Vampire Diaries Snark-a-thon...
Sep. 16th, 2010 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatPosting from DW again, b/c sick of ads. Also really need to get new computer - it took twenty minutes to turn on computer and get online. Slower than work computer.
Watching comfort tv shows tonight - basically cotton candy for my brain or shows that I can giggle at.
First up was Vampire Diaries - and guess what? They attempted to give Stefan a witty sense of humor and make Caroline complicated.
Show starts out with Caroline trying to figure out why she's looking at blood bags as if they are Godiva Chocolat Martinis. Black nurse is her first victim. But she lets the gal live. Go Caroline. Course explaining to Matt why she doesn't want to go near the sunlight is proving to be a bit of a problem. But luckily for Caroline, Matt ain't the brightest bulb in the cast. Yeah, you open the window, to bring sunlight into the room and your girlfriend has skittered to the farthest part of it, lightening quick, after almost dying, and nothing's up?
Meanwhile...Damon has found a new hobby - investigating the Lockwoods. What are they? Hey anything to distract him from the Everyone Loves Stefan Club. Gotta be more productive, right?
So far so good, Mayor Lockwood's widow has asked Damon to become the new head of the Council.
You remember, the Council set up to rid the town of vampires. He also manages to convince his brother Stefan to arm wrestle the new hunk in town (who sigh, does not appear to have a sense of humor, anyone else miss Uncle Jack?). Cute. Well-meaning. Endearing. But dull. Cue Matt - you have competition. Show? More witty characters, less well meaning incredibly serious ...brooding ones.
Stefan complies - because anything to distract Damon from his obsession with Katherine/Elena.
When Stefan loses the arm-wrestling contest. Damon accuses him of not even trying. But I did, insist Stefan - he doesn't have human strength...he's human, but not. Okay, Damon, says, then what is he? I don't know, says Stefan attempting to be witty, he could be a mutant ninja turtle?
A mutant what - asks Damon. Or a zombie or a werewolf. Damon - Not funny. You are not being funny. (Hee. Show has decided to give Stefan a sense of humor? Cool. Although must try harder.
Damon is right - that's not that funny. But points for the attempt. Also apparently the vampires don't believe in zombies and werewolves? Interesting. I mean - if there are witches and vampires, surely there are also werewolves and zombies and ghosts? Be a bit like believing in Bears but not Tigers, don't you think?)
Caroline gets out of the hospital - by compelling the nurse to let her out and in so doing remembers all of Damon's hijinks the previous year. Caroline and Jeremy decide to go after Damon. Stefan attempts to warn Jeremy not to, even after he tells Jeremy all the ways he can kill a vampire (uh, can't Jeremy figure this stuff out on his own - it's not like the knowledge is top secret or anything? Plus, he was in a relationship with one. No wait two.) But Jeremy ignores Stefan's advice and goes after Damon anyway - threatening to tell everyone he knows what Damon is. Damon shows Jeremy how bad an idea this is...by snatching his ring and pretending to snap his neck again. Then he throws the ring back at Jeremy stating, go ahead tell them, and I'll ram this ring so far up your ass you won't know what hit you. Jeremy goes off to sulk. Poor woobie. (Does anyone else miss Anna? I really miss Anna. Love that actress - that's the actress I wanted them to get for Dragon Tattoo or Let Me In. They keep killing off all the cool snarky tough female characters or write them out. It's annoying. Vicky, Miss Perl, Isobel and Anna had chutzpah. Caroline, Elena and Bonnie are too pretty and a bit too simpering for words.)
Damon compels Bonnie's new crush - the cute black guy with no name - into picking a fight with Tyler. (This show needs more minority characters and to stop killing off the only ones it has. Last year they killed off the cute black vampire with a conscience - who looked like a great love interest for Bonnie as well as Jasmine Guy's stellar Grammy Witch. Plus Torres (Zoe from Firefly) role as Damon's past significant other. Bonnie can't be the only black character in this show. Come on!) Poor guy does and almost gets himself killed, but Tyler's uncle steps in and jumps about like a monkey, which spooks Stefan, who keeps watch - either to protect the guy Damon compelled or to spy for Damon - not sure which.
