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More IWTV Thoughts: Armand and Themes
Aug. 18th, 2024 08:11 pmThis is my promised further thoughts on Armand in S2 of IWTV.
NB: he is my favorite VC character, so I have strong feelings about his portrayal. Also Spoilers for Armand-related stuff in a lot of the VC books and S1-2 of the AMC series. Warnings: it’s a dark vampire story, plus this may read like sour grapes from a book fan.
I think our current popular culture suffers from a lack of curiosity. I have my personal and generational biases. It may be this has always been true but I notice it more now because, in my youth, they had a different list ideas worth exploring. At any rate, I notice it now.
At some point, socially left-leaning pop culture (which is the majority of it and what I consume) seemed to freeze its attention on a handful of issues, all of which are important and deserve more exploration. But the list is rather small. It includes the three pillars of equity discourse: race, LGBTQ+ issues, and (dis)ability, as well as gender/women’s power. It also includes abuse, power imbalance in relationships, and mental health/illness. It doesn’t seem to include much else.
The thing about Interview with the Vampire as a book is that its main themes aren’t on this list.( Read more... )
NB: he is my favorite VC character, so I have strong feelings about his portrayal. Also Spoilers for Armand-related stuff in a lot of the VC books and S1-2 of the AMC series. Warnings: it’s a dark vampire story, plus this may read like sour grapes from a book fan.
I think our current popular culture suffers from a lack of curiosity. I have my personal and generational biases. It may be this has always been true but I notice it more now because, in my youth, they had a different list ideas worth exploring. At any rate, I notice it now.
At some point, socially left-leaning pop culture (which is the majority of it and what I consume) seemed to freeze its attention on a handful of issues, all of which are important and deserve more exploration. But the list is rather small. It includes the three pillars of equity discourse: race, LGBTQ+ issues, and (dis)ability, as well as gender/women’s power. It also includes abuse, power imbalance in relationships, and mental health/illness. It doesn’t seem to include much else.
The thing about Interview with the Vampire as a book is that its main themes aren’t on this list.( Read more... )
