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shadowkat1. The Vampire Diaries
Hmmm...This season may be somewhat problematic for me, since I'm rooting against the characters.
Not a good thing when you aren't rooting for the characters to succeed in their quest.
* Elena: Dear Diary, I know I haven't written in you for a while, but I'm a vampire now and I hate
it. I so can't deal. [Sigh, does anyone say "Dear Diary" any more?] I've lost all hope.
Stefan: Dear Diary (apparently they still do, who knew?) I've found a way to cure Elena of Vampirism. Suddenly I have hope! (Now go be a nice little boyfriend and share this with Elena? No?)
[Ohhh...this is so romantic, I'm just gonna die, I can't hardly stand it! OMG!!! I have so many feels!!..No, wait, that would be for the commercials for Breaking Dawn, where Bella says in a voice over that she's so happy, she was clearly born to be a vampire. ( Please. Clearly, whomever is writing Vamp Diaries has also been watching Breaking Dawn commercials most likely against their will.) That said, yes, I understand the need to poke fun at Breaking Dawn, but...I thought we were past the duel romantic diary keeping?? Please let's not go back there again.]
* Stop teasing me show, I know you aren't going to kill Damon, Stefan, Tyler, Caroline, Elena or Jeremy...this is getting old. While it would admittedly be jaw-dropping if you did, also a bit painful (for some not all viewers), we know you won't do it.
Although, would not mind if you kicked April, Hayley, or Connor to the curb...oh wait...
Vamp Hunter Connor...we barely knew yah. Actually we didn't know you at all. Vamp Diaries you used to be better at the supporting characters. Hayley, April and Connor are...welll..
Does anyone else miss Michael, Alaric, Rosemarie, Anna and Vicky?
As an aside? Rather like the shout-out to Angel, with the big bad Vampire Hunter being called Connor. Plus I kinda liked the April/Rebecca friendship/romance. Now, April appears to be a romantic possibility for either Jeremy or Matt? Alrighty then. Unless of course someone finds Rebecca and unstakes her - maybe April will?
* On the bright side? Elena's not the damsel this week, FINALLY - She's actually, wait for it, the one who kills someone to save Jeremy (who is playing the damsel - yet again, mainly because they are running out of believable damsels that the audience actually gives a shit about. You can only play Vamp!Elena as damsel for so long...after all. ). Basically she's Damon. Which was sort of a nice change of pace. I admittedly applauded when she killed Vampire Hunter C.
Also nice twist - Stefan and Klaus were so focused on stopping Damon from killing Connor (Vamp Hunter Connor, not Destroyer Connor (or Vampire Hunter D for that matter) (whole different series see above)), that they basically forgot about Vamp!Elena. Can see why...one doesn't tend to think of Elena as being pro-active. Re-active yes, pro-active, no.
* So, what's the big plan here exactly? To save Jeremy, but somehow keep Vamp Hunter Connor under-wraps, yet still revealing bits of the map - so they can cure Elena of Vampirism? Without letting Vamp!Elena or anyone else know about it?? Won't they have to have Connor kill lots of vampires for this to work? So lots of other vampires (not our leads or the hybrids (because they are in short supply as it is)) have to die in order to save Elena? And she's not going to feel guilty over that? Okay.
* Damon: Do you want to cure Elena because you don't think she's cut out to be a vampire or because you can't love her as a vampire?
Stefan: I'll always love Elena regardless, but I don't think she was meant to be a vampire and I want to give her life back. [Well her life on the run from being a blood bag for Klaus' hybrid making machine, but we'll just deal with that little problem later, first things first after all.]
Damon: Okay, but just so you know, I'd love her either way, so if I go down this fairy-tale road, just want you to know I'm doing it for you.
(Oh golly gee, I think I'm gonna swoon...so many feels! (Many of which you don't even want to know about it) Yet oddly better than the opening 'dear dairy' bit, hard to fathom, but there it is.. I actually prefer the Stefan/Damon bro-romance (PLATONIC! Please) to the Elena/Stefan romance which doesn't appear to be going anywhere except in an endless circle, along with Elena/Damon romance which is going around in the same damn circle. Where's the unwritten rule that romantic relationships on these types of tv series have to endlessly go around in the same circles until the series ends? Are all writers this limited in their imaginations? Note to writer's...this gets repetitive after awhile, you can only sustain angst for so long, maybe a year or two, four years...is pushing it.)
Seriously? You know you have a problem with the story when you are rooting against the character's plans. Show? I don't want Elena to be cured. It's lame. Keep her a vampire. Deal with your writing decision, don't write your way out of it. Thank you. In short I don't want Stefan to succeed. I want him to fail and his little dog too...(wait I meant Klaus or maybe that's the other way around?)
* Meanwhile hot witch doctor teacher guy has managed to hypnotize Bonnie.
