#iwtv 1x05

[anitabpsblog]

Lestat + confessing his love to Louis 

#interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #amc's interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #sam reid #iwtv 1x01 #iwtv 1x05 #iwtv 1x06 #iwtv 1x07 #iwtvedit #amc itwv #loustat #gifs #gifset

[pearlswine]

interview with the vampire 1x05 / killing eve 2x08 / dorothy bussy / alicia ostriker / richard siken

#iwtv #iwtv 2022 #interview with the vampire #killing eve #loustat #villaneve #web weaving #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #eve polastri #villanelle #iwtvedit #killingeveedit #iwtv 1x05 #killing eve 2x08

[ibeoutchea]

IWTV Episode 5-Let’s Refocus

Okay, while everyone is going off on Lestat (rightfully so. idc that this isn’t “book” Lestat because while the show is based off the books, this behavior tracks like hell with “show” Lestat), can we turn our attention to Louis?! I find it crazy that all this attention and concern is going towards the abuser and not the abused??? 

Like this whole episode my heart broke for him. First he’s dealing with thinking Claudia is so depressed that she’s not eating. Going so far as to bring food to her room (live birds that he ensures can’t fly away) and fretting over if she’s healthy. To finding out that she’s jeopardized the underground livelihood they managed to carve out despite blatant discrimination-and we know how much Louis’ businesses mean to him. Even still, Louis’ biggest concern is her well being.

When Claudia reveals out of spite that Lestat still fucking around with Antionette, he swallows it for the most part so he could try and convince her to stay to no avail. He’s also swallowing the fact that her words-maniacally used to prove a point by Lestat- hurt him deeply because while he realizes he made a mistake in asking to create her- he thought his love would be enough. A reoccurring theme is that his love is never enough and it cuts deep each time he’s faced with that realization.

She leaves for seven whole years and he spends every last one trying to figure out where she is. He speaks to her so often another vampire heard (fuck that man btw hope he burns) and always with apology. As if things weren’t already bad, Grace asks for a meet up to show him that they have decided to declare him dead so they no longer have to excuse or deal with him. Not once does she ever ask him what happened to make him change or show any real concern. She doesn’t even give him the chance to spend a little time with him before she’s off leaving him to stare at his own headstone.

So now he gets to grieve the loss of his sister and of his daughter, born out of his desire to have a familial connection who loves him for who he is.

Lestat’s love is not pure and has always been founded by the need to possess. [Even in the books so pls spare me that specific diatribe]. Claudia’s love was that and more, it was his redemption or so he believes. It’s why when she does return home he can forgive her with open arms because all he wants is to love/be loved.

Then Lestat, like the tornado he is, ruins that reunion to make it about himself. If that wasn’t enough he goes further and beats the hell out of both of them and in the midst of it all, Louis is still putting Claudia before himself. Reassuring her that he was fine but she shouldn’t look. When Lestat is holding him up in the sky and he cries to be let go, he does not mean just physically. He wants to be free of those spindly roots! 

So here we are with a broken Louis in more ways than one. Constantly being hurt by those who claim to love him and he doesn’t think he’s worthy of anything better because of his past mistakes. Louis tragedy is that he’s never been able to love himself. He can’t explain how he needs to be loved because he doesn’t know.

If that ain’t some heartbreaking shit then I don’t know what is.

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #episode 5 #louis de pointe du lac #lestat x louis #claudia #interview with the vampire amc #louis stan account #iwtv show #iwtv spoilers #claudia de pointe du lac #iwtv 1x05 #you don't have to agree this is merely my opinion

[memes-saved-me]

I think they've intentionally hidden a lot of the fight, not for the gore of violence but because its what Claudia didn't see and her bias towards Louis sees him as the pure victim of the fight. When they're in the bedroom Lestat tells Louis he doesn't want to fight like this and that he's restraining himself then it goes quiet. Louis talks to Claudia and says its all over but then it suddenly escalates and gets much worse. We didn't see/hear something on purpose and I think Louis will either keep that hidden or reveal it in episode 6.

