There will never be another person do AKASHA like Aaliyah she loved the books she studied vampires and to see she died after making her favorite movie/book!! She will always be Akasha. Rest in paradise beautiful ❣️
I never knew this about Aaliyah. I got into her in the early 2000s I think I had one or two of her albums I’d just listen to over and over because I loved her voice. Not to mention her acting as well, absolutely amazing. I’m happy to know for queen of the damned she was a fan and took time to study vampires is great because it paid off in the movie.
Akasha’s life gives new meaning to “the road to hell is often paved with good intentions” as it showcases how she went from a ruler wanting to bestow good will to her people but later descended into tyranny and corruption.
Aaliyah delivered no other. Everything Anne Rice wrote and wanted Akasha to be was embodied by Aaliyahs performance of her. And more. RIP A•A•L•I•Y•A•H 🕊️
@@elijahhayes8615 it depends they might mix books 2 and 3 together since they already included parts of book 2 in season 2 so she might apear in the last episodes of season 3 and then go on to be the main antagonist of season 4
I hope the TV series really does her justice and fully explores her story in ways the movie couldn't. Lestat briefly mentions her and Enkil in the first season.
Nope. It will more than likely be woke and stupid because hollywood still hasn't learned their lesson at all. Smh. They've ruined every other modern project for the last 10 years, why would this be any different. Or if it's not woke and it's successful, they'll make it woke in season two and then blame the fans for its canceling like they did the epic Constantine TV series. Smh. The only hope for this series being done right would be Anne Rice doing and overseeing EVERYTHING herself. But one can only dream.
@@BiggSheppTheManMythAndLegendlearn a new word. You mouth breathers have ran "woke" into the ground. It pretty much just means anything you don't like. They have made a Interview with the Vampire series, and it's fucking awesome! Have fun being miserable and refusing to enjoy anything because it's all "woke".
Slight error in the timeline, if Maharet and Mekare were separated before Akasha turned, they would not have been turned. While the others at the funeral were killed, not all the witches were killed. The Akasha video gives a more accurate timeline Marharet and Mekare were assaulted then both were cast to the desert. They returned home, and Maharet gave birth. They were tortured by the demon who eventually merged with Akasha. Khayman brought the twins back and turned them after they were disfigured and sentenced to death; after escape they were set adrift.
Honestly the interest in Akasha is because of Singer Aaliyah’s amazing performance she was positively beautifully ferocious in the role interesting character but Aaliyah brought her to life
Lenoire in Castlevania said it best in my opinion: "Power... Big, international, non-diplomatic projected power is something else entirely. It lends you more might but it doesn't have the utilities of true strength. It lays eggs in you, it becomes a parasite you have to feed. Power does nothing but eat....like...a vampire." The only point I disagree on in this vid is that Akasha was never wise. In the book she was always vain, self-obsessed and desirous of absolute control. She did care about her people but like a narcissist she regarded them more as pets than anything else. She realized (falsely) at some point in her youth that the gods, the spirits and the afterlife weren't real, and that discovery devastated her spiritually, creating a void in her heart that could never be filled. Amel grafted his lunatic obsession with the life giving magic of blood to Akasha's unfillable emptiness and created a creature that is dead and empty, yet eternally thirsty for life. Always thirsty, never satisfied.
As good an interpretation of this character I've ever read. It's almost impossible to get a completely accurate read on Akasha since everyone who knew her best either worshiped her or absolutely hated her
Yey.✨.. honestly Anne Rice writing is amazing...it most be hard to translate by movies cause there's alot of details. All her characters could have their own movie 🍿 Akasha is interesting..the perception of eternity is well developed ect .. good video 🙂
I absolutely loved this book and Akasha, but hated the end when she died. The characterization and world building was superb. The writing was so good, she won me over in this book and I was rooting for her and for Lestat. I felt for her and felt pained by her betrayal and downfall. She and the book deserve a movie/series that does them justice - the movie was so terrible, more terrible for Lestat, but bad overall.
