S3 framed as a character study + “The failures” were already foreshadowed in the season 2 finale. In the tower scene with Louis and Armand, Lestat says: “[the chains were] for the disappointments that came before me. I came here to have a think on my origins. Why I do what I do.”
also his facial expressions during the show before lestat gives him the book and breaks his heart. he’s like damn that’s literally my maker and my ex husband 🥵🥵🥵
louis' memories of lestat were distorted for so long, so when they reconciled and he remembered what lestat was really like, he fell in love with him even harder, bc nothing was holding him back anymore, and in 3x06 you see in real time how this love grows with every second
i would go further in saying that i think we are going to dive into the armand situation in s4!!! but i struggle with finding any issue with this season and that might be a #mething
adapting gabi’s grooming as explicitly rape was not the issue this season, ONLY depicting her rape & completely leaving out armand’s was. his rape is what’s paralleled to magnus’s. that doesn’t mean gabi didn’t incestuously groom her son in the books.