We've seen Armand freeze entire restaurants full of people and knock people with one word, but we're supposed to believe ONE guard at the door was enough to keep him complicit during the trial? Get real 💀
Roxane Duran, Madeleine’s actress, had this beautiful statement to make on Twitter: I think C lit up M's life so much in so many ways and made up for her past life. When the coven gave M the choice between living or dying, what I heard was : live in darkness or die with light by your side. So it is survival to me
Remember, Lestat did tell Claudia the European vampires were vicious. Also, when Claudia inquired about Lestat's portrait, Louis wanted them to leave Paris immediately but Claudia wanted to stay.
Seeing the two drama queens (Lestat and Santiago) on stage like that, practically fighting for the spotlight 😂 Now i need to see them duke it out too. There can only be ONE thespian!🔥
I'm not going to say anything for sure, but there is NO UNIVERSE in which Lestat would willingly let Louis die when possessing all his faculties or control.
How do you know that? Remember, this is a whole theater full of people. He was straining to make them all give Louis a banishment sentence. Just because he could do it once, doesn't mean he could do it twice.
Armand could have done a lot of things differently in the hours, days, weeks, months, and years that all led to this moment. But he has trapped himself in a cycle where he can’t get his own hands dirty and can’t break the status quo. He is selectively powerful and selectively powerless.
Not really, he'd only have enough to do it once, its a power with a cooldown, and if he did it 1st with Claudia, the vamps would immediately get wise to his act and stop him from doing it a 2nd time with Louis.
Lestat bankrolled the theatre ever since he founded it. His body language at times was really weird so I wonder if someone was freezing him or messing with his mind or something.
@@3twelve206 having read the books I knew when that scene happened it had to be Lestat. So when they showed it as Armand I was completely thrown. Thank god it worked out as it did! They did such a good job keeping people confused and guessing though
Claudia's turning scene's being different from when Louis told it before shows us that there can still be a lot we don't know about, and some of this is told by Armand, who also isn't that reliable.
This show is incredible 😭 Nothing else has made me both adore and hate every character as much as this masterpiece does (except from Madeline), loving this reaction ❤
Madeline actress is on Twitter and is so nice and responsive with the fans. I said I loved her as Madeline not expecting a response and she replied Merci !!
Absolutely amazing episode. Even though I knew what was coming it was still an intense and impactful episode. Brilliant performances by everyone. Madeline put Claudia first even in death. Claudia was true to herself in death as well. Lestat was everything I needed him to be in this episode. I cannot wait to see what kind of hell is unleashed next week!
Most people would consider it being chosen first for one parent to allow you to manipulate them into helping you murder the other, especially when that person is the love of their life, but not perpetual malcontent Claudia. 🙄
I love Claudia but Lestat is the best character. But that's something the audience will understand a little by next episode or hopefully a season 3 it'll definitely show you why he is.
@@enchantedboy66no, Louis still chose Lestat in that moment. He got 90% of the way there and still chose Lestat. He refused to kill him and threw Claudia up against a wall. Louis did not choose Claudia in that moment.
A lot of people are reading Lestats facial expression at the end as being horror and regret... So yeah you were pretty spot-on with how he potentially was feeling at that moment. I'm sure Sam Reid will do an interview or something and clarify it a bit more.
Remember season one is Louis' memories, perhaps they will do a season the way Lestat remembers things. And Lestat seemed kinda of drugged at some times during the performance.
Don't fret there will still be a lot of revelations happening in the finale. Btw since you love Claudia so much and doesn't know about the source book: unfortunately Claudia cannot not die in this story. IWTV (the novel) is written by Anne Rice after she lost her 6-yr old daughter to Leukemia. Claudia is inspired by her daughter. She's Louis, her husband is Lestat (Lestat's name should have been Lestan, from her husband Stan Rice, but she made a typo). And just like Michelle's, Claudia's death will haunt and change Louis and Lestat the rest of their undead lives. IWTV is ultimately about grief and failures of parents.
Exactly, I believe Least did try to stop it. If you remember Armond said in the 70s that Least could come chasing after them again, if he he was trying to kill Louis he wouldn't be still chasing him. Least wouldn't have cared if Louis was hurt. I didn't believe that Least beat Louis the way they showed in season 1. Because if they were alone for 7 years and Louis kept refusing Least, Least could have S/A Louis beat Louis before then. If he stayed all those years and he never once harm Louis.
You're dismissing what really made Lestat lash out then. Louis rejecting him was one thing, but trying to leave him for Claudia was unbearable. It still stings Lestat just to say it out loud.
the dv we saw between lestat and louis was literally from claudia's journal. nothing changed about the fight scene. they just showed us what happened what from we didn't see in season 1. they didn't show us what happened between them in the room and now they did. and he still dropped louis from the sky. we have no reason to believe it didn't happen. and lestat literally admitted it.
@@vividlykc Yes, it was from Claudia's diaries, but the way in which Louis framed it was that Least just over powered Louis and beat him to a pulp. It clearly didn't happen that way, Louis in fact was being the aggressor. Louis was threatening Lestats, Least in fact was doing everything to not fight with Louis. He said to Louis I'm trying to restrain myself. He didn't want to hit Louis. Louis kept talking smack and saying stuff like he was going to cut his head off and feed it to the lions. Just as he did said to Armond back in the 70s, and it wasn't the drugs, it was Louis true feelings coming to the surface. The drugs just allowed him to speak unfiltered. Even as Least sat on the floor face all bloody he didn't care if Louis beat on him, he was willing to accept that just to have Louis stay. That really sad, I wanted to cray for Least, he just wanted someone to love him so badly that he was willing to be abused.
@@lenorawilson2326 how is louis framing it if it was literally written how it happened in her diary? i'm not even reading the rest of this bc i already know what you are.
@@vividlykc Wow, well how do you know what is written there is everything she actually wrote. Armond has manipulated so much it's hard to know what the actual truth is. Recall when Santiago picked up Claudia's diary up out of the rat ben and said, thanks for the kind words you said about me. She asked, how do you know what I wrote and he told her he read it just then, writing fun of her. We don't know what powers these ancient vampires hold. And why won't Armond change things to keep Louis under his spell, and it's not like Louis read her diaries until she was gone, and whom do you think he got them from. I believe Armond set the whole thing up.
