The Reel Rejects - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S2 EPISODE 1 REVIEW – THESE OLD WORLD VAMPIRES ARE TERRIFYING!

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Starting point is 00:01:55 another vampire property. Oh, which one? Twilight, say it out loud. What are you talking about? That's literally one of the famous Twilight quotes. Say it out loud? Say it out loud. You mean, oh, She first confronts him about being a vampire? I don't remember even what the... God damn it. Look, we're watching the show. Good episode. Really solid.

Starting point is 00:02:21 What a fascinating new start. With a whole new girl. You like her? What'd you say? Did you like her? Huh? Were you not just hearing us? What?

Starting point is 00:02:37 No. Are you fucking with me or no? No. You were playing my voice. No, I wasn't. my voice was just playing. I said one more time everybody feeling fine

Starting point is 00:02:46 in the headphones. Oh, I'm assuming because I hit this garage band thing. Okay. Did you like that girl? It's hard for me to gauge it yet because, right? Like, it's not that she's not doing a good job.

Starting point is 00:02:59 She definitely is, but it's different. And I loved our last Claudia and they built so much chemistry together and that's the whole purpose. But I do feel like they, I will end up eventually liking her. It's just,

Starting point is 00:03:11 you know it's like when you go to see a play and it's the understudy performing that doesn't mean that they're actually not as good as the person that you went to go see it's just not who you expected to see and we didn't know how'd you feel about her yeah i always have a hard time like readjusting to a recasting no matter who it is i always have a very hard time it's rare where i'm like i have just slipped into this new person so almost every time she was on screen i was aware i was looking at a new person i know me too she's like different she's different too she's not playing the same person like her mannerisms were different her facial expressions are different her speech patterns like everything it's not fair to

Starting point is 00:03:53 like judge right because i don't know i don't feel like we got enough yet i mean i still bought into the narrative but it wasn't it was definitely like a part of me that was i was watching her more in a way that i probably wouldn't have watched is just because I'm like observing a new performance now. So yeah, but no, she was good. It's a really hard role to fill.

Starting point is 00:04:19 It's one of the rare cases where I wish we had a heads up because we kind of just learned in the middle of it. But I wonder if I like most people who watch us, I didn't get a heads up. They're like, oh, there's a new person here. Yeah,

Starting point is 00:04:29 I agree. And like in the marketing that I saw, it was the picture of the other girl. So, but we must have been looking at season one or, yeah, season one marketing. Or maybe it's some intentional new casting thing for story purposes.

Starting point is 00:04:41 I really feel like it might be the age. I don't know how many years were apart. Yeah, let's Google it. What if the Googling ruins it? Why did they recast? I don't think it could. Claudia. Umpersed scene circumstances.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Offensized scheduling conflicts with other projects like Avatar. I didn't even know she was an avatar. Yeah, she must be one of the characters. Yeah. Huh. Oh, okay. So no, it was just a recasting of Claudia. Huh.

Starting point is 00:05:16 Well, they had to be a recasting. to work with that and I'm glad that I'm actually glad I think the way they handle it was actually pretty cool by just putting it on the screen yeah me too we don't need to spend time with that obviously so and as much as there's like location stuff there were elements of this episode did sort of remind me of a play just in the dialogue interactions and how they all went down that was a really unique type of interview with a vampire episode it was I thought it was an amazing episode of the last scene too and I really love their interactions with Daniel. My tea bag says friendship

Starting point is 00:05:48 is a gift that lasts. How appropriate is that for a vampire show about... Very appropriate, man. Two friends. Well, yeah, it seemed like she was looking for... She's always longing for, like, more of a community

Starting point is 00:06:02 in some way. They both, like, everyone here, every vampire here seems to, like, long for a connection. That's like the curse of the immortality, huh? That they don't. No one's like a cool, isolated, lone wolf, Empire. And also, she was a teen, she was what, like, a tiny, how old was she when she turned? 14? Yeah, she was younger. Teenager. So I know she's now not that age, but part of her still

Starting point is 00:06:28 stunted there and she's looking for like who else and what else and where do I belong. I felt like the Disney new actor, I was watching an adult though. I know because we didn't see, I agree. Yeah. I agree, especially when he was like, go play with the kids. I was like, oh, she, but she's such a an adult. Like part of the charm is watching a person who you believe is a child but is playing and but is playing up in age. Yeah. It's not fair to her though because we never got to see her like that.

