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shadowkatRather liked this quote from Being Erica, which I watched this morning: It's so hard living in the present because your mind wants to live someplace else, anywhere, everywhere but here. Which is the only place you are supposed to be.
Yep, pretty much.
Although Erica makes me feel old. She kept going on and on about how ancient 42 is. Sigh. Trust me, it's not ancient. 80 yes. 42 is mid-life. Get a grip. Is it just me or is 90% of our entertainment aimed at people below the age of 35 - which is actually a small portion of the population, considering average age is actually 45/46? While the writers are actually between 40-50 at the moment - my generation wasn't into having kids early. Figured we'd wait, sew some wild oats first.
Watched Vamp Diaries last night. When that show decides to take off, it REALLY takes off. Started out a bit slow, but picked up speed. Plot twist upon plot twist.
This week's arc was all about killing an original vampire, Elijah, which isn't as easy as it looks. Sure the dagger works, but if Damon or any vampire for that matter attempts it - the dagger will kill them both - something about it not being honorable for a vampire to kill another vampire. If a human does it - it works but only if you leave the dagger in the original vamp/Elijah - otherwise, he recovers. So basically, you have to make sure no one takes the dagger out, which is bound to happen at some point.
Damon tries, Alaric being a good pal stops him. Then does it himself - which admittedly surprised me. I so did not see that coming. Nor, apparently did anyone else - Damon and John looked as shocked as I was, not to mention Damon's compelled reporter girlfriend - who Damon tells everything to, because well she's compelled so it doesn't matter. (I would have preferred the Rose/Damon relationship...less sexist and less annoying, but that's American television.) Unfortunately they decide to remove the dagger which means Elijah is alive and goes after Elena. But first he makes a pit stop - because he doesn't know where she is. And well to let Lucas' Daddy (Bennet?) know that he has to do something about Bonnie. Luca's Daddy shows up and removes Bonnie's powers, threatens her if anything happens to his son, then vamooses. Meanwhile Elena tricks Elijah and kills him, again. Go Elena. This time they are smart enough to leave the dagger in Elijah so that he stays dead, well at least for now. Don't worry, I'm sure someone will find him eventually and decide to remove the dagger if for no better reason then - hey, cool dagger. If only Rose and Anna's deaths were that uncomplicated.
Elijah's death unfortunately has the nasty side-effect of releasing Kathryn from her prison - because if Elijah is dead, she can't be compelled any longer. (Raises the question - so if someone pulls out the Dagger and Elijah comes back to life, does Kathryn go back to living in the tomb?) Turns out Kathryn lied to Damon, in order to trick him into killing Elijah which would free her from the tomb, if it also killed Damon - so much the betters. Two birds - one stone. If not? Win/Win.
That was the most interesting part of the episode. The Stefan flashback scenes informing us that he's a shameless blood addict - were sort of cliche, evidence, in case I needed any, of the fact that I have watched one too many of these types of tv shows in my lifetime. Personally I liked Angel the Series's riff on the same topic better. He still ranks as the best of "the broody, I was such an addict, and because of being a shameless addict, was a monster, but hey not my fault - and I'm not that guy anymore - yeah you wish - you are so in denile!- club".
As an aside - The Closer did a rather good riff on the whole, it's the booze or the drugs fault not mine theme. A crack addict goes off the rails, and ends up killing a woman and kidnapping another one - in order to get enough to buy more crack. The crack has turned him into a monster.
Fritz tells Brenda Lee that addicts blame everyone but themselves. They are the victim. It was the substance. It was never them. They aren't monsters. But the fact that they know giving into the addiction, into the crack - will lead them down that road, makes them monsters. They chose to go there, knowing full well the consequences and not caring enough to stop.
What was interesting about the Stefan flashback was NOT what it told us about Stefan, but rather what it told us about Damon. Damon unlike Stefan - could feel when he was turned. He felt hate. And it took him down a negative path. But he wasn't a "ripper" like Stefan, he wasn't escaping into it.
Also, what it says about vamps in the series - that their emotions are heightened. Love. Hate.
Anger. Guilt. Which we see to some extent with Rose.
And damn, Alaric gave his ring back to John, so John would lay off of Jenna. I think he killed Elijah partly because of Jenna - whom Elijah was making the moves on. Granted - I don't want them to kill off John - he's one of the more interesting characters on the show. But I don't want Alaric dead either. My problem with this series? Is the only characters I wouldn't mind seeing kick the bucket so to speak, never will, because they are the leads and the audience fav's (Elena and Stefan). Everyone else unfortunately, outside of maybe Damon, is cannon fodder. Every time they put Damon, Stefan and Elena in danger, I laugh. Because there's no way they are going to kill off those characters.
How much you want to bet - Alaric bites the dust in the next two episodes? He gave up his ring and he's Damon's only friend, plus Jenna's love interest and he killed Elijah. He's dead meat. Damn.
Show? Stop killing characters I like. Thank you.
As an aside - is it just me or does everyone vamp diaries look alike? Same body type, coloring, hieght, weight, size, it's scarey. How hard would it bet to shake the casting up a bit?
Yep, pretty much.
Although Erica makes me feel old. She kept going on and on about how ancient 42 is. Sigh. Trust me, it's not ancient. 80 yes. 42 is mid-life. Get a grip. Is it just me or is 90% of our entertainment aimed at people below the age of 35 - which is actually a small portion of the population, considering average age is actually 45/46? While the writers are actually between 40-50 at the moment - my generation wasn't into having kids early. Figured we'd wait, sew some wild oats first.
