LOUIS' HALLUCINATION OF LESTAT WITH BLOOD TEARS IN HIS EYES AS HE RECITES HIS LETTER TO LOUIS THAT BEGS HIM NOT TO AVENGE HIS DEATH BC NEVER IN HIS WILDEST DREAMS DID HE IMAGINE THAT LOUIS WOULD BE THE ONE TO KILL HIM
Oh Lestat, the illiterate boy & young man you were; so desperate to learn & be good, with a Mother for whom knowledge & escape through books was her only solace… who couldn’t even be bothered to teach you the alphabet.
Now, with your preternatural skills, you can read & write & do any thing you wish… but of course - it makes sense that you would never have entirely learned how to spell, or at least that there’d be the odd, common words you didn’t know. (Occurred is also spelled incorrectly.)
Little details, breaking my heart even more.
Thank you everyone for caring so much you thought about the spelling of Lestat’s letter. I noticed. I care about every tiny detail like this & feel it, like love: deep in my soul.
Oh Louis: to read this letter & all your internal pain & shame & sorrow & guilt & love to deepen, I’m sure even more. Oh Sam, how you spoke the letter. Oh Lestat’s outfit, from their first “date”….
(I have much more to say on the episode, but for now…)
What struck me the most about Claudia in this episode is her need to feel vampire pride. I never gave it much thought tbh. I always believed that in the book she was a "true" vampire in a sense that she didn't really remember her life before, she was so young that she was basically raised as a vampire from the start. I don't believe the question of being proud of who she is mattered to her even in proximity to constantly struggling Louis. (Forgive me if I forget some details from the book. I might be wrong.)
But it makes so much sense for this Claudia. It's also, I believe, indicative of her passionate desire to live, to seize the day, to be happy and free. She doesn't just want to be independent and find a companion. She wants to be among her people, unashamed. Which also imo ties in with her being a black woman. The coven is led by the man "with the skin darker than" Louis', as she mentions. Making the coven more diverse was a very nice touch for that.
It's not a deep observation I know. But I found this detail very compelling.
I don't know what I need. Maybe a new brain in my head. Why can't I tell him this? I suppose I'm afraid my joylessness will take away his happiness and maybe I don't want his feelings to depend on mine anymore. Maybe I want to be joyfully joyless. A forever switch of wild opposites at play.
DELAINEY HAYLES as CLAUDIA in IWTV (2022 - ) I 2.02
Imagine successfully managing a fast food outlet for years. You hate your job, and despise your coworkers but you are too depressed to will yourself do anything else. Then one day a new hire who doesn’t even know how to tie an apron walks in and tells you that you are doing your job entirely wrong, and instead of pushing his face into a deep fryer you develop a psychosexual obsession with him.
Anyway something like that happened to my friend Armand