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IWTV S2 Musings - Tentative Timeline (Pt1b: 1940 - 1949)

I've been struggling with this for a while, cuz this ish just don't make sense, AMC. (I fully expect S3 to gotcha/retcon/fix stuff, esp. since who knows what Armand's tinkered around with in Louis' head.)

I split this timeline in 2 parts: Pt1 has everything from 2x1 - 2x6ish; and then ofc Pt2 will cover as much as I can understand from the Trial's shenanigans.

My actual detailed breakdown of these dates is posted here:

(I'm just one person tryna figure out wtf is going on, so if y'all have any insights, please share!)

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the dubai bedroom from mara's instagram

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Ok ok ok so about the mug question

None of these are perfect but I think these three could be options ??????? Idk lmk what you think !!!

Have a great day 🩵✨

ohhh I like the first one a lot, that feels good.

(second one is hilarious but not quite the vibe I'm going for loll)

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Hey so if Armand had a favorite mug. What would that mug look like?

this is really stupidly specific but I'm stumped on this detail of the fic I'm writing. Anyone who sees this can reply!

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1132 Rue Royale + artwork

AMC's Interview With the Vampire, set design by Mara LePere-Schloop, set decor by Selina van den Brink.

List:

Robert Henri, Mildred-O Hat (Undated)

Edvard Munch, Starry Night (1893)

Edvard Munch, Weeping Nude (1913)

Edvard Munch, Self Portrait (1881)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bouquet in a Theater Box (1871)

George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey's (1909)

George Bellows, New York (1911)

George Bellows, Forty-two Kids (1907)

George Bellows, The Cliff Dwellers (1913)

George Bellows, Paddy Flannigan (1908)

George Bellows, The Lone Tenement (1909)

Edgar Degas, Dancers (1899)

Edgar Degas, After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair (1898)

Jean Beraud, Backstage at the Opera (1889)

Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński, Roman Bacchanal (1898)

Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Fan (1872)

Egon Schiele, The Artist's Sister Melanie (1908)

Egon Schiele, Portrait of Erich Lederer (1912)

Egon Schiele, Krumau on the Molde (1912)

Egon Schiele, Self Portrait in a Jerkin (1914)

Egon Schiele, Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt (1911)

Egon Schiele, Church in Stein on the Danube (1913)

(Dubai penthouse edition)

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Really fascinated by my friends' reaction to the Alice scene in S2E02. I think when I first saw it, I already had seen gifs that spoiled me a bit for the San Franscisco episode, and this time around I was seeing it from a potential Devil's Minion/Armand-is-Alice perspective

But they are completely unspoiled and they absolutely did not pick up that the flashes of Armand are flashbacks. They both fully thought it was supposed to represent Armand being in Daniel's head in that scene to try and soften the hurt from what Louis was saying to him. They found it very confusing and intriguing but they have no suspicion at all that there is a past between them.

Which makes me...so incredibly excited to get to S2E05 eventually, my god.

Not to mention when we finally finish the series and I get to tell them all the insane Devil's Minion theories :D

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rewatching iwtv is interesting because most episodes become more nuanced, clearer, the second/third/... time. With knowledge of later events, book backstories, having thought about these characters for a long time, what I see isn't changed but is added on. I'm not just seeing the perspective of Louis, but also of Lestat and Armand. I feel more like I can see some kind of truth in between the story that is told.

And then I rewatch the trial episode and instead of everything becoming clearer, it keeps becoming more UNclear what is real and what is fake. What happened, what is misremembered, what is manipulated? Who is mindcontrolled when? What are anyone's motivations? Who knows what, when?

more than ever I'm convinced there has to be an episode in S3 that shows the trial again because there are SO many unanswered questions

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So Armand doesn't tell Louis that Lestat said I love you in 1973, and he waits until he thinks the interview is basically over to acknowledge that Lestat loved him 'a great deal' in Paris.

Because Armand knows that Louis believes Lestat wanted revenge for the murder, and that's why he came to Paris. If he realized Lestat still loved him, he would also realize that he would never have let him be killed.

All that time letting Louis hold on to that belief only to finally feel secure enough to reveal the truth only moments before disaster.

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proof that they were together in the past or... it could all mean nothing

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S2E05 rewatch thoughts!

I was weirdly a little scared to rewatch it because I've built this episode up in my head SO much but no need. It's a masterpiece.

When I rewatch S1 I am so much more sympathetic to Lestat than the first time, and apparently in S2 the same thing is happening with Armand. Wild. The first time, he was such a horror in this ep but now I feel for him much more? He's so sad! Louis is so mean to him! yes I know he's saw trapping poor innocent Daniel but still.

when I first watched this I didn't know what a Devil's Minion was, and I feel like the fandom often treats it as a pretty far-fetched thing (it could all mean nothing!) but like. The writer's know it's a thing. The actors definitely know it's a thing (especially Mr 'I've been excited since day one'). So you can't tell me their scenes aren't deliberately a little bit romantic in the absolute most fucked up way, especially the final one. Especially knowing Assad's knee is fully against Luke's crotch under that table.

Louis saying he was going to sit on the bench until the sun came up when Claudia left, then Armand yelling at him that she never loved him, then him going into the sun. GOD it's such a delicious set up.

The way that Louis believable goes from seductive to terrifying to deranged to angry to high to cruel to devastated in the span of like. Fifteen minutes? Should not work. But when you have Jacob Anderson, anything is possible.

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Dubai penthouse + artwork

AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, set design by Mara LePere-Schloop, set decor by Selina van den Brink.

List:

Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)

Rembrandt Van Rijn, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)

Ron Bechet, Transformation (2021)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Slave Auction (1982)

Vivian Maier, Self Portrait (1954)

Vivian Maier, New York (1953)

Vivian Maier, Self Portrait (Undated)

(1132 Rue Royale edition)

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in the vampire lestat book, lestat cries 67 times, weeps 31 times, tears up 27 times and is hysterical 3 times.

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And I have always said I am more than willing to go down the "Devil's Minion" route with Eric or Luke or both. It might be a nice parallel, alternate reality version to do a three-way. [Laughs]

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always thinking about Sam saying he put that 'I didn't want this' quote in there himself#because he knew they couldn't cut it out of the slow push in monologue (@old-long-john)

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Devil's Minion is truly this could mean nothing : the ship

Looks that might indicate a past between them? could mean nothing

suspicious comments about Daniel's ex-wife? could mean nothing

Armand seeming weirdly fond of Daniel? could mean nothing

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filmmakers who adapt classic gothic literature for the screen: damn i'm not reading that book no matter hWHAT

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IWTV rewatch; S1 ep 4+5

Thoughts

Jesus Christ the fight scene & the drop are possibly even more harrowing the second time around

They were so happy in those early years after Claudia joins them. Breaks my heart.

I'm watching with friends who are watching for the first time and the hardest things is biting my tongue in the Dubai scenes. Fucking Rashid. I ended up saying a lot of things like 'sure is interesting how high up those bookshelves are huh. Oh look at those pebbles in the zen garden. Relaxing.'

Fascinating to see both the fight scene and Claudia's turning again, now knowing the additional parts we get during the trial. You really don't even think about those scenes while watching S1. It all just works so well.

I'm generally much more lenient towards Lestat this time but my friends hate him SO much

I think this is possible the most rewarding show ever to rewatch. I have no doubt it's going to be even better to rewatch after S3 comes out and another layer gets added.