7:52 Your disbelief and outrage mirrors what mine was while watching this whole thing. The sheer audacity... The only people I'm not mad at after this episode are dead. 😭
Yeah, Louis develops claustrophobia after his experience with the rocks and coffin... Some other fans think that that's why they don't have coffins in Dubai... I mean it could obviously just be because technology has advanced and stuff. And so the windows can have sun protection like they do now. But I definitely agree with the people saying that it's potentially due to Louis' claustrophobia that he won't sleep in a coffin anymore in current day.
I've noticed that part of the story is inconsistent. The coffin part. So all they really need is a darkened room? You don't need technology for that. That means all vampires have needed this whole time is a dark place to sleep. I never understood why a coffin was necessary. What makes a coffin anyways? Would any big box work? How about a closet? Good point about Louis claustrophobia. That is probably why he doesn't sleep in a coffin.
@@cullenarthur8879 yeah, I think they just have to be away from direct sunlight in the darkness. I think coffins were used because of tradition, IMO... And to further nail down that they are undead.... Because yeah there's literally NOTHING special about the coffins they're just regular coffins that humans use. 🤷♀️... Other than when they got special ones that lock from the inside.... They just need to hide from the sunlight. Which is why when they don't have a coffin they bury themselves under the ground. It's not the coffin that necessarily protects them they just need ANYTHING that will completely protect them from sunrays. So a closet probably could work if it didn't have any cracks to let light in!...which isn't how most doors work.... But if they found a special door ... It would work. I don't really see it as an inconsistency. It's a thing in a bunch of different vampire lore... And absolutely is a thing within Ann's books. As far as I understand it... The coffins aren't special...and vampires use OTHER methods to hide from the sun when they don't have coffins in the books, from what book readers have told me.
@@cullenarthur8879 also to answer your what makes a coffin... a coffin question... Coffins are technically kind of protective, in modern-day anyway. Sometimes they can be airtight with a seal. But even before those modifications they probably were still seen as protective of the body rather than just putting the body in a shroud in a hole... Do I think that's why vampire lore evolved to see coffins as protective against the sun because they do kind of slightly protect a dead body... From like bugs and shit ...I don't know. The logic just makes sense to me. Probably any old box would work. But coffins and caskets are usually specific sizes and shapes. So they are ✨special✨ boxes for dead bodies... That's really all they are. And they're just deeply associated with death in our society.... And so it makes sense that there's a connection between coffins and vampires because vampires are connected to death within society as well. 🤷♀️ In my opinion it isn't a random societal connection... The connection makes sense.... Idk just my thoughts about it.
@@AnxietyRat it's funny I used to think vampires automatically will need sleep during the day in addition to protection from sun. I guess they could get used to sleeping at night and spending some day time awake if they have cover on the walls. I remember that can Francisco apartment had paper on the Windows. That does not seem like enough though.
i dont believe lestat came back for vengeance. hes following a script that almost feels he doesnt wanna follow because when he goes off script (like when hes apologizing or saying if they sentence them to death they sentence him too) it directly contradicts what hes supposed to be saying, also lestat looks kinda off in parts of it. Look at santiagos reaction when hes not saying what they want him to he starts looking at armands direction... why?
I wonder if he was lured to Paris with the knowledge that Claudia and Louis were there and then coerced into participating, or else they’d just kill them both immediately - by going along with it, he had the chance of saving Louis. He knew he could not save Claudia. Even if he wanted to, he was taxed pretty heavily just saving Louis. Also, Claudia would have a target on her for eternity as a child vampire. If the Parisian coven didn’t kill her, another one would.
It didn't occur to me till this very moment that Louie says he felt like he was out of his body, and was in New Orleans but also was in Paris when he was trying to convince him to save Claudia? Was Louie being mind controlled from that far away 11:14??! or when Lestat says he didn't know what came over him when he dropped Louie from the clouds. Blamed it on his maker's blood/temper. Has Armand been manipulating them from afar??
These writers are amazing. They make us feel for an older Claudia who in Anne book was 5 yrs old when turned. Can you imagine how sick that was? She could not care for herself they had to bring her people she had no special powers everyone was bigger than her! It was a monster who did that to her . But the story tellers here make us feel bad about a teenager who is bigger.
The reason why Claudia's story is so tragic is because she was inspired by Anne Rices daughter who died at age 5 due to a rare blood disease. And louis is practically Anne Rice and her vehicle for processing her death. Also Lestats charm and charisma was inspired by Anne husband Stan. Also once again from what I've seen i believe that not everything in this episode is what it seems to be. Smh this show is a mind fuck. Sad and intense episode.
fuck Armand at the top (love that man though) and Lestat However, to be fair Armand told Louis multiple times in episodes 2-4 before the betrayal the coven hates you, mutiny is brewing you need to leave and Louis said No.
Hello 👋🏻. Sorry to say there’s no coming back from being burn by the son, Claudia is gone😩. I going to guess season 3, and possibly S4 will adapt the second book call The Vampire Lestat. Also, in case you didn’t know a 3rd series is coming The Talamasca. Don’t forget The Mayfair Witches series is part of this universe.
1) Who else believes Lestat's version of events is pretty much accurate with the possible exception of who pursued whom when he met Louis? 😏 Although, at this point, I'm not entirely sure about that either. 🤔 2) Did anyone else notice the moment where Lestat appeared to have an expression on his face that suggested he was actually proud that Claudia was defiant to the bitter end? It was as if he was thinking, "that's my girl!" 😎 3) At least Claudia's beloved chose her over everything. If only the same could be said about Lestat's beloved, who instead chose to go along with Claudia's plot to murder him. 💔
if you truly believe everything that lestat was saying (which most was written in a script) than you're exactly like the audience. the point of the play was so make lestat look like the perfect victim and to make louis/claudia look evil. the only thing we know for sure it what louis also confirmed, which is claudia's turning scene. and if you can condemn louis for not choosing claudia first, than the same goes for lestat.
