I really think people should give PLATROA a try before judging it. I have seen so much negativity towards it. It’s sad :( specially because Anne is so excited about it.

December 5, 2016 iwantmyiwtv Leave a comment

That’s a valid opinion. But I don’t like the word “should” when it deals with fandom, even about negativity. The resistance to this book is completely understandable.

[^Louis read PLROA and this was his response to Lestat]

People judge things before they read them, people judge other people before they meet them, people judge anything that can be judged w/o experiencing them. So much judgment out there. I’m certainly not going to demand fair treatment for a book.

Just bc an author is excited about their work does not mean we can’t still judge it on its merits as a novel, and we all have our own ideas about what makes a great novel/story. Dr. Frankenstein was very excited about his creation, other people decided it was a monster.

People’s resistance to this book, specifically, is not coming out of nowhere. Those of us who have read the prior books, or have the slightest knowledge of the characters and stories, and every fan in between, there was something that drew us into VC, and from what I’m seeing, it’s nearly impossible to believe that this book is remotely part of what preceded it ~~unless you had only read PL and/or seen movie!QOTD, in which case, I guess it must be all smooth sailing for ya.~~

I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but other people ARE reading PLROA and judging it for what it actually is. Michael Gavin wrote this about it, w/ my emphasis added (”Sink your fangs into news from the world of Anne Rice and the Vampire Chronicles”):

“…The latest of the series, a follow up to 2014’s Prince Lestat, is making waves (pun intended) over the Atlantis story element (and all that goes along with that). Tying the story to characters in her third book, Queen of the Damned, Rice completely upends the myths and lore woven into the Chronicles (almost to the point of jumping the shark IMHO). The characters we love, like Lestat, Louis, Armand and others are still who they are, yet the surprises tucked into Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis feel like they cheapen the fabric of the series’ mythos.”

Upending the canon myths and lore, jumping the shark, cheapening the fabric of the series’ mythos? That all sounds like something that fans would put up some resistance about. Can you blame them if they feel betrayed? If they feel like their beloved characters have been thrown into a blender w/ aliens and the lost city of Atlantis? I can’t blame them.

I don’t blame them for reacting w/ the exaggerated Tumblrand Hyperbole™ either, bc some of that is probably real emotion. Some of it is for effect, the exaggeration tends to get more notes than rational analysis. But I think it’s both.

I can empathize with the negativity. I wish I could blindly support AR in every choice she makes, but I can’t do that, either. I try not to criticize her myself bc she has given us an incredible gift already in the earlier books. I hope we can trust her to faithfully adapt them to TV/film as how they were originally written, and not try to wedge in this more recent provocative material.

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July 18, 2015 iwantmyiwtv Leave a comment

queumi:

IWTV alt. ending part 1 (part 2)

How many times have you watched iwtv?

April 1, 2015 iwantmyiwtv Leave a comment

annabellioncourt:

i-want-my-iwtv:

“Might as well ask heaven what it sees, no human can know….”

Y’know, I have lost count… definitely has to be more times than Neil Jordan has seen it. Maybe more times than it’s editor has seen it. The fact that I have a copy of it to pull gifs and screencaps from makes it so I can watch it frame-by-frame in excruciating detail and even re-edit parts of it to suit my needs but WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING??!!

I will add that one weekend, around Halloween one year, it was on TV alot, and I ended up watching it 4 times in one weekend and THAT IS TOO MUCH. Even for me.

My favorite viewings are with other ppl though, where we say the lines out loud and make fun of all the stuff that can be made fun of.

I do not want to think about the number of times I watched it. I remember I bought it at the bookstore, and stuffed it in my bag so my mother wouldn’t see—I was pretty young and she’d have flipped if she saw me getting it. But since I had to get it at the bookstore and not the local shop, it was twice the price and I wondered if it’d be worth it.

I have more than gotten my money’s worth out of it. I think I watched it four times this month alone. But I don’t do that all the time. Its one of my full time obsessions along with Harry Potter and Marvel (though its more than Marvel but slightly less than Harry Potter, just because I’ve been in the HP one for….eight years more?), so whenever I’m not currently loony over something in the media world, I turn to it when I want something darker/more mature/artsier than the earlier HP movies/books but not as fucking depressing as the later ones. Marvel isn’t that deep, there’s not much to think on, and its fun, but I don’t do much writing on it or analyzing with it. I read a comic in one setting, have one of the films playing while I watch TV. ~~Oh and I forgot Star Wars but that’s like the only film MY ENTIRE FAMILY can sit down and enjoy so that’s always a together thing~~

With Interview, I can sit down with tea or wine at the end of the day, and the camera slowly pans over San Francisco, the choir in the background, that eerie Latin hymn that I know in English and hear on Sundays but in this setting it speaks of something of another world, a world made safe only by the screen between it and myself. Louis talks shortly with Daniel and then he goes on “The master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans…” and I relax and get lost in this other world and other time. I’ve long lost track of the times I’ve fallen asleep near the end of it, only to wake when Louis finds Lestat in the present day, to stay awake through Louis’ attack on Daniel and then grin when the music turns up and the G n’ R cover of the Stones over powers the whole scene and its almost dawn now, both and their world and in mine.

Its too loud at points and too jarring to be called a lullaby—but I compare it not only to the fact I use it to relax but I’ve never seen a movie (until OLLA) that flowed so well, one segment of the story to the next—its a smooth film.

….

well. I didn’t intend to go that far. But there you have it. For God’s sake please no one mention Phantom or Elisabeth or Labyrinth or request me to do one of these soul spillings for any of the films I listed above, because its late, and alas, I am a member of a dinural species and need my sleep.

…With Interview, I can sit down with tea or wine at the end of the day, and the camera slowly pans over San Francisco, the choir in the background, that eerie Latin hymn that I know in English and hear on Sundays but in this setting it speaks of something of another world, a world made safe only by the screen between it and myself… I’ve long lost track of the times I’ve fallen asleep near the end of it, only to wake when Louis finds Lestat in the present day…

^This whole para is so beautiful and btw #I know that feel, sis.