Thank god I'm not the only one who sees that them putting the OP at the end is partly because this is "before ep 1" aka before the beginning, before the opening of the show.
Everyone just says it's to understand the lyrics being from Homura's POV.
@diesirate The idea that HOTD is the real version of events died the second he made Alicent and Rhaenyra the same age. There's just no way historians would've gotten wrong that they have a 10 year old age gap at 18 and 8 instead.
They should've just adapted the story linearly like IWTV, they can leave the random shennanigans for the present tl without butchering the past.
Imagine s1 had just an episode for Lestat and one for Claudia instead of a proper storyline. That's what they did to Gabi and Nicki.
Someone who hasn’t read the books hearing about witches burning, not knowing how Lestat got from Auvergne to Paris or how Gabrielle was at Nicki’s apartment when she got turned, or why Les being Lelio rather than Harlequin was relevant or the importance of wolfkiller to Magnus
@akusigh I don't think I'll keep watching either. It would've been so much better if they just adapted TVL's story (Lestat's backstory) normally from start to finish like in the first two seasons. They could just have their fun with the present timeline and leave the past one as it was.
Book adaptations are the bane of my existence cause what do you mean two of my favorite characters just got sloppily adapted deaths aired on the same day......
Interview with Rolin:
“I knew what [Joseph] could do, and so I knew I could probably tell this in fewer and fewer scenes because I had such a volcanic actor,” Jones explains. “He's incredible.”