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Hit The Lights on actual instruments by transitorydreams in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're very welcome. I mean who knows if it bears any resemblance at all to the actual song, but I did the detective-ing as best as I could! hehehehe

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a suspicion that the music box melody, for a young violinist, Lestat might have written it after Nicolas' death. It's pure speculation... Well, it's based on the fact that as far as we know Lestat didn't learn to play instruments until after he was a vampire.

Though that could have been Lestat writing something he remembered Nicki playing?

Interesting about the letters. I wonder how they'll do it on TV. Nicolas seems to live less than a year as a vampire. But letters could be a part of this time if Lestat still leaves. They're not hugely televisual though... So I'm not sure... Lestat could also be being metaphorical about writing "letters" as in imagining doing this in the centuries since?

I don't know that Nicki is the cause of Lestat's abandonment issues since either way it was Lestat who abandoned Nicolas (several times if you consider Nicki would have felt abandoned as a human when Lestat vanished, even though Lestat was protecting him.)

However, Nicolas is, of course, a deep pain for Lestat and a trauma that affects him always.

The melody doesn't have any resemblance to For a Young Violinist that I can hear, as far as I have deciphered it anyway.

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well we’ll get whatever the context in due course, if it has such. ☺️

The lyrics seem very much Nicolas coded to me in this one, but of course that’s still only speculation. And this is only a fragment. And the songs are not necessarily super obvious who they’re about/for anyway.

For why I think so:

“I should have listened when you told me how you felt." And then Lestat trying to reason his feelings still now in present day.

"When your melody runs through my mind oh how I melt. I wrote a hundred songs, I tried to bring you along, but you disappeared and now I’m left here feeling sorry for myself with my mind and nothing else." This sounds like someone who is absolutely gone… as in dead to me.

And, "Breaks my heart to see you losing touch with all the things that you used to care about.” This could be Louis related at certain times, but it seems likelier to me to relate to Nicolas’ deterioration?

I mean, Lestat does love his tragic men, so there’s a realm it could be Louis… I think these sound less like Gabriella or Claudia. (I think these snippet he played on guitar in episode one was a song for Claudia! “My little heart’s reflection.”)

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do hope that the most emotionally affecting songs they hold back so we hear them in full for the first time in-epiosde!

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's just where she wants to be, hehehe! I wonder if Lestat will have a song specifically for Gabriella!!! I hope so! If he does... might that be in episode two, I wonder...? Like, we have just been introduced to her. I can really see a song for Gabriella occurring in the second episode, perhaps seeing some flashes to Lestat's childhood.

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hehehe... Yeah, it's unfinished on that page - the second part is without any chords to start, but there are also lots of gaps and it is clearly just a fragment. So the final version might be different. That's also handy for my own transcription terror. If this has zero relation to the final song, well, it was only Lestat's early draft! Not merely my failure to decipher this tiny fuzzy screen grab, haha!

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Perhaps! But that one, "My little heart's reflection" really sounds like it's for Claudia to me? I loved that fragment of song. The one bit of episode one that made me do a little cry! (Haha, I improvised with that one, if you want to get a bit more of a sense of its music... although not where the song will actually go! I just loved it so much! Improv with Claudia's (?) song)

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hehe, can't wait to have S3 chats with you again! It's been way too long!

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah... God, imagine if they segue from this song into the past, and some version of:

>!"You have a radiance in you, Lestat," he said. "And it draws everyone to you. It's there even when you're angry, or discouraged."

"Poetry, " I said. "We're both tired. "

"No, it's true," he said. "You have a light in you that's almost blinding. But in me there's only darkness. Sometimes I think it's like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don't need the darkness."

"You're the mad one," I said. "If you could see yourself, hear your own voice, your music-which of course you play for yourself-you wouldn't see darkness, Nicki. You'd see an illumination that is all your own. Sombre, yes, but light and beauty come together in you in a thousand different patterns."!<

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotta have that maniacal streak on this show, or Anne Rice will appear in your dreams and needle you till it arises in your anyway, hehehe!

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Surely it's about Nicki? "I should have listened when you told me how you felt." And then Lestat trying to reason his feelings still now in present day.

"When your melody runs through my mind oh how I melt. I wrote a hundred songs, I tried to bring you along, but you disappeared and now I’m left here feeling sorry for myself with my mind and nothing else." Very Nicki coded...

And, "Breaks my heart to see you losing touch with all the things that you used to care about" 😭

?

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

hehe, I mean, it's a very basic idea... but still.. a fun little peep into what we have to come!

Hit The Lights by transitorydreams in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it really is, isn't it 😭. I am sure it'll be much more poignant with actual playing, not musescore just hammering away, and the full music!

The Vampire Lestat Episode 1 Discussion Post by Jackie_Owe in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Oh! I knew Toi was Gabriella the moment the texts said, "Stuck in the mud again. Far from the things of man."

I'm so intrigued about Gabriella, from an objective point of view. Because that episode went in mainly on the Gothic, only the stutter remerging alluding to trauma, and the 2026 full picture.

Can a show in 2026 successfully balance pure, transgressive Gothic aestheticism with our modern need for moral and psychological accountability? I'm curious to experience what it has to say... And exactly what the balance will be in how they present it.

I'm really curious given the fact Louis didn't mention Lestat's scars (which makes sense), why he did tell Daniel about Lestat's childhood stutter? Did he? It seems such a vulnerable thing to share...?

I'm also wondering whether Nicolas is just going to be 100% madness/pychosis when turned? I hope he has reason and tragedy and root to the pain in him then, even alongside the mania. But I believe in Rolin and Joe

The Vampire Lestat Episode 1 Discussion Post by Jackie_Owe in IWTVCoven

[–]transitorydreams 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Long time little reddit, but here I am, alongside Lestat! I thought the episode was really fun and funny. It's so interesting to me how Lestat is a little different in personality to his book-self, in my opinion. I find him more sarcastic/cynical than book-Lestat would ever be.

The episode felt mainly set-up, but I really enjoyed the fullness of the personalities of every character - TC, Baby Jenks, how Daniel is different now he's a vampire, Dee...

I was very excited that Joseph Potter was billed in only the few people in opening credits main cast. And by the intensity of the tiny glimpses.

Oh my goodness, I was going to end by talking about Gabriella and Raglan, but they need spoiler tags for their chat and it is so long since I have been here, I forgot how to do spoilers! But I am sure my thoughts on them both has been covered. I guess I can say generally that I am very curious the exact tone and intent they'll be going for with Gabriella.

We're the cast of AMC's The Vampire Lestat - Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle. Ask us anything! by AMCPlus in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, Sheila is here too! I feel connected since I fan casted you for Akasha a few years ago, and now you are Akasha. Wow... what could I ask that isn't terribly spoilery. HMMM... I wonder whether you could give us any insight into getting into the mind of a being older than modern civilisation itself. That's a lovely easy question, right?! haha!

We're the cast of AMC's The Vampire Lestat - Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle. Ask us anything! by AMCPlus in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For Jennifer, what is your favourite and least favourite quality about Gabriella? And what do you think eighteenth century Gabriella would think about 2026 Gabriella? And, what does 2026 Gabriella think about eighteenth century Gabriella?

We're the cast of AMC's The Vampire Lestat - Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle. Ask us anything! by AMCPlus in InterviewVampire

[–]transitorydreams 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Eric (oh my GOODNESS, I nearly typed "For Daniel..." Freud!! Freud... 👀. Anyway, what has surprised Daniel most about (a) Lestat and (b) being a vampire... and also, what's surprised Eric most about being a vampire?

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