@@vividlykc 1) I never said I believe everything Lestat said. In fact, I explicitly said that I believe his version of events is "pretty much accurate with the possible exception of who pursued whom when he met Louis." Specifically, I believe his version of how Claudia was turned, which was confirmed by Louis, and his version of the fight that led to him dropping Louis from the sky. Why don't you tell me what you think he's lying about? 2) I've never once said that I condemn Louis for not choosing Claudia first. On the contrary, if anything, I condemn him for not choosing Lestat first, the love of his life. 3) I don't care if Lestat looks evil. But if you think Louis and Claudia are perfect victims, the story as it's unfolding is demonstrating otherwise without any help from Lestat's narrative.
@@vividlykc Imperfect, toxic relationship and how everyone paints a picture from a very biased perspective......just like real life. It clearly shows that neither Lestat or Louis are in the right. Lestat was abusive yes, but counter to that Louis consistently gaslit and rejected and emotionally abused Lestat. Broken people do not make good lifetime partners. PERIOD. Also, Lestat understood the inherent cruelty of creating a child vampire, having never grown into a semblance of humanity and only having the vampire instincts to direct one's behavior and perspective. To never have the adult things in life because you are trapped in a prison not of your making. Lestat was in the right and was being compassionate, amazingly. Louis was selfish and self serving because ONE TIME, for ONE MOMENT, someone saw something good in him and he wanted to linger on that by punishing that person, indirectly. All the while holding one's love on a string to force their partner to give them the unthinkable. There are no "good guys" in this story and everyone to some degree is a victim, either of another or themselves.
Wow. This episode blew me away, even more than episode 5. Delainey and Roxane were amazing. I know there is going to be a plot twist that Sam Reid spoke about on the last episode, and I'm really curious to know what that is. By the way, do you usually watch the IWTV reviews of Maven Of Eventide or the Articulate Coven?
Hmmm...you have a point there... it's possible it could have been Lestat and Armand later told Louis it was him. Coz we already know from New Orleans that Lestat can control the mind of multiple humans at the same time and there's no way Lestat would have allowed a d**th sentence for Louis
In the books, it's Armand who saves Louis. Lestat tries to save them but fails. And in the show we realize that Lestat is probably weak, the same happens in the books, he goes to the theater, but he's still recovering from the assassination attempt. Armand has all the flaws in the world, but he loves Louis (in his own Armand way, later). Lestat, Louis, Armand, and probably all the vampires in this universe are monsters. The most "human" of them is Louis, and yet he sins in having the flaws that humans also have.
@@aleksandercassimiro3128 You're right. In the books, Lestat was weak because he was still recovering from the attempted murder and couldn't do much, he'd actually gone to Paris because he wanted Armand's help - and powerful blood - to help him get better, but Armand manipulated him to get Claudia executed instead. And even after she was gone, he refused to feed Lestat and threw him of a building before leaving France with Louis.
Technically the only evidence he have been shown is episode 5 for a specific instance. The other "evidence" is inferred by the audience not the show saying it.
I love that you took issue the spoon. I mean, with all the murder, gore and disturbing things we saw, it shouldn't be a big deal, but it is, isn't it? I find this "civilized" blood drinking the hardest to watch, I actually felt a bit nauseous with these scenes. There is something very unsettling about the gross act of drinking human blood being delivered in such a mundane, "clean" and superficially dignified manner.
[Edit: This doesn't appear to be a spoiler, sorry. I'm leaving this comment up as a reminder to others, though.] -Spoilers.- She doesn't want any spoilers and specifically asked in the first video of this season that people to put Spoilers and hit enter several times so they are not visible to her.
@@HuntingViolets She was! But that's in the 1940s/50s, whereas San Francisco was later, in the 70s. So she should already know that he did not die in the fire. She even said so in a previous video. Though maybe she now thinks that was another bit of unreliable narration. (If you mean OP should not talk about the other books, then yes I agree.)
lestat no podia hacer nada puesto que armand lo dominaba x completo tenia moretones en las manos y a ratos estaba como perdido y se balanciaba como si fuera a desmayarse armand concentro su poder en el se salia del guion y santiag de enojaba y miraba a los demas recuerden que lestat estaba en una mazmorra
It didn't take Lestat twenty years to apologize for dropping Louis. He had been apologizing the whole time they separated after that. Don't you remember all the gifts and apologies he sent Louis for years after? That's one of the things I dislike about Claudia. Lestat was giving a heartfelt, emotional apology to Louis, going off script in front of the whole coven and audience, and Claudia is in Louis ear telling him not to accept it, that it's too late. She has always tried to turn Louis against Lestat. She manipulated Louis into attempting to murder his love. If it weren't for Louis, Claudia would have burned him.
Even Lestat said in this episode that he did not deserve Louis' forgiveness. Even Sam Reid said in a new interview that Lestat did something unforgivable to Louis! Claudia was trying to get her parent away from an abusive partner. What so dislikable about that? If my dad was abusing my mum AND me, I would try to get her away from him too. And she didn't have to manipulate anything, Louis had enough of Lestat the moment he found out he was still banging Antoinette.
@@klowwwww Lestat knew that what he had done was unforgivable. He wasn't asking for forgiveness, he wanted Louis to know that he loved him and that he was truly sorry. Claudia couldn't have that. I don't think she thought that they would make up and run off together at that point. She just couldn't even let them have that moment of understanding and closure. She was always in Louis ear telling him to leave Lestat. Lestat had been there for Louis for seven years while Claudia fucked off and left Louis heartbroken. Yes, he had a lover on the side, but who could blame him? Louis only threw insults and vitriol at him, when he spoke to him at all. If anything, Lestat was being abused by Louis at that point. But, Lestat stayed by him. And then Ms. Claudia strolls in after seven years and tells Louis he should leave Lestat. She wasn't a child. She knew damn well what that would do to Lestat. Like Lestat said during the "trial", she sensed the fragility in their relationship, and like a good predator, went in for the kill.
