IWtV Season 2 Finis

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*Moved from Come Into My Parlor to this blog with the original air date for each episode as these posts were made at the time.

As I watched Louis make his way out of the gravel, the coffin and the morgue, I thought this is probably the moment his strongest emotions propelled him forward with what was to come. It did take me a moment to realize the ghost of one of Louis' post-exhumation victims was actually helping him prepare.

And like the name of this episode, we see something else that brings to mind the 1994 film adaptation. Louis' revenge.

A fire in a theater.

Since it is well known that a theater is one of the most deadly places to have a fire, Louis used this well. Theaters are large, cavernous spaces designed to hold a lot of people, but have very few doors anywhere. One tragic example of this is the Chicago Iroquois Theater fire in 1903. But how would such a thing play out if those inside the theater are vampires?

Louis went in while everyone was still in bed--I mean coffins. And like the 1994 film adaptation, Louis doused each coffin liberally with an accelerant. Despite this, a few of the vampires, including Santiago/Francis, managed to escape the burning structure. Of course, Santiago/Francis and the others did NOT stop to try to evacuate anyone else. To him, everyone else was completely expendable. Only HE mattered. Something Louis made sure to let Santiago/Francis know he was wrong about--right before he...uh, finished him off.

It would not be until more than 70 years later that Louis would learn it was not Armand who swayed the audience into sparing Louis, but Lestat.

Sometime between the end of Daniel's present-day interview and Louis reuniting with Lestat, Louis returned to New Orleans. And this is the kind of thing I love. A tour guide taking people through the French Quarter, and stopping in front of the house Louis and Lestat had lived in with Claudia. While the tour guide thrilled his audience with the legend of this party gone horribly wrong and what was found in the house after Louis and Claudia had fled, there was Louis, the French Creole, wearing a baseball hat and jacket as he stood quietly listening with the rest of the tour group.

Behind the Scenes Season 2 Finis
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Now, since we have just recently learned there will be a Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire on AMC, let's talk about Lestat's house. Where Louis goes to thank Lestat, who broke down while asking Louis if he tried to hurt himself on September 8, 1973. Without giving away too much, those who have read the Vampire Chronicles, and The Vampire Lestat in particular will recall that Lestat had hidden himself beneath an old ruin of a house in New Orleans in 1929, and did not reemerge until 1984. The old ruin of a house Louis finds Lestat in...same house? We'll just have to wait and see!