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I am 100% with you on this one! I want to know if there is deleted footage with Aaliyah should have had a LOT more video time, IMO. (I didn't like the woman from the Talamasca's acting at all here.)
Love your reactions❤! I will say in regards of Madeline’s “antenna”, she can only really feel Louie’s emotions thanks to their vampire bond, so whatever she’s picking up is just Louie’s perception of that person(and we all know how love makes him…)
Love your videos by the way! If you thought this episode was crazy… the last two episodes of the season (episodes 7 & 8) are absolute masterpieces of television!! I can’t wait to see your reaction to them!!!! 🥹
Chile the tension between Armand and Louis is thicker than a snicker. I think Armand messed with Louis head more than we know. Armand can block his thoughts from everybody which makes him more dangerous because up until now we truly don't know what is really real and what Armand has manipulated. I feel like Armand is more dangerous than Lestat in that sense because Lestat is up front with his stuff but Armand is a very throw stones hide your hand type. And Assad is ACTING!!!
Assad’s performance is truly so great because even when I KNOW Armand is lying or manipulating, I can’t help but genuinely feel a little bit bad for him when he admits he made a mistake and looks up with his sad eyes. Like everytime Louis forgives him or lets something awful slide, I can truly understand it, which feels crazy
I love this version of Madeleine and yes armand is telling the truth about never making a vampire i actually love Jacob version of Louis Season 3 will start shooting this fall i can't wait
Think th reason Claudia thought it was ok to have the dinner is down to Armand. She is under the impression that it's ok. This could be another showing of her immaturity in a way. I'm finally happy and deserve my happy ending. If Armand voiced any hunt of concern about the coven coup or went into detail of the choice; they would have all left Paris. I agree that it's fishy that Armand never had the coven's minds before he left them
The images Louis is seeing as he made Madeleine, is her happy childhood with her family. The next images are the ones where her parents and sister are dead from TB. The other images are of the Paris mob beating her on the street for sleeping with a German soldier , the recent images are the ones you saw of Claudia in sunlight. It was common to take funeral photos (from mid -1800's through the 1930's). This custom also existed in the US around the same time period.
@@shalayahomebodytvpeople didn’t necessarily have photos taken when they were alive, it was a relatively new thing. Sometimes it was the only picture you had of your loved one.
I love your rants. It's so freakin frustrating! We all know what's about to happen. Yet, we yell at the screen: 'Change it. Say something. Stop something - it can be different.' . . .
Another somewhat period drama series Assad was in is Hotel Portofino (2022) and he was amazing!🥺 I think it was filmed just before IWTV so I like to think of it as Armand's Italian holiday 😂
The thing about Claudia breaking the rules is that literally every vampire I've seen breaks the rules in one way or another. But Claudia is the easy target for ridicule (i wanted to throttle Louis for yelling at her about Madeline😠) because they all still see her as a child. Real Rashid is part of the Talamasca, do we really think Armand isn't aware of this?👀 I wonder if Armand even cares about that. That's an interesting point about Armand not being the one who writes the plays. It doesnt seem like he has any creative talent himself but he prefers to manipulate those who are natural creators or leaders. There may be a lot more to this because in the books, Armand was an incredible painter as a child but he blocked/lost that passion after all the abuse he went through and i don't think he ever regained it. The conversation between him and Madeline was so interesting because it looks like the first time someone willingly wants to be turned into a vampire without an impending life-threatening reason. Both he and Louis were definitely jealous of this. Claudia wanted to arrange the best for her and kept comforting her throughout the transformation, proving that its not always the case for "vampires to be born out of pain" the way Louis believes.
@@HuntingViolets yeah, that's true. I am mixing the book lore in here too though. What I meant is that his previous creative talent (as a human child) has now changed to one where he needs to be in control (e.g. a manager, a director, a manipulator, etc.) due to everything he's been through. That's why I think he got so offended when Louis called him boring. Louis is attracted to talented people (not always romantically) and Armand can only make observations for other people's creations rather than create his own. In the books, Marius tried to get Armand back into painting after he rescued him but Armand completely shut down and wanted nothing to do with it anymore because of all the bad memories attached to it
I liked this version of turning Madeline better. It was sweet seeing Claudia basically coaching her thru everything. But Louie's before and after reaction was jarring. Almost like he was trying to get rid of his emotions. I just assumed it was a coping mechanism. But yeah, I agree on Madeline. They both looked confused by her. Hell, I was confused, lol.
"You wanna talk about fucking things up, Lou?!" "SHE's the manipulator?!" "I think she meant the both of you. 🤭" Whack 'em again, Shalaya! Love made all of them stupid, really. They could've all just skipped town and lived happily ever after - hell, Claudeleine WERE gone! Assad's mostly done theater, but the other longer show he's in is Hotel Portofino. The show is mostly rich white people being annoying, but Assad is amazing in it (and does some stellar boy kissing). There's Assad scene packs on RU-vid.
FX were wonderful in FRIGHT-NIGHT the budjet for the production 4 to 5 million.But FRIGHT NIGHT look like 18 to 20 million budget. Special FX was produced by Richard Edlund, same man who worked on FX on GHOST BUSTER'S
Naw the book is better. I'd say this is only 30 percent the book. They explain why she couldn't kill them and some more stuff. Jesses doesn't end up with Lestat in the book. This movie is bad, but I like the soundtrack.
