It is really devastating when you realize that what Lestat told her about them was correct all along 😭 such a tragic character!!

@@PettyPumpkins all she really wanted were vampire friends who respected her. She thinks she found it, but she's unwittingly stepped in a nest of vipers.

Lestat described himself 😂

but he also didn't teach his children much in terms of defense. Claudia is naive but Lestat was telling the truth while also being vicious . Some viewers complain that Claudia is aged up and her physicality undermines the perception of her as child. i am glad she is not 5yo or 10. as dogmatic as the ancient laws seem I think the reason they forbade Differently abled and children to be given the dark gift is that unless they are given antediluvian's blood which is source of their powers - a teen vamp is defenseless against peers. illustrated plainly when asked what dark gifts her maker bestowed and she honestly says taught me to lie, but what is cleverness compared to flame ,mind control, telekinesis...I wish they were retelling this story with a fire gifted claud alas that's not the tragedy Anne inspired she wanted Louis and audience to feel bereft . Delaney saying He told me loved me Before, During. and After" brought out my blood tears. i often wonder if AR made her Vampires sensual but sexless to avoid the troupe of sexual violence against girls woman used as character development. Or if it was her conflict views on being surrounded by deeply loving gay men when she was in Nola and SanFran but her Catholic culture allowed for vampires male to be sensual but without carnal sin . I am glad this version allowed for the most expensive Vampires indulgent across a spectrum of human empathy and demonic callousness

@@itowilltube interesting. I will have to give your comment some thought. I think Anne Rice made vampires sexless partially because they aren't technically human. They even have to expell their "fluids" when they go through the process of turning.

please please :)

Raglan James the body thief, i was hoping it was David talbot

I thought he was david. How do you know he is Reglan? ​@gai73

@@sara-rm8hh he introduces himself in the episode and his initials on the web chat thing is RJ

@@gai73 Body Thief.. was a very good book ...and a concept that by the way ,could have become an answer to Claudias dreams if she would have been able to steal an adult female body

As a former philosophy student I appreciated that he and Armand were on first name terms 😅

Thanks

@@Mulbert 🙂

We’ll never forget him 💔

lol you guys

100% correct. In the books Louis and Armand often lie to others and even to themselves whereas Lestat, whatever his faults, is at least painfully honest.

You can't blame Claudia for not believing Lestat. He was nothing but manipulative and abusive to both her and Louis. No one would believe someone whose been controlling and abusive to them. She probably thought he was saying that to control them and keep her and Louis from leaving him.

Armand is a manipulative liar. I wasn’t going to spoil anything but we know Lestat hated Armand. This is definitely some Armand obsessed with Lestat delusion going on.

i'm not reading your whole comment but i feel like it's a huge spoiler. PLS consider people who havent read the books and want the surprise

@beautifulloly I put a spoiler warning on it. But no one is forcing you to read anything, and really... I don't understand how you have no interest in the source material. Being aware of these things, at least generally... is vital to knowing when someone on this show is bullshitting, and its just super fun too. But each to their own 😉

Yes, it's so funny watching all this, or hearing people say 'oh, it's so interesting seeing lestat not be the stronger one' when in the books, he beat armand almost to d**th lol. Or to hear Armand talk about this love profession in the theatre (fantasy). The way he's sitting there acting like his coven killed themselves when he brutally killed them all himself. It's funny but also frustrating? It's weird to watch multiple episodes of a narrative that just didn't happen. But, in the books Armands biggest gift was manipulation and getting into peoples heads, so I suppose he's using his gifts well!

@iidkok Yup, and don't even get me started on the lack of Gabrielle. I mean, Armand loathes her, but come on? He is really petty enough to cut her out of the narrative completely 😆 I cannot wait until Lestat arrives and says; "Here's how it fucking happened!" As Sam so eloquently put it 👏

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Ragland James does/ did work for the Talamasca. Not sure what phase of employment he's in right now but he is prominent in TTBT ❤

Sam Reid has a face of an angel but he has lost weight since the first season. He had a big part in a historical movie called BELLE. It is based on a true story. I liked it so much I bought a DVD from eBay for just under $6.

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I think they will punish Claudia for killing Bruce ..the missing pages of her diary will come into play ...because the coven knows that Lestat did not have the true death .....because there is a big reason they have made Bruce important in this remake

Louis showed that he also has at least one of Armond's gifts with that "fire starting" when he set the garbage can on fire last season!

@@whatadollslifeI’m so fuckin scared he’s gonna show up lookin for Claudia

I pray they show hints of going right into Queen of the Damned story at the last episode of this season .........................all we need is a scene of Akasha on her throne ....I feel like they can combine the books of Lestat and The Queen backstories

@@whatadollslife I hope so too, Assad said that the season will plant some seeds for the future

Completely agree!! Even just reading other peoples comments about this show gives us goosebumps!!

@@PettyPumpkinshonestly don’t bother with Mayfair…. It’s objectively not a good show, especially when compared to IWTV

My heart breaks for Claudia!

Such an interesting point of view and you’re so right!!! It’s tragic 😭

My poor, poor, Claudia!