Meanwhile Damon has had a nasty little confrontation with Caroline, who flips him across the floor. Damon is not having a good time with the ladies. Last week he gets dumped. This week
beaten up. Go Caroline. However - Damon decides this means he needs to kill Caroline.
So goes off to find Stefan and Elena for permission, and well to let them know what Katherine has been up to. They don't grant permission - because unlike Vicky, they happen to like Caroline. She's a pretty blond prom queen, who is ditzy and therefore harmless, and not a low-life drug-addicted waitress, therefore savable. Damon personally doesn't see any difference.
Caroline runs into Matt and gets all hot and bothered, and wants to drink his blood, but stops herself and goes after the no-name black guy who is nursing the bloody nose he got from fighting Tyler earlier. (Oh that poor guy! He's just having the worst luck! Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! And poor Bonnie - who just can't catch a break.) This guy dies. Damon comes upon the scene first and suggests that he should kill Caroline. But Elena and Stefan refuse to let him. See if it had been Jeremy or Matt? They'd have done it. But it is no-name black guy, who cares? Well, Bonnie...
Speaking of, Bonnie pops up and freaks out. Deciding to kill Damon because obviously it is all his fault. (In a way she's right - if he hadn't compelled the guy to fight Tyler - he wouldn't have a bloody nose, and if he hadn't given Caroline his blood - Caroline wouldn't have become a vampire. But on the other - if she hadn't persuaded Damon to do it, Caroline would have died naturally and not become a vampire either. Lots of blame to go around here.)
Bonnie gives Damon an excruciating headache. (Damn, I can sympathize.) And sets him on fire.
(ME: Oh right kill off the only remaining character with any personality or sense of humor! Kill Damon, and I'm done with you, show. But I'm not worried. They won't kill off Damon. Damon just won sexiest supernatural critter of the year. The network would have to be insane or stupid to let the writers kill off Damon. You don't kill of the reason people are watching the show. They will stop watching and then where will you be? Dead in the water. But seriously we need a female character who can snark too. It's not fair that the guy gets all the best lines. Sure we have Katherine, but she's not in every episode. This is when I miss Buffy. ) Hmmm, not sure the fire stunt accomplished anything Bonnie - outside of maybe re-emphasizing the point to Damon that he should be worrying about witches not whatever Tyler and his uncle are at the moment.
My favorite scene is the one at the end between Damon and Jeremy - where they bond over having fathers who were into killing vampires. Weird scene. Jeremy comes to kill Damon, but for some reason has a change of heart. Damon holding the stake that Jeremy has given him - "my father was into killing vampires too, except he was better at the wittling, granted was from the 1860s.." Jeremy - "oh, that was my first attempt, not as easy as it looks." Apparently Jeremy has decided that Damon might make great big brother material. Can't think why. I mean you'd think he'd go to Stefan - who you know, saved his life. Jeremy and his death wish.
Although the relationship does sort of remind me of Connor and Angelus, except with more humor and less predictability. There's potential here. Also, admittedly Stefan is a bit absorbed in Elena at the moment...he only sees Jeremy when Elena points him out to him. Damon on the other hand has actually taken an off-hand interest in the lad - even going so far as to explain what it is like to be a vampire and seeking to comfort him when Anna died - a death that moved Damon more than it did Stefan for some reason. Guessing Jeremy reminds Damon a bit of himself? At any rate their scene together was far more interesting than Stefan's, which was hardly useful.
Stefan finishes the night making lovey-dovey with Elena on top of the ferries wheel. Apparently Stefan can fly. I'd forgotten. Awe. Gooey romance. Sorry, distracted by the sign on the car - don't rock this car. I kept waiting for Katherine to fly up and send Elena tumbling to her death.
