Ending His Life: Why Louis Walked Into The Sun

[@ninetimesaday]

Lestat and Louis would rationalize to themselves when reconciling how horrible they were to Claudia by saying she would have a hard life anyway and wouldn't be able to handle vampirism for a long period. Yet Louis is the one who tried to end his life and Lestat is somewhere depressed. Claudia had more mental fortitude than both of them. Beautiful Irony.

[@Rosula_D]

Claudia was also depressed at one point and she also dealt with horrific trauma. But I think that unlike Louis, Lestat, or even Armand, she acknowledged what she went through. Also, unlike the others, it seems like Claudia never felt guilt because she hadn't really done anything horrible compared to the rest.

[@tdali8347]

@@Rosula_D Nothing horrible except, well...there were those 56 bodies that washed up in Chalmette, Louisiana in 1922.

[@ninetimesaday]

@@tdali8347 vampires kill people. That goes without saying, she didn't violate her friends or people she loved. Thats the difference.

[@Gazz-BaaZnitch]

It’s not beautiful irony it’s a story melted into a unrecognizable feat of clay to fit with modern audiences, u wouldn’t say it was beautiful irony if they did proper page to screen accurate Louis and Claudia

[@JanaLalewicz]

Yea! Can't help but thinking back to Claudia saying "I've only met 4 of u & u ALL have been fkn BASTARDS!" wow was she ever right!

[@patrickslayter9946]

Let's not forget... Claudia was 5 years old in the books. And she wanted to be Louis' companion and lover. Not his child. This is why neither of them would ever be satisfied with the other.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Actually in the book she did not want that. She wanted to grow up and go on her own but couldn't live without them.

[@tdali8347]

@@jonfreeman9682 Here's something you rarely see in comment sections: 2 folks on complete opposite sides, but both pretty much right. IWTV movie -- When Louis says "My child", Armand corrects him, "Your lover." Cringe. IWTV book -- Claudia asks Louis to describe what sex feels like. Cringe. Of course she was too small to fend for herself, but like TV Claudia(s), she was an adult woman who wanted adult companionship.

[@mikeyfrederick1232]

All that's going through my head is.... could they find a 5 year old actor that could pull off Claudia's roll lol... And then I remember the rest of the content of the book... and I'm like yeah that's never going to happen.... probably a good thing... but I still want to see it................

[@khadyadjisall5708]

@@mikeyfrederick1232 Kristen Dunst played excellently the role. However I am very glad that the actress in the tv series is older. No child actor should be cast into such movies.

[@tdali8347]

Excellent as usual. I can only add that Louis had half-drained Daniel by the time Armand separated them, so the smorgasbord of drugs in Daniel's body flowed back into Louis, heightening (high-tening?) both his viciousness in the argument with Armand, and his hysteria at thinking his dead child was calling him to the daytime roof.

[@VampireFolkloreVideos]

Excellent point

[@Vampwars]

This is something I feel gets sometimes lost. Drugs are insane, so is the pain of loss & a failure to act. Even though he got his revenge, it didn’t satisfy him as much as the companionship he got from Claudia. I hope next season, since we already know that Louis hallucinates, they use the same Actress (who killed it as Claudia) to show what other ghost Louis was dealing with besides Lestat.

[@tdali8347]

@@Vampwars In one of the later books, Claudia's ghost does visit Louis if this old lady brain is remembering right. He wants her to stay, but she pretty much confesses that she hates his guts and he was never fun to hang out with anyway, then leaves Daddy Lou to his blood tears. (p.s. edit) Just remembered something else. After Claudia's ghost tells Louis to eff off he does run out into the sun! My Odyssey of Recollection ends there. Armand pulled him back??