Starting point is 00:06:55 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But I saw I felt like I was watching an adult the whole time. And that was part of the thing that was pulling me out if I'm being honest. But for what she had, she was really good. And I'm sure like as the season goes on, we'll just slip a little bit more into it. Louis kept pulling me back in because I just thought this was his best performance yet. I am slightly...

Starting point is 00:07:13 What'd you say? Why? I think it was a couple of scenes. Number one, that end scene, but also my favorite scene of his was when he realizes that she could dream and he was like, she just wrote that. And realizing not everything

Starting point is 00:07:28 that somebody writes is fact. Yeah. And so him wanting to get those things from Claudia, I just thought he did such a beautiful job with that. And I think it is very difficult when you work for a full season with somebody and having that connection. And he was just really like,

Starting point is 00:07:42 This episode asked a lot of him. It asked him to have a full-blown connection, lifelong, best friend, sister, familial connection with somebody that he is working with for the first time ever. And I just thought he did an absolutely amazing job. The thing that pulled me out a little bit at times and that I'm slightly concerned about is, what are we going to do about Lestat?

Starting point is 00:08:04 Is he not going to be in the show other than like this? Because I don't really want a season of Lestat like this. well i mean there's a lot of implications that he's still alive totally but then he's in a different country well they're going to fran he's in a different continent they just ended up back in france here or they ended up in france at the end of it and is in louis from france i'llostat from france he's lestat yes yeah so i imagine they'll they'll encounter him again okay because yeah i'm not a big fan of like that's like trope that's often used in movies and shows where the character's like haunting them and it sometimes just feels like an excuse to have the characters like linger around.

Starting point is 00:08:41 Right. And it's used a lot in movies and shows and most of the time I'm like, yeah, I could do without it. But it was fine here. I don't know if we ultimately needed it, but it's always nice having Lestat's presence because I do like a show. I prefer a show with Lestat. Yeah, me too. And I like...

Starting point is 00:08:58 Especially because we didn't have our Claudia. So it was like we don't have our Claudia and Lestat's barely there. True. But I still thought this episode was great. Yeah, it was a whole episode about survival. Every character, even I like the idea of what you write down is not, might not even be true because so much of when you are a survivor, a lot of the times the stories, the narratives,

Starting point is 00:09:21 you have to tell yourself to keep on surviving. And so it can mess with memory. And it can mess with how you interpret the present moment too. When you have to kind of go into, you have to tell yourself a certain story to keep on surviving. And so I really like that. Because sometimes it might be hard. It might be, it would be hard.

Starting point is 00:09:40 If you, okay, so if you look at the lady who offered herself, the Romanian lady, the old lady, she was pitching a dream to Claudia. It seemed like pretty obvious she was going to offer herself in that scene because she was pitching a dream. And then you have Claudia who is dreaming. So it's like sometimes it's easier to reject the fact that you have dreams. That way you don't have hope because if you reject hope, then you don't have to live in the feeling of disappointment or hurt, you know? Right.

Starting point is 00:10:13 So there's some interesting playbacks here happening. And I agree. I like this performance a lot who played guy play Louis. You know who I don't really care that much about right now? Armand. No, I'm not that drawn to him. Yeah, I need them to give us some more San Francisco, so I have a reason to give a crap about him.

Starting point is 00:10:32 Yeah, because there's like a big plot reveal about him in the last episode. Yeah. And then here, I don't feel like his, he has much of a presence. He just feels like Louis's boyfriend right now. I feel about him how Daniel seems to feel about him. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:51 I agree with you on that. I agree with you. Did you like your World War II setting? You happy about it? Listen, I was happy that they announced that France was celebrating after Hitler. and yeah that's worth we're celebrating. I do like World War II shows in general.

