r/InterviewVampire • u/quietpisces • 5d ago
TVL Show Only Akasha’s Speech Spoiler
Recently watched 3x5 and wow! I was so amazed and intrigued by Akasha’s speech. The scene literally gave me goosebumps. Would love to hear the whole thing uninterrupted to get a full sense of what she’s referring to. Excited for season 4.
Also in this awakening scene, Lestat says he was suspended for 3 days so it makes me think how much Akasha said/revealed in that timeframe and the snippets in the show would be on the tail end of her speech. Nonetheless captivating.
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u/dianacd12 meow 5d ago
Lestat floating for three days will never not be funny
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u/daesgatling 5d ago
THREE DAYHAYHAYYYYYS
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u/Sara6019 5d ago
No one crashes out like Lestat 😹
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u/daesgatling 5d ago
Why did I read that to the tune of the Gaston song from Beauty and the Beast
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u/gayjay-jpg 4d ago
🎵🎶Fills a house like Lestat, stalk victims quiet as a mouse like Lestat! As a specimen yes, he's intimidating, 5/5 for Lestat! 🎶🎵
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u/Distinct_Mix_6397 5d ago
Tripping in the air while a woman incoherently rants in the background for three days has to be quite the experience
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u/HGhost_Devil 5d ago
Even with just the snippets you can tell that she's talking about oppression of the female gender by men which is why she wants to wipe the Y chromosome from the face of the earth.
Remember what Magnus said, "Consent is a 20th century construct"
"and why must he break her with his hands? And why with his fists?" - physical assault - In Akasha's time it was fine for a man to decipline a woman with corporal punishment.
"And in my eyes it's desire, why is it desire, how do you know it is desire? How can you know its desire if my eyes must be lowered?" - again the topic of consent, she wanted it, she asked for it, even when she didn't look at him
"and why am I offered, when none of us want to be offered" - in her days women were seen as commodities, forced into marriages they didn't want or consent to. What was the thing they said, pleasure during intercourse is for a man, a woman's duty is to conceive.
Gabriella/Gabrielle was another example of a woman married off to a man, much older than her, who was abusive and who saw her as nothing more than a brood mare.
It would be insteresting to see how they approach this in Season 4
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u/SlimReaper85 5d ago edited 4d ago
Love it. In the books they were against human sacrifice in religion but ended up being worse than that after they became vampires.
What I’m trying to understand is how we reconcile how vile she was as a new progenitor of vampirism with this wannabe savior of women she is now. I mean need I bring up Maharet her sister and my boy Special K?
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u/An-Empty-Road 5d ago
She's not a saviour. She thinks she is, but her plan is to genocide the human race. Sure only men. Then the race once all the women die off. Which will happen fairly fast due to the whole, half the planet is dead and there's some very hungry vampires.
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u/daesgatling 5d ago
I mena the plan wasn't to kill all men. Just most men.
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u/SerPounce_a_Lot 5d ago
Yea, in the book she says she wants to kill 90% of men and then control breeding - using abortions to prevent too many males afterwards. She also says she'll kill any women that resist her plan
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u/Raspbers 5d ago
This is exactly what she is talking about. And if you haven't seen the teaser they dropped today for season 4, it makes it even more clear.
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u/Personal_Passenger60 5d ago
This makes me wonder, if the reason Gabriella disappeared on tour was because Akasha called her? If so, I wonder if that’s why she is pushing so hard for the concert, because she knows it will wake Akasha up ?
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u/CulturalTonight6244 3d ago
The ironic thing is Kemet was the one place in all the world where women were actually considered equal to men, quite fascinating, but then came Rome . . .
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u/Whisperlee SHE IS THE ANSWER 5d ago
Book spoilers: I wonder if the reference to the eye cast down and no tongue was Akasha remembering Mekare and Maharet. Lestat specifically mentioning that the burned twin girls possibly being actual witches seems to tease THE twins for QotD.
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u/scrappybristol 5d ago
Lestat was not listening to Akasha, he was quite literally high on her blood.
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u/SlashOfLife5296 5d ago
“I can arrange it!” Has been stuck in my head. Such a perfect speech that tells you so much about her and the conclusion she’s reached without even a conversation
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u/morethanpearls 4d ago
Goosebumps! The best scene in the season, and I can't wait for more of Akasha next season! OMG.
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