should auld acquaintance be forgot
Hope you all are going to have a lovely new year's eve. I made no plans, so it's really no different than any other night, but I MIGHT stay up past ten tonight! Woohoo! And watch a movie or something.
Been busy on the internets doing a rebranding project the last few days. If it weren't for fandom, I swear I would live like it was 1915. I can barely handle the technological fact that I have a dishwasher; now I have to find out about Klout scores? (Mine's 22, btw. I keep staring at it, hoping I can bump it up overnight. Since 'social media' is kinda listed as a proficiency on my new-and-improved resume.) I started a new blog and an about.me page and have been working on my portfolio website and everything. This work makes me HATE. EVERYTHING.
So, naturally, to keep from focusing too much on hating everything (sat next to a privileged douchebag annoying fuck while working at Starbucks the other day who happens to be a drug-addled multibillionaire heir to an oil company; did not stab him like I wanted to) I think about how Vampire Diaries is coming back soon and all the ~Feelings~ I have about so many characters.
Especially Jenna. And my conspiracy theories.
I HATE that she got brought into the vampire world just long enough to get killed.
In most cases, I admire this show SO FUCKING MUCH for letting dead characters stay dead. I admire it for letting people die for nothing so that instead of making them heroes and leaving them behind, characters actually have to deal with the guilt and sadness and anger and everything else, and develop during that process, because someone they loved died for a cause that failed.
However, show, you can bring Jenna and Lexi the fuck back, okay?
And I feel like it IS possible for Jenna to come back, as if the possibility has been left there, just in case.
After Klaus did the sacrifice to break the curse, we didn't see what happened after Elijah ran off with Klaus; Bonnie was still there, and wasn't dropping dead from magic use yet; she could have done something with all the tools of the curse-breaking that were just lying there. In the next episode, it seems like the ancestral spirits are already highly on edge when Bonnie contacts them to ask how to save Damon from the werewolf bite, and they cut Bonnie off complete when she resurrects Jeremy-- the act Bonnie claims is what cut off her contact with them. But couldn't it be also likely that the real reason is that she resurrected a vampire, of all things, and bringing Jeremy back was simply the last straw?
When Jeremy starts seeing ghosts, he sees the ghosts of those he was close to, who haven't had the peace to move on. That explains why he wouldn't see his parents; not that we know much about Miranda and Grayson, but I think that, since they urged Stefan to rescue Elena first, they were at peace when they died. Jenna, however, did not die peacefully. She did not turn off the switch and she died with tears in her eyes. She died still trying to sort out what her place was with Ric and Isobel, and as a vampire, and as someone who should have been protecting Elena. She was the sort of person who held a grudge against Logan Fell for years, who refused to date Ric while her questions remained unanswered, and who held onto her animosity towards John. Jenna is not a woman who lets things go and just peacefully moves on.
And then on the day when all the ghosts showed up, she wasn't among them. Not even for one last goodbye that she never got to give to Alaric, not to check on Elena and Jeremy.
In any case, I'd really like it to be the case, and that Bonnie will reveal she's been reviving Jenna and making sure she's not going to go wild for the past few months. I want Jenna to be able to finish grad school, I want her to have a girls' night with all of the girls while Caroline tells her about how to live and let live. I want Elena and Jeremy to have lost one less person. I want Alaric to have to deal with being in love with a woman who's a vampire, again.
What is it, like five days til this show comes back? And the remnants of my sanity return?
Been busy on the internets doing a rebranding project the last few days. If it weren't for fandom, I swear I would live like it was 1915. I can barely handle the technological fact that I have a dishwasher; now I have to find out about Klout scores? (Mine's 22, btw. I keep staring at it, hoping I can bump it up overnight. Since 'social media' is kinda listed as a proficiency on my new-and-improved resume.) I started a new blog and an about.me page and have been working on my portfolio website and everything. This work makes me HATE. EVERYTHING.
So, naturally, to keep from focusing too much on hating everything (sat next to a privileged douchebag annoying fuck while working at Starbucks the other day who happens to be a drug-addled multibillionaire heir to an oil company; did not stab him like I wanted to) I think about how Vampire Diaries is coming back soon and all the ~Feelings~ I have about so many characters.
Especially Jenna. And my conspiracy theories.
I HATE that she got brought into the vampire world just long enough to get killed.
In most cases, I admire this show SO FUCKING MUCH for letting dead characters stay dead. I admire it for letting people die for nothing so that instead of making them heroes and leaving them behind, characters actually have to deal with the guilt and sadness and anger and everything else, and develop during that process, because someone they loved died for a cause that failed.
However, show, you can bring Jenna and Lexi the fuck back, okay?
And I feel like it IS possible for Jenna to come back, as if the possibility has been left there, just in case.
After Klaus did the sacrifice to break the curse, we didn't see what happened after Elijah ran off with Klaus; Bonnie was still there, and wasn't dropping dead from magic use yet; she could have done something with all the tools of the curse-breaking that were just lying there. In the next episode, it seems like the ancestral spirits are already highly on edge when Bonnie contacts them to ask how to save Damon from the werewolf bite, and they cut Bonnie off complete when she resurrects Jeremy-- the act Bonnie claims is what cut off her contact with them. But couldn't it be also likely that the real reason is that she resurrected a vampire, of all things, and bringing Jeremy back was simply the last straw?
When Jeremy starts seeing ghosts, he sees the ghosts of those he was close to, who haven't had the peace to move on. That explains why he wouldn't see his parents; not that we know much about Miranda and Grayson, but I think that, since they urged Stefan to rescue Elena first, they were at peace when they died. Jenna, however, did not die peacefully. She did not turn off the switch and she died with tears in her eyes. She died still trying to sort out what her place was with Ric and Isobel, and as a vampire, and as someone who should have been protecting Elena. She was the sort of person who held a grudge against Logan Fell for years, who refused to date Ric while her questions remained unanswered, and who held onto her animosity towards John. Jenna is not a woman who lets things go and just peacefully moves on.
And then on the day when all the ghosts showed up, she wasn't among them. Not even for one last goodbye that she never got to give to Alaric, not to check on Elena and Jeremy.
In any case, I'd really like it to be the case, and that Bonnie will reveal she's been reviving Jenna and making sure she's not going to go wild for the past few months. I want Jenna to be able to finish grad school, I want her to have a girls' night with all of the girls while Caroline tells her about how to live and let live. I want Elena and Jeremy to have lost one less person. I want Alaric to have to deal with being in love with a woman who's a vampire, again.
What is it, like five days til this show comes back? And the remnants of my sanity return?