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Interview with the Vampire - Ep.2X7 "I Could Not Prevent It" UNCUT & UNCENSORED

It's with teary eyes that I present to you, my reaction for the penultimate episode of Season 2... of Interview with the Vampire....

The stage is set, the jury is hung, the kangaroos are all hoppin' around this farce of a courthouse, and to top it al off? A blast from the past, waiting in the wings...

Editor's note: I did try and take some of your (collective) advice, and I think I found a really nice balance in this episode between letting (most) scenes play out in their entirety for full/dramatic effect, as well as pausing often enough to still offer insight and commentary on the proceedings. Hope you all enjoy <3

Interview with the Vampire - Ep.2X7 "I Could Not Prevent It" UNCUT & UNCENSORED

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Agree! I always feel like Louis and Armand could have been such a good couple if not for so many of the outside factors. They love each other but there's no trust there. Also the way they both put up a facade. They never knew the others true character so they could never get what they really wanted!

Mcryy

Additionally it may be gothic romance and the story delves into multiple hard subjects, people still have the right to thoroughly critique the actions and characters! Every watch through I do, and every new perspective I get from watching reactors, the more understanding and sympathy I have for all the characters. It's all around fun to dissect the media! Your reacts have been nice to watch and I appreciate the way you express how you relate to scenes and your predictions.

Mcryy

This episode is hard. I feel like everyone has had a moment this season where they just act their ass off and it makes me cry! Also the main issue I see during these reacts are book lovers not understanding everyone hasn't read the books nor has the insight of what's actually going on. Show viewers only have the context of what we see! It's okay for people not to like your favs!

Mcryy

I have the episodes running while I decorate for the holidays. Wow, the S1 episodes where Lestat is so awful to Claudia read so differently now. I mean, he's still cruel, no doubt ... but when I think of the specific words he said to Louis before making her, he was dead on. (Pun intended.) S1 and S2 almost feel like different shows in the most beautiful way. Shit goes down in New Orleans, of course, but honestly it's nothing compared to the tragedy of Paris. "The vampires out there are vicious." Lestat has his flaws for sure, but he doesn't lie -- like someone else we know. 👀 All in all, they're all messy and fucked up, but I'd argue that Lestat is a better partner than Armand. What do you all think?? I'm sure we all have diff opinions. And don't fret: I love Armand as a character (esp what Assad has brought to life), so it's not about it being black and white. I simply think Lestat's faults are more apparent and easier to navigate in a relationship than Armand's subtle (and obvious sometimes) manipulation.

Melissa

I think it's perfectly natural to have complicated feelings about Lestat's apology, given that he hasn't been presented to us as being truly remorseful before the trial. A throwaway line from Louis about him disappearing "out of a profound sense of shame" doesn't mean much, with how we see him choose to keep acting in NOLA after he comes back into Louis' life post-dropping him. Sure, it might be true, but are we really supposed to be fully convinced of his sincerity without experiencing him demonstrate it? After all, he has been fickle with his contrition before, he has a track record of it, in fact. What has Lestat done so far to earn our trust? So, to see him be so deeply regretful, like he is at the trial, is uncharted territory on the show, and weighed against his previous behaviour, indeed quite surprising for those who only know him from the show. Besides, "having complicated feelings" about him or his apology doesn't, mean reducing him to a one-dimensional abuser. Louis himself has complicated feelings about him, he's a complicated character! He is supposed to elicit complex feelings about his actions, because that is what makes him compelling.

Vince

"Having so much trouble processing my emotion about how to feel" - the mistake that too many make. People are so afraid to feel sympathy or empathy for Lestat that they can't let him be more than an abuser during a certain period of his life - they're terrified that it means they're a bad person or that people will judge them for it or that it means they condone his actions. They resist going where the story is taking them because it means they have to do that thing David and Freddie say in Under Pressure: 'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you *to care for The people on the edge of the night* And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves

xris037

It's strange when people think that Lestat only acknowledged/took accountability for his actions at the trial when Louis said in s1 ep 6 that he expressed shame to Louis (not conflating this with the 6 yrs of apologies & gifts). Those were plain words in the show. So, it's weird to be surprised that he did it at all at the trial. Sure, the audience expects him to stick to Santiago's script and it surprises Santiago & the theater vampires - but it shouldn't surprise us. And its also disappointing when people are too afraid to allow Lestat's apology to affect them because they're sooooo afraid it means that they condone what he did, that you shouldn't be outraged by what he did to Claudia and Louis. Lestat didn't apologize to get Louis back - he apologized because he wanted to. He wasn't an abuser apologizing to get back into the abused's life again at this point. He was doing what his soul needed to do before something happened to Louis.