Bonnie: You can't hypnotize witches. So not gonna work.
Witch Doctor Guy: Then why did you take off your bracelet?
Bonnie: What??? (Gee I absently do that all the time.)
Bonnie with her eyes closed, opens them: I'm so bored. Not into this hypnotizing thing.
Witch Doctor Guy: Then why have you been at it for 7 hours?
Bonnie: What??
Bonnie looks at candle: see didn't light.
Witch Doctor Guy: I don't know about that (gestures at all the candles lit around them)
Me: How do we know you didn't do it???
* Elena discovers guilt. Why she feels guilt over killing insane Vamp Hunter Connor, I don't know. It was technically speaking self-defense. Not like she killed anyone innocent. Like April.
But it does appear to have a nasty side-effect. She wakes up, sees blood all over the place, and Killer in her mirror. Then it disappears.
This was a cool scene and creepy. Williamson does creepy well.
* Rather liked the bit where Damon saved Elena. I think it was Damon. Hard to tell. Could have been Stefan. Or both. Also where Damon and Stefan fight. And Damon almost pulls out Stefan's heart (don't worry no way Damon would ever kill Stefan on this series - might happen in a Whedon show, not in a Kevin Williamson show) , but Stefan tells him about Elena's cure...so he backs off of killing Vamp Connor, only to have Elena kill Vamp Connor instead of Damon.
Stefan: Thanks for not telling Elena.
Damon: Tell her what? That there was a non-existent, possible, alleged cure - which whoops she managed to kill? You're welcome.
I do like snarky characters. Possibly because I am one myself. So I get them. It's deathly serious characters with no sense of humor that I feel an overwhelming need to smack. Lighten up Stefan.
You're alive. (okay relatively speaking). Elena picked you. (again, relatively speaking) You can't have everything. Sigh, some people are never satisfied.
* Sort of curious what witch doctor guy is up to. No worries though. Vamp Hunter Connor - just paved the way for Jeremy to become one of the Brotherhood of the Five (as if he didn't have enough problems or issues). Poor Jeremy...first his parents are killed, then his girlfriends, then his guardian/aunt, then he dies, then his girlfriend brings him back only to break up with him, then he sees ghosts, then his sister becomes a vampire. And Stefan thought he had it rough.
Plus, he gets lied to all the time and compelled all the time. Boy has got to have a complex by now.
If I was Jeremy I would keep my new frigging tattoo to myself.
Hmmm...This season may be somewhat problematic for me, since I'm rooting against the characters.
Not a good thing when you aren't rooting for the characters to succeed in their quest.
* Elena: Dear Diary, I know I haven't written in you for a while, but I'm a vampire now and I hate
it. I so can't deal. [Sigh, does anyone say "Dear Diary" any more?] I've lost all hope.
Stefan: Dear Diary (apparently they still do, who knew?) I've found a way to cure Elena of Vampirism. Suddenly I have hope! (Now go be a nice little boyfriend and share this with Elena? No?)
[Ohhh...this is so romantic, I'm just gonna die, I can't hardly stand it! OMG!!! I have so many feels!!..No, wait, that would be for the commercials for Breaking Dawn, where Bella says in a voice over that she's so happy, she was clearly born to be a vampire. ( Please. Clearly, whomever is writing Vamp Diaries has also been watching Breaking Dawn commercials most likely against their will.) That said, yes, I understand the need to poke fun at Breaking Dawn, but...I thought we were past the duel romantic diary keeping?? Please let's not go back there again.]
* Stop teasing me show, I know you aren't going to kill Damon, Stefan, Tyler, Caroline, Elena or Jeremy...this is getting old. While it would admittedly be jaw-dropping if you did, also a bit painful (for some not all viewers), we know you won't do it.
Although, would not mind if you kicked April, Hayley, or Connor to the curb...oh wait...
Vamp Hunter Connor...we barely knew yah. Actually we didn't know you at all. Vamp Diaries you used to be better at the supporting characters. Hayley, April and Connor are...welll..
Does anyone else miss Michael, Alaric, Rosemarie, Anna and Vicky?
As an aside? Rather like the shout-out to Angel, with the big bad Vampire Hunter being called Connor. Plus I kinda liked the April/Rebecca friendship/romance. Now, April appears to be a romantic possibility for either Jeremy or Matt? Alrighty then. Unless of course someone finds Rebecca and unstakes her - maybe April will?
* On the bright side? Elena's not the damsel this week, FINALLY - She's actually, wait for it, the one who kills someone to save Jeremy (who is playing the damsel - yet again, mainly because they are running out of believable damsels that the audience actually gives a shit about. You can only play Vamp!Elena as damsel for so long...after all. ). Basically she's Damon. Which was sort of a nice change of pace. I admittedly applauded when she killed Vampire Hunter C.
