Vamp Diaries...After School Special
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shadowkatWell that was interesting and entertaining...although, again, show stop teasing me about killing main characters, seriously you are worse than Downton Abbey teasing me about the loss of Downton Abbey. I know you aren't going to go through with it - there wouldn't be a tv show.
Must say it was a hoot to watch this after General Hosptial - which is currently doing an off-beat homage to its vampire soap opera spin-off series "Port Charles" (GH's 1990s spin-off) which predated Buffy by about two years. In it - Lucy Coe was the vampire slayer. So now, Lucy's back on GH and so are the actors who played vampires on Port Charles, but completely different characters on GH. Lucy is convinced they are vampires still. The other characters have to keep telling her that vampires don't exist. "But, but," sputters Lucy, "I'm the vampire slayer. They have you hypnotized. You can't see it. They showed up as a rock band. Then the king of vampire's morphed into a priest, and now he's morphed into a cop." (Klaus apparently has nothing on Michael Easten's former vamp character Caleb). Hilarious. Particularly because in a soap opera, that absurd plot-line is actually possible. (In this day and age, soap operas actually make fun of themselves. One week they had the characters state that no one in this town ever stays dead...possibly because of the unknown vampire population? Hey, it's one explanation.)
Also the promos for the YA Zombie/Human romance Warm Bodies continues to amuse me. Particularly when I think about all the Buffy fans who were squicked over Buffy loving vampires on BTVS. Because you know, necrophilia. And how they'd joke about vampire romance, how lame it is, and say no one does that with zombies. Hee. People? Friends of mine?
Warm Bodies was made just for you.
But back to my guilty pleasure, because frankly I find rotting corpses gross, so prefer vampires to zombies...Vampire Diaries.
I'm actually going with Professor Shane - who Cole was right to want to kill. Unfortunately he didn't know Bonnie had down a protection spell linking Shane to April, which meant April would get killed. And go, April - on your truth kick. Rebecca told you the truth.
* Stefan
This boy has taken self-absorption to a whole new level. I'm guessing right about now, he's regretting that whole decision to save Matt and let Elena drown, eh? Sure she'd have been pissed, but hey...
Also not very good at listening.
Rebecca made a couple of things clear to him.
1) Stefan basically treated her worse than Elena/Damon are treating Stefan. In short, he romanticized her, made her fall in love with him, loved her, then asked her brother to make him forget his feelings for her. And broke her heart. Quite the lothario, Stefan.
2) Elena stated she had fallen in love with Damon because she felt free with him, he was unpredictable, and he didn't treat her like a project or problem to be fixed or a broken toy.
Stefan treats her like a project or a toy. (This is actually true. But I wouldn't take it personally Elena, Stefan has control issues - he treats his brother, Caroline, Rebecca, and Katrina the same way. Holy Stefan - and the people he has to fix or maintain their purity. Reminds me a little of Angel, except Angel was more honest about it.)
Does Stefan listen, no.
Rebecca says she's compelled to tell the truth. That goes past the sire bond. Still doesn't listen.
Because you gotta know its all about Stefan's pain.
3) Elena also states she still loves and cares about Stefan, she's just not in love with him any more. (Possibly all the manipulating and lying behind her back may have caused that. Not the sire bond with Damon. But you know, so much easier to blame Damon. Easier to fix Elena and Damon than yourself. Soul-searching isn't exactly old Stefan's strong suit.)
Again Stefan doesn't listen. So when Rebecca offers to remove all memories of Elena, even the good times (and whoops just flash-backed to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for a bit there), Stefan takes her up on it. But she says no way - that would be too easy. You deserve to feel the pain of unrequited love and a broken heart for a bit - considering how many people you've inflicted it on. (Agreed.) Yes, walk a few miles in Damon, Rebecca, and Katrina's slippers - dude.
Afterwards, Stefan decides to form an alliance with Rebecca to find the cure before the others do and to use Shane to do it - even though Shane has a really dark agenda and wants to raise the dead and has been sacrificing people to do it. (Hmmm...I'm seeing zombies in their future.)
