#NOD NOD NOD
dykementality
stewy fucks kendall > kendall gets fixed for a millisecond > kendall freaks out because he knows stewy will use it against him > kills stewy > kills himself
americanmoths
i love Interview with the Vampire for 500 million reasons but one of them is how playwright-centric it is. showrunner? pulitzer prize for drama nominee rolin jones. one of the stars? pulitzer prize for drama nominee eric bogosian. half the writing staff? playwrights (eleanor burgess && hannah moscovitch && jonathan ceniceroz for sure, probs others). it's playwrights all the way down motherfuckers, and that pleases me greatly.
cbrownjc
The theatrical structure and writing of the show are one of my most joyous things about it too. I think the fact that the showrunner and writing staff are all playwrights has allowed them to think outside the box so much when it comes to the structure of how they are adapting the story, rather than if they’d just gotten regular screenwriters.
I mean, seriously, these people looked at the retcons and inconsistencies in Rice’s book series and actually said, “You know what? We can actually use these things when adapting the story.” And took it all forward from there to not only do a Rashamon/Unreliable Narrator with the show’s narrative structure but went even deeper than that to look at and reflect on the very nature of memory itself.
I really don’t know if regular standard tv or even film writers would have thought to do that.
And the Dubai scenes are the most theatrical of everything in the show, even if they are the most simple in their setup and filming. Hell, it’s probably because they are simple in their setup. The scenes between the characters during these parts felt like a small cast play, and Rolin confirmed that when he recently said those scenes were a 2-person play, that will become a 3-person play in S2.
And I don’t think I’m wrong that Dubai will become a 4-person play in S3.
When they jump to screenwriting, many theater writers will usually hold back writing in theatrical structure ways because I mean, we are dealing with a more dynamic visual medium than theater wrt tv, and film. Usually, you just get the standard, straightforward Three Act Structure wrt the writing and telling of the story. And while the arc of each episode of the show still has that Three Act Structure to them, how the story is told within that unapologetically leans in a lot toward theatrical techniques too. And it’s all worked so well, making the show feel very unique in its presentation, IMO.
S1 was very much ACT I of this story adaptation. And I can’t wait to see how they build on all of this as we head into ACT II of the story, i.e. S2.
dorindameddler
My toxic trait is that I love when gay people cheat on their hetero partners. It’s very sexy to me. I assumed that daniel’s thing with armand ended before he met his wife but having seen people suggest he was with armand and his wife at the same time I’m now obsessed with that concept I hope he was cheating with armand. No hate to daniel’s wives they deserve to spit on his grave. But it’s very sexy to be having a gay affair with a vampire so I hope Daniel was doing that
fucklestat
anthony bourdain could have interviewed a vampire and daniel molloy could host parts unknown
poorlittlevampirebaby
it's so funny to me that people are obsessed with amc iwtv apparently having "inconsistencies" when vc is like the most inconsistent incomprehensible series of books ever written
prettysweetprettysweet
brain keeps returning to Louis grabbing Lestat by his damn waist, i can't control it! it so viscerally reminds me of every college party i ever went to where the agitated boyfriend had to reel in his loud messy girlfriend before she transitions from manic to depressive and fucks the mood up for everybody. for some unhinged reason the fact that they are capable of that dynamic is extraordinarily sexy to me
casyawn
i know this isn't by any means a new idea but the only way i can understand post-iwtv books is as fanfiction written by lestat. something i don't agree with? lestat made it up. embarrassing dialogue? lestat's shitty memory. bad louis characterization? pro-lestat propaganda. and i am in fact immune to it
shortpplfedup
The difference between Porsche when he's being courted and Porsche when he's fighting against the most emotionally closed off man in the world is like night and day. He was so adorable saying good night to Vegas, just like he was when he and Kinn were flirting at the pier. Porsche gives you the energy you give him, that's the key to him that Pete was trying to explain to Kinn. When Kinn showed his soft side, he got Porsche's soft side. When Kinn shut down, so did Porsche.
egglands-worst
i am normal about characters