Armand’s taking it slow was making Daniel feel like the final girl in a horror movie for a few years before he progressed to the romance phase

Yeah, but she didn't say that explicitly. I mean, maybe in some of the pages that got torn out. Well, not torn out, exactly. More like with a ruler.

I'll never get enough of armandaniel-y videos

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the Dubai DM plotline in one picture

I'm afraid I'll be even more insufferable when their lips finally touch

Zaman was interested in the writers' decision not to dwell on whether Armand could kill Daniel — of course he could, but he doesn't, and that keeps the interview going. "We're just going to pretend that the charade [Armand's] been playing is OK?" Zaman wondered. "I think that's really fascinating." There's an undercurrent of danger to the exchanges between Daniel and the vampires, more than Daniel might even understand. But without Dubai, the show ends. Pushing that storyline forward boils down to an exercise in restraint, according to Jones. "You could end the show, you can end the scene anytime you want to, because this person can eat this person or set this person on fire," he said. "They don't want to do that. They actually really don't want it. They're really trying to figure out how to endure, how to live. Is [Daniel] coming there to help? Does he have something he wants to get out, too? There's all sorts of wonderful, dramatic possibilities. If Louis' memory is a capricious monster, so, too, is Daniel's. The journalist has history with both Louis and Armand dating back to 1970s San Francisco, a brief glimpse of which was shown in Season 1, with Luke Brandon Field playing young Molloy. The second season digs into what happened that night and chips away at what is standing in the way of Daniel's memories of Armand, but the two are busy enough orbiting each other in their current states. Said Bogosian, "If we assume that Daniel is a very powerful individual in his own right, no matter what kind of bruises he's carrying, powerful individuals, when they're in the presence of another powerful individual, are intrigued." Though Armand makes no secret of the fact that he'd rather Daniel not be present at all, Zaman echoed Bogosian's observation. "Armand is this vampire with so much power, but the power is more show than reality," he said. "I think Armand has less power in that room than he thinks."  "It's not a clear adversarial relationship between Daniel and Louis and Armand," Anderson said. He mentioned that he was often surprised by his scene partners' reactions during rehearsals, while Bogosian said that the challenges he faced as an actor this season were different from anything he'd ever done in his long career. Jones described the penthouse as a pressure cooker. "The forward momentum of the show has always been Dubai," he said. "[It was] a two-person play; now it's a three-person play. Everything that is going on in the past and everything that is going on in Dubai is to hammer away at Louis." "

Interview with the Vampire Returns Once More, With Feeling x

THIS is the scene that made Daniel my favorite character

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022 -) | 1.02 “…After the Phantoms of Your Former Self”

There was an offhanded remark in your memoir about this dessert. I hope you don’t mind.    

Jacob Anderson as Louis De Pointe Du Lac Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt Assad Zaman as Armand Luke Brandon Field as Daniel Molloy in AMC’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-)

The next season of love on the spectrum goes crazy guys

having a totally normal time thinking about the fact that Daniel has been carrying a physical reminder of Armand for the last fifty years

This time, I won't save your life... I'm the quiet you've been longing for... Thoughts are being thunk...

Armand you little bastard I know you where gloating inside when you saw Daniels neck scar again.

Armand you possessive fuck...

If I get Assad’s dulcet tones saying “you are mine, beautiful boy” I will swoon like a Victorian maiden

Indeed. I mean, the amount of serotonin in my brain when he said “and bring the petite beauty” in the trailer…. 🤌🏽🥵🤤😭💙

Also this right here? Louis finally figuring everything out, perhaps? Armand in Dubai calling out his name while clearly being distressed and moving to seemingly go to Louis? Are we really heading towards the Merrick event?! 😭😱

A few Armand thoughts that currently have me in a chokehold:

1. The building in Dubai only “groans” when Armand is around, and specifically when Armand is mad. Some of my favorite times I’ve noticed it include when Louis tells him to go take care of Daniel’s room in ep 1, after Daniel slaps Louis in episode 5, when Daniel tries to put Dr Fareed “on the record” in episode 6, and when he declares “this session is over” after Daniel starts pressing Louis about the rats in episode 7.

2. This, along with the fact that Armand is literally controlling the windows and balcony doors with his iPad, really adds to the feeling that he’s holding both Louis and Daniel hostage in a trap of his own design. When he mentions the interior designer that pitied Louis and his separation from the natural world and added the tree to compensate? That was definitely Armand’s idea, to make the captivity a little more bearable.

3. I’ve always wondered why I find the Beethoven Sonata 14 to be such effective scoring at the end of episode 7. There are a lot of contributing factors I think— it’s dramatic, it’s recognizable and therefore builds suspense, it’s used in the beginning and end of the episode as bookends. But it feels so *right*— even though I LOVE all of Daniel Hart’s original score. But here’s the thing. Armand controls the diegetic music being played in the penthouse. That’s established in ep 2 when he turns it on before Daniel and Louis have dinner. And when the sonata is first playing at the beginning of episode 7, Daniel and Louis are back in the dining room (being served by Armand/Rashid). So we can assume that the music is diegetic in that scene, and that Armand is controlling it. When it comes back in the moment of conflict and reveal at the end of the episode 7, the music is nondiagetic. It’s not playing literally in the room for the characters, but is part of the score. But we’ve already established that Armand is controlling it. It’s like his control has suddenly spread to the entire narrative that we’re witnessing. He’s in control of the whole show.

4. This is kind of a separate thought and more oriented towards season 2, but Armand is always styled— costume but also especially hair— to match whoever he’s romancing at the time.

I kind of assume the Dubai aesthetic is what he has chosen, and Louis is more matching him (see above points for my reasoning on that I guess).

But when Louis meets him in Paris, he’s perfectly positioned aesthetically to be attractive to Louis (especially coming off his experience with Lestat). He looks mature, capable of leading the coven. He’s suave, with his well fitted suits and slicked back hair.

In the 18th century flashbacks (god I can’t believe we are getting to go back to the 18th century, my favorite of all historical eras) he is matching Lestat like, down to the color palette.

But in San Francisco (and forgive the bad quality screen grab for these, I don’t think we have any high quality stills of this yet) his hair is light and curly, and he looks a fully 5-10 years younger than the Paris or Dubai scenes.

Because he’s matching a 20-something Daniel.

*proceeds to internally combust*