@@cullenarthur8879 What? Louis never abused Lestat, if anything he DESERVED everything Louis did to him and even that wasn't enough, even Lestat accepts this in the trial, he was a shitty abusive cheating partner and you expected Louis to just take it all in to prove he loved him? And Claudia wanted Louis to leave with her and he didn't accept it, she was tired of seeing Lestat being awful and Louis being blinded by love therefore she left I mean who wouldn't have? It's not like she did it selfishly she wanted to live her life and Lestat couldn't even let her do that because that's just how awful he was. Claudia and Louis were 100% victims of Lestat not otherwise and like I said before he accepted this, why is it so hard for some viewers to also accept it? Why do you wanna make him look like a victim so bad when he never was and he HIMSELF knows he wasn't?
@@gemalost5377 Louis said himself in the first season that during the period Claudia took off, he took cheap pleasure in provoking and being shitty to Lestat. When he wasn't ignoring him completely, he was taking shots at him and insulting him. That's called emotional abuse. If Lestat were a woman, and Louis were treating her like that, everyone would be calling Louis abusive and calling for Lestat to leave him. Lestat stuck with him through all of it. All Louis was interested in doing was trying to find Claudia, and completely ignored Lestat. Then, like I said, Claudia comes walking in with some half ass apology and tries to get Louis to leave the man who stood by him the whole time she was gone. A man she knows has serious abandonment issues. She always knew exactly how to stick in the knife and turn. People seem to want to make Claudia some kind of hero, they forget all the shitty, psychotic things she did. She collected parts from her victims as trophies, wrote down their last words for her own amusement, and kept half dead people in her closet. Even for a vampire she was sadistic.
@cullenarthur8879 I won't entertain this for too long because you're too obtuse to understand but all of this is making me think you're trying to make Louis and Lestat's relationship sound like it was "mutually abusive" when first of all mutual abuse does not exist, nor in real life and for sure not in fiction. Louis is a very flawed character and yes he did bad things but he was more neglective towards Claudia and in a way is also responsible for her fate (hell Claudia wouldn't even be a vampire if he didn't beg Lestat to turn her out of guilt and desperation) but you will never convince me he was "emotionally abusing" Lestat, he was depressed because his daughter left because of him and Lestat. Also, I never said Claudia was a hero, no one in this show/books is, Claudia was just a girl who got turned into a vampire against her will and was just trying to live her life, none of her actions were out of selfishness or manipulation, she LOVED Louis and wanted to save him from Lestat but when she realized it was in vain she left to try to live her life somewhere else but was later forced back by Lestat...if you had someone you love who is in a toxic relationship and you tried to make them see that would you call that manipulation or simply trying to save someone you care for? That's what Claudia tried but failed (twice). Lestat's past trauma and abandonment issues do not excuse the way he treated Louis and Claudia, Lestat was a victim in his past then later became the perpetrator and Louis and Claudia were his victims, period.
Louis next week will clear everyone up, literally everyone of the coven but one. The one who planned all of this, the one behind all of this, Armand de Nothing
Spoilers. She doesn't want any spoilers and specifically asked in the first video of this season that people to put Spoilers and hit enter several times so they are not visible to her.
In terms of visuals, I'm not a big fan of the sun effect in this show. The dust/ash looks and sounds like sand, and it's a bit weird how it flies off their body. This may just be a personal bias, but I prefer how it was done in the movie (which was faithful to the book). Once Lestat escapes the coffin, he finds Claudia and Madeline imprisoned in a room with no roof -- except he doesn't find them, he finds piles of grey ash that look perfectly like them, because their bodies had instantly turned to ash (with Madeline holding Claudia like a mother holding a child). He touches them, and the ash falls apart in his hands. Their murders were also a lot more sudden in the book, with a lot less foreshadowing (or I was too young to notice it, lol), so it was all VERY shocking. I read the whole book in a single night I think, and I was shambling around the next day, very sad and also very tired 😆
@@enchantedboy66 Oh, it must've been someone else with 'enchanted' in their name. They were a lousy book purist who judged the show and review bombed it before it even aired.
@@7n154 Nope, definitely wasn’t me. I think the writing, directing, acting, and production values for this series are all excellent. Certainly better than the 1994 film and in some ways an improvement on certain aspects of the novels.
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We've seen Armand freeze entire restaurants full of people and knock people with one word, but we're supposed to believe ONE guard at the door was enough to keep him complicit during the trial? Get real 💀
Roxane Duran, Madeleine’s actress, had this beautiful statement to make on Twitter:
I think C lit up M's life so much in so many ways and made up for her past life. When the coven gave M the choice between living or dying, what I heard was : live in darkness or die with light by your side. So it is survival to me
Remember, Lestat did tell Claudia the European vampires were vicious. Also, when Claudia inquired about Lestat's portrait, Louis wanted them to leave Paris immediately but Claudia wanted to stay.
She had the mind of a child… you knock her the fuck out and force her out.
Seeing the two drama queens (Lestat and Santiago) on stage like that, practically fighting for the spotlight 😂 Now i need to see them duke it out too.
There can only be ONE thespian!🔥
I'm not going to say anything for sure, but there is NO UNIVERSE in which Lestat would willingly let Louis die when possessing all his faculties or control.
Pretty sure Armand could've changed all the veredicts if he wanted to - but he didn't.
How do you know that? Remember, this is a whole theater full of people. He was straining to make them all give Louis a banishment sentence. Just because he could do it once, doesn't mean he could do it twice.
Armand could have done a lot of things differently in the hours, days, weeks, months, and years that all led to this moment. But he has trapped himself in a cycle where he can’t get his own hands dirty and can’t break the status quo. He is selectively powerful and selectively powerless.
Not really, he'd only have enough to do it once, its a power with a cooldown, and if he did it 1st with Claudia, the vamps would immediately get wise to his act and stop him from doing it a 2nd time with Louis.
Lestat bankrolled the theatre ever since he founded it. His body language at times was really weird so I wonder if someone was freezing him or messing with his mind or something.
Armand!!! Cause why next episode louis finds lestat chain up in a cave like
@@dadagirl29 He wasn't chained up. He went to Magnus' tower. Magnus was his maker.
Something is definitely wrong with Lestat in this episode- he would NEVER intentionally leave Louis for death if he had the capability to prevent it.
He knows Armand won’t let Louie die. Never underestimate Lestat.
@@3twelve206😂 Armand absolutely would
@@IndieRockerHippy yeah I ate my words after the season finale 😂
@@3twelve206 having read the books I knew when that scene happened it had to be Lestat. So when they showed it as Armand I was completely thrown. Thank god it worked out as it did! They did such a good job keeping people confused and guessing though
Claudia's turning scene's being different from when Louis told it before shows us that there can still be a lot we don't know about, and some of this is told by Armand, who also isn't that reliable.
And Sam reid said the lestat at the trial is still not the real lestat. Cause it's Armand and louis telling the story
This show is incredible 😭 Nothing else has made me both adore and hate every character as much as this masterpiece does (except from Madeline), loving this reaction ❤
Madeline actress is on Twitter and is so nice and responsive with the fans. I said I loved her as Madeline not expecting a response and she replied Merci !!
I hate the whole damn coven so much now, I can't wait for louis revenge.
Absolutely amazing episode. Even though I knew what was coming it was still an intense and impactful episode. Brilliant performances by everyone. Madeline put Claudia first even in death. Claudia was true to herself in death as well. Lestat was everything I needed him to be in this episode. I cannot wait to see what kind of hell is unleashed next week!
i agree that claudia was the best character 🥲 i’m so glad someone finally chose her. it’s gonna be so painful to not have her in the show anymore.
Most people would consider it being chosen first for one parent to allow you to manipulate them into helping you murder the other, especially when that person is the love of their life, but not perpetual malcontent Claudia. 🙄
@@enchantedboy66 you’re disgusting.
I love Claudia but Lestat is the best character. But that's something the audience will understand a little by next episode or hopefully a season 3 it'll definitely show you why he is.
you’re sick
@@enchantedboy66no, Louis still chose Lestat in that moment. He got 90% of the way there and still chose Lestat. He refused to kill him and threw Claudia up against a wall. Louis did not choose Claudia in that moment.
A lot of people are reading Lestats facial expression at the end as being horror and regret... So yeah you were pretty spot-on with how he potentially was feeling at that moment. I'm sure Sam Reid will do an interview or something and clarify it a bit more.
Justice for my girl Claudia!!
Armand aint sh!!t
*whew* Lestat look so dayum good this epidode! That voice and and that jawline! 💦
Remember season one is Louis' memories, perhaps they will do a season the way Lestat remembers things. And Lestat seemed kinda of drugged at some times during the performance.
I love that your reaction videos include your predictions and wants and hopes for the characters, very interesting from our point of view
This episode was beautifully done. Unbelievable episode. Top tier!
I like how Santiago hit that spin move at the end 😂
This is one of the best episodes in the series the cast brought their a game you need to understand that Louis isn't a reliable narrator
"Haha what's wrong with Belgium?" my same exact question watching this scene 😂
It's looking like Louis has the "Fire Gift" which will come in handy against the coven.
and Lestat!...
Don't fret there will still be a lot of revelations happening in the finale.
Btw since you love Claudia so much and doesn't know about the source book: unfortunately Claudia cannot not die in this story. IWTV (the novel) is written by Anne Rice after she lost her 6-yr old daughter to Leukemia. Claudia is inspired by her daughter. She's Louis, her husband is Lestat (Lestat's name should have been Lestan, from her husband Stan Rice, but she made a typo). And just like Michelle's, Claudia's death will haunt and change Louis and Lestat the rest of their undead lives. IWTV is ultimately about grief and failures of parents.
Exactly, I believe Least did try to stop it. If you remember Armond said in the 70s that Least could come chasing after them again, if he he was trying to kill Louis he wouldn't be still chasing him. Least wouldn't have cared if Louis was hurt. I didn't believe that Least beat Louis the way they showed in season 1. Because if they were alone for 7 years and Louis kept refusing Least, Least could have S/A Louis beat Louis before then. If he stayed all those years and he never once harm Louis.
You're dismissing what really made Lestat lash out then. Louis rejecting him was one thing, but trying to leave him for Claudia was unbearable. It still stings Lestat just to say it out loud.
the dv we saw between lestat and louis was literally from claudia's journal. nothing changed about the fight scene. they just showed us what happened what from we didn't see in season 1. they didn't show us what happened between them in the room and now they did. and he still dropped louis from the sky. we have no reason to believe it didn't happen. and lestat literally admitted it.
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Yes, it was from Claudia's diaries, but the way in which Louis framed it was that Least just over powered Louis and beat him to a pulp. It clearly didn't happen that way, Louis in fact was being the aggressor. Louis was threatening Lestats, Least in fact was doing everything to not fight with Louis. He said to Louis I'm trying to restrain myself. He didn't want to hit Louis. Louis kept talking smack and saying stuff like he was going to cut his head off and feed it to the lions. Just as he did said to Armond back in the 70s, and it wasn't the drugs, it was Louis true feelings coming to the surface. The drugs just allowed him to speak unfiltered. Even as Least sat on the floor face all bloody he didn't care if Louis beat on him, he was willing to accept that just to have Louis stay. That really sad, I wanted to cray for Least, he just wanted someone to love him so badly that he was willing to be abused.
@@lenorawilson2326 how is louis framing it if it was literally written how it happened in her diary? i'm not even reading the rest of this bc i already know what you are.
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Wow, well how do you know what is written there is everything she actually wrote. Armond has manipulated so much it's hard to know what the actual truth is. Recall when Santiago picked up Claudia's diary up out of the rat ben and said, thanks for the kind words you said about me. She asked, how do you know what I wrote and he told her he read it just then, writing fun of her. We don't know what powers these ancient vampires hold. And why won't Armond change things to keep Louis under his spell, and it's not like Louis read her diaries until she was gone, and whom do you think he got them from. I believe Armond set the whole thing up.
