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I'm in love with the way this season is playing with memory.
Louis's faulty memories. His past remembrances of Lestat fueled by love and guilt and the current distortion created by Armand. Louis's apparent complicity in Armand's reshaping of his memory lends itself to a kind of control that feels very much like the gaslighting heart of an abusive relationship. That echoing exchange as they finish each other's sentences as much performance for Daniel's cynical, disbelief as it is, I think, a performance that Armand enacts for Louis's benefit. A demonstration intended to remind him of how in love they are, but that, in reality is just about control. The emotional, psychological browbeating they give Daniel over Alice perfectly demonstrates that and I think it's a mistake to think that Armand is doing anything different with Louis. In fact, Louis, at his most cruel, is Armand's puppet.
Albeit this is a different Louis then the one who awakened in 1900's New Orleans, Louis's anger is generally about combustion. He holds back, measured and controlled until he can't hold all his feelings in any longer and it tips too far. Louis is a bang, not a whimper. Lestat is the one who is more likely to play with his food and Louis toying with Daniel feels very unfamiliar to me.
I'm so interested to see where this is going. I don't remember the book, it's been too long ago, and they've bent the story in gorgeous ways for a new audience and a new age, but this all promises to be delicious!
Louis's faulty memories. His past remembrances of Lestat fueled by love and guilt and the current distortion created by Armand. Louis's apparent complicity in Armand's reshaping of his memory lends itself to a kind of control that feels very much like the gaslighting heart of an abusive relationship. That echoing exchange as they finish each other's sentences as much performance for Daniel's cynical, disbelief as it is, I think, a performance that Armand enacts for Louis's benefit. A demonstration intended to remind him of how in love they are, but that, in reality is just about control. The emotional, psychological browbeating they give Daniel over Alice perfectly demonstrates that and I think it's a mistake to think that Armand is doing anything different with Louis. In fact, Louis, at his most cruel, is Armand's puppet.
Albeit this is a different Louis then the one who awakened in 1900's New Orleans, Louis's anger is generally about combustion. He holds back, measured and controlled until he can't hold all his feelings in any longer and it tips too far. Louis is a bang, not a whimper. Lestat is the one who is more likely to play with his food and Louis toying with Daniel feels very unfamiliar to me.
I'm so interested to see where this is going. I don't remember the book, it's been too long ago, and they've bent the story in gorgeous ways for a new audience and a new age, but this all promises to be delicious!
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Date: 2024-05-25 11:04 pm (UTC)From:Totally! This is exactly what happened in 1.03 with Alderman Fenwick. I’m expecting the same with the coven later this season.
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Date: 2024-06-03 04:48 am (UTC)From: