Vamp Diaries's Spin-Off The Originals (which has definite potential)

[As an aside, I'm sick and tired of people in our society telling us all there is something wrong with us for not being in a romantic relationship, being single, and not having fallen in love recently. As if being single was horrible or something. ( mini-rant which you might want to skip... )

Vamp Diaries rocked tonight..it surprised me. I didn't expect to like it. Spin-off's rarely work for me. And they were interrupting the flow of the series to do a pilot for the spin-off. But this episode rocked. In some respects it's even more interesting than Vamp Diaries.

Niklaus is an interesting character and the Originals is an interesting family dynamic. It sort of reminds me a little of the idea behind Angel the Series, but a whole lot more interesting and far gritter, not to mention riskier. It's not episodic. Also it would be like giving Angelus his own series...except a more complex and integrated Angelus. Plus it takes place in New Orleans and has a nice racial/ethnic mix. Nice thing about today's tv shows is the diversity in the casting. It's the major difference between 21st Century TV and 20th Century TV - 21st Century is more ethnically diverse.

( spoilers for Vampire Diaries and new spin-off series pilot )