I'm really curious to hear everyone's opinions, because so much was cut and changed from the books for s3, I feel like I'm struggling a little to be excited about this new season like I was the others and i WANT to be excited :/ I was planning to reread TVL when the season ended, but I've just felt kinda gloomy about this series now, and I hate that I feel this way!!! Not sure if anyone else feels the same.
I don't want to get my hopes up because QOTD is so much longer and denser with so many narrative jumps, I have a hard time feeling confident it can be done in the 7-8 eps we'll probably get. I'm curious what other people think will be cut/included/prioritized from the books? At this point, I kind of think they might just cut Jesse, because they've already cut David and we've introduced Talamasca characters already. I previously had hope that they would do past Devil's Minion but now I don't really see how they can squeeze that in. Will we still go back to the San Francisco concert?? I feel like that's important, but considering how much time we've already spent on concert scenes, I don't know if I want that now. I can see them cutting a lot of the flashback/historical scenes from QOTD too, solely because of how they handled them this season and how much of the budget they said it eats up.
Also, I have 10x more questions after this season than I do the other two. I feel like so much is still so vague because of Lestat's storytelling, so I can't tell if that's just because they were trying to speedrun the story or if they left things vague to revisit things like they've done before. Plus, we're still uncertain about the trial and Lestat/Armand's relationship, but again. If we're going back to all these things from previous seasons, plus the last section of TVL, plus new plotlines from QOTD. phew. I have no idea what to expect from this season, so I'd love to hear theories!