Stefan to Rebecca - we both hate our brothers, let's team up and get revenge! I get to find out if Elena actually cares about Damon (oh so it is no longer about curing Elena and making her human again for her own good and so she can have a nice life, now it's about whether or not she loves Damon?) and Rebecca gets to see Nicklause face when he becomes human. (So she wants to turn Klaus human - that actually kills two birds with one stone. Only one little problem - Shane's plan to raise silas and the dead...but hey, we can worry about that bridge when we cross it. No big.)
* Damon - poor Damon is trying to be the good vamp for Elena. He's so in love he can't deal.
And the boy has been in unrequited love with either Katrina or Elena for so long, he can barely see straight. It's the cause of the rift with his brother.
But Jeremy, Matt and Klaus are making this difficult. Training Jeremy is taking forever and Matt is not really helping. Plus he's bored. So when Klaus pops up ...well, it's a nice distraction.
He does to be fair...shoot Klaus full of holes for Carol Lockwood (Tyler's Mom - who Klaus killed becauseone too many characters named Carol or Caroline - to pay back Tyler for pushing Klaus into killing his hybrids. (Actually that was Shane not Tyler, but quibbles.)). Anyhow, Klaus gets back at Damon by killing and turning the pretty blond pizza girl, who Jeremy idiotically invites into the house and has to kill. After that - Damon thinks what the hell. Although I think Klaus killed all the people in town prior to Damon agreeing to it - but hey if you can't beat them, join them. Besides - added bonus - we get to cure Elena and Damon can find out if she really loves him or is just under a sire bond. (Apparently the show doesn't want Elena to stay a vampire? Due to the stupid sire bond - I'm not sure I do either, although I still think a great twist would be if Damon got cured and became human again. That would break the sire bond too, after all. That said, Elena makes a lame vampire. She's no different. Wasted storyline.)
So what...are we now going to have 3 years of Damon/Elena angst with Stefan brooding and plotting on the sidelines?
The whole who does Elena love - Stefan/Damon bit - is getting old. Neither boy listens to her any more. Can't say I blame them, she's incredibly indecisive and wishy-washy. Also isn't love about wanting what is best for the other person - not wanting the other person to make yourself feel great like you might want a glass of wine or chocolate?
Anyhow, Damon makes the devil's bargain with Klaus in order to grow Jeremy's tattoo so they can find the cure and use the sword which Klaus has to get it. Because both want to cure Elena. One to find out if she really loves him and to break the sire bond (which is sort of selfless in a way, at least he wants her to be free, right) - so she is free either way, the other to get back his human hybrid making machine. Hey wait, isn't this the same deal Stefan originally had with Klaus?
Except at least Damon is letting Elena in on it. Will give him credit for that. Granted they have to kill quite a few people to do it. Because you know it's not like there's any vampires wandering about already, no we have to go kill innocent people turn them and create vampires to find the cure. But hey, what's a few unknown human lives...give or take? Or Jeremy's soul for that matter?
Poor Jeremy...he's still everyone's tool - with or without powers.
* Caroline
Caroline gets her priorities back in place and starts to worry about Tyler. Thank god. Stefan was ruining that character.
Possibly required that little session with Rebecca to knock some sense into her - I mean seriously hon do you want to get in the middle of the Oppressive Love Triangle from hell? No. Go to Tyler.
She actually wins the nice vamp award this week.
*Elena
At least she was finally honest with Stefan about her feelings for Damon and honest with herself. Too bad she had to be compelled. Now if she only did that prior to being turned into a vampire, life would have been much easier. Or before the sire bond bit.
I can't see the show making what she said - be due to the sire bond, because that makes no sense.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Damon's a great guy, any more than I think Stefan is. Damon's a bit more honest and far more fun to watch - but that's just me. I honestly don't care all that much who Elena ends up with...just as long as it isn't boring and repetitive. Stefan/Elena is boring. Damon/Elena has potential, but could get boring fast.
Could they write Elena out? No, too many people love her. She's okay. But they aren't really doing anything with the character outside of bopping her back and forth between the boys like a bloody ping pong ball. I actually would like to see her off on her own for a bit, unattached. Watching Elena makes me miss Buffy - who had a storyline outside of her vampire love interest of the moment.
Here, the boys (STefan/Damon) have more storyline than Elena. This feels like their show, with Elena as the obstacle between them or the bone they will perpetually fight over until they figure out that "bros before hos" - which by the way is an incredibly misogynistic statement as is this three-way relationship. Which is why I wish they'd stop doing it. Give Elena some agency outside of the two boys. Give her a life. At least last year - she seemed to take the initiative.