I saw this when it came out and it killed any Anne Rice love for me, I know she wasn't involved but still... It's like everybody in this movie was doing a live action Bratz instead. Writing is bad, acting is atrocious (how was Jesse even a thing?), thanks for sparing me from watching it again LMAO
Anne Rice hated this movie. She said she was disappointed and begged them not to make it. She said that it is not based on her book as it existed, but rather they took pieces and then the scriptwriters just made up new stuff.
and the other option being what? stuck in an abusive miserable family dynamic for god knows how long? And its odd that so many of you expect this selfless love from Claudi when Louis himself never gave her that.
@@AnimeAngel115 She should never have come back after she left the first time. She deliberately tried to ruin both Louis and Lestat, then abandoned Louis for 7 years…7 years that Lestat stuck it out despite Louis’ constant stream of vitriol. Then she returns and has the audacity to try getting Louis to leave Lestat, which set in motion the brutal fight that results in Lestat hurting Louis in ways he probably never would have even considered if not for interloping Claudia’s interference. And that interference never stopped from that point on.
Hey Shalaya! Love your reactions as always and the fit is so cute!🥺 I'm glad you picked up when Armand said Louis was "hoping Lestat would come chasing after him AGAIN" coz it definitely confirms that in the 70s Louis knew Lestat was still alive. I wonder if even now in Dubai Armand has been trying over and over to make Louis believe that he and Claudia really did manage to get rid of Lestat back in New Orleans because Louis had a complete breakdown in season 1 when Daniel pointed out the BS of only tossing him into a coffin. Whereas in San Francisco, Louis didn't seem that surprised to hear that Lestat was alive and may have already encountered him back in Paris. I think Armand realised in San Francisco that he can't allow Louis to keep the final memories of Paris involving Lestat, Claudia and the Theatre. But now the problem is that Louis keeps calling more and more journalists to interview him for his story since they left Paris that it has to be way over hundreds they've gotten rid of. And Armand keeps erasing all those memories of the interviews but kept the one with Daniel because of their pact. Louis is still actively trying to see if Lestat is really out there because I believe he can still feel him as his fledgling and the vampire bond they share
I forgot he did go crazy in Paris. I wonder if Armand messing with his memory is why Louis can never get the facts straight? And I'm wondering how much of Paris he took away because I still don't understand how Louis could stay with him after what he did
@@shalayahomebodytv that's the real mystery, why would Louis still be with Armand if he knew he was the basically the reason that Claudia was deleted? In the books (and I guess the movie too) Armand was playing innocent, acting like he didn't know the coven would punish her that badly and Louis dragged Armand for years (as his own form of revenge, having Armand lick his boots for forgiveness) before finally confronting him and telling him he knew it was his plan all along. Then literally tossing him aside like a tissue to go meet up with Lestat finally. I'm guessing here Armand will do his best to convince Louis that Lestat was the one who was responsible for ultimately sealing Claudia's fate, even though Louis now knows that Armand organized for Santiago and the coven to capture them. Vampire trial, here we come!!😭
I’m interested to see why he chose to stay was it because he told himself what Claudia told him “ you have to give something to get something” ? Meaning he knows in his heart he will never forgive Armand and whatever feelings he was building for him will never be the same, but at least he had more control in this relationship vs his relationship with Lestat and he thinks he can endure being a vampire this way, but as we see those feels have a way of coming out and in Louis case him the worst way.
@@shalayahomebodytv yeah but that was before losing Claudia it was one thing her moving on with Madeline but being brutality murdered and knowing he played a part he doesn't want to sit with that regret alone, we would defitnely throw himself in the fire.
I don’t mean this in a Claudia slander way, but I kind of do think there was some truth to what Armand was saying, in that I think Claudia cared deeply for Louis but after he refused to burn Lestat and choked her out back in New Orleans she can’t really see a future for herself with him where she’s still happy. We see back in episode two through her diaries that for the first six months in Paris before the coven reveals themselves, she feels like he’s a burden, haunted by his guilt over Lestat, remorseful for the humans she gleefully kills. She doesn’t want him to die or suffer, but she wonders what life would be like with a companion who sees her as an equal, as more than just a daughter. Even when she wants to be his sister, Louis still refers to her as his daughter to the strangers in Eastern Europe and even to Dream Lestat in his own head, he can’t see her for the woman that she is. They love each other but they’re also dragging each other down. If they could’ve safely parted ways I think he might not be haunted by her now and in the 70s. But then whatever ends up happening in Paris occurs, and they can’t have that proper reconciliation, so he spends the next 70 years with Armand drowning in the idea that he failed her
Yeah. I'll be the first to say him choking her up, drove a rift between them. But I honestly feel like Louie depended on her too much. That's why Lestat wouldn't let her leave. And Claudia felt if she left Louie, he wouldn't survive. For a second, honestly, he was a burden until he got with Armand. That's when he decided to get his act together, but by then, it's too late.
I think Louis' problem is that he's constantly in denial of what/who he is and wants. He's either running away from his problems or his feelings. He became a vampire under duress, lovebombed while he was drunk off his arse & suicidal to boot. So he died with all of that; on top of all the mess that happened afterwards. So I agree--he needs a century or two to process & really find himself; get a hobby, get a JOB, and do something than just sit around woolgathering about his failures. Plus, he needs to sit down with Lestat and a couples therapist, LOL.