[@jordanparker657]

​​@@tdali8347The book you are describing is Merrick, she is a Mayfair and summons Claudia's ghost. You described the encounter. After that Louis walks into the sun, it is not Armand but Merrick and David Talbot that pull him out, much too late. He's too crispy for them to save him (Merrick was just turned from witch to vampire by Louis). They inform Lestat, who is in one of his long funks. Louis is near death when Lestat realizes what has happened he goes to them, asks Louis if he really wants to die or continue life as a vampire. Obviously he chooses vampire...Lestat gives him his super powered blood.. The 4 of them travel as a family for a while.

[@tdali8347]

@@jordanparker657 Yes! Like Daniel Molloy, you've jogged a flood of memories. OMG I hope we get David Talbot before the series ends...And Louis wasn't even with Armand anymore when he went into the sun! Thanks to you, Jordan, I can stick out my tongue at the grandkids next time they say I have CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t).

[@reginaldshort8486]

He wanted to burn the guilt, shame and wickedness out of himself.

[@jonfreeman9682]

No he was depressed and wanted out of this life. Vampires have human feelings and want suicide too.

[@reginaldshort8486]

@@jonfreeman9682 u forget his religious upbringing. Yes it was a suicide attempt but the stated reasons above are why he’s doing it and the source of his depression

[@sifilore]

Vampirism amplifies ur very character, just like in Vampire Diaries enhances their emotions.

[@angelaholmes8888]

Yes it's sad claudia wasn't saved Louis did love her like a daughter he lost a big part of himself when she died

[@shannonraby5547]

In the books the Vampires were all bisexual. Bi pride!

[@haveYallheard]

I also think Armand was right about him doing the interview so that Lestat may read it and come to him!!!

[@nancysavard4322]

agreed

[@tdali8347]

That's the whole setup of the 2nd book, The Vampire Lestat. He spots and buys Louis' Interview book (young Daniel had no name in it -- only "the boy" until later books and all the evil where Armand tortures him for years, then makes him his first fledgling). Lestat gets pissed off at all the lies he reads (this was the 70s supposedly "performative" nonsense Louis spewed at young Daniel before attacking him, mind you), and Lestat decides to write his own story.

[@haveYallheard]

@@tdali8347 Thanks so much. I have never read the books. So I love to hear about the books. Louis and Lestat's relationship continues to intrigue me

[@tdali8347]

@@haveYallheard No, thank "Yall!" haha. You're the first non-book reader I've come across who actually called out a show hint that directly relates to something that happens in another book! Brilliant deduction. The 2nd half of the Interview book had not much Lestat in it till the end when Louis found him living "shabby chic" in New Orleans. The movie got boring for me fast because of this, even with the theater folks and Armand and flame-haired Madeline. So I love the TV show's invention of "Ghost Lestat", plus flashbacks of him with his first depressed, half-crazed boyfriend Nicky (Lestat does have a type haha!), and 18th century Armand (who was a shady Gremlin back then, too -- I'm sure we'll get more in Season 3/Book 2). Similarly, though, Louis doesn't play so big a part in The Vampire Lestat or Queen of the Damned, so I wonder how they'll incorporate him into the next couple seasons... Of course, Louis + Lestat are the center of our Immortal Universe! But the other relationship that fascinates me is the Louis/Daniel connection. "Boy" Daniel dared to tell Louis the truth -- that he was given "The Gift" and he was wasting it, missing the whole point of eternity by hating who/what he is. Louis didn't start to realize it until he was burned, but he really needed Daniel to live, this trustworthy finder, protector, defender and keeper of his life story; this 'break-glass-in-case-of-emergency' truth-telling human friend. We know from the VL rockstar promo that Lestat and Daniel will be there, but Louis??

[@haveYallheard]

@@tdali8347 Same about the movie. Once Lestat wasn't around the rest of the movie was boring. I hope they can find a way to make Louis appear with Lestat on his Rockstar journey lol

[@PerfectlyImperfect93]

Louis 😭 my poor baby this part had me in tears and the music didn’t help 💔😭

[@glass12full23]

The ignorance surrounding the adaptation of the AMC series and the refusal to even watch one episode because Louie is black is astonishing... or I guess maybe it's not :/ I have read 9 of the Vampire Chronicle series and saw the movie version... and I am letting you know that this adaptation absolutely KILLS IT. Writing, acting, and production values are all top quality. I am not used to seeing so many negative comments on your channel... strange!

