Which is the shite we expect from Hollywoke nowadays, and which will bomb.
I'm Deckard B26354, I retire Wokies, I'm filed and monitored.
Get yourself a professional and get it over with already.
shareAgree. Not watching.
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Watch the fucking trailer arsepipe.
Ha Ha, I see you're still SHOUTING Kowalski, and you're still trolling as well you sad piece of shit.
YOUR SELF AWARENESS IS PITIFUL.
shareKowalski is still going?? Man... I've put that fool on ignore since I don't know when! He seems to be just as adorable as he was back then.
shareAwesome on blocking Kowalski, me too. That guy is a total douchebag. I saw his name come up in a general chat discussion and I mentioned what an asshat he is, and evidently a LOT of people can't stand him. Imagine being so sad that you'd use all caps for attention, despite knowing it's viewed as shouting online.
shareAre you complaining about the black Louis? Does he really need to conform to Anne Rice's description of having white skin, the color of bleached bone, chin-length black hair, and brilliant green eyes?
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Yes, things like that affect major elements of a characters life. You can't stay true to the character with a change like that.
shareYes. That's the character. He's well established and known by a lot of people.
If they want a series with black vampires, they should just write a new original story instead. Be creative instead of always copy and reshape what's been done but is not to your taste.
Yes. Why us Anne still being disrespected? Other authors get faithful adaptations of their work and this is what Anne gets. Louis was a slave owner. He owned a plantation. Changing him to black and having him a brothel owner changes the inherent narrative of Anne's story. Then having Claudia as a black 19 year old again fundamentally changes Anne's story.
Claudia was an avatar of Anne's daughter, Michelle who died of childhood leukemia at 4. Claudia was Michelle. In essence AMC has disrespected both Anne's creations and Michelle's memory with this radical abomination.
This calla to mind author Diana Gabaldon who has bitched STARZ hasn't kept her books in tact, which us bull because she's a consultant and has written several scripts for the show. Season six was not only faithful to her books, but almost verbatim.
This series is not faithful tp Anne's work and her son Christopher has disavowed it.
That's what SJWs do. Hijack other peoples work disregard the source material and sell their social woke agenda's.
shareYeah it doesn't really jive with the time period. They kept the bad guy white. But Louis, Claudia and a few others have been swapped out for a different race. It'll probably be another Lovecraft Country.
And you know they wont simply be black actors playing white parts, they are going to jam in all that racism crap which had no place in the original novel.
I honestly didn't even know this was going to be a thing.
Having watched the trailer... I guess I have to say I grudgingly admire the guts it must've taken them, to be this brazenly insulting of their audiences' intelligence.
This is clearly some generic vampire show they've slapped the name on purely for brand recognition, one that has jack diddly squat to do with anything Anne Rice ever wrote.
It sounds like you haven't read any of her books.
shareI've read several, actually... but please, enlighten me as to what exactly led you to that conclusion.
Was it perhaps the fact that the story is supposed to be initially set in the 1790s as opposed to the 1900s? The fact that Louis de Pointe du Lac is a plantation owner driven suicidal by the guilt he fells over his dead estranged brother, instead of a "brothel owner" who "chafes at the limitations of life as a black man in 1900s"? That Claudia is supposed to be 5 years old when Louis preys on her and Lestat then makes her into a vampire, as opposed to being 14? That Daniel Molloy (whose name was only revealed in The Queen of the Damned) is supposed to be a young man in the 1970s, not a 60-year old in 2022?
You're nitpicking. The overall story and characters remain the same.
shareCome on, now... nitpicking? When they couldn't be bothered keeping the characters' backgrounds and basic motivations even remotely similar to the original's?
Nah, this is clearly a repurposed script, and it shows.
"Having watched the trailer."
You're basing your review on a trailer. At least review AFTER you watched the show.
Molloy was young in the then-present 1970s when the book was published and the first interview happened. (In the movie, it was the modern-day 1990s.) Now the present is 2022 when Molloy is older and Louis returns. Drastic changes in Journalism since the 1970s needed to be addressed which are done very well.
No 5-year-old actress should be in this series which is much more violent and sexually explicit than even the movie. A 19 y.o. who can pass for a 14 y.o. is more appropriate.
1910s New Orleans Jazz Era is visually and musically more aesthetic. Unlike books, TV is a VISUAL and AURAL medium. The series' cinematography is much better than the movie.
You don't appear to understand that changes are needed when transferring work from one medium to another. What works in a book, won't work on screen and vice versa. More changes are needed to update that work in order to be relatable to a modern audience. There are artistic, business and cultural decisions.
Don't forget that Anne Rice and her son Christopher were involved in this series' approval and creation. They understood the process!
>> Don't forget that Anne Rice and her son Christopher were involved in this series' approval and creation <<
Anne Rice's "involvement" with Encounter with a Turd Pile was to simply give her blessing for them to develop a new TV series based on her vampire chronicles universe. She then tragically passed away early in the development process, giving AMC the freedom to corrupt her material however they saw fit, which resulted in the current abomination.
If Christopher Rice "approves" this dumpster fire, I don't care. People are doing the same thing to market Star Trek Discovery as "faithful" to Gene Roddenberry's vision because his son Rod Roddenberry rubber stamped it. Rod Roddenberry "approves" of anything with the words "Star Trek" on it, so he can cash in on his dad's works. We all know Gene Roddenberry would NEVER approve of Discovery, and would have his lawyers on speed dial immediately. He was VERY protective of his vision for Star Trek. Ditto with Rice and her tales about Lestat.