Starting point is 00:11:14 I was having a little bit of a hard time because I saw, you know, we were going from, she said that they were, she claimed they were from Kiev and then they went to Russia and then we ended up in Romania or at least there were Russian soldiers that were still in Romania

Starting point is 00:11:29 or perhaps we were in Russia and then we went, kept going to Romania and then we had. that other woman who then was speaking a different language, but we don't know exactly what language. So I was guessing it was Ukrainian but didn't know. You know me. My mind starts to wander if you give me a lot of information.

Starting point is 00:11:45 And I'm thinking about like, where are we, when are we? What's exactly like, obviously this is 1945. But at like what point are we and what is happening with where we are? So I did like the setting, but I did leave me my brain wandering briefly. I kept kind of pulling myself back. Oh, okay. You know what I mean at all? I know what you mean.

Starting point is 00:12:06 You know my brain. If you give me things to think about, I don't think about them. Oh, I know. You know who I bet is giving us things to think about? The patrons? I bet. Let's do it. Is it a good transition or what?

Starting point is 00:12:22 Then I'm going to have a snack. And at the end of the episode when Louis is telling Claudia that it's just him and her against the world, do you think he was truthful trying to convince himself that he's picking Claudia over LaStat even though he's dead? Well, we both definitely don't think the stat's dead. But yet, I think he was both truthful and trying to convince himself. You know, I think he has real love for Claudia and also I think he has real love for LaStat. And he's made his choice.

Starting point is 00:12:56 But, of course, when your choice isn't finalized because Lestat is still out there, he's going to be second-guessing himself and trying to reassure himself. Well, I mean, he's also rejecting, I think he's rejecting his grief over LaStat. I mean, the stat, fictional version of LaStat points out his denial. And again, a lot of this is like that what story do you tell yourself as a survivor? And I think in this moment he believes it. I think in that moment he believed it. Yeah, I would say so.

Starting point is 00:13:28 That's what made it so compelling. But I like Claudia's look the whole time because Claudia is, you could see in her, that's part of her performance I really enjoy because she doesn't say much other than the words okay but you can tell she's like assessing him just with this one look of like does he actually mean these words and I thought that was what really made

Starting point is 00:13:46 her like her reactions to it and her just going okay like I'll choose to believe you in that moment Mm-hmm Mm-hmm All right Take it away Roxanne Stryor What's up Carebear? Hi G&R This episode shows Louis

Starting point is 00:14:00 conversing with the ghost of Lestat Now that you've seen both seen twilight you'll know in new moon bella also has visions slash chats with edward during his absence question how do you compare how each franchise use ghost visions to keep an important vampire character present on screen does enhance the narrative or distract from the main protagonist's story uh you kind of just talked a little bit about this it's not your favorite device it's not well it's funny in in twilight though because he's like a floating head So I like it in Twilight. And it does seem like Edward is there actually communicating something to her.

Starting point is 00:14:38 No, no, it would make sense actually for the plot now that I think about it. Yeah, because the character is usually some like manifestation of their consciousness or their doubts or fears. And they're, but they don't, the way they, I think they're characterized whenever they are a manifestation, they're like a perfectly speaking consciousness. And it's like they're like, okay, now you're borderline skits. Because of how you're whatever that version of schizophrenia is where you can actually see someone there who's not and and Like that I got a mental health condition so I I don't mind it here and I don't feel like we really needed it though I don't I like list that's the end listat so I'm cool with it exactly but I don't better than not seeing him at all

Starting point is 00:15:20 But I do think that there is a world in which we could have had cut scenes back to what list out was doing Yeah, I guess I want us to keep thinking that he's dead. Yeah, but it's like so apparent that that he's not that I don't need that to keep going, but hopefully they give us that next episode of the episode after. Well, I also feel like they probably want the audience to, like, have their list at here, you know? I like the daily's played up. And it would make sense after four years,

Starting point is 00:15:46 I think better than Twilight. I think it makes sense after four years of being stranded in this war that he would start to see someone. Right. And that he would buy into this narrative. So, yeah, I mean, it's not like the worst thing in the world. And you're hearing he has sad blood.

