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'The Vampire Diaries' Wrap-up Thoughts... 3/8 -- Missed Opportunities

Jul 23, 2017 19:51

Once more into the fray with my Final Vampire Diaries series. Here are my ten missed opportunities. Most of these truly are "missed opportunities" rather than "wishful thinking" or "fantasies" in most cases. These are stories or scenes that I genuinely feel could (and some *should*) have come out of the existing narrative, mythology and/or ( Read more... )

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ghidorah15 July 25 2017, 02:14:00 UTC

*sad sigh* Elena and Rebekah as best friends...I'll forever be upset we didn't get that, or a full romance for Matt and Rebekah.

As for the shower... *gulp* I'm sorry, I can't think over the mental image of Nina Dobrev, as either Elena or Katherine, in the shower. She's too gorgeous.

arabian July 25 2017, 02:48:57 UTC

I know, right? Elena and Rebekah as besties would have have been so awesome. Nina Dobrev and Claire Holt were SO good together. And, yeah, my beautiful, blonde bbs, Matt and Rebekah! *sigh*

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Re: 3/10 -- Missed Opportunities (1/2) arabian August 4 2017, 13:14:28 UTC

“First, the obvious… Rayna was a vampire hunter, uhm, so was Jeremy… why was this never even remarked upon?” - This will always baffle me to no end. I mean, it's one thing not to bring back Jeremy in flesh, but not even a throwaway line? Why?? It felt inevitable for Jeremy to get an honorable mention at the very least yet it never happened. So odd.

It really, really was. That is one of those that I just can't wrap my head around, you know?

“I really thought the show was setting up a new Salvatore triangle, possibly a main one, with Nina Dobrev leaving at the end of season 06.” - I didn't think it could become the main one but I was certain it would happen in some form. I certainly didn't think it was going to be dropped without any development whatsoever.I didn't think it was given that it could be a main, I just thought that it had the possibility because the potential was there, but they just dropped everything... and I think it was dropped because they lost Chris Wood, and thus the Kai/Bonnie story and thus created the badly- ( ... )

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Re: 3/10 -- Missed Opportunities (2/2) arabian August 4 2017, 13:14:53 UTC

“In season 03, it felt very much like we were going to get that very thing when Caroline's father, Bill Forbes, let us in on the secret that one could resist compulsion.” - That was seriously, a text-book foreshadowing and I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that nothing of substance ever came out of it.

It was the 'Joseph Morgan syndrome.' It was dropped in season 03 because he stayed, and dropped in season 04 because he left. *sigh*

"Seeing the two work together, the two made more sense as besties than Caroline and Elena personality-wise ever did." - That's a surprisingly good point haha

Yup, I never would have thought of it before I saw them together, but they really did make so much more sense as besties. (Just as Elena and Rebekah did.)

"I was one of the viewers who was not upset by that intercutting at all." - I'm afraid you might've been the only one LOLNah, other people agreed... we were just few and far between, LOL! And I was right, we did get another love scene. (In 5.16 and the fantasy in 5.17 and ( ... )