I liked her character, but I can't really see her as a good character. She was a tyrannical queen, who ordered the suffering and violation of the red haired twins. She later, after being awakened in the twentieth century, embarks on a mission to rid the earth of the entire male population. She was a monster amongst monsters.
Akasha did not just start to go into a comatose like state. She was captured by her own vampires and imprisoned with her husband only exposing their necks. They lived this way for who knows how long with people stealing their blood and giving it to the unworthy. After hundreds or even thousands of years of imprisonment (she was 6k+ years at the time of her rising) she fell into a comatose state most likely brought about because she accepted she would never be free again.
I loved the books but honestly the movie didn’t do it justice in my opinion Aaliyah was a great actress but I felt like her death rushed the movie which left too much out
I would like a modified mini series of Queen of the Damned revisioned It had great elements to be a really good ultimate Anne Rice villain book With the mix of ancient history, mythology, and mysticism But I felt the movie barely grasped how a good villain she could have been if the movie was from her POV and Lestar would be the last chapter spelling her doom. I loved your previous ❤video of her character origin by and by❤
She has to have a new movie, or show that actually explores her character from beginning to end. They can dedicate it to Aaliyah in the end or at the beginning. The first movie did nothing for her at all.
There's a lot of talented, exotic and beautiful young actresses who would like to prove themselves in tackling this most coveted titular role. With the advent of the Immortal Universe with the Mayfair Witches and Interview with the Vampire theyll have that once in a lifetime opportunity to to make it happen.
i enjoyed parts of memnoch, though it really could have just been a lot shorter. the body thief, IMO, was the worst. but then after armand, the money grab & mediocre sequels, prequels, side-quels, etc.
I agree with you on Queen of the damn being one of the last ones that's great in the series but dude you didn't like tail of the body thief I put tale of the body thief as like my number one or number two favorite book in the whole series for some reason I love it
Yes. He realized he loved the taste of blood after licking Akashas wounds. He then entwined himself in her blood and brings her back from death, therefore creating the first vampire.
Sad how nobody yet has replied to your lovely comment. I hope to see, ore people jump into this thread and add their ideas and comments because it's such a great idea you've proposed. ❤
I have to wonder if you ever even bothered to read Queen of the Damned . Akasha was a monster her whole human life and her becoming the first Blood Drinker only confirmed her addiction to preposterous self serving lies to justify the slaughters she conducted . There's no real change between human Akasha and Blood Drinker Akasha . You really should consider a major edit of this video or delete it and start over AFTER YOU READ THE BOOK .
I wish you wouldn't use the constant moving swirling effects on the pictures as it makes me dizzy looking at them. I really wanted to see and hear what you had to say in this video, as I'm a huge fan of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and QOTD is my favourite book, but I'm going to have to skip your video. Maybe you will refrain from using these effects in future videos that prevent viewers like myself from watching and getting nauseous?
I love her back story; I love her reign and fall. But I extremely dislike the book. Simply for the fact of all these different POVs and the time jumps. It was difficult to follow at times, and I found the side stories pointless, (Baby Jenks and David). The movie was terrible (story wise), but it is honestly one of my favorites for the soundtrack and Aaliyah. Anyone agree on my takes?
Well… It is something mystical, magical and mysterious about the middle east (Iraq). Even in Dune written by Frank Herbert, the Desert is in ‘Arrakkis’. The Biblical Patriarch Abraham is from there, the land of Ur. Allegedly the Garden of Eden maybe located around or in Iraq. The novel and movie The Exorcist is located in Iraq…. 😳
I like Memnoch it's the new stuff I don't enjoy. I think Viktor de Lioncourt is a plain stupid idea. Prince Lestat and the whole Atlantis plot is just silly. The tv show was also trash, Lestat's casting was the only good thing about it.
