I'm loving this show. I actually picked it up because of this thread. Newsgroups for some reason downloaded Ep. 6 as well, so I'm going have to wait for a new episode.
**EP 6****
What is Rashid? I never read Anne Rice novels, are there other immortal being in her universe?
There are, yes. Like Frank Herbert's Dune series, the Vampire universe goes pretty far afield toward the end. I'm hoping the showrunners are able to take the opportunity to clean it up and improve it.
(Imagine if JRR and Christopher Tolkien kept writing after Return of the King and wound up with aliens, mummies and precognitive AI all mixed up in there.)