[@missjamjam]

Louis was hallucinating Claudia's voice calling him, do you think it's really Claudia's voice? Her ghost? or just his mind like the lestat in his mind?

[@tdali8347]

Definitely in his mind. Louis is nuts, and he's okay with that!

[@StitchGV]

Louis just drank from someone high on many drugs. In the show universe, that seems to be a way for vampires to get high themselves. He was fucked up on whatever he just gave Daniel. That’s why he heard her.

[@tdali8347]

@@StitchGV ...and he's nuts.

[@abhishekpackage-pg8lc]

all i know is that when louis tried to unalive himself, it was much maligned armand who came to his rescue with life saving blood.

[@thedystopiandollhouse]

Because he didn't want to lose his pet. Make no mistake, Armand never saw Louis as his equal, and he treated him more as a possession than a person. He didn't actually care about Louis or his feelings. He was protecting his investment.

[@1historyk]

Making it at least the second time he saved Louis's life. Of course, he gets no credit for that.

[@abhishekpackage-pg8lc]

@@1historyk NONE! i will always be team armand. folks want to disregard all the ways that poor boy was traumatized and get mad at him for not always being perfect. no one is perfect. and louis for as much as i love him is far from perfection.

[@tdali8347]

Not life-saving blood, but healing blood. According to Daniel's final math, Armand had let Louis suffer for 6 days and 5 nights on the bed before granting him the healing properties of both coffin and his own powerful, ancient blood. Even then, Armand had already planned more torture by kinda making Louis hear from non-beige Lestat. That's the night, night 6, when Louis was able to stand and stagger out minutes later, healed enough to stop his "love" from killing Daniel. Who knows how many times in 77 years Armand did his passive torture, then wiped Louis' brain.

[@abhishekpackage-pg8lc]

@@tdali8347 in any event, armand did not send louis into the sun. louis did that. we often suffer behind our actions.

[@IWroteSomeThings]

I haven’t had time to catch up on the show, I work 3 jobs 😞 this spoiled me…. Love you vampire folklore but damn….

[@jonfreeman9682]

It's just like the movie and books. Mostly. Just watch the recap and you've got the gist.

[@IWroteSomeThings]

@@jonfreeman9682adaptations are so different though. That’s what makes it fun. At the end of the day it’s not a big deal but damn 😂 I didn’t know this would happen

[@tylerbhumphries]

You could have just waited to watch this. This video popped up in my feed a few months ago and I hadn’t seen season 2 at the time. I was curious but I didn’t click on it. I know it’s an adaptation, so I wasn’t sure if this walk into the sun was just an episode of madness or how they ended the season. I came back to watch the video after I finished season two.

[@peeweemaroske8619]

Please do a video on my boy Michael Corvin from the Underworld Franchise. Please include his role in Underworld Endless War. Maybe a video on Kraven and your top 5 favourite fights of the Underworld Franchise.

[@Ancaryvan]

Hello VF, Apparently, YT Algorithm hits me with a very interested tale of Vampyr thats dates back Hellenic Era, more interesting fact the tale is written as chronicle of Delphi's Oracle. Tale of Humanoid Vampyr starts more like Twilight but tragidy. Wish you can cover on any following video.

[@mikeyfrederick1232]

"I guess Armand did some novel things" ohhhh I could the spite in your voice sir lol I feel that also...ew dont give Armand any benefit of the doubt.. and I would say even more so "Armand saved Louie for Armand"... he was maybe thinking that he loved Louie... but when you're in a toxic relationship( personal experience here lol) I wouldn't call it love... it's the fear of being alone... That kind of makes it worse actually....

[@mwendwabrian695]

Louis is and was weak. Too emotional. He needs to lose a part of himself to be something else something's more. Even as a human, he never fully was conscious of himself and was in constant unbalance. Louis has to die to live.

