ooc; We had an awesome turn out for the Interview with the Vampire livestream. For those who can stomach it, I will be livestreaming Queen of the Damned Sunday, November 23 at 4PM CST/5PM EST. It’ll be our afternoon of comedy.
The livestream will be at…
This was so much fun.
This really was a blast and I have to thank everyone involved for finally helping me get through this movie. It was just as awful as I had always suspected it was, and yet, so much less painful bc you all were making it fun.
The takeaway messages seemed to be:
Lestat has a serious boob fetish. Like stronger than any of us realize.
Plot? What Plot? What do you need plot points or explanation for when you have Lessssstaaaaat?
Pronounce his name with a lot of “s” and a lot of “a”.
Jesse is not Bella Swan altho there are similarities in this movie version of her and that is upsetting.
David Talbot was actually pretty hot here and deserved so much better.
Armand was was actually worse here than in IWTV and deserved so much worse. #Defending Antonio!
Lestat is actually the Queer of the Damned.
This would have been better with liquor, but sadly, I couldn’t drink as it was a work night and I am incapable of the Little Drink.
So thank you merciful-death for setting this up and I am excite for the next one!
ooc; Just your daily reminder that Mater is a-ok with people making money selling shirts with Lestat’s face on it, but is not ok with people writing nonprofitable fanfiction because yOU’RE INFRINGING ON RIGHTS
It is a mystery what Mater finds acceptable and unacceptable in terms of infringement on HER DARLING BABIES. WHICH NOONE ELSE CAN PLAY WITH GRRRR. it’s pronounced “Les-DOT” people bc of reasons!
I pronounce it Le-stat, like, Le-cat. “Lestat in the hat” A children’s book.
Entertaining Claudia, back before she was too old to desire it. We would build a “set” out of chairs, blankets, and pillows, and would act out all of the famous plays. She and Lestat both endlessly got a kick out of me playing the “damsel in distress” parts, to my dismay. However, her laughter would always make any embarrassment worth it.
Those were the best of times.
He’s popping out of the cake in hopes of giving Lestat a heart attack and then marrying Louis by not actually marrying him just fucking him on the altar instead
ooc; Ehhh, she just felt very out of place, we got literally no explanation as to of who she was and why Lestat was there (which I guess we might get that in Blood Paradise), and her story read very much like Mary Sue fanfiction I would have read when I was twelve years old on fanfiction.net. But, of course, as I’ve stated before, Lestat himself is a Mary Sue, so I guess I can’t put a whole lot of judgement there.
I think my issue with Rose is just that I don’t see what she actually gave to the story. She seemingly had a major part, yet I feel like if she was subtracted from it all, the story would remain the same. Anne’s guilty of doing this thing where she introduces a bunch of new characters, yet never actually fleshes out any of her previous characters. We got all of this stuff about Rose, and yet we had chapters where Armand, Bianca, and Daniel were all within the same house and didn’t even acknowledge each other’s existence. Hell, Armand was practically not there throughout most of the book. And I would have honestly taken chapters of Bianca explaining what she’s been up to over Rose’s seemingly random story.
But that’s also just my opinion.
Same. I have a problem with throwing in a pointless female character just to have more ladies. Especially when you’re literally adding 6 or 7 people to the cast (or bringing them back from the dead). A lot of the stories were redundant or totally pointless (Killer… Cyril?) but Rose not only felt exactly like a low-rent Mona or weird new Jesse, she never serves any purpose or does anything interesting (this is also true of several of the men, especially Killer.. why Killer? We don’t care. We liked Baby Jenks, not this dick.) We’re supposed to care about her because we’re told Lestat and Louis do, but that’s it. It’s just not enough. If I were her editor, I’d have begged her to cut the Rose stuff for the sake of pacing. There’s no immediate need to pair Vikki up with anyone.
And yes, if she wanted to add more ladies, Gabrielle was a bad ass – give her a chapter. Lestat is her son. We would care way more about her. Or Bianca! She’s seeing Armand for the first time in forever, seeing his fledgling for the first time, etc. etc. So many better options with established characters we already care about.
That said, I get why people might like Rose. If she was a side-story, if she were part of a different book, she has some potential. Like Jesse, a girl raised unknowningly by vampires in some fashion is a cool concept. I just feel like it didn’t fit at all in this book. It needed more explanation and characterization than it got.
I agree with you. Looking back, I liked Rose/her story well enough (though I felt she had too little personality) until she was treated as being irreparably!broken! by the knowledge of vampires – I’m sorry, she lived through all that horrible abuse at the school, but semi-sleeping through Lestat cutting off Rhosh’s hand and arm is the thing that breaks her? As someone once said, puh-leeze, babycakes!
Also, Lestat of all people ought to know after what happened to Nicki that turning someone who’s having a mental breakdown involving vampires is not an automatic solution!
I-want-my-IWTV 