Watched Vamp Diaries last night. When that show decides to take off, it REALLY takes off. Started out a bit slow, but picked up speed. Plot twist upon plot twist.
This week's arc was all about killing an original vampire, Elijah, which isn't as easy as it looks. Sure the dagger works, but if Damon or any vampire for that matter attempts it - the dagger will kill them both - something about it not being honorable for a vampire to kill another vampire. If a human does it - it works but only if you leave the dagger in the original vamp/Elijah - otherwise, he recovers. So basically, you have to make sure no one takes the dagger out, which is bound to happen at some point.
Damon tries, Alaric being a good pal stops him. Then does it himself - which admittedly surprised me. I so did not see that coming. Nor, apparently did anyone else - Damon and John looked as shocked as I was, not to mention Damon's compelled reporter girlfriend - who Damon tells everything to, because well she's compelled so it doesn't matter. (I would have preferred the Rose/Damon relationship...less sexist and less annoying, but that's American television.) Unfortunately they decide to remove the dagger which means Elijah is alive and goes after Elena. But first he makes a pit stop - because he doesn't know where she is. And well to let Lucas' Daddy (Bennet?) know that he has to do something about Bonnie. Luca's Daddy shows up and removes Bonnie's powers, threatens her if anything happens to his son, then vamooses. Meanwhile Elena tricks Elijah and kills him, again. Go Elena. This time they are smart enough to leave the dagger in Elijah so that he stays dead, well at least for now. Don't worry, I'm sure someone will find him eventually and decide to remove the dagger if for no better reason then - hey, cool dagger. If only Rose and Anna's deaths were that uncomplicated.
Elijah's death unfortunately has the nasty side-effect of releasing Kathryn from her prison - because if Elijah is dead, she can't be compelled any longer. (Raises the question - so if someone pulls out the Dagger and Elijah comes back to life, does Kathryn go back to living in the tomb?) Turns out Kathryn lied to Damon, in order to trick him into killing Elijah which would free her from the tomb, if it also killed Damon - so much the betters. Two birds - one stone. If not? Win/Win.
That was the most interesting part of the episode. The Stefan flashback scenes informing us that he's a shameless blood addict - were sort of cliche, evidence, in case I needed any, of the fact that I have watched one too many of these types of tv shows in my lifetime. Personally I liked Angel the Series's riff on the same topic better. He still ranks as the best of "the broody, I was such an addict, and because of being a shameless addict, was a monster, but hey not my fault - and I'm not that guy anymore - yeah you wish - you are so in denile!- club".
As an aside - The Closer did a rather good riff on the whole, it's the booze or the drugs fault not mine theme. A crack addict goes off the rails, and ends up killing a woman and kidnapping another one - in order to get enough to buy more crack. The crack has turned him into a monster.
Fritz tells Brenda Lee that addicts blame everyone but themselves. They are the victim. It was the substance. It was never them. They aren't monsters. But the fact that they know giving into the addiction, into the crack - will lead them down that road, makes them monsters. They chose to go there, knowing full well the consequences and not caring enough to stop.
What was interesting about the Stefan flashback was NOT what it told us about Stefan, but rather what it told us about Damon. Damon unlike Stefan - could feel when he was turned. He felt hate. And it took him down a negative path. But he wasn't a "ripper" like Stefan, he wasn't escaping into it.
Also, what it says about vamps in the series - that their emotions are heightened. Love. Hate.
Anger. Guilt. Which we see to some extent with Rose.
And damn, Alaric gave his ring back to John, so John would lay off of Jenna. I think he killed Elijah partly because of Jenna - whom Elijah was making the moves on. Granted - I don't want them to kill off John - he's one of the more interesting characters on the show. But I don't want Alaric dead either. My problem with this series? Is the only characters I wouldn't mind seeing kick the bucket so to speak, never will, because they are the leads and the audience fav's (Elena and Stefan). Everyone else unfortunately, outside of maybe Damon, is cannon fodder. Every time they put Damon, Stefan and Elena in danger, I laugh. Because there's no way they are going to kill off those characters.
How much you want to bet - Alaric bites the dust in the next two episodes? He gave up his ring and he's Damon's only friend, plus Jenna's love interest and he killed Elijah. He's dead meat. Damn.
Show? Stop killing characters I like. Thank you.
As an aside - is it just me or does everyone vamp diaries look alike? Same body type, coloring, hieght, weight, size, it's scarey. How hard would it bet to shake the casting up a bit?
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Date: 2011-02-19 05:25 pm (UTC)The "there is only this one dagger" + "Claus is the biggest vampire" = will have to eventually take the dagger out of Elijah to kill Claus. I think that's the popular speculation.
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Date: 2011-02-19 06:00 pm (UTC)I'm sort of surprised that they hadn't come up with that earlier - I mean wouldn't it make more sense to play along with Elijah until Klaus pops up and then somehow trick Elijah into using the dagger to kill Klaus - two birds, one stone. Although that is admittedly less dramatic.
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Date: 2011-02-19 07:04 pm (UTC)I kind of assume there's also going to be another death by Werewolf bite before the end of the season. I think, as a storyteller, you kill off Rose to 'prove the legend' so it won't seem like Deus Ex Machina when it happens in the dramatic climax...
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Date: 2011-02-19 07:34 pm (UTC)I'm not sure how smart the Originals are. Will state the plotting of this thing is better than most of the shows within this particular genre.
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Date: 2011-02-19 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 02:16 am (UTC)The blood-drinking never worked that well for me with Angel, nor does it work that well with the others. A flawed metaphor.