Let us not forget they've been physically violent since the beginning. Louis stabs Lestat in the back three times in the church, Lestat throws him across the room. Louis throws Lestat against the wall in episode 2 before going outside. The fight was brutal but vampires are brutal. Lestat punched through a priest's head in episode 1, if a random human was in Louis' place no one would have flinched.

They do physically fight in the book and even in the movie, not to that level but still. That is the pov of a 14 year old vampire seeing her father get into a fight with a man she calls her uncle but hates. The narrative is biased just like the first book is and I love that. Hopefully we get Louis' thoughts in the next episode.

#I'm just rambling #iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv spoilers #iwtv 1x05 #loustat #I'm intrigued by the next episode #I think it'll end with Claudia deciding how she'll kill Lestat #or even end with his 'death' #the ep 7 will be them running to Europe after Lestat comes back to get Claudia

[gayjaytodd]

it is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to experience the epic highs (iwtv 1.07) you must first experience the epic lows (iwtv 1.05)

#jay talks #iwtv amc #interview with the vampire #amc iwtc #amc interview with the vampire #anne rice's interview with the vampire #loustat #I hope this makes sense fr #iwtv 1x07 #iwtv 1x05

[piratesofthedarkwidesea]

Okay erm... episode 1x05 is certainly very visceral and also very complex and I’ve already seen a lot of interesting thoughts about.. 

I just wanna concentrate on a very small thing and how I read it, and it’s Daniel slapping Louis. Because to me it was very very clear that that slap was a desperate (and very obvious to everyone in the room) attempt of Daniel trying to pretend he has any kind of control over the situation. Because he very clearly has not. Louis could literally tear him apart without lifting as much as his little finger and he kinda knew all along but that scene is when he really *got* it like rationalized it and he was freaking the fuck out about that. 

And Louis and Rashid also understood that for what it was and therefore let it slide in a “yeah let’s all go with the pretense the human can defend himself in any way, shape or form here” when he very very clearly can’t? Like let’s all take a deep breath and pretend it’s fine / nothing of that happened.

Which says nothing about Daniel being an asshole but... man was frightened to death there tbh

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #daniel molloy #louis du pointe du lac #A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart #1x05 #iwtv 1x05 #musings #my five cents #me watching stuff #(also damn all the discourse makes me wish i read the books tbh which i know doesn't help with anything really but #i would like to at least know whose perspectives we get there? #bc damn it is hard to have a bunch of (unreliable) narrator at work sidhahd give me some facts aijsadsd bye)

[stolligaseptember]

lestat mocks claudia for having found out how cruel other vampires can really be and is viciously satisfied with her pain because of the pain her absence has caused him, but also if he was aware of what bruce had really done to her and ended up in his general vicinity it would have been biting chomping killing time and he's so fucked up i love him.

#truly the definition of 'nobody hurts my family but ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' #lestat de lioncourt #claudia de pointe du lac #claudia de lioncourt #interview with the vampire #a vile hunger for your hammering heart #iwtv #iwtv 1x05 #swearing tw

[kajaono]

Just because you are in a relationship doesn’t mean you can not open your partners brain and try to eat it like chicken soup

#hannibal #iwtv #hannigram #interview with the vampire #iwtv 1x05 #this is hannibal related but also iwtv if you know you know

[claudiadupointedulac]

claudia & textposts <3 click for better quality

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#claudia de lioncourt #claudia de pointe du lac #iwtv 1x04 #claudia & lestat #lestat de lioncourt #claudiaposting #iwtv 1x06 #iwtv 1x05 #iwtv 1x07 #iwtv finale #iwtv spoilers #blood tw #iwtv #iwtv 2022

[jesuschristt-thatsaprettyface]

I’m so mad that Louis didn’t just answer Lestat properly during their fight and say whether or not he still loved Lestat. “Let me go,” felt like such a cruel response because it neither freed Lestat nor gave him hope for their relationship. Instead, Louis intentionally keeps Lestat in limbo. Still trapped in a toxic relationship that he cannot let go of until he hears the words from Louis’ mouth.

