGENT. BITCH. BITCH. AND THEN HE INSINUATES THAT ARMAND WASN’T THE ONLY VAMPIRE IN THE THEATER WHO COULD HAVE SAVED HIM. I DON’T THINK I EVEN MENTIONED THIS IN THE PREVIOUS POST BUT THE EPISODE HAS BEEN OUT FOR A YEAR I THINK AND I WAS JUST SO ENGROSSED SO I ONLY WROTE DOWN HOW GOOD THAT EPISODE WAS.

AND THEN DANIEL BRINGS THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT FOR LOUIS, CLAUDIA, AND MADELEINE’S TRIAL. BIIIITTTCCCHHHH. DANIEL AND ARMAND STARING AT EACH OTHER LIKE TWO QUEENS FEUDING IN UNTUCKED. BITCH. BITCH.

The scrambling from Armand? Assad acting through those contact lenses? Eric Bogosian’s panic when he’s told to get out of there NOW and when he sees Armand after Louis presumably throws him? And then Louis goes to New Orleans? Did he just leave Daniel and Armand alone in Dubai?

I guess we can talk about that later, because we get book accurate Louis and Lestat reunion! Or at least as accurate as it can be given the timeline. BUT ALSO, THE CHANGES THEY’VE MADE? As horrible as the things they’ve made Lestat, Louis, and Claudia go through on this show, they’ve really made them even fuller than they were in the book. This show is definitely a love letter to these characters. And a really, really great dramatization of parents mourning for their lost child. Which, as any Anne Rice reader knows about by now, is what Interview with the Vampire the book was about. This show really took that to heart and paid honor to it.

THEN WHAT I CAN ONLY CONSIDER A PROLOGUE? THAT HILARIOUS INTERVIEW DANIEL DID? THE REVEAL THAT HE’S NOW A VAMPIRE MADE BY ARMAND. Book accurate fact, by the way! AND THEN LOUIS QUIETING DOWN ALL THE VAMPIRES TALKING ABOUT HIM?

All of this is such a perfect set-up for adaptations of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. I can’t wait!

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