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jaggedjot · 5 months ago

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The teaser does need to be understood, at least in part, as a marketing strategy to sell studio stakeholders and the average viewer on the incredibly bizarre plot point of Lestat becoming a rockstar. By introducing the concept prior to the third season starting filming, the idea can be somewhat normalised to a wider audience. That it is the focus of the teaser, with the second half effectively becoming a music video, is intended to demonstrate that the production team have the skills to render it on screen.

#fandom exposure and or knowledge of the even stranger developments in the book has also inured us all #that is not to say that there has been no concern about how well the team can pull it off #but that is still different from rejecting the concept wholesale or as another prestige genre show jumping the shark #none of this undermines the anxieties people have had about the the black and Asian characters being dismissed #(and I better not see anyone in the tags using this post to do so)#which are legitimate not just because of the general treatment of such characters in television #but specifically here as there has and continues to be some really shady racist stuff in the marketing of this show #another reason that this is the focus of the teaser of course is that it is quite flashy while being relatively cheap #using real members of the production team (Mark and I suspect that is actually Tami) is both a cute easter egg and also cuts costs #Lestat de Lioncourt #Interview with the Vampire #Jagged Jottings

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