Also what happened to - no one messes with my bro - Elena? She take a hike?
Not liking love-sick Elena. Damon and Stefan bring out the worse in this character.
*Bonnie
You finally question the weird limitless magic that Professor Shane is teaching you?
And where has Dad been? Up until now, I thought he was dead and she was on her lonesome. Oh, right, traveling pharmeceutical salesman. So what did he suddenly give up his job and decide to become mayor? It can't be that high-paying, although it should be considering the death rate.
With any luck he'll survive the season - people related to Bonnie or are mayor don't tend to live very long.
If Shane raises the dead, half the people will be either related to or associated with Bonnie.
(I'm thinking he will - because the writers could have a field day bringing back old characters they killed off as zombies and then kill them off again. That way they don't have to kill any more key characters.)
*April
Rebecca and Jeremy have managed to give April a bit of chutzapha. She's tired of the lies. And tells the Mayor and Sheriff that Professor Shane killed her father and the town council. He instigated the deaths of the hybrids. And they have to stop him. (Well not if Stefan and Rebecca have anything to say about it.)
Anyone else miss Alaric and Elijah? Alaric isn't coming back - that actor is in the new show "Cult" by Rockne O'Bannion. Don't know about Elijah. And oh, Joseph Morgan used to be on Doc Martin (noticed him in a minor supporting role while watching the series at XMas, my parents are into it - Doc Martin, not Vamp Diaries. They'd hate Vamp Diaries.)
This week more plot less Oppressive Love Triangle of Doom - although it is still there, we had to have the heart to hearts, where no one listens to anyone and we are basically repeating the same thing again. I'm sure on fanboards, people are arguing that Elena was either compelled to say that or it was due to the sire bond. And how in the hell can she feel free with Damon under a sire bond - isn't that ironic, much. While on the other side...they are saying that it proves she really loves him and how self-centered can Stefan be, and Stefan would rather forget her than handle the pain. And he wants to cage and control her, and sees her as his toy. Etc, etc. I honestly think writers do the Oppressive Love Triangle of Doom just so they can watch fans tear into each other endlessly over it...sadistic things are soap opera writers.
Must say it was a hoot to watch this after General Hosptial - which is currently doing an off-beat homage to its vampire soap opera spin-off series "Port Charles" (GH's 1990s spin-off) which predated Buffy by about two years. In it - Lucy Coe was the vampire slayer. So now, Lucy's back on GH and so are the actors who played vampires on Port Charles, but completely different characters on GH. Lucy is convinced they are vampires still. The other characters have to keep telling her that vampires don't exist. "But, but," sputters Lucy, "I'm the vampire slayer. They have you hypnotized. You can't see it. They showed up as a rock band. Then the king of vampire's morphed into a priest, and now he's morphed into a cop." (Klaus apparently has nothing on Michael Easten's former vamp character Caleb). Hilarious. Particularly because in a soap opera, that absurd plot-line is actually possible. (In this day and age, soap operas actually make fun of themselves. One week they had the characters state that no one in this town ever stays dead...possibly because of the unknown vampire population? Hey, it's one explanation.)
Also the promos for the YA Zombie/Human romance Warm Bodies continues to amuse me. Particularly when I think about all the Buffy fans who were squicked over Buffy loving vampires on BTVS. Because you know, necrophilia. And how they'd joke about vampire romance, how lame it is, and say no one does that with zombies. Hee. People? Friends of mine?
Warm Bodies was made just for you.
But back to my guilty pleasure, because frankly I find rotting corpses gross, so prefer vampires to zombies...Vampire Diaries.
I'm actually going with Professor Shane - who Cole was right to want to kill. Unfortunately he didn't know Bonnie had down a protection spell linking Shane to April, which meant April would get killed. And go, April - on your truth kick. Rebecca told you the truth.
* Stefan
This boy has taken self-absorption to a whole new level. I'm guessing right about now, he's regretting that whole decision to save Matt and let Elena drown, eh? Sure she'd have been pissed, but hey...
Also not very good at listening.
Rebecca made a couple of things clear to him.
1) Stefan basically treated her worse than Elena/Damon are treating Stefan. In short, he romanticized her, made her fall in love with him, loved her, then asked her brother to make him forget his feelings for her. And broke her heart. Quite the lothario, Stefan.
