#another reason why I also feel like Edwaed Carpenter's text doesn't even actually fully frame the familial dynamic by the end

[fayevalcntine]

I don't really think when the meta writers hit back against the strict boxing of characters where once again the white man in a homosexual relationship got framed as the femme, they really were meaning to put Louis on the pedestal of a nurturing matriarch. Their little notes on their blogs do not excuse Louis's carelessness or selfishness when it comes to Claudia. They don't excuse his violence when it comes to Claudia. Their metas had mostly to do with their (Louis and Claudia's) dynamic against Lestat. And if in that Louis got projected as the matriarch then yeah, mothers can hurt their children. Ari aster in hereditary, in the movie witch, even in game of thrones, there are proofs of violence a mother can heave on her children.

The metas were mostly a reaction to how lestat got categorized. That's it.

I get what you mean, but as I previously said, I don't think the framing with solely the Edwardian marriage text in mind is completely necessary nor is it really capable of fully reflecting the familial dynamic we see by episode 6. The reason why we see Edward Carpenter's text in the episode is because of Louis, right? Louis as the narrator gives us literary references throughout his story that we can then use as hints so as to see what kind of dynamic he may allude to regarding him and Lestat. But those literary hints aren't the full constructed framing, they're just hints. Louis' story goes beyond them, as I mentioned in how his monologue during Claudia's train scene is explicit in the commentary of Claudia suffering from segregation laws and how even in spite of them, she found elation because it meant running away from Lestat. He made sure to state that even while having to hide in a train car that was used for luggage as a stowaway because of racist laws, Claudia didn't care about accommodations if it meant being free from her abusive father, therefore highlighting again how visceral her feelings of being trapped were.

I'm not here to tell meta writers what they should or shouldn't write, I just stated that when others only take this framing in mind and neglect the other obvious ones, they begin to lose important aspects that Louis repeatedly notes on in his story. And I don't think you have to do that when you're arguing against another overly simplistic viewing of the characters.