xris037

The box was the music box he made for Nicki - it's in s1, ep 1, the one he plays while Lily is undressing. WHY WOULD YOU PLAY YOUR DEAD EX-BOYFRIEND'S MUSIC BOX, WITH THE SONG YOU WROTE FOR HIM, WHILE YOU SEDUCE YOUR NEW INTEREST???

xris037

also - just a nagging bit. It's pronounced, "Lee-un-cour". Not "Lye-en-court"

xris037

It's interesting when people say Lestat operates off emotion - but it doesn't occur to them that so does Louis. Both propelled forward to alarming reactions born of deep feelings.

xris037

Oh! And! I just thought of your comment about abusers making grand groveling apologies and then returning to their abusive ways, and I agree! Textbook abusive behavioral pattern. It is absolutely understandable to mistrust Lestat, despite his show of contrition, because that is how real abusers behave. The thing about the show (and the books, to an extent), is that it provides an opportunity for fantasy. "If we had all the time in the world, literally, could he change? Could our relationship heal, fully, with enough time?" A human life is finite, and it does not do to waste precious time hoping for someone to treat you justly, when they have demonstrated time and again that they are either incapable of, or unwilling to change. Vampires, however, wade through a sea of nothing but time and self-reflection. If this story wasn't as heightened as it is, I would probably feel a lot more hesitant about Lestat as a character. A realistic approach to such an abuse narrative would have to be quite different, so as to not veer into abuse apologia, or dismissal of victims' experiences. We are more capable of watching Lestat be a magnetic, yet troubling character, because the aesthetic and narrative choices of the show displace him from our reality to an extent, allowing us to approach the themes as more conceptual, and abstract. We can ruminate on the pain inflicted by him, the structures that surround it, and how we as individuals are impacted by their implications, and then stop the video when it gets to be too much. Whether or not this fantasy is productive, harmful, or healing, is up to each viewer, and I'm sure our experiences inform how we react to the feelings that it brings about in us. And that's the beauty of art! Your observations and personal insight into the show has really added to my experience as a fan of the show, and I thank you for it! I think episode 8 is going to knock your socks off, as it did mine.

Vince

Genuinely love your reactions and that you watch the show for what it is and without preconceived notions about the plot and characters.

Ess Cee

Just joined your patreon after feeling heard & seen through your reactions on youtube with regards to this show. Just speed writing this in the ladies bathroom at work as barely made it on commute to work via the look up & keep blinking hummingbird speed to not cry on the packed tube 'lest the 'british stiff upper lip card be revoked' method. Citaloprams induced apathy chink in armour, is having to spend the next 8 hours in a office doing the post weekend small talk about the storm/ children of coworkers/ making up weekend activities I did not do. Whilst not being able to think about anything but own lifelong depression comorbid with immortality hypothetically. Santiago levels of mind multitasking workday. Watching this reaction at home..... this at lunch time ??? then having to go back and be asked 'tea?' for the 7th time will lead to not being able to afford pateron via no job from existential breakdown crying and walk out.

faye

Both trial Lestat and Dubai Dreamstat wearing a wedding ring always had me rolling

lissa aurisch

I also stand by your cancelled wife Lestat

Three Dalmations

They really are all amazing. This made me fall in love with Sam Reid as an actor and I can’t wait for a whole season of Lestat madness

alice

I cried, he cried, we all crode

Ana D.

I completely agree! I think Louis can’t accept the truth that he is a monster and has done/will do monstrous things. He commits himself to a life of seeking redemption through struggle and I also believe that’s why he can’t bring him to accept or fully love Lestat. Lestat acts as a mirror to who Louis is, or will become, when he accepts his nature. When he looks at Lestat he sees himself reflected back and that terrifies him. But the people who infantilise Louis, it’s understandable! He is a “baby” vampire but I think people fail to realise that when Lestat was first turned he had the same struggle as Louis, he rejected vampirism, he called to god to save him, he fought his nature. Give Louis another 100 years and I bet he would be exactly like Lestat.

