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for sure throught it would end with him saying "I want you to meet the Vampire Armand. My BFF."

6 minutes in and getting flashbacks to being 9 years old at a new school and one girl took me aside because I was becoming close with her bestie and she was mad cause that was HER best friends and I needed to back off so actually this makes perfect sense if you change the setting to an elementary school playground

I have watched a full version with Russian dubs and i haven't known that we have an officially censored version. It is ridiculous 😂😂

they honestly should just pulled the show from Russia

Another set of baffling choices! You didn't mention this in the video, but at the funeral, before Grace says that "white daddy" line, Louis says he adopted Claudia, in this version, is that just cut out? How does Louis explain Claudia? And do they leave in the part where she says it smells awful and she's just generally being rude about a dead woman? 😅

Now I know why men go to some forest. They say it's for hunting and fishing...

I have a strange confusing feeling that this version looks more like the original book 😅 Ann Rice didn't say many things too. And again, poor censores. They have to deal not only with Lestat and Louis, but with Sam and Jacob as well 😂❤

To answer your coffin vs. casket question, Lestat sleeps in a coffin, and Louis and Claudia sleep in caskets. Coffins are shaped to generally follow a human form (wider at the head/shoulders and narrower along the legs), while caskets are just rectangular. Caskets also usually have hand-holds to make carrying/transport easier, while coffins do not. The translations of these two episodes seem even more haphazard than the first two. The choices they've made make Louis and Lestat's "friendship" sound utterly ridiculous, to the point that it's almost making the missing queer subtext stand out *more* by virtue of having to be chopped out so thoroughly. And the scene edits! Wow. Claudia just standing there for a split second? Random pauses to mention the weather? Just wow. Just out of curiosity, in the Russian credits for each episode, do they list the translators? If so, are they the same people across episodes, or do different people work on each? I'm curious if it's just one/a couple inconsistent translators doing a bad job, or different ones every episode so that you end up with the whole story kind of cobbled together from more or less harsh translations. Also, leaving the caress in was a *choice*, and it made me chuckle. Gotta keep all the awful queer words out, but oops, that intimate touch slid right on by. Thanks for continuing to discuss and share these translations with us! I remain utterly baffled by their choices on all levels.

i’m shocked the hand stroking the shoulder was left in

I really enjoy how you seem to know most of the dialog of every one of the original episodes by heart, very relatable 😅

Most dialogues make no sense after their editing. What a mess.

I am absolutely invested in this! Thank you for sharing. Can you also tell us the runtime for all these?

I was waiting for this video lol. I can't bring myself to watch this version, but your videos are really funny

I am so intensely curious about what they did with the blood drinking scene at the beginning of episode 5. And wait, what even is the next episode about if they're just friends? Is Lestat mad that Louis has a second friend? Do men apparently have to drive out into the bayou to talk?

I'm going to have to add "library of confusion" to my rotation of colloquialisms after watching this review! lol Another great review!

Did they keep the scene where Louis drinks from Damek lmao?

They can cut scenes and change the dialogue but they can absolutely not take away sam reid's perpetual heart eyes <3

Лестат может носить на руках исключительно Луи 😤

"They were roommates!" I'm fascinated by how the translation is trying to walk this particular tightrope. Some of the choices they've made with this episode are baffling, and unlike the first episode, feel more like they're trying to figure out how to keep just on the "right" (terrible) side of illegal. And boy, what they do cut really messes up this so-called friendship. Louis is in the depths of despair about losing his family, and Lestat's all, "Yeah, well, you kind of suck anyway. ...Wanna go to the opera?" Thank you for continuing this series! I am fully expecting the translation to get even messier and more complicated when Claudia is added to the mix.

Louis is so lucky his buddy pal Lestat is there to push him to have fun since without him he would be eternally on his grind set as society expects of him

My brain hurts 😵‍💫😭 Why did they even bother at this point?

This is very sad, but also fascinating to see what they decided to cut it to change, I hope you do more videos about this version

You know, this is a good lesson for all of those U.S. book banners who want to keep LGBTQIA+ books off of library shelves. This is where that sort of movement will lead us. This is why we need to stop that movement in its tracks.

Now I'm interested in what they've done with the season 2. What happened between Armand and Lestat? Lestat was just a good actor, I suppose. And Daniel probably was excited because Armand and Louis both met Lestat, of course. And Santiago asking if Louis and Armand are friends. And what happened with Amadeo's story?.. And Madeleine's past? Does it even exist in this version?.. And the most important question for me - the 5 episode, the 'rest' scene. Was it too intimate or just enough?.. So many questions. I'm russian too, but I think I'm not strong enough to watch this by myself 🥲

When I first watched this show, I watched the first season in its original version. For certain reasons I had no access to the second season in English so I had to watch in in Russian. You've no idea how confused I was until I realized that it was heavily edited 😂 I was like "wtf my dude, you have all those gorgeous men and you're not gonna make them snog? Well that's ridiculous!"

I watched the whole first season not knowing Louis and Lestat were together😂 Then I watched the whole season again. And it makes a huge difference.