7:52 Your disbelief and outrage mirrors what mine was while watching this whole thing. The sheer audacity... The only people I'm not mad at after this episode are dead. 😭
i think you watched the ep with your ass. you didn't understand that Lestat didn't want to be on that stage.
so dumb.
Yeah, Louis develops claustrophobia after his experience with the rocks and coffin... Some other fans think that that's why they don't have coffins in Dubai... I mean it could obviously just be because technology has advanced and stuff. And so the windows can have sun protection like they do now.
But I definitely agree with the people saying that it's potentially due to Louis' claustrophobia that he won't sleep in a coffin anymore in current day.
Thanks to the windows Louis can be up and about during da!y.!!! This is amazing for him.
I've noticed that part of the story is inconsistent. The coffin part. So all they really need is a darkened room? You don't need technology for that. That means all vampires have needed this whole time is a dark place to sleep. I never understood why a coffin was necessary. What makes a coffin anyways? Would any big box work? How about a closet?
Good point about Louis claustrophobia. That is probably why he doesn't sleep in a coffin.
@@cullenarthur8879 yeah, I think they just have to be away from direct sunlight in the darkness. I think coffins were used because of tradition, IMO... And to further nail down that they are undead.... Because yeah there's literally NOTHING special about the coffins they're just regular coffins that humans use. 🤷♀️... Other than when they got special ones that lock from the inside.... They just need to hide from the sunlight. Which is why when they don't have a coffin they bury themselves under the ground. It's not the coffin that necessarily protects them they just need ANYTHING that will completely protect them from sunrays. So a closet probably could work if it didn't have any cracks to let light in!...which isn't how most doors work.... But if they found a special door ... It would work.
I don't really see it as an inconsistency. It's a thing in a bunch of different vampire lore... And absolutely is a thing within Ann's books. As far as I understand it... The coffins aren't special...and vampires use OTHER methods to hide from the sun when they don't have coffins in the books, from what book readers have told me.
@@cullenarthur8879 also to answer your what makes a coffin... a coffin question... Coffins are technically kind of protective, in modern-day anyway. Sometimes they can be airtight with a seal. But even before those modifications they probably were still seen as protective of the body rather than just putting the body in a shroud in a hole... Do I think that's why vampire lore evolved to see coffins as protective against the sun because they do kind of slightly protect a dead body... From like bugs and shit ...I don't know. The logic just makes sense to me. Probably any old box would work. But coffins and caskets are usually specific sizes and shapes. So they are ✨special✨ boxes for dead bodies... That's really all they are. And they're just deeply associated with death in our society.... And so it makes sense that there's a connection between coffins and vampires because vampires are connected to death within society as well. 🤷♀️ In my opinion it isn't a random societal connection... The connection makes sense.... Idk just my thoughts about it.
@@AnxietyRat it's funny I used to think vampires automatically will need sleep during the day in addition to protection from sun. I guess they could get used to sleeping at night and spending some day time awake if they have cover on the walls. I remember that can Francisco apartment had paper on the Windows. That does not seem like enough though.
i dont believe lestat came back for vengeance. hes following a script that almost feels he doesnt wanna follow because when he goes off script (like when hes apologizing or saying if they sentence them to death they sentence him too) it directly contradicts what hes supposed to be saying, also lestat looks kinda off in parts of it. Look at santiagos reaction when hes not saying what they want him to he starts looking at armands direction... why?
I wonder if he was lured to Paris with the knowledge that Claudia and Louis were there and then coerced into participating, or else they’d just kill them both immediately - by going along with it, he had the chance of saving Louis.
He knew he could not save Claudia. Even if he wanted to, he was taxed pretty heavily just saving Louis. Also, Claudia would have a target on her for eternity as a child vampire. If the Parisian coven didn’t kill her, another one would.
I don't know whether Lestat came across the ocean for vengeance.
Boy am I happy I watched the movie years ago. Can’t be traumatised again by Claudia’s death. Still heartbreaking though. Big thumbs up to Delainey !
It didn't occur to me till this very moment that Louie says he felt like he was out of his body, and was in New Orleans but also was in Paris when he was trying to convince him to save Claudia? Was Louie being mind controlled from that far away 11:14??! or when Lestat says he didn't know what came over him when he dropped Louie from the clouds. Blamed it on his maker's blood/temper. Has Armand been manipulating them from afar??
The Claudia transformation scene is Emmy worthy for Sam. He is the best actor of the whole series.
" what's wrong with Belgium "
Me: girllll
Claudia was burned as a human to the point that she would've died and then again as a vampire where she did die.
These writers are amazing. They make us feel for an older Claudia who in Anne book was 5 yrs old when turned. Can you imagine how sick that was? She could not care for herself they had to bring her people she had no special powers everyone was bigger than her! It was a monster who did that to her . But the story tellers here make us feel bad about a teenager who is bigger.
The reason why Claudia's story is so tragic is because she was inspired by Anne Rices daughter who died at age 5 due to a rare blood disease. And louis is practically Anne Rice and her vehicle for processing her death. Also Lestats charm and charisma was inspired by Anne husband Stan.
Also once again from what I've seen i believe that not everything in this episode is what it seems to be. Smh this show is a mind fuck. Sad and intense episode.
fuck Armand at the top (love that man though) and Lestat
However, to be fair Armand told Louis multiple times in episodes 2-4 before the betrayal the coven hates you, mutiny is brewing you need to leave and Louis said No.
They just got renewed for SEASON 3!!!!!!
I love your reaction and Claudia my favourite character
Hello 👋🏻. Sorry to say there’s no coming back from being burn by the son, Claudia is gone😩. I going to guess season 3, and possibly S4 will adapt the second book call The Vampire Lestat. Also, in case you didn’t know a 3rd series is coming The Talamasca. Don’t forget The Mayfair Witches series is part of this universe.