Caitlin 🥀

this is probably my favorite episode of the show, I was in a roller coaster of emotions. I didn’t know whether to be happy my favorite character was back in all his splendor, or if I wanted to cry because of, well, everything that was happening with our main characters, ESPECIALLY my girl Claudia… I ended up doing both. What a PHENOMENAL performance from Sam Reid! I already knew he was a great actor but he really shined in this episode. This made me even more excited for season 3! I can’t wait for your commentary to the last episode of this season ⭐️

elena

I love the way you wrote this! Perfectly explained 🫶

Caitlin 🥀

Something that I love about the show and its characters, is that there is no point in trying to justify the horrible things that any of them do, there is only trying to understand their motivations. Lestat himself admits that he is guilty of unforgivable violence towards Louis, and doesn't try to justify it, or excuse it. He needed to die in New Orleans to truly understand the ramifications of what he did to Louis and Claudia. Louis gaining clarity wrt his recollections is not the show trying to present Lestat in a more positive light, but rather complicate the feelings the audience might have about him and Louis. It also isn't intended to justify the morally suspect basis of their relationship. Watching the drama unfold between these characters is like witnessing a horribly compelling and unsettlingly romantic train wreck. Everybody kind of sucks, some admittedly more than others, but the thing that keeps us coming back for more is trying to understand what made them do what they did, and why their memories might paint the events in a different light. Understanding Louis, the makeup of his psychology and the trauma that informs his behaviour and the way he tells his story, is what makes this show so abundant, and I can't wait for season three, where we get a look into the mind and memory of...someone else.

Vince

While I love Lestat as a character I never claim he does no wrong. What does bother me, though, is when people disregard everything wrong Louis does. They are so quick to forget that he was a pimp exploiting women even during his human days. He is absolutely as ruthless as Lestat when he feels like it, and can be extremely cruel with his words. So my issue is not with people holding Lestat accountable. I just hate that Louis is barely ever held accountable for anything. Lestat haters and Louis’ fans infantilize Louis way too much, imo.

Helen

Since you’ve read the books, can I ask (with no spoilers) in Lestat’s book does he go over events in New Orleans from his perspective?

alice

In S1 he said: "Call me a dog, but an honest one". Lestat may be many things, but he is not a liar. He's not the kind of person who lies to improve his image, I think he has no problem admitting when he's been a monster. Unlike Louis, who no matter how loudly he says he wants to be a good 'person' and that he's cursed, he tends to change the narrative to defend himself, I don't think Louis accepts his evil. As Santiago says, they are monsters, they are all capable of terrible things, Louis too, he just hides it so well that even he is not aware of it until 70 years later. For me, absolutely everything, 90% of what Lestat says in the trial is the truth, not to say that Louis was stalking Lestat in New Orleans, but it definitely wasn't as we've been told, they were both looking for each other, and Louis definitely wanted to accept what Lestat offered him at the altar. Also, having read all the books, everything said here is perfectly in line with the original story, so even though we obviously don't have Lestat's first-person perspective yet (we'll get that in season three), I think we can take the information he gives us in this episode as true. I love how emotional you are about all these characters, and I really, really love your reactions! I think one of the best things in this episode is when Claudia looks at Lestat for the last time at the end; after all, he is her maker, and of all the people left in the room, her last impulse is to look at him. PS: This is the first reaction where I see no judgement on the fact that Armand saved Louis and not Claudia. Everyone seems to assume that because a vampire is powerful, that means he is omnipotent. If we remember in the first season, Lestat mentally took out of the house all those soldiers who were... 20 at the most. And he ended up collapsing and bleeding out of his ears. Vampires, even the most powerful ones, can't handle everything. Probably even the most powerful vampire in the world could only have saved one person, two at the most, and that's if he'd fed very well beforehand and hadn't been weakened in any way. So yes... the "I couldn't prevent it" I think it's very fitting. It would have been ideal to save the three of them of course, but that's just life.

Victoria

"where do we go from here?"

Victoria

Hope you feel better soon!

Melissa

I always LOVE your insights.

Melissa

Hoooooooo boy

alice

Definitely react to the season 3 taser after you finish S2!

Three Dalmations

I think he's carrying the Nicki music box, not the box with the letter in it for Louis

Three Dalmations

I love that detail so much. I remember wondering in season 1 what had happened, and seeing that brutal slam into the lid was like "ope there we go"

Calluna Vulgaris

Ooooh

alice

And I cried on the end too, I’m glad we can all cry together, lol.

Devon Michelle

Also can't wait for the final!! Hope it's soon

Whitney

I guess it's harder for us to see because of how painfully human he is in his acts of cruelty. Like, it's not as dramatic as dropping you from the sky, or mind controlling you. Instead he's mean and hurtful in ways I think we all are familiar with. I still think Louis is the most compassionate out of all the vampires we've seen, and that's how he knows exactly how to get to people that he loves.