The funny thing is, there IS an uncensored Russian dub out there. Don't know who made it or where it was distributed, but I caught a couple dubbed episodes of season 2 on okru. Also, I'd love more videos on this censored version. I’m dying to know how they worked around such crucial elements and how absolutely ridiculous it gets. Its incredibly sad that this censorship exists but I know it can't fool anyone, and their attempts are hilarious

Now I'm curious to know how they're going to tell the whole series without mentioning or showing Louis and Lestat's love. How are they going to do it? if it's the main plot!

You should definitely keep reviewing these

Lol. There is a censored version of iwtv. I have seen s1 and s2 two times, both in english with subtitles on russian. I have no idea how you can make gay show not gay. Ну или надо перевод Гоблина было бы подключать и вообще все переозвучивать.

I knew about the censored version, and I accidentally watched a couple of episodes of the second season like that, or rather, I saw normal episodes, and then when I was rewatching it I came across versions where pieces of episodes were missing (and I remembered that they were there). I was so so so confused. I see why it's not banned, it's just not popular enough. I just don't see the point to do a voiceover and subs for Kinopoisk, Ivy, etc.

Yes, I'm so interested in how the episodes get edited. It's sad but being an editor there would be an interesting job to attempt to make shows make sense without the full context. Thanks for posting this!

Mais pfvr ❤

Cutting the "come to me" scenes is crazy work. A lot of what they cut seems superfluous for what they have to do.

You kinda have to laugh imagining the censors reaction when they heard they were assigned this show. 😂 and then you cry, because holy crap what is even going on- I guess that “Come to me” was just a little too smexy 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm so curious on how they plan on continuing with the story because as more and more vital elements get cut out the story and character choices are only going to become increasingly incomprehensible

Как же хорошо, что я не видела зацензуренную версию и просто смотрела в оригинале, хотя и не все понимала, но зато не упустила самое важное) для некоторых вещей слова не нужны) Спасибо за разбор, посмеялась и погрустила одновременно) Ох уж эта хрупкая маскулинность сквозь традиционные скрепы... даже поговорить по душам друг с другом мужчинам нельзя, а дружить тем более... а то мало ли как потом повернется😂 П.с. если не знать оригинал, вообще какая-то ерунда получается...смысла ноль, они вырезали даже невинные вещи😂 П.п.с. Луи в таком раскладе выглядит реально параноиком, сам себе придумал непонятно что😅

You deserve so many more views, found you through the IWTV video and then saw this on your page. Old guard took me by surprise when I saw it, and I fell in love with it. Though I didn't know there was a sequel and will now watch the interview, you linked. Thank you! :)

The atrociously bad quality of the dub is almost worse than all the censorship. How could one guy with clothespin on his nose in the 80s do a better job than these morons? Did someone tell them that reverb is good one day and they never stopped using it since? WTF

Would love to see more!

@11:37 this is hilarious. Terrible, but from some standpoint a very clever way to erase all things gay.

This is utterly fascinating (and deeply sad). I guess it didn't even occur to me that IWTV would be airing in Russia, because it's just *so* queer. Thank you for sharing this breakdown of the hackjob they've done on the pilot with international viewers. I hope you keep going and talk us through the other episodes too (as long as it's safe for you to do so)! Also, I'm wondering if you know what the average non-LGBTQ+ Russian viewer thinks of these kinds of edits to media? Are most people aware? Do they just shrug and go with it? Or is this an indicator of the disconnect between government censorship and people's lived experiences?

oh i am SO curious to see how the hell theyre gonna navigate the whole "i heard your hearts dancing" and bayou scene in episode 3

You are a surprise and a delight! A couple years after the Soviet Union fell during Reagan, I watched a news story about the burgeoning Russian porn industry. It was so wild, I couldn't have imagined this current puritanism. Wow. They massacred our show, but hey, I'm glad this diamond-in-the-rough is getting international exposure in any form. Thank you!

i'm so interested to see how they handle the rest of the story! especially what they make of claudia!

this is a minor nitpick compared to the whole censorship thing, but i kinda hate that Daniel and Louis are using the formal You with each other. do they go informal in later episoded?

I can't wait to see what will happen in season 2 when those soldiers see Louis and Claudia and "say Black Ukrainians?"

i saw someone on twitter say their friend watched this version and kept saying the show would be much better if they were romantic… the friend was so confused and told her they were, they kissed multiple times… turns out she was watching this version 😭

Maria, you truly are a god's strongest soldier. As a (unfortunately) russian I'd never have the guts to watch this abomination. I saw 1 (one) screenshot of 2x07 scene where they changed "this is a story of love" to "this is a story of friendship" and that was enough for me. What they did to my favourite show in this damn country is a story of butchery (see what I did there?). Keep up the great work and thanks for taking one for the team <3

If it's kinda expected with queer content, but them censoring heterosexual sex in Euphoria was a surprise for me. Most of the scenes with Kat were cut, like it was S2 already, lol 🙃