Continuing with my final Vampire Diaries series-and the good stuff-here are my favorite scenes or moments. (You may notice it now says /8 instead of /10. That's because I realized that I can get this done in eight and I'm glad because I like the symmetry of eight parts to go with eight seasons.) Some of these may surprise you and some scenes/ ( Read more... )

Moving along-and now we're getting to the good stuff-with my final Vampire Diaries series (well, until I begin my re-watch of the entire series and write "fresh" posts). By the good stuff, I mean that my issues have gotten out of the way and now I begin with only the happyhappy, joyjoy stuff from here on out. Yay! To start with, well, this is a bit ( Read more... )

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... )

Continuing along with my Final Vampire Diaries series. Here are my five minor unresolved issues. They didn't affect the overall narrative, but matter enough though that they will probably always bother me just enough that I take note whenever I re-watch the series. Each section is listed in order of the most glaring (either in their egregiousness ( Read more... )

Anyone who reads my Vampire Diaries commentary is well aware of how much I love this show. It is officially my all-time favorite and I was very happy and quite satisfied with the finale. Overall, I think that for a series that ran for eight seasons with 161 episodes, executive producers Julie Plec (who alone helmed the show from day one), Kevin ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, I am working on my TVD issues/missed opportunities post. (I think I may get it done this weekend... or at least get a really good jump into it. Not surprisingly, it's going to be massive.) Anyhoo, while looking for some comments here and there through older posts to get the framework for the post I came across this post from 2012 ( Read more... )

And here is the second part of my REALLY long post.

( Yes, there is more. )

At last, at last, it is here. The first part anyway.

( SOBS INCOHERENTLY! )

So, I wanted to let peeps know that the post is coming. However, it probably won't be up until Saturday or Sunday at the earliest. This one? Is going to be looooong! My pre-post notes are over 2,000 words alone. I have already made 71 gifs and while organizing my pre-post notes, I realized that I have more I still have to make. So, yeah, this is ( Read more... )

The penultimate episode. Dun dun dun…

( I do not mention Ian Somerhalder/Damon's beauty in this write-up. Unless you consider this comment doing so. Then, yes, I do. )