Clef Airy

Omg, the finale is probably my favorite in the season, maybe the series, so I'm VERY excited for your reaction! I would love if you reacted to the S3 teaser they released too, looks like an interesting direction for the story to go in and while I haven't read the books past IWTV I'm excited for the crazy things I've heard.

Jessie

Can’t wait for the finale :D I stand by my cancelled wife Lestat

RÆY

This episode always makes me cry every time I watch it 😭

Javi-Aloi

It’s not the box with the letter, it’s his music box with the song he wrote for Nicky on it.

Devon Michelle

As a certified Lestat fan (25 years and counting baby!) your dislike of Lestat is both funny and refreshing. I can’t wait for the last episode so I can freely talk about him. S2 is SO good and also SO frustrating to patiently sit through.

Ana D.

What's interesting to me, is to see people who have been so invested in Louis's version of events that they cannot see or won't admit that Louis was the epitome of passive-aggressive pettiness throughout their relationship (with Armand as well), and that is a form of emotional abuse - it's just harder to notice. Louis could have left Lestat (and Armand) - this was not the sort of situation where one partner is extremely dependent on the other financially or unable to survive and thrive on their own. Louis is incredibly stubborn, not just "rough". On top of being stubborn, Louis has a superiority complex. He refuses all of Lestat's advice, over and over and over again. He refuses to say, "I love you," to Lestat. He refuses to leave because he made a promise but he's not happy and he's going to make Lestat just as miserable as he can rather than just leaving. He doesn't take Armand's position as coven leader seriously. His one act of altruism was turning Madeline for Claudia, and he did that reluctantly and out of duty. Let's keep in mind something he (and we) learned from that - he and Madeline can "feel" each other. Which means he and Lestat could feel some things about each other, though neither has admitted that yet. That level of emotional honesty...I think it scared Louis to his core (and that's why he's more comfortable with Armand). Louis begging Lestat to make Claudia is not much different from him ordering Armand to let Daniel live, despite those two having very practical reasons for objecting. Louis has a serious, deeply buried death wish but something holds Louis back. He stays with people who he is certain - bone deep certain - won't kill him/let him die/leave him because they love him. Which he can and does use to his benefit. I'm not saying Lestat is the better person here or that Louis deserved to get dropped or anything like that. These vampires use and abuse each other in a myriad of ways. And the big fight scene, well, we were seeing it from Claudia's POV the first time, so it makes sense that Louis was less of a victim for some of it than we supposed. Was their relationship toxic? Absolutely. But it was not Lestat always abusing Louis - it went both ways. Louis took advantage of Lestat's and Armand's love and barely gave it back to either of them. But, if you do compare the two, he was much more engaged and authentic with Lestat. He's very calculated with Armand.

Serralinda

OHMYGAAAAAWWWWD 🤣😭😂😭😂😭😭

Paris Hardy

Just saw someone online say “Louis had his back turned when Lestat turned Claudia. Louis was taken away before he saw Claudia die. He didn’t witness her birth or her death…but Lestat saw both” I’m gonna be sick 🤣

Caitlin 🥀

I don’t think I have seen anyone notice the connection of the box lestat had and the letter left for Louis in it. It must be special or have a story behind it, I never picked up on that! Very astute boy!(louis voice)

Tarabee

it is also very subtle, but claudia nods her head yes to madeline to accept the coven over her in an effort to save madeline and madeline still chose claudia. she finally found 1 vampire who wasn't a bastard

Miki

Yes! In season 1, during the fight, when Claudia is climbing the stairs - you can hear Lestat say “I’m trying to restrain myself Louis, stop” 👀

Caitlin 🥀

go back to louis recollection of the fight in season 1 you can hear lestat say it as lestat recalls it I think there is some embellishment but not too much on lestats end an unhappy middle ground of their story of the fight

Miki

Magnificent.

hypocritex

Great reaction, I was bawling my eyes out with you! The amount of tissues I went through is criminal. Also Louis dramatically saying "Armand was as much a captive as we were" and then it cutting to the vampire Sam being like ":D" with his cardboard scythe will never not make me laugh (between the crying).

Kat

Yesss I hope he sees that there are longer behind the scenes videos. I was kinda confused because I remember I saw the longer versions (in which the actors wear the same clothes so they must have cut it down for TV?). And the blooper video for season 2 is so funny, I wish we had one for season 1!