The scene with Caroline and Matt, as was the scene with Caroline and Stefan - oddly more moving.
She manages to control her blood lust with Matt. Doesn't give into the urge or the blood lust.
Hee. They are attempting to give Caroline depth. To actually flush out this character. Make her more than a ditzy blond prom queen. Kudos. Plus the Matt/Caroline romance which is the gender switch of Stefan/Elena is in some respects far more touching, far more real, and a lot less gooey. Maybe the unpredictablity of it?
Not quite sure what Damon and Stefan see in Elena, unless it is just the version of Katherine they fell in love with and discovered did not exist? The whole Stefan/Elena romance feels very idealized to me and very gooey. Elena is a tad too simpering and sweet for my taste. Not a lot there. Her brother and friends are more interesting. It should be noted that I don't ship any male/female relationships on this show. (Well, I did, but they either killed or wrote mine off - which was Anna/Jeremy or Uncle Jack/Isobel/Alaric). I truly don't care what ends up with or what happens to Elena. The actress may be growing on me, but the character isn't. Moralistic, passive, and whiny characters get on my nerves. Bonnie is also moralistic, but not whiny or passive - she actually does take action and responsibility.
Also loved the Damon/Stefan scenes. Is it just my imagination or is Stefan actually witty when he is with Damon? Trying to keep up? They are hilarious together. Stefan upon seeing Damon watching the wrestling match. "Lurking again?" Damon - "No, obsessing again. You?"
Damon at home - when Stefan shows up and asks him repeatedly about Katherine, "we know why she's here - to profess her undying love for you. Since your the reason she's in town, I figure she's your problem, you can figure out a way to handle her. I have more important things to wast my time on."
Why is it tv shows are so much better at developing sibling relationships, friendships, and child/father, child/mother relationships than romantic ones? They always get stuck on what to do after the couple finally gets together...it either gets really gooey or they break them up.
Aren't these people married? They can't all be single and hunting for love?
Watching comfort tv shows tonight - basically cotton candy for my brain or shows that I can giggle at.
First up was Vampire Diaries - and guess what? They attempted to give Stefan a witty sense of humor and make Caroline complicated.
Show starts out with Caroline trying to figure out why she's looking at blood bags as if they are Godiva Chocolat Martinis. Black nurse is her first victim. But she lets the gal live. Go Caroline. Course explaining to Matt why she doesn't want to go near the sunlight is proving to be a bit of a problem. But luckily for Caroline, Matt ain't the brightest bulb in the cast. Yeah, you open the window, to bring sunlight into the room and your girlfriend has skittered to the farthest part of it, lightening quick, after almost dying, and nothing's up?
Meanwhile...Damon has found a new hobby - investigating the Lockwoods. What are they? Hey anything to distract him from the Everyone Loves Stefan Club. Gotta be more productive, right?
So far so good, Mayor Lockwood's widow has asked Damon to become the new head of the Council.
You remember, the Council set up to rid the town of vampires. He also manages to convince his brother Stefan to arm wrestle the new hunk in town (who sigh, does not appear to have a sense of humor, anyone else miss Uncle Jack?). Cute. Well-meaning. Endearing. But dull. Cue Matt - you have competition. Show? More witty characters, less well meaning incredibly serious ...brooding ones.
Stefan complies - because anything to distract Damon from his obsession with Katherine/Elena.
When Stefan loses the arm-wrestling contest. Damon accuses him of not even trying. But I did, insist Stefan - he doesn't have human strength...he's human, but not. Okay, Damon, says, then what is he? I don't know, says Stefan attempting to be witty, he could be a mutant ninja turtle?
A mutant what - asks Damon. Or a zombie or a werewolf. Damon - Not funny. You are not being funny. (Hee. Show has decided to give Stefan a sense of humor? Cool. Although must try harder.
Damon is right - that's not that funny. But points for the attempt. Also apparently the vampires don't believe in zombies and werewolves? Interesting. I mean - if there are witches and vampires, surely there are also werewolves and zombies and ghosts? Be a bit like believing in Bears but not Tigers, don't you think?)
