Just like Daniel knows Louis is the only reason Lestat was spared, Lestat must’ve known it too. So I just know his crazy toxic ass was laying in that trunk, throat slit, choking down rat blood, but grinning like a loon, because he probably felt like he finally had definitive proof that Louis loved him after all.
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Episode 3 is so funny to me because Louis and Lestat are essentially living in two completely different, unrelated genres: Louis is in a psychological horror amidst a political - and literal - war, and meanwhile Lestat’s thinking he’s in an enemies to lovers gothic romcom
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So about that Justin Kirk spoiler:
So yeah, there is a spoiler out there about whom Kirk is playing. And I have some thoughts about it that I just want to say, even if the rumor ends up not being true. But I'm going to put this all under a spoiler cut just in case.
So word on Twitter is that he's playing Raglan James. And honestly, yeah I can see that. In fact, thinking about it last night as well as today, it actually works better than when I thought and was so sure he was playing Marius.
And you know, he still might be. But there was a good argument about why pull the same hidden vampire identity plot two seasons in a row? I personally thought it would be fine, seeing as Marius would regularly do such a thing in the books, and so it would make sense that he taught his fledgling Armand to do so.
But there is an even bigger method to the idea of introducing a character like Raglan James this early if that is who he IS playing. And that is to get people ready for the body-switching plot of Tale of the Body Thief.
Rolin Jones already spoke about how tricky and goofy body-switching stories can be. So the show starting to plan that out way in advance isn't unbelievable IMO.
And I also am getting a sneaking suspicion that the body thief plot is not going to be played out how we've all assumed it would be if the show did it.
I and @nalyra-dreaming have both noted that Raglan James' original body was not a brown man, but that of a white man. James stole a brown Southeast Asian man's body to then switch with Lestat. A body that David then later ended up in permanently.
And well, I kinda think the show is going to want to avoid the racist implications of all of that. Three white men switching around, and trading back and forth, a brown man's body? If the show did go there they would very much do a commentary about it I'm sure. However, at the end of the day, the story would still end up with a white man occupying the stolen body of a brown man and keeping it for himself.
So really, what would all and any commentary about it be saying after it was done? Many book readers already don't like David's character. And I just don't see them doing such a thing with Daniel's character either.
And the easiest way to still do the body thief plot but avoid all of that? Is to just cut that part out. And have James only make one switch . . . and that is switching with Lestat while James is still in his original body.
And I suspect that's what we're going to get if Kirk really is going to be playing Raglan James. And why the rumors regarding him are that he's only going to be reoccurring in Seasons 4 and 5, not become a main cast member.
When they do the body switch, Kirk is going to be playing Lestat. And Sam will be playing Raglan James. But first, the show is going to get people familiar with Raglan James' character and the Talamasca starting this season, and probably in Season 4 as well. (With Season 5 being when the body-thief plot finally plays out . . . meaning yeah, we really might get the QotD/Akasha stuff in Season 4!)
"But what about Daniel?" I know some people are thinking. Well, I have an idea/theory about that too. But I'm not confident in saying anything about it yet. But yes, I do think Daniel speaking with Raglan James is significant. And a lot of people have already thought/predicted that Daniel would get David's body swap plot.
I just don't think this is all going to end with Daniel's character being played by Justin Kirk.
And that is all I feel confident in saying about it right now.
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I just find Lestat’s logic in the episode very interesting jokes aside, because at the end of the day his actions actually makes sense when you realize later on in the episode that all of this circles back to Louis’ poor feeding habits and Lestat’s fear of losing Louis either through those habits or some other means.
After all he’s gone seven whole years without needing any “variety” up till this point, and this isn’t even the first time Lestat has used a woman to get under Louis’ skin. He’s literally feeling Lily up in the middle of their FIRST conversation with each other! He only starts fucking around with Antoinette because in some round about way he thinks that will get Louis to take better care of himself again, and it almost makes sense in a weird ass way?? Like:
Louis has a low libido because that’s one of the things that happens when you’re malnourished.
Lestat has gotten a rise out of Louis before when he messes around with women in front of him.
If he messes around with Antoinette and convinces Louis he’s getting bored of him because of the whole libido thing Louis might just get jealous enough to fix that.
Which of course means Louis would have to start eating people again and Lestat won’t have to watch him waste away any longer! It’s almost foolproof in a (Lestat) way!
Of course it backfires quite badly but their argument in the coffin room really highlighted this for me. Of course Lestat is upset about Louis and Jonah’s lingering feelings for each other, but almost out of no where he brings up the dog and rats Louis ate after, which kind of just exposes what all of this was really about at the end of the day.
Lestat’s scared and handling it Poorly™️.
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