@@benreilly7676 "woke" is a meaningless word used by people to describe anything some people don't like. The new show is awesome in my and a lot of other peoples opinion.
For being such an apparent can of the book, you really got the story and the timeline totally wrong, missing out some very important information and not even getting how she was turned correct. Let alone the story of how the twins were turned. You really need to start the whole series from the beginning and read them ALL to get the whole story of how Anne Rice's vampires were created in the beginning. Good try, but you could have done so much better by knowing the WHOLE story, especially what the Twins knew about it.
The Film "Queen of the Damned" Is a Huge Disgrace. I beyond Hate it! Should have had Tom Cruise, As Lestat. Should have been done right. As well as the TV Series. Such Disgraces. Books & First Film might be better. Till they are done right! And others Need to see "Rock of Ages"! And Even parts of "The Mummy"! With Tom Cruise. Only person is Queen of the Damned Film, that Can sing, is Only Aaliyah. No one else. Tom Cruise can Sing Himself. What they did when it comes to Stuart is Fraud. He can't sing. & Can't do anything right. Guess they can't read either! For Lestat it is Forever Tom Cruise only. For her. I have a few Ideas. Like Thandie Newton. & Who played the Female Mummy. In the Mummy with Tom Cruise. They are better.
I refused to watch it because I knew it was going to be utter shit and didn't want to wreck my experience of the book. I feel the same way about The Hobbit, which I will never watch.
Akasha was originally a princess from Iraq, who married the king of Kemet so it makes no sense to make her black, it is very woke, a "she became queen of a black country the she became black" is as ridiculous as representing Cleopatra with a black woman when all the historical evidence show Cleopatra as white.
i wud have loved to see a deep dive on her with AAliyah playing her from human form to vampire. they shud have done that with the movie instead of starting from her being a vampire to dying. thats why i feel movies like twilight was so successful bkus of the character developments
There will never be another person do AKASHA like Aaliyah she loved the books she studied vampires and to see she died after making her favorite movie/book!! She will always be Akasha. Rest in paradise beautiful ❣️
Well said! 😊
I respectfully disagree.
@@RipleysSanatorium thank you ❤️
@@jerrytroy2677 why do you not like her
I never knew this about Aaliyah. I got into her in the early 2000s I think I had one or two of her albums I’d just listen to over and over because I loved her voice. Not to mention her acting as well, absolutely amazing. I’m happy to know for queen of the damned she was a fan and took time to study vampires is great because it paid off in the movie.
I really hope that there will be a tv series centered around the time of akasha and enkil it would be so cool to see how it all started
Omg that would be dope
They are going to do this in the Interview with the Vampire TV series by Season 4.
I’m interested.
@@domanicklucious9996same here im.dying to see more of akasha and ekill
@@elijahhayes8615Mee too
Akasha’s life gives new meaning to “the road to hell is often paved with good intentions” as it showcases how she went from a ruler wanting to bestow good will to her people but later descended into tyranny and corruption.
Like Imelda Marcos 😅
@@high_maintenance Imelda never wanted to help her people
Aaliyah delivered no other. Everything Anne Rice wrote and wanted Akasha to be was embodied by Aaliyahs performance of her. And more. RIP A•A•L•I•Y•A•H 🕊️
I can't wait for Interview With A Vampire series to present her.
Do you know when it will happen?
@@elijahhayes8615 it depends they might mix books 2 and 3 together since they already included parts of book 2 in season 2 so she might apear in the last episodes of season 3 and then go on to be the main antagonist of season 4
I hope the TV series really does her justice and fully explores her story in ways the movie couldn't. Lestat briefly mentions her and Enkil in the first season.
Wait! What?! They're making a series??? Please say "yes!"
@blackgrl71 Interview with the Vampire. It's been out since October 2022.
