it is LOONEY TUNES hysterical that Louis and Armand made the decision to bring Real Rashid out after the reveal. like, "hey, so I know that this would've been Super Fucking Weird already, had I just been pretending to be a regular guy, but also, just so you know, I was actually cosplaying a Real Dude this entire time. yeah, he's right here. he's gonna serve you scotch now."
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lmao danny is so angry about that ruse he's so unbelievably angry at being blindsided by that glorified role play he almost can't believe his anger. hiding underneath the bitterness of his words is barely distinguishable tremor at that very clear reminder at just how much power he holds communing with two predators that kill to live
"I mean hey whatever it is they're trying to hide I'm probably not gonna crack it which is, you know, who cares" said the man who's never cared more in his life and lashing out at real rashid? really??
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"That's why I'm coming after you, Real Rashid. You I can fucking break!"
BALLY GILL as Real Rashid
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024)
2.01 – What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned
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Ep8 "What Can The Damned Really Say To The Damned" rewatch thoughts (Part 1)
On my third rewatch of the first episode of season 2, I noticed a ton more than I had before. Whether that's because it was on a brighter tv screen, or just that my initial buzz had stopped overloading my cognitive functions, who knows.
In any case, here's my first 10 things I missed!
Just after the massacre of soldiers at the checkpoint - Louis spits something out as they walk away. Did he also help kill them? Is that a tooth or something? I love the idea that Louis is doing a lot more human hunting that he ever lets on...
2. “Or is it the sleep of an infant? Tabula rasa” - I had to look up this term because I'd not heard it before, but it's roughly the philosophical idea that babies’ minds are born as a blank slate. (Wikipedia)
3. Just before Louis complains that he’s cold, you can see that the bonfire is using a dead soldier as fuel. Additionally, he's talking about his refusal to burn Lestat as they huddle around it (nice touch, sicko writers!).
4. Obviously I knew that the "Huns" were German soldiers, but I wasn't sure what “Beasts of Ivan” was referring to... Russian forces? Or Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard)? TBH, even after googling, I'm still not entirely sure.
5. Oh god the skeletons of the vampires they discover - Louis and Claudia don’t know to scatter the ashes so their souls are still likely trapped in there?? 😭 (See also: Daciana after the fire…)
6. The Dubai staff member taking Louis’s blood dish away is wearing a face mask and gloves but Real Rashid is wearing gloves but no mask… Who do we know that did that in season 1, eh?? 👀
7. Now, this might not be anything but I thought it was interesting that you can see Louis’s breath in the sequence with Hallucistat (whose breath you can also see). So does that mean he's fed recently to be warm enough to do so? There was a great story on the Truest Blood podcast where the actors talked about needing to suck on ice cubes so that their breath didn't show up on camera, and that detail really stuck with me.
8. Louis says “I had taken 7,000 souls by then.” Ok, let's do some maths - 7,000 divided by 35 years is 200 per year, or 3.5 per week. That's roughly one murder every other day, which seems like a lot for someone claiming to be a vegetarian?? Like, was he killing several a night in the early years with Lestat (the "blood-drunken night in Baton Rogue", for instance), and for the past several years with Claudia? Sure, we see him bite a rat here, but he's clearly killing more than he wants to admit to himself...
9. The little boy that Morgan bribes with a cigarette to take Claudia away from adult conversation - his name is Andrei. Book readers may remember that this was Armand's given human name. (I don't think it means anything, I just think it's a nice touch from the writers, and they might change this in the show to be something more appropriate to his background)
10. After Louis remembers that Emilia mentioned about the woods after Claudia left, Armand suggests Louis takes a break. Daniel then goes on a rant to Real Rashid, ending with “You I can fucking break!” Louis dismisses Rashid, but then then Armand immediately follows him out of the room. What was Armand following him for? What was he saying to Rashid?
Part II coming up! Let me know in the Notes if you also missed any of these...
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Once again thinking about Bally Gill being cast as "Real Rashid" for season 2 of Interview with the Vampire.
The way Armand could have just made up a name but instead impersonated a real guy who currently works for him... literally what is wrong with theatre kids
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Wouldn't it be fun if they just introduced a new "Rashid" every season only to reveal them to be some ancient vampire in the season finale.
Fareed: "Daniel Molloy... I'd like you to meet the vampire Seth, the love of my life."
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