This Week in TV: Characters Making Questionable, Disappointing Decisions (SN, TVD, Merlin, GG, etc)

[sherrilina]

Man, this seems to be "Characters Making Annoying Questionable Decision" Week on my TV Shows, it applies to all of them! :/ Though still a few good episodes besides that.

Let's start with SN, which I only watched last night, since I was busy marathoning s6 with paradisekendra on Friday, lol...(good times, and I like the DVD case art, the back of the plastic

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[honeymink]

I thought the first two VD episodes this year were very weak, I almost didn't want to watch anymore. The last two I liked better - there seemed to be more happening. I like the backstory with Klaus and Rebekka, also liked the bit where Gloria was all "Liked you better than your brother." to Damon - it kind of implied that he is actually the one who has more of a conscience. Loved Katherine and was so disappointed that Stefan wouldn't work with her. The whole Alaric thing sucked, I agree. As for Caroline forgiving her dad... I think she is a truthfully cheerful person who wants to love everyone desperately, so I didn't see that out of character. I admit that I hope that Elijah comes back... more originals family dynamics would be cool in my book

[sherrilina]

Aw really? Personally I liked the first two epps a bit more I think (or than 3x04 at least), but I agree the plot is picking up more now, glad you're enjoying it better again! I do love the Original Family dynamic and still want to learn more about them, Elijah just needs to come back period though regardless of family because he is awesome and has great hair, as Alaric noted! ;) And Katherine is always flawless...

Oh man, I haven't watched Merlin since season 1 because of the lack of ArMor. That piece of dialogue you posted made me weep. I loved them so much together.Ugh yeah you probably made the right call if those were your preferences, because the show really does suck on that front after s1, or just Morgana in general! :/ In s2 they just forget that Arthur and Morgana ever had a relationship period, fraternal or otherwise, and in s3 they did show more of that again, but it was tainted b/c Morgana had had her ridiculous personality transplant by then, by which she no longer cared about Arthur and actively tried to kill him,

[honeymink]

I found the whole werewolves being bitten thing so tedious and random. So I was glad when they involved Rebekka. Yes to everything you said about Katherine and Elijah. I'm on board

[sherrilina]

Oh I found the werewolf thing boring as well, but not the other plotlines in the first 2 epps...

Oh, it's about Uther then. Hm. I can't do that. It's a personal thing from bad personal real life experience and has nothing to do with the show, I guess, but it still clouds my judgement insofar as I really cannot watch couples with a big age difference or anything that is teacher/pupil, father/daughter, uncle/niece... and she is his ward. I mean okay, Morgana is not exactly helpless and perhaps it would be hard to victimize her in that context but I would still feel that way. I loved ArMor so much in season 1, I really didn't want to get my heart broken.Well I can understand that, this is the first such pairing for me, though part of it is after I realized that despite the age gap, he often treats her more like an equal or like a wife than someone below him--there are many such moments, like him talking with her about Arthur as if she wasn't Arthur's peer rather than his, etc. And for me it's mainly their angsty, messy, co-dependent

[honeymink]

Just two things real quick before I have to go to uni but... I have to say them

[sherrilina]

Sorry this reply is late, thanks for answering though! :) I understand how it can be, when you just HAVE to reply to something

[honeymink]

but then the writers flushed it all to hell... and it does annoy me that they keep giving him so many chances they didn't give to say, Vanessa...

Inconsistant writing of characters is just so annoying. I mean I get that there are several writers working on one show and that they even might change from season to season but really, there should be someone keeping track of how they defined the character so that they can stick with it. I liked Vanessa but I didn't really understand why she was there... She didn't seem to have a purpose.

I think they realized early on that Nate/Blair didn't have much chemistry with who they cast,

Ah, we have to agree to disagree on that one.

[honeymink]

Additionally, what I didn't get to say this morning because of all my time management issues.

Of course Nate is a slut or written as one. I never said he wasn't. Personally I feel like the writers never knew what to do with him. So no, I don't think he's the ideal boyfriend by any means but by the same token he doesn't force himself on people (at least not in the few episodes that I have seen.).

[sherrilina]

Lol when I said Nate was a manwhore, I just meant that he was terribly inconsistent in his affections, so it didn't seem weird for him and Blair to split ways, after he had already fallen for no less than THREE other women that season (though switching off back and forth) before he even got to getting back with Blair, lol...;) He moves around a lot romantically, in other words, that's just how he is.

Blair, on the other hand, has been a lot more consistent romantically, more or less. It was one of the issues with Chuck/Blair (even putting aside the other Chuck issues), that he kept falling for other women during their off-periods, but she kept pining over him, which was unfair to her and ridiculous...