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portraitoflestatonfire · 2 years ago

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So, I actually really liked episode 5 despite finding it quite triggering. It was effective. After sitting with it for a while the thing I find the most viscerally upsetting about all of this is the number of people insistent on eschewing Louis and Claudia’s emotional interiority and agency in order to bend themselves into knots to justify the things Lestat has done to them.

#plus all of the really patronizing ‘you guys would not have survived Hannibal lol’#I watched every season of Hannibal live from a very young age and have experienced all of the discourse #so I’ve been trying to figure out why I find the Louis/Lestat dynamic so much more upsetting and I think a lot of it is the racial element #which is intrinsic! i have a lot more to say on this matter but I need to put it down for a while #there are still a lot of things to unpack from the ep which I haven’t even seen anyone discuss yet #which is why I love this series. it’s so thematically rich!#interview with the vampire #iwtv #interview with the vampire amc #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #1.05

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