Also nice twist - Stefan and Klaus were so focused on stopping Damon from killing Connor (Vamp Hunter Connor, not Destroyer Connor (or Vampire Hunter D for that matter) (whole different series see above)), that they basically forgot about Vamp!Elena. Can see why...one doesn't tend to think of Elena as being pro-active. Re-active yes, pro-active, no.
* So, what's the big plan here exactly? To save Jeremy, but somehow keep Vamp Hunter Connor under-wraps, yet still revealing bits of the map - so they can cure Elena of Vampirism? Without letting Vamp!Elena or anyone else know about it?? Won't they have to have Connor kill lots of vampires for this to work? So lots of other vampires (not our leads or the hybrids (because they are in short supply as it is)) have to die in order to save Elena? And she's not going to feel guilty over that? Okay.
* Damon: Do you want to cure Elena because you don't think she's cut out to be a vampire or because you can't love her as a vampire?
Stefan: I'll always love Elena regardless, but I don't think she was meant to be a vampire and I want to give her life back. [Well her life on the run from being a blood bag for Klaus' hybrid making machine, but we'll just deal with that little problem later, first things first after all.]
Damon: Okay, but just so you know, I'd love her either way, so if I go down this fairy-tale road, just want you to know I'm doing it for you.
(Oh golly gee, I think I'm gonna swoon...so many feels! (Many of which you don't even want to know about it) Yet oddly better than the opening 'dear dairy' bit, hard to fathom, but there it is.. I actually prefer the Stefan/Damon bro-romance (PLATONIC! Please) to the Elena/Stefan romance which doesn't appear to be going anywhere except in an endless circle, along with Elena/Damon romance which is going around in the same damn circle. Where's the unwritten rule that romantic relationships on these types of tv series have to endlessly go around in the same circles until the series ends? Are all writers this limited in their imaginations? Note to writer's...this gets repetitive after awhile, you can only sustain angst for so long, maybe a year or two, four years...is pushing it.)
Seriously? You know you have a problem with the story when you are rooting against the character's plans. Show? I don't want Elena to be cured. It's lame. Keep her a vampire. Deal with your writing decision, don't write your way out of it. Thank you. In short I don't want Stefan to succeed. I want him to fail and his little dog too...(wait I meant Klaus or maybe that's the other way around?)
* Meanwhile hot witch doctor teacher guy has managed to hypnotize Bonnie.
Bonnie: You can't hypnotize witches. So not gonna work.
Witch Doctor Guy: Then why did you take off your bracelet?
Bonnie: What??? (Gee I absently do that all the time.)
Bonnie with her eyes closed, opens them: I'm so bored. Not into this hypnotizing thing.
Witch Doctor Guy: Then why have you been at it for 7 hours?
Bonnie: What??
Bonnie looks at candle: see didn't light.
Witch Doctor Guy: I don't know about that (gestures at all the candles lit around them)
Me: How do we know you didn't do it???
* Elena discovers guilt. Why she feels guilt over killing insane Vamp Hunter Connor, I don't know. It was technically speaking self-defense. Not like she killed anyone innocent. Like April.
But it does appear to have a nasty side-effect. She wakes up, sees blood all over the place, and Killer in her mirror. Then it disappears.
This was a cool scene and creepy. Williamson does creepy well.
* Rather liked the bit where Damon saved Elena. I think it was Damon. Hard to tell. Could have been Stefan. Or both. Also where Damon and Stefan fight. And Damon almost pulls out Stefan's heart (don't worry no way Damon would ever kill Stefan on this series - might happen in a Whedon show, not in a Kevin Williamson show) , but Stefan tells him about Elena's cure...so he backs off of killing Vamp Connor, only to have Elena kill Vamp Connor instead of Damon.
Stefan: Thanks for not telling Elena.
Damon: Tell her what? That there was a non-existent, possible, alleged cure - which whoops she managed to kill? You're welcome.
I do like snarky characters. Possibly because I am one myself. So I get them. It's deathly serious characters with no sense of humor that I feel an overwhelming need to smack. Lighten up Stefan.
You're alive. (okay relatively speaking). Elena picked you. (again, relatively speaking) You can't have everything. Sigh, some people are never satisfied.
* Sort of curious what witch doctor guy is up to. No worries though. Vamp Hunter Connor - just paved the way for Jeremy to become one of the Brotherhood of the Five (as if he didn't have enough problems or issues). Poor Jeremy...first his parents are killed, then his girlfriends, then his guardian/aunt, then he dies, then his girlfriend brings him back only to break up with him, then he sees ghosts, then his sister becomes a vampire. And Stefan thought he had it rough.
Plus, he gets lied to all the time and compelled all the time. Boy has got to have a complex by now.
If I was Jeremy I would keep my new frigging tattoo to myself.
