#VAMPIRE DANIEL ??? LOUMAND DIVORCE ????? LOUSTAT REUNION ??????

[petrowriting]

daniel molloy promised us all a divorce and he DELIVERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theinfinitedivides]

so glad i waited bc it has just been. blow after blow after blow scrolling through this tag the team behind this show is f*cking insane

i am not touching the IWTV tag until tomorrow bc i woke up with a headache and the feeling that a tractor drove over me so uh. no. i need to psych myself up for this one last time

[autistic-armand]

like all the other insane shit(armand being involved in the trial, loumand divorce, loustat reunion, etc.) i expected to some extent but i was not expecting vampire daniel this early and i cannot get over it

[casyawn]

my official thoughts on the finale are not very original tbh they're mostly that it was good even though the pacing was weird, too much time spent on stuff that wasn't as emotionally important while not enough time was spent on stuff that was (specifically the loumand breakup rip i wanted more divorce). that being said the loustat reunion flayed me open and left me raw i loved that it was about their grief over claudia i loved that they didn't get back together i loved that lestat looked like a dirty pathetic wet miserable rat i loved siri pause and i loved the final shot of them embracing while everything threatens to fall apart around them imo it was all worth it for that shot alone i almost thought they'd end the ep there and i was like damn that's gutsy. but i'm also grateful we got to see louis on his healing journey tho i'm with daniel.. leave dubai girl... anyway daniel as a vampire is cheesy as hell (not a complaint in general just the tonal whiplash was insane) and armand being a bit of a cartoon villain was not how i'd have wanted to conclude that storyline but i'm okay for those things to be explored more in s3. and thank god we are getting a s3

[lesbians4armand]

really do need to talk about it so spoilers for iwtv s2 finale beneath the cut

hi. i am so torn on this episode so this will be spilt into two parts, things i liked and things i didn't. excuse all grammar and spelling i really am not focused on that now.

things i liked:

first and foremost the theatre fire/ louis' revenge. I really liked the way he got out of the crypts and then him plotting his revenge in the graveyard, acting very manic and delirious. I immediately thought of Les Innocents with the graveyard as well which felt intentional and i love that. I really really enjoyed seeing his revenge come to life with the theatre burning, the sabotaged bikes that killed celeste and estelle, and of course cutting santiago's head off with a scythe.

I liked louis and lestat's reunion in new orleans and particulary the tour guide talking outside of 1132 rue royale, even if what he said wasn't the true story and was a little bit offensive. parts of the reunion i didnt like but that was more influenced by the other overall things i didnt like.

DANIEL! VAMPIRE DANIEL! wished we saw a little more of how we got here but i think that will be revealed in more depth next season. But i loved that danny is a vampire and armand is his maker. to me this basically confirmed that devil's minion happened, even if danile doesn't remember. armand would not have made daniel out of spite, he would only have made him if he loved him too much to lose, this is explicit canon, and i love it. loved daniel's fuckass tv interiew as well and his glasses and colour changing eyes.

I liked the ending, liked that setup for TVL/QOTD plotlines.

On that one i loved the Akasha mention from lestat to armand, and saying that louis doesn't know what that means. armand knows Akasha was kept by marius, even if he thinks marius is dead and that akasha could be kept by someone else i think this is the first nod towards marius being alive/showing up, as it says lestat had to meet marius to drink from akasha

I liked the weird little detail that the vampire sam is apparently in daft punk now. interesting. i still think he's actually ******* but yeah two things can be true

things i didn't:

lestat??? saved??? louis?? listen i fully understand that armand FUCKED UP here with directing the play but i knew that. I knew that it's in the books and is more than enough for loumand divorce! but oh my god saying that he would have let louis die makes NO SENSE??? why would he save louis in ep3 then just plan and direct hs death later. I swear i am not a book purist but he directed the play, manipulated lestat and killed claudia because he wanted louis for himself, this is purely his motivations in the books that feels like complete character assasination from one point of view. Having lestat save louis feels like a sloppy way of pushing the narrative back into the loustat box and make it purely like "oh armand never loved louis and was so much worse than lestat." I just... cant get past this. the entire 'i could not prevent it' was made so much better with the fact that he could because he saved louis, but not claudia. Thats purely in character for armand, this is not. When louis asked lestat in new orleans if he was the one who saved him during the trial i was basically begging lestat to say no because this makes no sense. They better have a good reason for this because if they leave it there i will be deeply upset. and im not even a loumand shipper particuarly.

Also did not like the mentions of what they did with Claudia's ashes. the first two were just upsetting and horrible but the third that was literally another sexual assault. not necessary :/ i choose to believe santiago was lying to infuriate louis.

overall i think it is a good setup for a third season if a little weird and ooc right now, i think (or hope) a lot of the loose ends and parts that don't make sense will be addressed in s3 and im so glad s3 is confirmed because if it wasn't i'd be worried.