And, unlike just about every other vampire-centric production, it's entirely clear about what's happening to the victims, and about what exactly is keeping Louis, Lestat and Claudia alive.
*nods* I think the only two other fictional verses which manage as good a balance (i.e. on the one hand, making the audience emotionally invested in the vampire characters and their pov, otoh, making it very clear what this means for the humans crossing their paths) I know are Barbara Hambly's James Asher mysteries on the one hand, and the British tv series Being Human on the other. But in the James Asher novels, the pov is that of the two human main characters, and in Being Human, the vampire equally is one of a trio of main characters with the other two very much not vampires and against that killing. Whereas there is no human (or werewolf, or ghost) in IWTV, and the audience is still supposed to get it. (Rightly so.)
And Tom Cruise! What a revelation and then a disappointment as he retreated from acting to Being Tom Cruise instead.
True, that. IWTV isn't the only time he does act, but that makes it all the more frustrating - it wasn't a fluke, he could have done it far more often, he chose not to.
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*nods* I think the only two other fictional verses which manage as good a balance (i.e. on the one hand, making the audience emotionally invested in the vampire characters and their pov, otoh, making it very clear what this means for the humans crossing their paths) I know are Barbara Hambly's James Asher mysteries on the one hand, and the British tv series Being Human on the other. But in the James Asher novels, the pov is that of the two human main characters, and in Being Human, the vampire equally is one of a trio of main characters with the other two very much not vampires and against that killing. Whereas there is no human (or werewolf, or ghost) in IWTV, and the audience is still supposed to get it. (Rightly so.)
And Tom Cruise! What a revelation and then a disappointment as he retreated from acting to Being Tom Cruise instead.
True, that. IWTV isn't the only time he does act, but that makes it all the more frustrating - it wasn't a fluke, he could have done it far more often, he chose not to.