2) Elena stated she had fallen in love with Damon because she felt free with him, he was unpredictable, and he didn't treat her like a project or problem to be fixed or a broken toy.
Stefan treats her like a project or a toy. (This is actually true. But I wouldn't take it personally Elena, Stefan has control issues - he treats his brother, Caroline, Rebecca, and Katrina the same way. Holy Stefan - and the people he has to fix or maintain their purity. Reminds me a little of Angel, except Angel was more honest about it.)
Does Stefan listen, no.
Rebecca says she's compelled to tell the truth. That goes past the sire bond. Still doesn't listen.
Because you gotta know its all about Stefan's pain.
3) Elena also states she still loves and cares about Stefan, she's just not in love with him any more. (Possibly all the manipulating and lying behind her back may have caused that. Not the sire bond with Damon. But you know, so much easier to blame Damon. Easier to fix Elena and Damon than yourself. Soul-searching isn't exactly old Stefan's strong suit.)
Again Stefan doesn't listen. So when Rebecca offers to remove all memories of Elena, even the good times (and whoops just flash-backed to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for a bit there), Stefan takes her up on it. But she says no way - that would be too easy. You deserve to feel the pain of unrequited love and a broken heart for a bit - considering how many people you've inflicted it on. (Agreed.) Yes, walk a few miles in Damon, Rebecca, and Katrina's slippers - dude.
Afterwards, Stefan decides to form an alliance with Rebecca to find the cure before the others do and to use Shane to do it - even though Shane has a really dark agenda and wants to raise the dead and has been sacrificing people to do it. (Hmmm...I'm seeing zombies in their future.)
Stefan to Rebecca - we both hate our brothers, let's team up and get revenge! I get to find out if Elena actually cares about Damon (oh so it is no longer about curing Elena and making her human again for her own good and so she can have a nice life, now it's about whether or not she loves Damon?) and Rebecca gets to see Nicklause face when he becomes human. (So she wants to turn Klaus human - that actually kills two birds with one stone. Only one little problem - Shane's plan to raise silas and the dead...but hey, we can worry about that bridge when we cross it. No big.)
* Damon - poor Damon is trying to be the good vamp for Elena. He's so in love he can't deal.
And the boy has been in unrequited love with either Katrina or Elena for so long, he can barely see straight. It's the cause of the rift with his brother.
But Jeremy, Matt and Klaus are making this difficult. Training Jeremy is taking forever and Matt is not really helping. Plus he's bored. So when Klaus pops up ...well, it's a nice distraction.
He does to be fair...shoot Klaus full of holes for Carol Lockwood (Tyler's Mom - who Klaus killed because
So what...are we now going to have 3 years of Damon/Elena angst with Stefan brooding and plotting on the sidelines?
The whole who does Elena love - Stefan/Damon bit - is getting old. Neither boy listens to her any more. Can't say I blame them, she's incredibly indecisive and wishy-washy. Also isn't love about wanting what is best for the other person - not wanting the other person to make yourself feel great like you might want a glass of wine or chocolate?
Anyhow, Damon makes the devil's bargain with Klaus in order to grow Jeremy's tattoo so they can find the cure and use the sword which Klaus has to get it. Because both want to cure Elena. One to find out if she really loves him and to break the sire bond (which is sort of selfless in a way, at least he wants her to be free, right) - so she is free either way, the other to get back his human hybrid making machine. Hey wait, isn't this the same deal Stefan originally had with Klaus?
Except at least Damon is letting Elena in on it. Will give him credit for that. Granted they have to kill quite a few people to do it. Because you know it's not like there's any vampires wandering about already, no we have to go kill innocent people turn them and create vampires to find the cure. But hey, what's a few unknown human lives...give or take? Or Jeremy's soul for that matter?
Poor Jeremy...he's still everyone's tool - with or without powers.
* Caroline
Caroline gets her priorities back in place and starts to worry about Tyler. Thank god. Stefan was ruining that character.
Possibly required that little session with Rebecca to knock some sense into her - I mean seriously hon do you want to get in the middle of the Oppressive Love Triangle from hell? No. Go to Tyler.
She actually wins the nice vamp award this week.