Kat

Oh man. Such a good episode. Can't *wait* for you to see the finale! 😈

Molly

You could include it with your retrospective?

thegirladventurer

This episode is brutal! The themes of love, love lost and love sacrificed are prevalent from start to finish. The grief is palpable through the screen. One thing that made me appreciate this all the more is when Sam Reid was talking about how lestat was feeling in this moment- “here he is back in Paris, back on the stage with the coven and he suddenly realises that this is where Nicki died, this is where Louis and Claudia have come to die and I’ve build this. I made this” - there is trauma upon trauma to unpack in this episode alone! Also the scene revisits from the previous season but through Lestats eyes…left me floored!!! The turning of Claudia is horrifying, Louis’ pleas and begs to Lestat to turn Claudia as he desperately tries to cling to any form of redemption he can find and Lestat faced with an impossible decision of - turn her and forge a family that is doomed from the start or refuse and risk losing Louis and being left alone

Caitlin 🥀

Episode 8 you have to record your reaction to the teaser trailer for ‘The Vampire Lestat’, at the end of your reaction vid. Thanks for sharing.

Terry W

Remember how Santiago complimented Claudias dress when they first met the coven? And then him taking Claudia's dress from her ashes is such a grim detail.

Kat

Amazing reaction and review, as always! On the topic of teasers, which you mention at the end of this episode, there is a season 3 teaser that I would LOVE to see your reaction to after you complete this series!

thegirladventurer

I do think Louis is like that 😂😂😂 In fact what Louis does in the house beating scene is pretty similar as the scene when he kills the white dude and says "maybe I'm arrogant". I think many people has this impression that Louis can't be thaaat because we have been thought the story with his side of things and we are told to perceive him as this empathic/emotional in a good way human-monster, but yes, I'm absolutely sure that Louis was like that in those scenes.

Victoria

As a reader and fan of the books I'm so curious what reasons we will be given in future episodes/seasons for Lestat's presence at the trial, and how they will be similar or different to the circumstances in the books. Loved your reaction, love that you include the BTS cip at he end. Looking forward to the finale!

Marlene

Can’t wait for you to watch the end! You should react the longer BTS & bloopers afterwards!!

Emory

I always find it so funny how the show themselves use Santigo to poke fun at how some fans rode for Lestat even when he tried to take accountability Santigo(The audience) won't let him, he is always the victim "Oh no, you didn't hurt Louis actually he teased you to the point of snapping, no don't listen to when Louis said you choked your daughter causing him to intervene never mind the fact that you are 10X stronger than him with ancient blood in your veins yes you can drop him from the sky he is the aggressor." I do believe that the show's thesis is the perspective that the truth lies in the middle. Lestat's side is not the whole truth, nor is it completely fabricated; just like Louis, it is peppered with emotions. Lestat is again the one with most of the information, he did turn Louis before explaining what a vampire was, he did just state a great law in the heat of the moment, and he knew better than to turn a child I don't care if Louis begged Claudia's life was her own yet they treated her like a prop fuck doing it for Louis she didn't consent!

Valentine

49:16 if you go back to 1x06, you can see the dent in the coffin

doodleydoo

My favourite way to interpret the "Louis' version vs Lestat's version" of memories is that the real story is probably just a blend of the two. Louis is recalling them all in season one with a bias against Lestat, for obvious reasons, meanwhile Lestat is doing his best in the trial to win the audience to his side. The result is a natural middle. I don't think Louis was as maniacally gleeful about harming Lestat during the fight, as Lestat says, just as I don't think Louis was on his knees begging like a dog for Claudia to be turned. This show is so good at making us question everything we see.

Eloise

Can't wait to watch this when I get home!!

Javi-Aloi

One of the things I like most about his reactions 😭😭 It's so entertaining but I also love to hear his thoughts and theories lol

Vie

I've been sick with covid and really down...can I tell you how happy I was when this popped up and knew I would get to spend time with you and the vamps this evening? No one ever wants to talk deeply about television in my life. This space brings me joy.

Carl Riden

Btw I gotta say I love the chaos of you pausing mid scene to react to something for ten minutes, only to have the next sentence flip it all on its head 😂 it makes the ride even wilder

alice

you dropping this when I’m about to go to sleep is EVIL!! 😭 I will be watching tomorrow, I hope you enjoyed this episode 💛💛

elena

Ooh I'm so early!

doodleydoo


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