The Vampire Diaries Re-Watch of 2013 (or, how S3 is trying to kill me)
Dear TVD,
Please spend more time on the rehearsals and get a better choreographer if you're going to continue to do episodes like Miss Mystic Falls and Dangerous Liaisons in which formal ballroom type dancing is featured. The choreography is bad and everyone is stiff and awkward as they dance. If you can't afford to spend the time and money required to make your actors look like they haven't just learned the dance steps earlier that morning then STOP, because everyone involved ends up looking ridiculous.
Regards,
Paloma
In my mind, Plec envisions these episode to be like something out of a Jane Austen adaptation. And they're not. Oh, no, nonononono they are so NOT. Not in calibre of writing, acting, and dancing.
S3 really is as bad as I remembered. Getting through the second half of S3 is killing me. It's all Originals and no Tyler and I am dying of boredom. Suffering through all the ToD crap and Morgan's tragically bad acting is giving me cramps which is just piling on the agony for me. Hoping the Advil will kick in soon.
ETA: So now TVD wants to sell me on there being wild horses in America a thousand years ago? The Europeans (the conquistadors, to be exact) brought the horse over circa the c16th, you dumbasses. And if the Originals were there hundreds of years before the Europeans THEN HOW? How could Elijah state wild horses used to graze in a field near the present day town square when Elena comments how she can't imagine what Mystic Falls was like a thousand years ago. OK, maybe they brought horses with them when they escaped the plague, but then they just set a bunch of their horses free so they could go wild??? OMGWTFJFC I just can't with this show.
Please spend more time on the rehearsals and get a better choreographer if you're going to continue to do episodes like Miss Mystic Falls and Dangerous Liaisons in which formal ballroom type dancing is featured. The choreography is bad and everyone is stiff and awkward as they dance. If you can't afford to spend the time and money required to make your actors look like they haven't just learned the dance steps earlier that morning then STOP, because everyone involved ends up looking ridiculous.
Regards,
Paloma
In my mind, Plec envisions these episode to be like something out of a Jane Austen adaptation. And they're not. Oh, no, nonononono they are so NOT. Not in calibre of writing, acting, and dancing.
S3 really is as bad as I remembered. Getting through the second half of S3 is killing me. It's all Originals and no Tyler and I am dying of boredom. Suffering through all the ToD crap and Morgan's tragically bad acting is giving me cramps which is just piling on the agony for me. Hoping the Advil will kick in soon.
ETA: So now TVD wants to sell me on there being wild horses in America a thousand years ago? The Europeans (the conquistadors, to be exact) brought the horse over circa the c16th, you dumbasses. And if the Originals were there hundreds of years before the Europeans THEN HOW? How could Elijah state wild horses used to graze in a field near the present day town square when Elena comments how she can't imagine what Mystic Falls was like a thousand years ago. OK, maybe they brought horses with them when they escaped the plague, but then they just set a bunch of their horses free so they could go wild??? OMGWTFJFC I just can't with this show.