'The Vampire Diaries' Wrap-up Thoughts... 3/8 -- Missed Opportunities

[arabian]

Once more into the fray with my Final Vampire Diaries series. Here are my ten missed opportunities. Most of these truly are "missed opportunities" rather than "wishful thinking" or "fantasies" in most cases. These are stories or scenes that I genuinely feel could (and some *should*) have come out of the existing narrative, mythology and/or

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Re: 3/10 -- Missed Opportunities (1/2)

[arabian]

“First, the obvious… Rayna was a vampire hunter, uhm, so was Jeremy… why was this never even remarked upon?” - This will always baffle me to no end. I mean, it's one thing not to bring back Jeremy in flesh, but not even a throwaway line? Why?? It felt inevitable for Jeremy to get an honorable mention at the very least yet it never happened. So odd.

It really, really was. That is one of those that I just can't wrap my head around, you know?

“I really thought the show was setting up a new Salvatore triangle, possibly a main one, with Nina Dobrev leaving at the end of season 06.” - I didn't think it could become the main one but I was certain it would happen in some form. I certainly didn't think it was going to be dropped without any development whatsoever.

I didn't think it was given that it could be a main, I just thought that it had the possibility because the potential was there, but they just dropped everything... and I think it was dropped because they lost Chris Wood, and thus the Kai/Bonnie story and thus created the badly-thought out Bonnie/Enzo story which screwed over not only Bonnie, but Enzo and Matt. *sigh*

“Maybe when they lost Chris Wood to Containment, along with Kai's redemption arc, went Bonnie's grand romance-which would have given Kat Graham a huge multi-season storyline.” - That would've been so much better than the rushed and slightly out-of-the-blue Bonnie/Enzo romance

Yup, yup, yup.

“What actor wouldn't choose a lead role on another show over a recurring one in an ensemble.” - Well, I don't know, but this pattern did NOT work so many times that they really should learn to reconsider lol

I disagree because if it does work... getting the chance to be a lead on a show is huge! I mean, Stephen Amell had a small recurring role on this show (yes, Wood's role was much better, but still an example) and then he got the lead on a freaking superhero show... which had *not* done well on TV, and Arrow was the biggest hit that the CW had had since TVD, so... it can have a HUGE payoff. Every actor HAS to take that opportunity.