If it was a show about humans or emotionally balanced villains, we could contest it more and ask for more.
This is a show chiefly about a vegetarian vampire. And we clearly can ask for more, because male characters who have killed and attempted to kill vampires (Uncle John, Jeremy) have been spared. So actually, what we can't ask for more for is female characters, even if their crime is something as small as not liking the vampires. In one case, Damon did kill him! - and the writers brought him back to life. That is a choice the writers made; to not let ~vampire nature~ be the be-all and end-all of the storytelling...just as long as the men were involved.
And even if they did handwave everything as 'vampires are violent and dangerous' and kill characters willy nilly with that as their only excuse, that would be very lazy writing. If something being bigger and meaner and stronger than you were made the equation as simple as that, humans would never survive bear attacks.
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This is a show chiefly about a vegetarian vampire. And we clearly can ask for more, because male characters who have killed and attempted to kill vampires (Uncle John, Jeremy) have been spared. So actually, what we can't ask for more for is female characters, even if their crime is something as small as not liking the vampires. In one case, Damon did kill him! - and the writers brought him back to life. That is a choice the writers made; to not let ~vampire nature~ be the be-all and end-all of the storytelling...just as long as the men were involved.
And even if they did handwave everything as 'vampires are violent and dangerous' and kill characters willy nilly with that as their only excuse, that would be very lazy writing. If something being bigger and meaner and stronger than you were made the equation as simple as that, humans would never survive bear attacks.