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i’ve been thinking about the timeline in the IWTV show once again. It’s all up in the air now and they play fast and loose with the books so really, it could be anywhere. I’ve read many compelling posts believing that it could be during the Merrick time or during the Prince Lestat era even and there are good evidence for this, it could be it and it would make sense, but personally?
I don’t believe Lestat woke up yet. Better saying, I don’t believe the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned happened yet.
And this is not based in any evidence in the show, but more because I’m thinking about structural terms in live action TV. As in, if I was the showrunner for the IWTV show, I wouldn’t thinking that The Vampire Lestat modern era/The Queen of the Damned is a story that works well when told in flashbacks.
And that has to do with the audience, too. Because when we take the Interview With the Vampire story we know that, whatever suffering Louis went through, whatever scars his soul has, he survived, because he’s right there, telling us his story himself.
But Interview with the Vampire is a very… internal story. It’s about grief and loss and Louis’ inner struggles with himself and the ones he loves. But the modern era of The Vampire Lestat and the current events of The Queen of the Damned is a much more action packed story. The stakes matter here, and if it already happened, if Lestat is sitting there in the liveroom telling Daniel about his rockstar era, the stakes are much lower. And not knowing what’s going to happen it’s the kind of thing that binds the attention of the audience, especially the ones that don’t know the books and therefore don’t know what is going on or how it will end.
I mean, if Lestat is there, Louis is there, Armand is there, why should the audience take the very real threat of Akasha destroying the vampires (and only sparing Louis because Lestat loved him) seriously? It already happened and the main characters the audience grew attached too are all there, so it means that whatever damage Akasha caused, they survived it. Makes it less dangerous, especially for a general audience, which is the kind that a TV show is always trying to gain.
Ofc they could find ways around it, really - I don’t believe there’s a forbidden way to tell a certain kind of story - but tbh I think it would be more satisfying to watch the madness of rockstar!Lestat and the rise of Akasha happening in real time.
sitcom/soap where Kotan Pa’dar and Rugal have to leave Dominion-controlled Cardassia bcuz Dukat has them on his hit list, and For Reasons they end up moving to DS9, and hearing that their kid is back in Bajoran space, Rugal’s Bajoran parents also move to the station but there’s a lack of quarters and so they all end up having to share a house
ship’s computer crashes due to virus acquired during a porn download from a lower decks ensign
firmware update was pushed out to the fleet, has vital error in the clock program that causes every computer to repeat 2300. translators have to explain to the enemy why everyone is an hour late to peace talks.
unintelligble message is sent out into the void because someone’s pet cat walked across their keyboard. message is interpreted as a marriage proposal.
universal translators break, everyone is reduced to hand gestures
viewscreen has dead pixels in the upper left corner, drives the captain a bit bonkers
space gps tells us to take a right where we should take a left. plucky recent academy grad on the graveyard shift realizes that this would take us into the sun and makes the course correction. ship’s computer advises her for two hours to make a u-turn when it is safe to do so
“siri, how do I land a space ship” is heard over the ship speaker system.