I think Armand was referring to his relationship with Lestat. His maker was Marius, who as far as vampires go, was not really that bad of a guy.

Marius had his faults but as vampires go, he was really a rather decent guy. By today's p.c. standards he'd be viewed as a pedophile but remember, he came from ancient Rome where such things were socially acceptable, and he only brought Armand "over" at such a young age because otherwise, Armand would have died. Marius stood by his friends and generally showed mercy as well as self-control in dealing with other vampires. (Unless, of course, they posed a direct threat to what he guarded.) Like his pal Lestat he preferred to kill only evildoers and leave good mortals alone!

Is Raglan James still part of the Talamasca in this? Or is he there because of his own motivations?

@@cullenarthur8879 I guess we'll see, he definitely at least still has the files, the hacking abilities and is still in his original body (or is he?)

@@anacarolmsc the hacking abilities stood out to me as well.

Definitely rewards on a rewatch too which is so nice!

I love having you guys to rewatch with 🥰

Completely agree with everything you said!!! 🤗

From 39:35 to 40:40 of the episode. I think that’s the only part of the episode they talk about it.

@@Melanie-jy2nw Thank you so much, I appreciate this. 🙏

the dialogue from claudia comes around 39:40 in, as soon as Louis says "I should tell you something" I would advise to mute the scene or skip forwards to 41:00, the scene abruptly changes back to the present then so you'll know claudia is done recounting it if you choose to just mute.

⁠@@Werileyzno worries, happy to help!

@@lavendyre Thank you! I’m really grateful-watching the episode rn.

Thank you!!!!! We appreciate you 🤗 and Britney Haynes the mother of comedy!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Her character is so tragic, it’s sickening 😭

@@PettyPumpkins it really is, so sad.

"Fuck these vampires" indeed!

Nay Nay... Pumpkins... she was truly vicious. In a beautyful, pettie, seemingly unthreatening child like package. She wanted her body to match her mind and knowledge, unfortunately she was stuck in a little girls body for ever 😉

@enchantedboy66 are asking if in the books Armond and Lestat were a couple?

Thank you!!!!! So excited for Pride month with our fav sexy vamps!!

Lestat was missing his late lover Nicki when he came to New Orleans 10 times the way he thought about Armand years later ,that should tell you something right there ,and even said that Louis made him remember Nicki even more ......out of his own mouth ,Nicki was dear to him

@@whatadollslife 👍

He wasn't exactly an ancient, but he was a powerful sorcerer even as a human, and hadn't made another vampire, which makes the vampire he does sire stronger. But yes, Lestat definitely got the better of Armand in their early confrontation.

@@cullenarthur8879 Magnus was much older than Armand. More form the time of Marius

@@cullenarthur8879 Lestat also had the queens blood

@@beriliumsphere107 that's not what I remember. Marius was about two thousand years old. Magnus was closer to Armands age, maybe a little older, but not close to two thousand years old. Yes, Lestat did drink from Akasha, but not at this point in the story.

@@cullenarthur8879 Lestat met Marius way before this point in the story. Perhaps we should both go and read the story again

That’s such a bummer to hear 😔 but thank you for watching!!

Wow......thank you for saying everything I felt about the show and the lead actress and others - it's surprisingly bad casting since they have the same executive producer Mark Johnson and they have been 100 % with IWTV. It seems Rolin Jones is the casting genius. I pray they don't do a cross over with the 2 shows. 😊 🌷

I haven’t heard anything GOOD about MW. At best, I hear it’s meh. Thank you for confirming this.

@@jordanparker657eventually they are going to since this is a shared universe unfortunately 😑

@@remholloway2579 😭😭 I have heard Mark Johnson say it several times but my denial is real.😂 I will continue to pray it never happens. Unless they do it with the only Mayfair I can abide ( aside from what she did to Louis) and that's Merrick. And since she's in the Chronicles, I would enjoy seeing her conjure...(I won't say it since some may not know the story). That's as close as I want to see my Beloveds to a Mayfair and yes I know about Rowan and Lestat, I have chosen to forget that. Selective memory is not a bad thing. 🤭🥰

@@jordanparker657 The Lestat & Rowan thing was definitely a miss! 🙄

We’re sat for all of it!

@@PettyPumpkins I am here for it too 😂

I'd say stop at TVA cause man did they get weiiiiiird after that ajdjajfjakfjakk

That’s what we were thinking. Thank you!

We haven’t even dropped our The Boys season 3 reaction yet 😩 promise we’re working on it!

That’s so sad to hear 😔

He wasn’t important for this part of the story. When Lestat tells his story Nicki will have a bigger more important role. This was just a teaser.

I was disappointed too. All the more so, I think, because I'd really enjoyed the Witches as a book series. But IWTV has exceeded my highest expectations and reactivated my interest in the Vampire Chronicles!

That’s what most people are saying which is so sad to hear!

thats why we need Queen of the Damned to be made hahahaha as season 3

I would say that I think more nudity will be forthcoming! Hopefully in episode 5 👀👀