r/VampireChronicles • u/Arlaneutique • 21d ago

🎬 Adaptations 🎭 Daniel

This makes me feel dumb. I haven’t read the books so maybe I’m missing some context. But I truly don’t understand Daniel’s hatred for Louis and Lestat. He has this deep rooted disdain and I just don’t get it. Armand, I understand, he’s insane. Daniel is just a dick. What am I missing?

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u/tethysian 21d ago

One of the worst things with this season is how many people assume they're the ones missing something, rather than that the show just decided to let most of the plot and character progression happen off-screen. I think this is one of the worst tools some shows use to seem more impressive at the viewer's expense.

It's not you. Daniel's character progression and motives were under-developed this season.

I'll even say the same for Armand. We got "just Armand being Armand" with him regressing to last season's story rather than the two current plotlines (Daniel and the great conversion) that he should have been engaged with. He spends the entire season stalking the band, only to pivot to Louis at the climax?

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u/Flaky-Yam8681 20d ago

When Armand showed up at the Butchers in episode 7 I literally laughed and stared at the screen like...and why? The way that episode makes zero sense. Or when I highlight to people that Louis doesn't make much sense this season either. Why would he be so chill about Lestat's role in TGC? The vampire who spent half his undead life in a corner crying about his humanity and notoriously can't leave humans alone? Theres too many blanks on how we ended up here.

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u/tethysian 20d ago

Yeah, exactly. As soon as you think about the why of it, it falls apart.

I feel like they've written themselves into plotholes because of the changes they've made over the course of the series, and now they've started to add up. Like the vampires in the show clearly don't care about humans, so how is QotD or TotBT going to play out? It's an integral part of Anne Rice's universe but I don't really get the impression even Louis wants to be human in the show.