#This is made especially dumb and confusing since ghosts also exists in the Anne rice universe

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I do like ghost lestat hes funny as shit, but I also think it’s dumb as hell how they translated the aspect of the book where Louis is so used to lestat as a routine domestic part of his life that after he dies he often feels him there in places where he isn't because of how much he longs for him and made it lestat is a silly ghost. louis mistakenly imaging the feel of Lestat’s breath on his neck when he wakes up in his coffin only to roll over and find the space next to him cold and barren, the familiar routine echo of Lestat humming to himself as he returns home from a hunt that Louis swears for a moment he hears while he’s sitting cross legged with a book in his lap that fades into nothingness when he remembers that he threw lestats body in a swamp and watched him burn into nothingness before his eyes, the ghost of a touch on his shoulder, the devilish smile in the corner of his eye, and amc took that and made it “Louis is hashtag crazy and he is constantly literally accompanied by a fully formed hallucination of lestat that bitches comedically while Louis makes out with Armand and eats paper and smokes passively aggressively in the background”. Like ok wow way to stomp on all the subtlety and annihilate the pervasive sense of grief and loneliness there 😭😭. Why does amc iwtv have such a habit of taking subtle, quiet and thoughtful parts of the books and making them as extreme and overblown and ridiculous as possible. God forbid a tv show not be constantly exciting and intense or meme worthy for a moment ig 😭 modern viewers don’t want things to be quiet or slow paced, totally. And the thing is I don’t even rlly mind representing this grief visibility by a “ghost” of lestat being present, but the implication that he is a literal hallucination that Louis often interacts with is so stupid imo like they should have just made it a metaphor or smth cuz dude