#was the thing(???) that finally snapped him out of almost 80 years of resentmentship without a second thought?

[indelicateink]

all i could think was...he meant "I didn't fully appreciate that it was a gift"? "never knew" as in didn't take it in/believe/acknowledge it as.

but yeah, i blinked at that too.

(honestly it always bothered me that they never drop the v word in e1 and louis jumps into this with both feet without any instructional pamphlet on By The Way, You'll Be Eating People, and he suffered it like a curse accordingly)

i have my various cheers and beefs for iwtv s2 but this one is a beef. "i never knew it was a gift 🥺". ok it's an idea that could work but it doesn't follow at all. from what we've seen. it comes from nowhere. nothing in season 2 builds to this concept.

"it wasn't a lie: you meant it as a gift" you could make work if you sprinkle in a few more building blocks. but also how does "i never knew it was a gift" work when in the first monologue in the church lestat calls it a gift. he calls it that.