@@blackgrl71 season 1 of interview with the vampire has already aired the second season comes out this year
Nope. It will more than likely be woke and stupid because hollywood still hasn't learned their lesson at all. Smh. They've ruined every other modern project for the last 10 years, why would this be any different. Or if it's not woke and it's successful, they'll make it woke in season two and then blame the fans for its canceling like they did the epic Constantine TV series. Smh. The only hope for this series being done right would be Anne Rice doing and overseeing EVERYTHING herself. But one can only dream.
@@BiggSheppTheManMythAndLegendlearn a new word. You mouth breathers have ran "woke" into the ground. It pretty much just means anything you don't like. They have made a Interview with the Vampire series, and it's fucking awesome! Have fun being miserable and refusing to enjoy anything because it's all "woke".
Slight error in the timeline, if Maharet and Mekare were separated before Akasha turned, they would not have been turned. While the others at the funeral were killed, not all the witches were killed. The Akasha video gives a more accurate timeline
Marharet and Mekare were assaulted then both were cast to the desert. They returned home, and Maharet gave birth. They were tortured by the demon who eventually merged with Akasha. Khayman brought the twins back and turned them after they were disfigured and sentenced to death; after escape they were set adrift.
Honestly the interest in Akasha is because of Singer Aaliyah’s amazing performance she was positively beautifully ferocious in the role interesting character but Aaliyah brought her to life
Lenoire in Castlevania said it best in my opinion: "Power... Big, international, non-diplomatic projected power is something else entirely. It lends you more might but it doesn't have the utilities of true strength. It lays eggs in you, it becomes a parasite you have to feed. Power does nothing but eat....like...a vampire." The only point I disagree on in this vid is that Akasha was never wise. In the book she was always vain, self-obsessed and desirous of absolute control. She did care about her people but like a narcissist she regarded them more as pets than anything else. She realized (falsely) at some point in her youth that the gods, the spirits and the afterlife weren't real, and that discovery devastated her spiritually, creating a void in her heart that could never be filled. Amel grafted his lunatic obsession with the life giving magic of blood to Akasha's unfillable emptiness and created a creature that is dead and empty, yet eternally thirsty for life. Always thirsty, never satisfied.
Woow! That was a great interpretation! Lovr it
As good an interpretation of this character I've ever read. It's almost impossible to get a completely accurate read on Akasha since everyone who knew her best either worshiped her or absolutely hated her
Their people were already slaughtered(mekare&maharet) there was no one left. Which made them even more isolated after separation
I also loved this book. One of my favourite characters is Gabrielle. I think she is fascinating.
Lestat's mom is interesting
Yes I agree with you 100% one of the best characters in the series I wish we had more of her
Yey.✨.. honestly Anne Rice writing is amazing...it most be hard to translate by movies cause there's alot of details. All her characters could have their own movie 🍿 Akasha is interesting..the perception of eternity is well developed ect .. good video 🙂
Could you make a video about the twins?
Cool next video would be one all about the red haired twins. I found them tragic and fascinating
I absolutely loved this book and Akasha, but hated the end when she died. The characterization and world building was superb. The writing was so good, she won me over in this book and I was rooting for her and for Lestat. I felt for her and felt pained by her betrayal and downfall. She and the book deserve a movie/series that does them justice - the movie was so terrible, more terrible for Lestat, but bad overall.
Agreed!!
Why were you rooting for her and Lestat, did she actually change for the better. How was she betrayed? What happened to her Husband?
I liked her character, but I can't really see her as a good character. She was a tyrannical queen, who ordered the suffering and violation of the red haired twins. She later, after being awakened in the twentieth century, embarks on a mission to rid the earth of the entire male population. She was a monster amongst monsters.
aaliyah movement were like slow moving water
Akasha did not just start to go into a comatose like state. She was captured by her own vampires and imprisoned with her husband only exposing their necks. They lived this way for who knows how long with people stealing their blood and giving it to the unworthy. After hundreds or even thousands of years of imprisonment (she was 6k+ years at the time of her rising) she fell into a comatose state most likely brought about because she accepted she would never be free again.
