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Okay, let’s do a TVD ep tonight. With somewhat less s4 bitching...maybe
TVD: 1x02: The Night of the Comet
And I think it will be a list format post, because I don’t have that many thoughts...I think.
1. Hey, I just realized that Tanner is Dr. Miller over on Saving Hope, even more reason to write crossover fic, although that would probably just be a one off joke or maybe they actually are long lost twins or something. Either way, the main point would be to have Jeremy-Charlie bonding and Joel-Elijah confusion.
2. I have mixed feelings on Jenna’s story here. I really like it as the implied starting point of her character arc, but it’s never allowed to actually go anywhere, or at least not very far before being regressed.
3. An early example of it feeling like a lot more time passed between - or within - episodes than actually did. They even given us an exact time frame and yet...it just doesn’t quite compute.
4. You know, as much as I love - or hate - these characters in the present and that does reflect backwards into revisiting this, wow am I reminded why I found them all so shallow at first. Everyone is just bland. Except Damon who is awful already, but kind of blandly awful.
5. One thing I can only feel in hindsight is like s1 (at least the first half) is missing something without the always nagging feeling like Katherine *could* show up at any time. Even when you know she probably won’t (or go back and watch episodes where you know she won’t), now there’s always the *chance* that she’ll show up and awesome things up a bit.
6. Okay, the diary entries used here were awful, no love lost for the show ditching stuff like this.
7. I do appreciate the semi-foreshadowing that people in Mystic Falls will be listening to rumblings of vampires and be prepared to take action if it gets out. That this is not a place where people are going to just assume Vicky’s crazy or high to suggest such a thing. The general people might explain it with something rational, but not everyone, and both Damon and Stefan know to be wary.
8. So in the pilot Elena/Matt was sort of an ‘I’m going to end up shipping this aren’t I?’ thing, this one bumped it up to ‘yeah, that’s totally my endgame ship.’ I have never shipped them in a ‘get together now you two,’ sort of way, it’s always been the belief that they will find their way back together. Because they do love each other, they aren’t in love right now; and Elena maybe never was but she’s always loved him so much that I think that’s how she’d be the happiest. But that was before she died and got replaced with pod-Elena, who Matt still sort of loves but only because he’ll always love any version of Elena.
9. It kind of occurred to me here that my problems with the Triangle aren’t exclusively about the Triangle. Oh don’t get me wrong, by at least mid-s3 the Triangle was truly awful and atrocious, but so much of the makeup of the show has changed and yet it clings to this aspect of its conception. It could have at most two of the three; overarching plot, grounded reality, and the Triangle, and early on it wanted to be about the paranormal love Triangle while being grounded in something like reality with only flashes of bigger plots. The balance has shifted entirely away from any sort of grounded reality, committed to extensive mythology and big plots and yet the Triangle - the least interesting elements to me - remains. And the Triangle looks worse in that set up because the plot keeps dumping crap on the characters who have no grounding at all and yet we still have to follow the damned love Triangle. And there is no saving that damned thing at this point unless maybe if it becomes the thing that only kind of pops up in the background while primarily the characters are trying to deal with the plots and their actual lives; and, you know, BE ACTUAL CHARACTERS AGAIN.
10. For a bit more Triangle bitching, back in this episode, Stefan is eye-roll-inducing and kind of early douchy, but mainly just bland; and Damon is just awful and could die now and I wouldn’t miss anything he’s done in four seasons (and mostly would be happy to lose so much crap). The Jeremy/Vicky/Tyler triangle the show has now is annoying in its own ways, as neither side of that one is terribly interesting either, but its B plot nature keeps it from being as awful as the Triangle of Doom.
I guess I’ll call it quits at 10 points, my minds getting fuzzy enough not to think of what few other things I might have said about this.
Next time:
SG-1 seems likely, but won’t say for sure
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TVD: 1x02: The Night of the Comet
And I think it will be a list format post, because I don’t have that many thoughts...I think.
1. Hey, I just realized that Tanner is Dr. Miller over on Saving Hope, even more reason to write crossover fic, although that would probably just be a one off joke or maybe they actually are long lost twins or something. Either way, the main point would be to have Jeremy-Charlie bonding and Joel-Elijah confusion.
2. I have mixed feelings on Jenna’s story here. I really like it as the implied starting point of her character arc, but it’s never allowed to actually go anywhere, or at least not very far before being regressed.
3. An early example of it feeling like a lot more time passed between - or within - episodes than actually did. They even given us an exact time frame and yet...it just doesn’t quite compute.
4. You know, as much as I love - or hate - these characters in the present and that does reflect backwards into revisiting this, wow am I reminded why I found them all so shallow at first. Everyone is just bland. Except Damon who is awful already, but kind of blandly awful.
5. One thing I can only feel in hindsight is like s1 (at least the first half) is missing something without the always nagging feeling like Katherine *could* show up at any time. Even when you know she probably won’t (or go back and watch episodes where you know she won’t), now there’s always the *chance* that she’ll show up and awesome things up a bit.
6. Okay, the diary entries used here were awful, no love lost for the show ditching stuff like this.
7. I do appreciate the semi-foreshadowing that people in Mystic Falls will be listening to rumblings of vampires and be prepared to take action if it gets out. That this is not a place where people are going to just assume Vicky’s crazy or high to suggest such a thing. The general people might explain it with something rational, but not everyone, and both Damon and Stefan know to be wary.
8. So in the pilot Elena/Matt was sort of an ‘I’m going to end up shipping this aren’t I?’ thing, this one bumped it up to ‘yeah, that’s totally my endgame ship.’ I have never shipped them in a ‘get together now you two,’ sort of way, it’s always been the belief that they will find their way back together. Because they do love each other, they aren’t in love right now; and Elena maybe never was but she’s always loved him so much that I think that’s how she’d be the happiest. But that was before she died and got replaced with pod-Elena, who Matt still sort of loves but only because he’ll always love any version of Elena.
9. It kind of occurred to me here that my problems with the Triangle aren’t exclusively about the Triangle. Oh don’t get me wrong, by at least mid-s3 the Triangle was truly awful and atrocious, but so much of the makeup of the show has changed and yet it clings to this aspect of its conception. It could have at most two of the three; overarching plot, grounded reality, and the Triangle, and early on it wanted to be about the paranormal love Triangle while being grounded in something like reality with only flashes of bigger plots. The balance has shifted entirely away from any sort of grounded reality, committed to extensive mythology and big plots and yet the Triangle - the least interesting elements to me - remains. And the Triangle looks worse in that set up because the plot keeps dumping crap on the characters who have no grounding at all and yet we still have to follow the damned love Triangle. And there is no saving that damned thing at this point unless maybe if it becomes the thing that only kind of pops up in the background while primarily the characters are trying to deal with the plots and their actual lives; and, you know, BE ACTUAL CHARACTERS AGAIN.
10. For a bit more Triangle bitching, back in this episode, Stefan is eye-roll-inducing and kind of early douchy, but mainly just bland; and Damon is just awful and could die now and I wouldn’t miss anything he’s done in four seasons (and mostly would be happy to lose so much crap). The Jeremy/Vicky/Tyler triangle the show has now is annoying in its own ways, as neither side of that one is terribly interesting either, but its B plot nature keeps it from being as awful as the Triangle of Doom.
I guess I’ll call it quits at 10 points, my minds getting fuzzy enough not to think of what few other things I might have said about this.
Next time:
SG-1 seems likely, but won’t say for sure
Suggestions this way