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You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”

the people in the notes saying “people on the bus aren’t normal” are the people this post is talking about.

Interview With The Vampire – 1.06 | 2.01

I am utterly delighted that Blake Ritson's role on the show is basically WWII-era Daniel Molloy, proving that he has been chasing after someone to call him out for a looooooong time now

Fuck I’m already gonna add onto this:

I think it’s interesting that it’s explicitly made clear that this guy wasn’t threatening Louis. He knew something was up but made it clear he had no plans to use that information against him, and was still friendly to Louis all the same.

And then when the guy needed help, Louis walked away without looking back.

I don’t know for sure that this foreshadows anything with Daniel, necessarily, but it does tie interestingly into my prediction that Daniel may have a medical event in the penthouse.

I woke that night to the sound of chaos. Claudia... she was dreaming. Her head, twitching like you would. I can feel her. I can feel her next to me. She's having a nightmare. What's worse than a nightmare? If your soul's projecting out its fears, at least it's up and running. But the absence of anything? The void. The nothing. Pieces... coming back. Hours, nights. Objects surfacing in water.

Sketch of a smoking Claudia. She’s going thru a lot, she deserves it, she looks so good in it

Assad Zaman as Armand INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.01: WHAT CAN THE DAMNED REALLY SAY TO THE DAMNED.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

The first time we see Delainey's Claudia is emerging from a wet hole, dead soil, glowing eyes and the music breaking the empty coldness of the scene, it seems like a rebirth, the blossoming of a flower that refuses to die, a new era of The Vampire Claudia. The recast is more poetic than I expected...

Louis calling himself a "magical negro" to Morgan and then turning away and not helping either him or Emilia later was very loaded.

I don't know if Morgan really sensed there was something different about Louis or not. But the audience very well knows that both Louis and Claudia could have very easily stepped in and stopped what was about to happen to them both. Especially since the episode opens up with them slaughtering a large group of German soldiers. Stopping what was happening to Emilia would have been light work.

And I think, in any other show, Louis and Claudia would have stepped in and saved them. To reinforce the idea that they -- she and Louis -- are "good" and "benevolent" vampires, the type Claudia has convinced herself they are and that she is looking for.

And yet? They both turned away very easily from helping two humans who were helpful to them. They, Louis especially, did not play the "magical negro" here. They walked away and did so completely unconflicted about doing so.

Because, in truth, they aren't really benevolent. Not when it comes to humanity. Magical they both are, in the nature that all vampires are. But they are not there to help humans in that "magical negro" trope fashion -- and this goes for all humans, be they white or black or anything else.

Louis now has begun to take to heart that human affairs are not his to get involved with, something he began to learn in the harshest ways possible in Season 1. For better or worse he is part of a different world now. And what that world is and is about is a journey that he will continue to learn throughout season 2.

claudia saying look he's just like us and louis going no girl im pretty that's no twin of mine had me cackling

not a single reliable narrator in sight

You had a daughter. I had a daughter.

Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.01: WHAT CAN THE DAMNED REALLY SAY TO THE DAMNED.

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire 2.01