Interview with the vampireThe second season of ' has officially ended. The AMC series now into Anne Rice's second vampire novel, The vampire Lestat for the contents of the third season. This season of Interview with the vampire gives us an ending makes a big change to the narrative of the book. And it's a change some longtime fans might be shocked by. It's a pretty big alteration of a pivotal moment in the novel that alters the relationships of Lestat (Sam Reid), Louis (Jacob Anderson), and Arman (Assad Zaman) as we head into future seasons.
Interview with the vampire the end of the novel
In Rice's original 1976 novel Vampires Claudia and Madeleine are executed by the fellow in Paris for the crime of killing Clàudia and the creator of Louis, the vampire Lestat. Or at least, to try to kill him. However, Louis receives a lighter sentence for the same crime. (Maybe that's a worse sentence, depending on how you look at it.) Louis is imprisoned by the coven members in a locked coffin. This coffin is placed within the walls of the catacombs below the Théâtre des Vampires. He is destined to die excruciatingly, perhaps over several years, all the while going insane from his lack of blood sustenance.
However, in the climax of the novel (and the 1994 film), he is rescued by the leader of the Paris coven, Armand. He tells Louis that he couldn't prevent Claudia from being executed because she had broken too many laws. However, he exerted his power over his coven enough to rescue his beloved Lluís from eternal prison. Then Louis takes revenge on the whole Paris gang by setting fire to the Théâtre des Vampires. Later, he picks up a scythe to vamp Santiago, the skellar's second-in-command, ending his undead rival for good.
Luis then leaves Paris with Armand, both now free of the coven's machinations. The couple has been wandering the world for decades. Louis finally confronts Armand with the truth: he knows that Armand allowed the Paris coven to kill Claudia. For years he denied the truth to himself, but now he realizes that Armand orchestrated Claudia's death and rescue (and subsequent revenge against the coven) as a way to secure Louis' company .
The film approaches this in a slightly different way. Louis (Brad Pitt) tells Armand (Antonio Banderas) that he knew he was behind all of this immediately after the events happened. Louis then wanders the world alone, and we never find out what became of Armand afterwards. Now, the Interview with the vampire The AMC series presents a third version of these events.
AMC Interview with the vampire The season finale modifies the original ending of the book
In the series, Louis is freed from his coffin prison, when a mysterious vampire feeds him his blood, giving him the strength to break free. We never see who the savior of the vampires is. Louis is still too hungry and out of it to notice. The rest of the events proceed much like the book, as Louis takes bloody revenge against the whole gang, burning down the theater. She then leaves with Armand, who credits himself for rescuing Louis.
Louis knows very well that Armand betrayed him, along with Clàudia ( Delainey Hayles), and Madeleine (Roxane Duran). But he believes that they forced Armand to cooperate, thanks to a coup d'état inside the Paris co-op led by Santiago (Ben Daniels). Rescuing Louis was Armand's way of making amends for letting the coven kidnap them and force them to participate in a public court show. The two flee Paris together, apparently remaining a couple for decades.
But Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), via his Talamasca contacts, discover the truth about what happened decades ago in Paris. Despite appearances, Armand was no an unwilling accomplice of what made the squealer. Not only did he write the kangaroo / mock trial play. He absolutely directed her. He was perfectly willing to sacrifice Claudia, Madeleine and Louis to death to save his own skin. His vampiric underlings were revolting against him and he needed to test them (again).
In fact, it wasn't Armand who saved Louis from eternal prison. It was its creator Lestat. First, Lestat used his telepathy to force the mortal audience to give Louis a sentence other than death. Louis always believed that Armand did this. Once Louis got his revenge on the gang and killed them all, Armand happily realized that he had saved him. With the threat to his own life gone, he now had everything he wanted. But Louis' true rescuer was none other than Lestat.
This revelation infuriates present-day Louis, who beats Armand by throwing him around his house in Dubai. He later goes to New Orleans, where he tells Lestat that he now knows the truth. This is all a pretty big change from the original narrative. We always knew that Armand was willing to sacrifice Claudia to remove her as an obstacle to being with Louis. But, in the series, we now know that he was also willing to let his beloved Louis die to save his own life. Once the coven was no longer a threat, he was given credit for rescuing Louis. Louis introduced Armand as “the love of his life” in the first season, but he is actually his creator, the vampire Lestat.