Caroline gets out of the hospital - by compelling the nurse to let her out and in so doing remembers all of Damon's hijinks the previous year. Caroline and Jeremy decide to go after Damon. Stefan attempts to warn Jeremy not to, even after he tells Jeremy all the ways he can kill a vampire (uh, can't Jeremy figure this stuff out on his own - it's not like the knowledge is top secret or anything? Plus, he was in a relationship with one. No wait two.) But Jeremy ignores Stefan's advice and goes after Damon anyway - threatening to tell everyone he knows what Damon is. Damon shows Jeremy how bad an idea this is...by snatching his ring and pretending to snap his neck again. Then he throws the ring back at Jeremy stating, go ahead tell them, and I'll ram this ring so far up your ass you won't know what hit you. Jeremy goes off to sulk. Poor woobie. (Does anyone else miss Anna? I really miss Anna. Love that actress - that's the actress I wanted them to get for Dragon Tattoo or Let Me In. They keep killing off all the cool snarky tough female characters or write them out. It's annoying. Vicky, Miss Perl, Isobel and Anna had chutzpah. Caroline, Elena and Bonnie are too pretty and a bit too simpering for words.)
Damon compels Bonnie's new crush - the cute black guy with no name - into picking a fight with Tyler. (This show needs more minority characters and to stop killing off the only ones it has. Last year they killed off the cute black vampire with a conscience - who looked like a great love interest for Bonnie as well as Jasmine Guy's stellar Grammy Witch. Plus Torres (Zoe from Firefly) role as Damon's past significant other. Bonnie can't be the only black character in this show. Come on!) Poor guy does and almost gets himself killed, but Tyler's uncle steps in and jumps about like a monkey, which spooks Stefan, who keeps watch - either to protect the guy Damon compelled or to spy for Damon - not sure which.
Meanwhile Damon has had a nasty little confrontation with Caroline, who flips him across the floor. Damon is not having a good time with the ladies. Last week he gets dumped. This week
beaten up. Go Caroline. However - Damon decides this means he needs to kill Caroline.
So goes off to find Stefan and Elena for permission, and well to let them know what Katherine has been up to. They don't grant permission - because unlike Vicky, they happen to like Caroline. She's a pretty blond prom queen, who is ditzy and therefore harmless, and not a low-life drug-addicted waitress, therefore savable. Damon personally doesn't see any difference.
Caroline runs into Matt and gets all hot and bothered, and wants to drink his blood, but stops herself and goes after the no-name black guy who is nursing the bloody nose he got from fighting Tyler earlier. (Oh that poor guy! He's just having the worst luck! Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! And poor Bonnie - who just can't catch a break.) This guy dies. Damon comes upon the scene first and suggests that he should kill Caroline. But Elena and Stefan refuse to let him. See if it had been Jeremy or Matt? They'd have done it. But it is no-name black guy, who cares? Well, Bonnie...
Speaking of, Bonnie pops up and freaks out. Deciding to kill Damon because obviously it is all his fault. (In a way she's right - if he hadn't compelled the guy to fight Tyler - he wouldn't have a bloody nose, and if he hadn't given Caroline his blood - Caroline wouldn't have become a vampire. But on the other - if she hadn't persuaded Damon to do it, Caroline would have died naturally and not become a vampire either. Lots of blame to go around here.)
Bonnie gives Damon an excruciating headache. (Damn, I can sympathize.) And sets him on fire.
(ME: Oh right kill off the only remaining character with any personality or sense of humor! Kill Damon, and I'm done with you, show. But I'm not worried. They won't kill off Damon. Damon just won sexiest supernatural critter of the year. The network would have to be insane or stupid to let the writers kill off Damon. You don't kill of the reason people are watching the show. They will stop watching and then where will you be? Dead in the water. But seriously we need a female character who can snark too. It's not fair that the guy gets all the best lines. Sure we have Katherine, but she's not in every episode. This is when I miss Buffy. ) Hmmm, not sure the fire stunt accomplished anything Bonnie - outside of maybe re-emphasizing the point to Damon that he should be worrying about witches not whatever Tyler and his uncle are at the moment.