1) Who else believes Lestat's version of events is pretty much accurate with the possible exception of who pursued whom when he met Louis? 😏 Although, at this point, I'm not entirely sure about that either. 🤔
2) Did anyone else notice the moment where Lestat appeared to have an expression on his face that suggested he was actually proud that Claudia was defiant to the bitter end? It was as if he was thinking, "that's my girl!" 😎
3) At least Claudia's beloved chose her over everything. If only the same could be said about Lestat's beloved, who instead chose to go along with Claudia's plot to murder him. 💔
if you truly believe everything that lestat was saying (which most was written in a script) than you're exactly like the audience. the point of the play was so make lestat look like the perfect victim and to make louis/claudia look evil. the only thing we know for sure it what louis also confirmed, which is claudia's turning scene. and if you can condemn louis for not choosing claudia first, than the same goes for lestat.
@@vividlykc 1) I never said I believe everything Lestat said. In fact, I explicitly said that I believe his version of events is "pretty much accurate with the possible exception of who pursued whom when he met Louis." Specifically, I believe his version of how Claudia was turned, which was confirmed by Louis, and his version of the fight that led to him dropping Louis from the sky. Why don't you tell me what you think he's lying about?
2) I've never once said that I condemn Louis for not choosing Claudia first. On the contrary, if anything, I condemn him for not choosing Lestat first, the love of his life.
3) I don't care if Lestat looks evil. But if you think Louis and Claudia are perfect victims, the story as it's unfolding is demonstrating otherwise without any help from Lestat's narrative.
@@vividlykc Imperfect, toxic relationship and how everyone paints a picture from a very biased perspective......just like real life. It clearly shows that neither Lestat or Louis are in the right. Lestat was abusive yes, but counter to that Louis consistently gaslit and rejected and emotionally abused Lestat. Broken people do not make good lifetime partners. PERIOD. Also, Lestat understood the inherent cruelty of creating a child vampire, having never grown into a semblance of humanity and only having the vampire instincts to direct one's behavior and perspective. To never have the adult things in life because you are trapped in a prison not of your making. Lestat was in the right and was being compassionate, amazingly. Louis was selfish and self serving because ONE TIME, for ONE MOMENT, someone saw something good in him and he wanted to linger on that by punishing that person, indirectly. All the while holding one's love on a string to force their partner to give them the unthinkable. There are no "good guys" in this story and everyone to some degree is a victim, either of another or themselves.
You know what i don't get. The rat box part.... Did that actually happen? If it did how the hell was Claudia completely fine afterwards?
Wow. This episode blew me away, even more than episode 5.
Delainey and Roxane were amazing.
I know there is going to be a plot twist that Sam Reid spoke about on the last episode, and I'm really curious to know what that is.
By the way, do you usually watch the IWTV reviews of Maven Of Eventide or the Articulate Coven?
i need a spin off series where claudia come back and kill bill everyone in that theater
Now we can get to the shit lol rip Claudia
6:16 good question. Why ARE they still together?
This was all Armand’s plan he is THE master manipulator
I SOBBED
I don't believe it's Armand that saved Louis.
After all the evidence of Armand messing with Louis's memory, ppl are still believing him.
Hmmm...you have a point there... it's possible it could have been Lestat and Armand later told Louis it was him.
Coz we already know from New Orleans that Lestat can control the mind of multiple humans at the same time and there's no way Lestat would have allowed a d**th sentence for Louis
This.
In the books, it's Armand who saves Louis. Lestat tries to save them but fails. And in the show we realize that Lestat is probably weak, the same happens in the books, he goes to the theater, but he's still recovering from the assassination attempt.
Armand has all the flaws in the world, but he loves Louis (in his own Armand way, later).
Lestat, Louis, Armand, and probably all the vampires in this universe are monsters. The most "human" of them is Louis, and yet he sins in having the flaws that humans also have.
@@aleksandercassimiro3128 You're right. In the books, Lestat was weak because he was still recovering from the attempted murder and couldn't do much, he'd actually gone to Paris because he wanted Armand's help - and powerful blood - to help him get better, but Armand manipulated him to get Claudia executed instead. And even after she was gone, he refused to feed Lestat and threw him of a building before leaving France with Louis.
Technically the only evidence he have been shown is episode 5 for a specific instance. The other "evidence" is inferred by the audience not the show saying it.
DO not fret... It's not over, yet... payback is coming...
I love that you took issue the spoon. I mean, with all the murder, gore and disturbing things we saw, it shouldn't be a big deal, but it is, isn't it? I find this "civilized" blood drinking the hardest to watch, I actually felt a bit nauseous with these scenes. There is something very unsettling about the gross act of drinking human blood being delivered in such a mundane, "clean" and superficially dignified manner.
Lestat in in other books. He does not die in the fire.
[Edit: This doesn't appear to be a spoiler, sorry. I'm leaving this comment up as a reminder to others, though.] -Spoilers.- She doesn't want any spoilers and specifically asked in the first video of this season that people to put Spoilers and hit enter several times so they are not visible to her.
I think Lexi forgot in her discussion that we heard Lestat's voice in San Francisco.
@@jlilley73 I thought she was
SPOILERS talking about the theatre fire that Daniel had previously talked about.
@@HuntingViolets She was! But that's in the 1940s/50s, whereas San Francisco was later, in the 70s. So she should already know that he did not die in the fire. She even said so in a previous video. Though maybe she now thinks that was another bit of unreliable narration. (If you mean OP should not talk about the other books, then yes I agree.)
@@jlilley73 This is true. Good point. I'll edit it.
lestat no podia hacer nada puesto que armand lo dominaba x completo tenia moretones en las manos y a ratos estaba como perdido y se balanciaba como si fuera a desmayarse armand concentro su poder en el se salia del guion y santiag de enojaba y miraba a los demas recuerden que lestat estaba en una mazmorra
It didn't take Lestat twenty years to apologize for dropping Louis. He had been apologizing the whole time they separated after that. Don't you remember all the gifts and apologies he sent Louis for years after? That's one of the things I dislike about Claudia. Lestat was giving a heartfelt, emotional apology to Louis, going off script in front of the whole coven and audience, and Claudia is in Louis ear telling him not to accept it, that it's too late. She has always tried to turn Louis against Lestat. She manipulated Louis into attempting to murder his love. If it weren't for Louis, Claudia would have burned him.