Starting point is 00:16:01 going through. He's eating a bunch of sad mourning blood, so. And I like that conceit of how the emotion affects the blood, because that makes sense. The emotion affects you on a cellular level as human beings in real life, scientifically speaking, so it will affect your blood? That's a cool concept.

Starting point is 00:16:17 Becca, do you feel as though Claudia's negative feelings toward Louis are justified? How would you react to his decision in her shoes, refusing to burn the stat and physically stopping her from doing so? I do think her feelings towards him are justified.

Starting point is 00:16:33 But I also think that Louis's choice was justified. I understand we're both them coming from. Yeah. Seems like she just has a lot of... I mean, why was she seeking out the... Why do you think she was seeking out these other vampires? I think she says in the thing, like, I've never met a good vampire.

Starting point is 00:16:54 And I think she wants to feel good. And I think she wants company. And, you know, we've seen her try to have like to sleep with people and that's not been successful and she had this horrible traumatic thing happened to her with another vampire I think she just wants to know

Starting point is 00:17:09 she's like part of something bigger that's not so evil maybe that's true that's true probably a lot of reasons and she might not even know why she's seeking it just like if you thought like

Starting point is 00:17:20 that you were the only blah blah in the world you'd or one of two you'd want to know like are there more like me that's true we all look for community Susanna Silva

Starting point is 00:17:33 We're both a little time Yep How are you feeling so far With Armand and his now involvement With the interview We already have Louis Who can be unreliable We're encountering events

Starting point is 00:17:46 Do you think Armand Will just add more unreliability Or perhaps a new perspective Thanks again for continuing to watch Guys absolutely loving your commentary so far Thank you Susanna I don't know about you Greg But

Starting point is 00:17:57 I don't trust him Yeah I don't trust our mom at all. So it's not just the unreliability. It's that like I think he is a little malicious. I think he's trying to control the narrative. Right. I think he's fully, I don't think he has anything wrong with his memories. He seems like he's trying to have, he even wants Louis to remember things a specific way too. And then to recount them a specific way. And I don't think, you know, now that he's like, oh, I'll have somebody prepare the Claudia pages. Like I kind of don't believe him. I think he's going to alter them. Yeah. He seems like a weasel.

Starting point is 00:18:31 you know why do we so not trust him because he could mean the entire introduction of him is he's he's a deceitful and pretending to somebody's not yeah yeah so i i don't trust is there any kind of way that he um in some vampire things you know you can like control somebody else like is there any world in which he is somehow tricking louis to being in love with him right now like he's the love of my life uh compelling him or whatever i don't know if there's like a Yeah, I don't know if there's a physical vampire power, but I'm sure there was an emotional manipulator. I feel like this guy's a big manipulator.

Starting point is 00:19:08 That's every vibe I'm getting about him. All right. Because he's not white, I don't trust him. That's where I'm going on. Do you trust yourself? No. No. Solid.

Starting point is 00:19:19 Depends if you're talking to you. Some people think I'm white and others are like he's definitely not white. That is what it is to be mixed. Yes. All righty then. One last one on the agenda. Jay Rushden, question, do you like new background of Europe in the show? Nice for new look theme.

Starting point is 00:19:39 It did look like they up the budget for this. I don't know whether that was just for the first episode or what, but I was excited for the new look, yeah. Apparently the show was a hit for AMC, so they must have up the budget for it. And a hit for the real reject. Oh, yeah, man. Yeah, it's a hit to the real reject.

Starting point is 00:19:55 That's what I meant. Yeah. You know, maybe when we catch up, the people will come in droves. I doubt it. I don't want it. I want this to be the one consistent thing. Don't say that out loud. Don't worry.

Starting point is 00:20:08 Don't worry. I have such a need for attention. I'm just like Armand. That fucking asshole, Armand. Totally. Never liked him. Anyway, guys, do you like Armand? Or do you like us better?

Starting point is 00:20:25 Tell us in the comments of why we're wrong about Armand without spoiling. Anything about what happened. is in our mind. But I'm right there with you, Roxy. All right, guys. We'll see you soon. Bye, everyone.

The Reel Rejects - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S2 EPISODE 1 REVIEW – THESE OLD WORLD VAMPIRES ARE TERRIFYING!

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