My favorite scene is the one at the end between Damon and Jeremy - where they bond over having fathers who were into killing vampires. Weird scene. Jeremy comes to kill Damon, but for some reason has a change of heart. Damon holding the stake that Jeremy has given him - "my father was into killing vampires too, except he was better at the wittling, granted was from the 1860s.." Jeremy - "oh, that was my first attempt, not as easy as it looks." Apparently Jeremy has decided that Damon might make great big brother material. Can't think why. I mean you'd think he'd go to Stefan - who you know, saved his life. Jeremy and his death wish.
Although the relationship does sort of remind me of Connor and Angelus, except with more humor and less predictability. There's potential here. Also, admittedly Stefan is a bit absorbed in Elena at the moment...he only sees Jeremy when Elena points him out to him. Damon on the other hand has actually taken an off-hand interest in the lad - even going so far as to explain what it is like to be a vampire and seeking to comfort him when Anna died - a death that moved Damon more than it did Stefan for some reason. Guessing Jeremy reminds Damon a bit of himself? At any rate their scene together was far more interesting than Stefan's, which was hardly useful.
Stefan finishes the night making lovey-dovey with Elena on top of the ferries wheel. Apparently Stefan can fly. I'd forgotten. Awe. Gooey romance. Sorry, distracted by the sign on the car - don't rock this car. I kept waiting for Katherine to fly up and send Elena tumbling to her death.
The scene with Caroline and Matt, as was the scene with Caroline and Stefan - oddly more moving.
She manages to control her blood lust with Matt. Doesn't give into the urge or the blood lust.
Hee. They are attempting to give Caroline depth. To actually flush out this character. Make her more than a ditzy blond prom queen. Kudos. Plus the Matt/Caroline romance which is the gender switch of Stefan/Elena is in some respects far more touching, far more real, and a lot less gooey. Maybe the unpredictablity of it?
Not quite sure what Damon and Stefan see in Elena, unless it is just the version of Katherine they fell in love with and discovered did not exist? The whole Stefan/Elena romance feels very idealized to me and very gooey. Elena is a tad too simpering and sweet for my taste. Not a lot there. Her brother and friends are more interesting. It should be noted that I don't ship any male/female relationships on this show. (Well, I did, but they either killed or wrote mine off - which was Anna/Jeremy or Uncle Jack/Isobel/Alaric). I truly don't care what ends up with or what happens to Elena. The actress may be growing on me, but the character isn't. Moralistic, passive, and whiny characters get on my nerves. Bonnie is also moralistic, but not whiny or passive - she actually does take action and responsibility.
Also loved the Damon/Stefan scenes. Is it just my imagination or is Stefan actually witty when he is with Damon? Trying to keep up? They are hilarious together. Stefan upon seeing Damon watching the wrestling match. "Lurking again?" Damon - "No, obsessing again. You?"
Damon at home - when Stefan shows up and asks him repeatedly about Katherine, "we know why she's here - to profess her undying love for you. Since your the reason she's in town, I figure she's your problem, you can figure out a way to handle her. I have more important things to wast my time on."
Why is it tv shows are so much better at developing sibling relationships, friendships, and child/father, child/mother relationships than romantic ones? They always get stuck on what to do after the couple finally gets together...it either gets really gooey or they break them up.
Aren't these people married? They can't all be single and hunting for love?
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Date: 2010-09-17 07:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-18 01:20 am (UTC)Much like Vampire Diaries they have their crappy moments and their stellar ones. And I love to mock them. That's part of the fun of watching these shows - the mocking. ;-)
And I did warn you - "Vampire Diaries Snark-a-thon". ;-)