The Vampire Diaries
If I could marry a show and have its babies, I think it would be this one.
However, just for the sake of my sanity, I would not want those babies magically fathered by Damon Salvatore. I'd be perfectly okay with Matt or Alaric.
•I cannot believe how much I love Caroline. I mean...the vapid blonde bimbo archetype they began with has turned into something so much more (just like all their other instances of subverting the norm) and Candice Accola is amazing. In just a few brief scenes, she absolutely sparkled. And not in the Twilight way. I can haz Matt/Caroline/Tyler fic naow?
•Rose's slow path to death was almost as gut-wrenching as Tyler's transformation. This show just goes full tilt, never backing down. I was never particularly invested in her, but they MADE me care. My only complaint was that a lot of her and Elena's dialogue was mumbled and I couldn't make out what they were saying.
•I felt the lack of Bonnie and Jeremy, but I didn't really *miss* them. It was nice to have an episode move slowly, focus on just a handful of characters, etc.
•I love Alaric.
•I am ready for Almost Mrs. Lucas Scott to go away.
•Damon, Damon, Damon. Honestly, just when I think they're about to turn him into some flat, Edward Cullen-y angst puppy, they prove me wrong. He is STILL every inch a fucked up killer. Ian Somerhalder really brought it again last night, playing the cool, distant "I don't care," then the tender boyfriend in the dream world (his facial expressions are completely different in those scenes than his usual theatrical sneer) and then the completely tormented psycho at the end. When he confessed he missed being human, it was nothing we didn't already know. His and Stefan's origin story told us as much. But to have Damon *admit* it...of course it made sense that, just like when he told Elena he loves her, he would immediately want all traces of it gone. It's that pathologically selfish streak he has: "I will burden you with this for ME, as THERAPY...and then feel better because only *I* know I was this weak!"
But that's not all that's going on. You also have him trying to live up to Elena's standards (and Stefan's, too). And he's fighting against that tooth and nail. As evidenced by a simple hug being what brought his walls down after Rose's death. (Though, I have to say, when he shut the trunk lid, that was pretty painful as well. Ever so practical, Damon...) He's almost determined to revel in being an abusive psychopath as if he doesn't have the choice to be otherwise.
However, just for the sake of my sanity, I would not want those babies magically fathered by Damon Salvatore. I'd be perfectly okay with Matt or Alaric.
•I cannot believe how much I love Caroline. I mean...the vapid blonde bimbo archetype they began with has turned into something so much more (just like all their other instances of subverting the norm) and Candice Accola is amazing. In just a few brief scenes, she absolutely sparkled. And not in the Twilight way. I can haz Matt/Caroline/Tyler fic naow?
•Rose's slow path to death was almost as gut-wrenching as Tyler's transformation. This show just goes full tilt, never backing down. I was never particularly invested in her, but they MADE me care. My only complaint was that a lot of her and Elena's dialogue was mumbled and I couldn't make out what they were saying.
•I felt the lack of Bonnie and Jeremy, but I didn't really *miss* them. It was nice to have an episode move slowly, focus on just a handful of characters, etc.
•I love Alaric.
•I am ready for Almost Mrs. Lucas Scott to go away.
•Damon, Damon, Damon. Honestly, just when I think they're about to turn him into some flat, Edward Cullen-y angst puppy, they prove me wrong. He is STILL every inch a fucked up killer. Ian Somerhalder really brought it again last night, playing the cool, distant "I don't care," then the tender boyfriend in the dream world (his facial expressions are completely different in those scenes than his usual theatrical sneer) and then the completely tormented psycho at the end. When he confessed he missed being human, it was nothing we didn't already know. His and Stefan's origin story told us as much. But to have Damon *admit* it...of course it made sense that, just like when he told Elena he loves her, he would immediately want all traces of it gone. It's that pathologically selfish streak he has: "I will burden you with this for ME, as THERAPY...and then feel better because only *I* know I was this weak!"
But that's not all that's going on. You also have him trying to live up to Elena's standards (and Stefan's, too). And he's fighting against that tooth and nail. As evidenced by a simple hug being what brought his walls down after Rose's death. (Though, I have to say, when he shut the trunk lid, that was pretty painful as well. Ever so practical, Damon...) He's almost determined to revel in being an abusive psychopath as if he doesn't have the choice to be otherwise.