redbrunja | I Got Caught Up With The Vampire Diaries

Some random thoughts:

–Turns out, Alaric has inappropriate chemistry with pretty much EVERY teenage girl he interacts with. Maybe high school teacher wasn't the best career choice. [ETA: I don't think I was clear - as a viewer, I found this fucking entertaining as hell. As you know, I have a fictional student/teacher thing, and lately, I give props to anything in TVD that doesn't bore me.]

–When a show has to start making up stupid words (or giving normal words Significance) a la Daggered, Sired, etc, that show needs to go lie down with a cold compress on its forehead and think about its choices.

–That said, if Elena stabs more people in the back, I might consider liking her again.

–Thank god Caroline didn't buy the Tyler's justifications.

–Thumbs down, Tyler, for picking lack of pain over free will.

–Thumbs up, Katherine, for loving both Salvatore brothers. Thumbs down, Katherine, for not killing fucking Klaus and getting his boring, pouty ass of my tv. (I was really hoping that Michael was going to kill Klaus and then be the new villain.)

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Agree on all points, but DUDE, ESPECIALLY THE FIRST ONE.

To be fair, all vampire shows does the second in some way or other. True Blood has Maker and Mine, and Buffy also did the Sired thing. It's just part of the genre, appearantly. Kinda like how, in any given fantasy show, the enemies must be given a dorky name like The Others or The Sixers or Blutbads or Walkers. It's just one of those things.

Michael was a huuuge disappointment, talk about false advertising there. Oh yeah, he's this terrifying fearsome vampire who'll be MUCH worse than Klaus ... and then he dies easy-peasy in like, the second episode he's even in. What? Shut up show.

Buffy didn't do the sire thing AT ALL in the way that TVD did it with Tyler. (Or even TVD did it with EVERY OTHER VAMPIRE/MAKER relationship we've seen.) In fact, I really liked how Buffy used the sire/child relationship, as a relationships not a master/servant dynamic.

...I may have legit been shipping Alaric/Bonnie there. His snarky bordering on alcoholic hot self has far too much chemistry with his students. I've just decided Alaric and Elena should start a human run slaying venture and road trip. And maybe once in five years time they try and have sex and they're like, yeah this isn't going to happen, and they go on with their merry lives together being awesome, damaged, and violent.

I think Sired is pretty normal importance to most vampire shows since Buffy. I think it's inevitable in fantasy and scifi shows.

I do really love Caroline, and I love that they keep writing her as making decent decisions with her life... undeath rather.

Word to #1. Can you imagine if you were a parent and you saw your Alaric interacting with these teenage girls?

It would be far different than my reaction as a viewer, let me tell you!

Alaric's chemistry with everyone is the greatest thing ever! I don't know what kind of person that makes me, but whatever! He's hot. They're hot. It's totally a thing!

LOL. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks there are those moments where I'm so sure Alaric and Elena are up to something. Like that episode where they both go up into the mountains to look for Stefan. > A>

WHY DO YOU HATE KLAUS? I freaking love him ; n; he's so interesting. But I was really surprised at how quickly Michael died because they were building him up so much.

where I'm so sure Alaric and Elena are up to something. Like that episode where they both go up into the mountains to look for Stefan. > A>

His choices are just so ridiculously inappropriate and Elena is so so zen about it - I can't imagine NOT shipping those two a tiny bit.

re: Klaus

I find his backstory trite, the whole hybrid thing eye-roll worthy, and don't buy him as this super-scary thousand year old vamp.

I know this is a kind of late response, but I just found your LJ page and I had to say something.

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID ABOUT KLAUS!

He is SO BORING! Okay, the over-use of caps lock is annoying, but I really felt the need to emphasise that point.

Klaus is patronising and pathetic, and he doesn't even do it well. I thought Stefan was bad (really can't stand him - he's such a weak character) but Klaus is like Stefan on crack. All the "I'm so badass" dialogue and perpetual bitching about why others won't fall in line with his idiotic and sadistic plans renders him nothing short of moronic.

The writers have tried to temper his character by revealing more of his backstory, but it just puts me to sleep. I don't pity him, or hope for his redemption. To be honest, I was over the character of Klaus in season two, even before Joseph Morgan showed up on screen.

The truly annoying thing is that Vampire Diaries feels like it has so much potential. Most of the performances are consistently good, and some are even mesmerising, and the things it gets right, it does really well. Like Damon Salvatore (I know, but I can't help it; watching him rip people's hearts out makes me giggle), the Damon/Alaric bromance, and specifically, Katherine and Caroline. It is so refreshing to see strong, nuanced female characters.

On the other hand, there are lots of things about it that don't hold my interest at all. Stefan/Elena - flogging a dead horse much? Elena's consistently stupid and ignorant choices - to the writers - da fuck? Bonnie the bitch-witch, Stefan's wooden performance in general and pretty much the entire season three storyline.

I know this is a kind of late response, but I just found your LJ page and I had to say something.

I love late responses! It's a nice little flashback.

He is SO BORING! Okay, the over-use of caps lock is annoying, but I really felt the need to emphasise that point.

He is super-boring, no denying it.

The truly annoying thing is that Vampire Diaries feels like it has so much potential. Most of the performances are consistently good, and some are even mesmerising, and the things it gets right, it does really well. Like Damon Salvatore (I know, but I can't help it; watching him rip people's hearts out makes me giggle), the Damon/Alaric bromance, and specifically, Katherine and Caroline. It is so refreshing to see strong, nuanced female characters.

Agreed. If it was just the Katherine and Caroline and Tyler show, and then they respected Bonnie's pov and gave her things to do besides spells, TVD would be the best show ever.

My big problem with Bonnie is that she could be such a fantastic character. I certainly have nothing against the actress.

What I do have a problem with is the way she is portrayed. Bonnie always has a legitimate point of view. While, due to the nature of the show, the audience is meant to sympathise with its vampiric protagonists, she is designed to play devil's advocate - her opinion's tend to be logical, responsible and even compassionate (at least when driven by the desire to protect those she feels deserve it.)

Bonnie is strong-willed, powerful, intelligent; she should be the ultimate embodiment of female empowerment, and yet... why isn't she?

It's her attitude that kills it. She's so judgemental of others, even those who've been condemned through no fault of their own. She's narrow-minded and refuses to consider anything but her own limited understanding of the situation. Someone needs to knock her off her high horse.

The really irritating part is that she's the only witch who has lasted past a few episodes and the other characters are forced to rely on her for her magic, because they have no other options. Until the writers give us another witch, they'll never kill Bonnie off because they're dependent upon her as a plot device for her eleventh hour deus ex machina witching.

What I do have a problem with is the way she is portrayed. Bonnie always has a legitimate point of view. While, due to the nature of the show, the audience is meant to sympathise with its vampiric protagonists, she is designed to play devil's advocate - her opinion's tend to be logical, responsible and even compassionate (at least when driven by the desire to protect those she feels deserve it.)

Bonnie is strong-willed, powerful, intelligent; she should be the ultimate embodiment of female empowerment, and yet... why isn't she?

I feel like Bonnie's flatness as a character has a lot to do with the show's refusal to really see Bonnie's POV as valid and their insistence that whatever Elena does she does from a place of moral purity. Which, no.

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