I loved the books but honestly the movie didn’t do it justice in my opinion Aaliyah was a great actress but I felt like her death rushed the movie which left too much out
Would you ever do a ranking video of the vampire chronicles books 🤔📚
I would like a modified mini series of Queen of the Damned revisioned
It had great elements to be a really good ultimate Anne Rice villain book
With the mix of ancient history, mythology, and mysticism
But I felt the movie barely grasped how a good villain she could have been if the movie was from her POV and Lestar would be the last chapter spelling her doom.
I loved your previous ❤video of her character origin by and by❤
I would watch it.
I would love to have an AI generated series being 100% accurate to the book series for both Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches
Great video ❤
Glad you liked it!!
She has to have a new movie, or show that actually explores her character from beginning to end. They can dedicate it to Aaliyah in the end or at the beginning. The first movie did nothing for her at all.
We need an Akasha movie or tv series. Meanwhile Vampire Diaries has two spinoffs and a third underway.
There's a lot of talented, exotic and beautiful young actresses who would like to prove themselves in tackling this most coveted titular role. With the advent of the Immortal Universe with the Mayfair Witches and Interview with the Vampire theyll have that once in a lifetime opportunity to to make it happen.
What is Akasha had been a good kind leader of her people….. how would that change things
Great 👍
Thank you 👍
First which is great because vampire folklore is so great.
i enjoyed parts of memnoch, though it really could have just been a lot shorter. the body thief, IMO, was the worst. but then after armand, the money grab & mediocre sequels, prequels, side-quels, etc.
I stopped reading the books after Memnoch. I was done.
Well that's wild you say the body thief was the worst that is absolutely my favorite. What about it do you not like I'm just curious if you don't mind
I agree with you on Queen of the damn being one of the last ones that's great in the series but dude you didn't like tail of the body thief I put tale of the body thief as like my number one or number two favorite book in the whole series for some reason I love it
Should check out Prince Lestat (2014) it starts getting into more about Ahmel and may change a few things.
Shes a vampire
When are you going to do a werewolf channel that focuses on werewolf folklore ❓
Lol for what werewolves are like the boring step sibling and all of this nobody cares about the werewolves lol
we need to have a tv series about Akasha and her family
She'll be introduced in Interview with the Vampire perhaps seasons 4 or 5.
New here ❤
What is the story with Amel? Is this some kind of demon? Xxx
Yes. He realized he loved the taste of blood after licking Akashas wounds. He then entwined himself in her blood and brings her back from death, therefore creating the first vampire.
I did not like Mennoch The devil either. The Vampire Lestat and Queen Of The Dammed are my favorites from the series.
I hope the movie get a do over. The movie didn't do the book justice.
I would love to see a movie combining both queen of the damned akasha and the Volturi from twilight
Sad how nobody yet has replied to your lovely comment. I hope to see, ore people jump into this thread and add their ideas and comments because it's such a great idea you've proposed. ❤
I enjoyed the vampire chronicles queen of the damned was amazing
Story begins @3:43, all info before that is the same as the other videos
Twins video next
that's the plan
This book is fire.
I have to wonder if you ever even bothered to read Queen of the Damned . Akasha was a monster her whole human life and her becoming the first Blood Drinker only confirmed her addiction to preposterous self serving lies to justify the slaughters she conducted . There's no real change between human Akasha and Blood Drinker Akasha . You really should consider a major edit of this video or delete it and start over AFTER YOU READ THE BOOK .
Agreed. She was a monster as a human and a monster as a vampire.
Wonder who will play her in the series?
I like Dewanda Wise for the role.
i started with enkil first :3
I wish you wouldn't use the constant moving swirling effects on the pictures as it makes me dizzy looking at them. I really wanted to see and hear what you had to say in this video, as I'm a huge fan of Rice's Vampire Chronicles and QOTD is my favourite book, but I'm going to have to skip your video. Maybe you will refrain from using these effects in future videos that prevent viewers like myself from watching and getting nauseous?
