The Vampire Diaries: 1.02 "The Night of the Comet"

[xerinmichellex]

I nursed my vampire overdose by reading another vampire YA novel. This time it was Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. Apart from being sick of the word "vampire" showing up in these titles, I've found another gripe:

5. Stop giving vampires mystic powers! I don't want to read another vampire who can see the future, control elements, heal people,

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[rhoda_rants]

Hey there!

So I just started watching this. I'm not entirely feeling it. The acting is okay, but the dialogue is bad, bad, bad. I might be on another vampire kick, but I'm not fully committed yet.

Thoughts: I agree with the relief of Caroline's not being bitchy. That was a nice surprise and a cool subversion.

I like Aunt J a lot. Even though she's incompetent, I feel for her, struggling to take care of these two kids who are basically her age because there's no one else available. It's frustrating that Elena seems to be raising herself, Aunt J and Jeremy all my herself though--I'm not averse to teens being seen as the mature, responsible one in the family, but it's a bit tired as a trope for this particular kind of story.

I do not care about the two vampires yet at all. I suppose Elena's supposed to be a reincarnation (yeah, I haven't read the books), but she's still a teenager in this incarnation. Is it weird if I say I thought Clara was a more convincing several-incarnations-immortal-girl character? At least so far? Pouring out one's soul after knowing the guy a whole day is just really hard to buy.

I'm weirdly intrigued by Vicky. I don't want her to die, and I understand--even though I don't sympathize with--her struggle to maintain a certain persona by dating the douchebag popular guy, and getting closer to the junkie-enabler-but-sweet guy. I think she's going to either die horribly or be turned. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen the blood=drug addiction metaphor.

SO, question: How do things go from here? I don't need plot points or anything, but some reassurance that the quality will pick up a bit would be nice.

[xerinmichellex]

LOL. You certainly dug up an old post!

I can't remember when it picks up, but I did enjoy Seasons 1 & 2 very much. Yeah, the first couple of episodes are rough. (According to my other recaps, Episode 6 is where it started to pick up for me and I accepted the show for what it was.) Once ~The Originals~ get introduced (Season 3, I believe) (and it becomes all about them), I lost so much interest and didn't finish out Season 4, and have dropped the show.

It may be hard to enjoy the show, though, if you don't care about the male vampires, as it's a CW show, so they pander a lot to the female audience with the male eye candy. But, on the whole, Seasons 1 & 2 had a lot of twist and turns and moved at a pretty rapid pace. If you can eek it out, I'd say stay with it for the first 3 Seasons. After that, you're on your own.