'The Vampire Diaries' Wrap-up Thoughts... 2/8 -- Minor Unresolved Issues
Continuing along with my Final Vampire Diaries series. Here are my five minor unresolved issues. They didn't affect the overall narrative, but matter enough though that they will probably always bother me just enough that I take note whenever I re-watch the series. Each section is listed in order of the most glaring (either in their egregiousness
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Well, I mean "final" in these bunch of posts after the series' run ended, but as you know I plan on rewatching the entire series and will be doing a rewrite of each episode with fresh eyes, so... yeah, so not the end of my TVD posts, LOL!
“Damon was blamed for something that he categorically did *not* do. Even worse, this was something that he actually stopped from happening.” - I wonder if maybe upon the re-watch we’ll be able to read some premeditated symbolism into it? Just grasping at straws here lol
I'd like to think so, but this is NOT something I'm expecting to see, but maybe.
“Damon was acting completely UN-Damon like, even humanity-flipped (especially humanity-flipped) Damon. He was all but begging the others to hate him at Tyler's funeral.” - That was so obvious it hurt. I was seriously stupefied by everyone not realizing *immediately* what was going on.
All I can think of is that they *were* at Tyler's funeral and were in mourning for a friend, and had *just* gotten Enzo back who had managed to fight off Sybil while, you know, Damon had not. So all of that was reeling through their minds... oh, yeah, and Damon was threatening Matt's life and he had JUST killed Tyler as well. So, there were maybe, you know, extenuating circumstances at play.
“Including that would have been about a minute and, oh, say taking out that pointless (if amusing) scene between Katherine and Damon in the woods” - Oh yes, I would’ve totally preferred the scene you proposed to that scene in the woods that offered zero new information.
I know, right?! Although, Katherine's quip that "...everybody will go poof. Well, they'll burn alive first, but then their ashes will go poof" did legit crack me up.
As beautiful and moving as [the Rose arc] all must’ve been on paper (and of course to a great extent still was on the screen), there just wasn’t enough tangible, perceptible warmth and immediate depth to Rose that would’ve made us care even more.
Yes, exactly, this.
...given all the character and story points that you mention, it was clearly the casting in this case, and not the writing.
Exactly. There were a few cases, I will admit, where the writers may have not established characters fully (calling Jo and the Heretics), but that was so not the case with Dorian. They really did a great job in every area--except for a love interest--creating a fully three-dimensional character, but the actor just did not click. Alas.
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