Even Lestat said in this episode that he did not deserve Louis' forgiveness. Even Sam Reid said in a new interview that Lestat did something unforgivable to Louis! Claudia was trying to get her parent away from an abusive partner. What so dislikable about that? If my dad was abusing my mum AND me, I would try to get her away from him too. And she didn't have to manipulate anything, Louis had enough of Lestat the moment he found out he was still banging Antoinette.
@@klowwwww Lestat knew that what he had done was unforgivable. He wasn't asking for forgiveness, he wanted Louis to know that he loved him and that he was truly sorry. Claudia couldn't have that. I don't think she thought that they would make up and run off together at that point. She just couldn't even let them have that moment of understanding and closure. She was always in Louis ear telling him to leave Lestat. Lestat had been there for Louis for seven years while Claudia fucked off and left Louis heartbroken. Yes, he had a lover on the side, but who could blame him? Louis only threw insults and vitriol at him, when he spoke to him at all. If anything, Lestat was being abused by Louis at that point. But, Lestat stayed by him. And then Ms. Claudia strolls in after seven years and tells Louis he should leave Lestat. She wasn't a child. She knew damn well what that would do to Lestat. Like Lestat said during the "trial", she sensed the fragility in their relationship, and like a good predator, went in for the kill.
@@cullenarthur8879 What? Louis never abused Lestat, if anything he DESERVED everything Louis did to him and even that wasn't enough, even Lestat accepts this in the trial, he was a shitty abusive cheating partner and you expected Louis to just take it all in to prove he loved him? And Claudia wanted Louis to leave with her and he didn't accept it, she was tired of seeing Lestat being awful and Louis being blinded by love therefore she left I mean who wouldn't have? It's not like she did it selfishly she wanted to live her life and Lestat couldn't even let her do that because that's just how awful he was. Claudia and Louis were 100% victims of Lestat not otherwise and like I said before he accepted this, why is it so hard for some viewers to also accept it? Why do you wanna make him look like a victim so bad when he never was and he HIMSELF knows he wasn't?
@@gemalost5377 Louis said himself in the first season that during the period Claudia took off, he took cheap pleasure in provoking and being shitty to Lestat. When he wasn't ignoring him completely, he was taking shots at him and insulting him. That's called emotional abuse. If Lestat were a woman, and Louis were treating her like that, everyone would be calling Louis abusive and calling for Lestat to leave him. Lestat stuck with him through all of it. All Louis was interested in doing was trying to find Claudia, and completely ignored Lestat. Then, like I said, Claudia comes walking in with some half ass apology and tries to get Louis to leave the man who stood by him the whole time she was gone. A man she knows has serious abandonment issues. She always knew exactly how to stick in the knife and turn. People seem to want to make Claudia some kind of hero, they forget all the shitty, psychotic things she did. She collected parts from her victims as trophies, wrote down their last words for her own amusement, and kept half dead people in her closet. Even for a vampire she was sadistic.
@cullenarthur8879 I won't entertain this for too long because you're too obtuse to understand but all of this is making me think you're trying to make Louis and Lestat's relationship sound like it was "mutually abusive" when first of all mutual abuse does not exist, nor in real life and for sure not in fiction. Louis is a very flawed character and yes he did bad things but he was more neglective towards Claudia and in a way is also responsible for her fate (hell Claudia wouldn't even be a vampire if he didn't beg Lestat to turn her out of guilt and desperation) but you will never convince me he was "emotionally abusing" Lestat, he was depressed because his daughter left because of him and Lestat. Also, I never said Claudia was a hero, no one in this show/books is, Claudia was just a girl who got turned into a vampire against her will and was just trying to live her life, none of her actions were out of selfishness or manipulation, she LOVED Louis and wanted to save him from Lestat but when she realized it was in vain she left to try to live her life somewhere else but was later forced back by Lestat...if you had someone you love who is in a toxic relationship and you tried to make them see that would you call that manipulation or simply trying to save someone you care for? That's what Claudia tried but failed (twice). Lestat's past trauma and abandonment issues do not excuse the way he treated Louis and Claudia, Lestat was a victim in his past then later became the perpetrator and Louis and Claudia were his victims, period.
Louis next week will clear everyone up, literally everyone of the coven but one. The one who planned all of this, the one behind all of this, Armand de Nothing
Spoilers. She doesn't want any spoilers and specifically asked in the first video of this season that people to put Spoilers and hit enter several times so they are not visible to her.
I bet he’ll leave his ass in the last episode
Wow. 😮😮😮
26:12 Merrick
this is not fun anymore lmao
In terms of visuals, I'm not a big fan of the sun effect in this show. The dust/ash looks and sounds like sand, and it's a bit weird how it flies off their body. This may just be a personal bias, but I prefer how it was done in the movie (which was faithful to the book). Once Lestat escapes the coffin, he finds Claudia and Madeline imprisoned in a room with no roof -- except he doesn't find them, he finds piles of grey ash that look perfectly like them, because their bodies had instantly turned to ash (with Madeline holding Claudia like a mother holding a child). He touches them, and the ash falls apart in his hands. Their murders were also a lot more sudden in the book, with a lot less foreshadowing (or I was too young to notice it, lol), so it was all VERY shocking. I read the whole book in a single night I think, and I was shambling around the next day, very sad and also very tired 😆
Bye interloping, malcontent, murdering Claudia. Justice and vindication for Lestat at long last! 🥳
Hey wait, didn't you used to hate this show during season 1?!
@@7n154 Uh, nooo...I've loved this show from the very beginning, particularly Lestat the romance between him and Louis.
@@enchantedboy66 Oh, it must've been someone else with 'enchanted' in their name. They were a lousy book purist who judged the show and review bombed it before it even aired.
@@7n154 Nope, definitely wasn’t me. I think the writing, directing, acting, and production values for this series are all excellent. Certainly better than the 1994 film and in some ways an improvement on certain aspects of the novels.
You talk too much
who wants to watch a silent reaction? just go watch the episode then