#their mutual toxicity reminds me of ronnie & sammy from Jersey Shore lmao #i’m just eating popcorn over here and feeling shit #also i didn’t read the books so don’t come for me #iwtv #iwtv series #iwtv 1x05 #loustat #interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #mine

[lehdenlaulu]

@docsnoir replied to your post “Listen, though. I do see both sides of the...”:

agreed. I also think the less ppl try to view this through the lens of the books the more theyd understand it

​There is that, this being basically very much an AU by necessity -- but I think the real issue is that some people seem to want to jump ahead to a canonical status quo that it takes Lestat and Louis two centuries to reach in the books.

In Interview With the Vampire, Lestat *is* very much the asshole antagonist. And while Lestat is getting a more full-fledged portrayal in the series, this would not be Interview With the Vampire if it was 7 episodes of wholesome domestic bliss, would it? He has to be an abusive prick and generally his worst self for the story to remain true to itself -- and however much Louis exaggerated or outright lied, he in all likelihood was. Louis might not have been a reliable narrator, but I find it a little funny that many people seem to at least unconsciously think Lestat is. (Spoiler alert: none of them are.)

I mean I get it, IWtV is the first book and the only one from Louis's POV, so people who have read beyond it would probably naturally have the later books in fresher memory and therefore their mental image of Louis and Lestat is that of reconciled and more or less mutually devoted. And again, they're not there yet in this story. They can't be.

I guess there's also some kind of shippery "I want it all and I want it now" mindset happening that seems to be common these days across fandoms, and maybe the cast insisting this is a love story gave some people false hope in that regard. But I still find it a little baffling, personally: this is only the first chapter in the story. There's an entire (and very wild) journey ahead.

(Pardon for replying this way, it seems I have a lot to say about this. 😅)

#docsnoir #reply #Interview With the Vampire #IWtV AMC #The Vampire Chronicles #IWtV 1x05 #IWtV spoilers #btw I would like to note that I *perfectly* understand if anyone was disturbed or triggered by the episode or now has very mixed or negative #feelings towards the show or Lestat as a character #it's rough stuff and not easy to deal with for everyone #Darna talks TVC

[memes-saved-me]

Okay that was bad but not as bad as some people are acting. They're monsters and both violent killers. I have a feeling next episode will be worse emotionally. Louis clearly loves Lestat but won't say it because it drives Lestat insane thinking he doesn't. Lestat does love Louis and as said it drives him insane thinking its not reciprocated in the same way.

Claudia has always been Louis' protector in a way so the teaser for the next episode is interesting. I think we'll get a good look into what Louis thinks of the fight compared to what Claudia said in her diary.

"Are we the sum of our worst moments? Can we be forgiven if we do not forgive others?" Is very very interesting because it implies Louis blames himself just as much as Lestat and especially what is about to come next. Louis is asking if he is worthy of forgiveness if he can't forgive Lestat which I believe current Louis does.

Also what Daniel said about once you put it out there the audience decides what it is works for this episode. One person may write Lestat off, quit the show and condemn it. Whereas others will see it as two monsters finally coming to a head and one going too far physically while the other went too far emotionally/mentally and wait for what comes next. Some may be conflicted between the two.

There's no use in excusing behaviour in this story. Everyone does fucked up things and that's what makes the books so interesting. Everyone is grey. It's a fucked up gothic romance between two killers. There is cute moments, there is horrific ones. That is the point.

Lestat saying he has been fighting his nature for Louis is interesting and even though I'm confused as to why they would go down a genuine domestic abuse route I'm sure by the end of the season it'll make sense.

#just getting me thoughts out #I'll probably avoid discourse and just enjoy the show #iwtv spoilers #iwtv 1x05 #loustat

[naiive-and-starry-eyed]

Something something Lestat being angry at Claudia for jeopardizing them with her reckless killing and then running away, not listening to the fact she was distraught over Charlie's death and the realization she was going to be immortal and alone without a companion AND YET not considering he literally made Louis a vampire for the same damn reason she's being destructive!!!! It's the loneliness!!! The agony of no one to stand the years by your side!!!!!!

#interview with the vampire #like yes she was being dumb about how she went about things #but they did literally turn a teenager so shes going to b angsty and teenagery at them #all of them were at fault with how various things went but i do still think its fascinating how he refuses to see so much of himself in her #love this show #never read the books but im having a great time with the show! #iwtv 1x05