I love her back story; I love her reign and fall. But I extremely dislike the book. Simply for the fact of all these different POVs and the time jumps. It was difficult to follow at times, and I found the side stories pointless, (Baby Jenks and David). The movie was terrible (story wise), but it is honestly one of my favorites for the soundtrack and Aaliyah. Anyone agree on my takes?
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I love these people with natural red hair which is my family are said to be vampires
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I'm still alive!!!!
How did she become a vampire mother of vampires ?
When she was stabbed and dying as her spirit was leaving her body the evil spirit Amel went into her hence making her the fist Vampire.
Well… It is something mystical, magical and mysterious about the middle east (Iraq). Even in Dune written by Frank Herbert, the Desert is in ‘Arrakkis’. The Biblical Patriarch Abraham is from there, the land of Ur. Allegedly the Garden of Eden maybe located around or in Iraq. The novel and movie The Exorcist is located in Iraq….
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No one can embody this role like Aaliyah BUT sadly remakes and sequels are all they know how to do....Who could pull it off if remade?????
thomas Yahweh levin is a vampire
I FOUND MY PPL❤
It was a fake story for tv. I was her there. It was a test. That's gross they didn't because he's w that girl instead.
I like your topics but that spinning background and figures popping in and out gives me motion sickness 😢
Are you mixing real with fiction to further explain a fictional story.
I like Memnoch it's the new stuff I don't enjoy. I think Viktor de Lioncourt is a plain stupid idea. Prince Lestat and the whole Atlantis plot is just silly. The tv show was also trash, Lestat's casting was the only good thing about it.
The show is not trash. It's actually great.
@@cullenarthur8879 It's woke, they aged up Claudia and race changed her and Louis I have no interest.
@@benreilly7676 "woke" is a meaningless word used by people to describe anything some people don't like. The new show is awesome in my and a lot of other peoples opinion.
For being such an apparent can of the book, you really got the story and the timeline totally wrong, missing out some very important information and not even getting how she was turned correct. Let alone the story of how the twins were turned. You really need to start the whole series from the beginning and read them ALL to get the whole story of how Anne Rice's vampires were created in the beginning. Good try, but you could have done so much better by knowing the WHOLE story, especially what the Twins knew about it.
My queens not evil she’s just herself
Evil . How dare you. Akasha is innocent and never did anything wrong 😂
Aaliyah made a mockery of her
she died before she could finish the movie, so they had to rush her oarts❤
had she had better writers and a better script she would have done better.
The Film "Queen of the Damned" Is a Huge Disgrace. I beyond Hate it! Should have had Tom Cruise, As Lestat. Should have been done right. As well as the TV Series. Such Disgraces. Books & First Film might be better. Till they are done right! And others Need to see "Rock of Ages"! And Even parts of "The Mummy"! With Tom Cruise. Only person is Queen of the Damned Film, that Can sing, is Only Aaliyah. No one else. Tom Cruise can Sing Himself. What they did when it comes to Stuart is Fraud. He can't sing. & Can't do anything right. Guess they can't read either! For Lestat it is Forever Tom Cruise only. For her. I have a few Ideas. Like Thandie Newton. & Who played the Female Mummy. In the Mummy with Tom Cruise. They are better.
I refused to watch it because I knew it was going to be utter shit and didn't want to wreck my experience of the book. I feel the same way about The Hobbit, which I will never watch.
Akasha was originally a princess from Iraq, who married the king of Kemet so it makes no sense to make her black, it is very woke, a "she became queen of a black country the she became black" is as ridiculous as representing Cleopatra with a black woman when all the historical evidence show Cleopatra as white.
i wud have loved to see a deep dive on her with AAliyah playing her from human form to vampire. they shud have done that with the movie instead of starting from her being a vampire to dying. thats why i feel movies like twilight was so successful bkus of the character developments