*Elena
At least she was finally honest with Stefan about her feelings for Damon and honest with herself. Too bad she had to be compelled. Now if she only did that prior to being turned into a vampire, life would have been much easier. Or before the sire bond bit.
I can't see the show making what she said - be due to the sire bond, because that makes no sense.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Damon's a great guy, any more than I think Stefan is. Damon's a bit more honest and far more fun to watch - but that's just me. I honestly don't care all that much who Elena ends up with...just as long as it isn't boring and repetitive. Stefan/Elena is boring. Damon/Elena has potential, but could get boring fast.
Could they write Elena out? No, too many people love her. She's okay. But they aren't really doing anything with the character outside of bopping her back and forth between the boys like a bloody ping pong ball. I actually would like to see her off on her own for a bit, unattached. Watching Elena makes me miss Buffy - who had a storyline outside of her vampire love interest of the moment.
Here, the boys (STefan/Damon) have more storyline than Elena. This feels like their show, with Elena as the obstacle between them or the bone they will perpetually fight over until they figure out that "bros before hos" - which by the way is an incredibly misogynistic statement as is this three-way relationship. Which is why I wish they'd stop doing it. Give Elena some agency outside of the two boys. Give her a life. At least last year - she seemed to take the initiative.
Also what happened to - no one messes with my bro - Elena? She take a hike?
Not liking love-sick Elena. Damon and Stefan bring out the worse in this character.
*Bonnie
You finally question the weird limitless magic that Professor Shane is teaching you?
And where has Dad been? Up until now, I thought he was dead and she was on her lonesome. Oh, right, traveling pharmeceutical salesman. So what did he suddenly give up his job and decide to become mayor? It can't be that high-paying, although it should be considering the death rate.
With any luck he'll survive the season - people related to Bonnie or are mayor don't tend to live very long.
If Shane raises the dead, half the people will be either related to or associated with Bonnie.
(I'm thinking he will - because the writers could have a field day bringing back old characters they killed off as zombies and then kill them off again. That way they don't have to kill any more key characters.)
*April
Rebecca and Jeremy have managed to give April a bit of chutzapha. She's tired of the lies. And tells the Mayor and Sheriff that Professor Shane killed her father and the town council. He instigated the deaths of the hybrids. And they have to stop him. (Well not if Stefan and Rebecca have anything to say about it.)
Anyone else miss Alaric and Elijah? Alaric isn't coming back - that actor is in the new show "Cult" by Rockne O'Bannion. Don't know about Elijah. And oh, Joseph Morgan used to be on Doc Martin (noticed him in a minor supporting role while watching the series at XMas, my parents are into it - Doc Martin, not Vamp Diaries. They'd hate Vamp Diaries.)
This week more plot less Oppressive Love Triangle of Doom - although it is still there, we had to have the heart to hearts, where no one listens to anyone and we are basically repeating the same thing again. I'm sure on fanboards, people are arguing that Elena was either compelled to say that or it was due to the sire bond. And how in the hell can she feel free with Damon under a sire bond - isn't that ironic, much. While on the other side...they are saying that it proves she really loves him and how self-centered can Stefan be, and Stefan would rather forget her than handle the pain. And he wants to cage and control her, and sees her as his toy. Etc, etc. I honestly think writers do the Oppressive Love Triangle of Doom just so they can watch fans tear into each other endlessly over it...sadistic things are soap opera writers.
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Date: 2013-01-18 04:42 am (UTC)With the rest, I was "whatev" but with that line -- Hell yeah!
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Date: 2013-01-19 01:01 am (UTC)Agreed...that line is great. It also sort of describes Elena's issues with both Matt and Stefan in a nutshell. Stefan didn't understand that his whole appeal was that he wasn't planning her future like Matt, that
he was forbidden. When he became Matt take2, Elena lost interest and remembered that it was Damon she met in the woods after she ran from safe, predictable Matt who wanted to plan their future at the ripe old age of 17.
She felt guilty for running from Matt, and not listening to her parents about him - which resulted in her parents deaths in her head. But now, that guilt is sort of gone and she feels free to be who she wants to be.
Apparently becoming a vampire - frees you from that stuff?
At any rate...she is right. Stefan is treating her like his pet project. A broken toy. That he has to fix with the vamp cure. I think if he just let her be, he wouldn't have lost her.