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I mean, IWTV is theater kids' main meal so that tracks🤣

This. All of this. The scene makes complete sense if you're familiar with how BDSM dynamics work... Armand didn't want to have to make a decision and so he left the decision-making up to Louis but yeah you're absolutely correct... Louis realized that this WASN'T a moment for them to be playing that type of game. I don't think their dynamic necessarily extends very far outside of the bedroom but they definitely dip their toes in it, as that scene suggests. And we know Armand and Daniel eventually have like a 24/7 more TPE BDSM dynamic which absolutely does expand outside the bedroom.... I'm honestly not sure if the show is going to portray their dynamic book accurately if we ever get to that point...it's a pretty extreme form of BDSM and definitely isn't super palatable like the dynamic we're seeing Louis and Armand have.... I've seen a couple of reactors misinterpret the scene and I just have to assume that they just don't understand the game of push and pull that Armand and Louis are engaging in.... Cuz I don't know... I caught on IMMEDIATELY what was going down between the dynamic shift that happened within that scene. You can see the moment that Louis drops his like "pimp dom Louis" persona... And then Armand apologizes for not being able to make the decision himself and also for not wanting to be there. And then Louis just immediately jumps to reassure Armand that he's not upset. He WANTS Armand to be there but it's also okay that Armand doesn't want to be there. It's ONE of my favorite scenes of the episode tbh. I think it's a really beautiful kind of heartwarming scene. Brilliantly acted.

And Louis quoting almost word for word what Lestat told him about the reason makers and their fledglings can read each other's thoughts...

They filmed it, but it's not in the film. There are pics of a desheveled Tom Cruise-Lestat for the trial, but it didn't make the final cut. In the orignal script by Anne Rice, he is not quite aware of what is happening. Doesn't seem to be the case here. I'm SO excited for next week.

For those of us in the know about Tale of the Body Thief, doesn't real Rashid look a lot like how the young man Raglan James body thieved is described? May just be a coincidence, and I may be looking too much into it, but he looks a lot like the guy whose body James takes.

@@cullenarthur8879 he does indeed. I’m thinking Daniel might be this version of the story’s David Talbot.

@@BillTrumpler I'm thinking that, too. You know what that means! LOL

Thank you! I’m rereading the book since I’ve clearly forgot so much of it!

Potential spoiler here.

@@RedMenace71 yeah, I never consider that, accept when it's something obvious. I don't see anything in it that's too much of a spoiler, besides possibly the part of Daniel becoming Armands fledgling. Although, I don't think they will include that in the series since Louis already offered Daniel the gift and Daniel turned it down. This isn't the young Daniel from the books who accepted the offer. This is old Daniel who is too wise to do that.

@@cullenarthur8879 True. This series has deviated enough from the book that I can’t be sure what is going to happen-which is great!

That's quite a theory.

@@cullenarthur8879 that's not a theory actually, that's what happened in the book

@@ljk242_ which book? I have read all of them up to The Vampire Armand, and I don't remember that in any of them.

@@cullenarthur8879 Maybe you should read them back it's in The Vampire Lestat book Page 64 "What was this place, this enormous building? Was this the boulevard du Temple? And then the descent into that hideous cellar full of ugly copies of the bloodiest paintings of Goya and Brueghel and Bosch. And finally starvation as I lay on the floor of a brick-lined cell, unable even to shout curses at him, the darkness full of the vibrations of the passing omnibuses and tramcars, penetrated again and again by the distant screech of iron wheels. Sometime in the dark, I discovered a mortal victim there. But the victim was dead. Cold blood, nauseating blood. The worst kind of feeding, lying on that clammy corpse, sucking up what was left. And then Armand was there, standing motionless in the shadows, immaculate in his white linen and black wool." This is a very popular plot tho where Armand tortured Lestat and starved him before the trial, if you really read the book you must know, book readers on twitter even want to see this interaction with Armand and Lestat before the trial

@@ljk242_ I have to admit I do not remember Armand holding Lestat captive in The Vampire Lestat. I remember Armand would come by the dilapidated house where Lestat was slumbering and kind of taunting him. I remember Armand trying to drink his blood against his will when Lestat was a baby fledgling, and being infuriated when Lestat fought off his attacks. I remember Armand throwing a weakened Lestat off a tower. But, I don't remember the part you mentioned.

To a certain extent it doesn't need to be mentioned at every turned especially when it's been mentioned several times over. Madeline her self has noted the lack in change with Claudia's body in previous interaction and now she has divulged her true nature to madeline allowingbher to make connections we have already made. She's literally reading Claudia's diaries explaining her experience allowing Madeline to understand a situation already expressed several times already. Also the point is that Madeline looks past who Claudia appears to be in regards to the state of her body but rather appreciates her for her which is the answer to Claudia's tragedy. I think it's perfect that they don't shove that aspect down our throats because the point of Madeline is that there relationship goes beyond that whether it becomes romantic or not. Madeline had a void of loneliness and lacking that Claudia helps complete and Claudia feels trapped and constantly misunderstood which is a problem Madeline solves.

Should be up later this week