“armand doesn’t think of himself as evil. he just thinks of himself as…he doesn’t know, he’s desperate. he’s always desperate, even when things are good and calm, and he should just be happy.”
whereas gabrielle is written like a cartoonish villain and it's like they can't decide if they want to portray the incest as a running gag or as abuse. which all goes back to the fact that they stripped gabrielle of her (book) personality and gave us close to nothing so far.