[@toshatalks8544]

Does anyone believe that Lestat had something to do with Paul's death? Meaning Lestat may have whispered in Paul's ear....

[@Rosula_D]

I thought so too. But it seems like Season 1 never really explored that. I wonder if we'll learn Lestat's truth in Season 3.

[@toshatalks8544]

@@Rosula_DI believe Louis asked Lestat if he had anything to do with it and Lestat said he didn't but i believe he did even if a little. Paul already had the 411 on Lestat and i believe Lestat felt Paul was in the way just like Claudia was and we all saw what happened to Claudia...

[@joyyoung3108]

Paul was mentally ill and I feel that Lestat knew he was probably going to unalive himself at some point. So there was no reason to kill Paul.

[@haveYallheard]

I don't believe he killed him. However I do believe because he was so close around them that Paul felt that darkness and couldn't rationalize it. So he decided to end it

[@toshatalks8544]

I believe that Lestat was sorta of whispering in Paul's ear so to speak like how Lestat was telling Louis "come to me" Of course Lestat didn't kill Paul but i believe he had a small hand in it being as though Paul could see that Louis was 15 degrees up Lestat's tail... Lol

[@BrianLindee-qm9ed]

How did that happen given he was in the book Merrick Mayfair witches

[@DigitalDilldough]

DAMN DUDE...some ppl let the series finish before binging! Just throwing a MASSIVE SPOILER in the thumbnail and title is so irritating! I wish I could report and block ppl on here for that nonsense!

[@tdali8347]

The season ended almost a month ago.

[@abhishekpackage-pg8lc]

@@tdali8347 thank you and folks actin like so called spoilers are some kind of slur. instead of seeking out videos on the series, watch the damn series. jesus.

[@DigitalDilldough]

@@tdali8347 almost a month... Guy, some ppl binge like I said. I promise you 3 weeks is not a lot of time when you have a meaningful career, general adult responsibilities and children. In fact the entire supper can go by and you feel like you missed half of it...

[@liliblue]

​@@tdali8347 Literally could just not click on a video about a show you aren't caught up on... lol

[@chickenlover657]

Wtf is this? Louis was white. This is not Louis.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Nowadays they do gender swap and race swaps all the time.

[@chickenlover657]

@@jonfreeman9682 I'm not american or canadian, this shocks me.

[@jonfreeman9682]

@@chickenlover657 Hollywood does this all the time. Disney turned little mermaid to black girl. Amazon turns the boys Stormfront from man to girl. And every TV show now adds LGBQT. It's the social climate now to have DEI in every show. Even Francis McDormand in her Oscar acceptance speech says we need more inclusions okay she got it. Honestly I have no issues with it but some shows really take the LGBQT thing too far. Even this vampire show they've taken the gay vampire thing beyond what the books portrayed.

[@IWroteSomeThings]

I was apprehensive at first as well, only because Louis character was a slave owner so I wasn’t sure how they were going to work around it. But they did great, it really is a good show if you want to give it a chance.

[@chickenlover657]

@@IWroteSomeThings No. I'm not giving this forgery any chance.

[@jamesrussels2126]

hope they cancel this trash soon.

[@MrMgage13]

Your trash comment needs to be deleted

[@Andy_JJ]

Awww. Triggered? You're out of luck- season 3 is being shot ;)

[@BoyTheBlack]

​@Andy_JJ she/he/they/it loves it...just doesn't want to admit it...these haters are obsessed with the show...

[@tdali8347]

@@Andy_JJ And Season 1 premiers on Netflix in a couple weeks. Quality wins!

[@jamesrussels2126]

@@Andy_JJ triggered? Nah I dont watch it. But you can enjoy it all want. Enjoy your fan fiction.

[@kajenbop]

This show is not interview with the vampire, it’s woke nonsense!

[@jerrykubiak5945]

dude fucking youtube is gay as shit with their warning when i first clicked this video nothing was coming up had to refresh the page to get that thing to pop up for me to click i understand