The Vampire Diaries

[sardonictart]

I have a cute little story to share about the actor who played “Stefan” (Paul Wesley). A friend of mine works on his new show which is a “new” take on Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I’m not sure who his character is, but he is in the main cast (and not a vampire unlike Ian Somerhalder’s new character). Anyway, the actor was being filmed while doing a scene, and he had to bend down near the other actor’s neck for whatever reason. He went to bite that neck, stopped, looked up at the camera and said, “Oops. Wrong show.” Ha!

Also, the actress who played Davina is on the same show. My friend reports that she is nice and pretty good at her job.

[askye]

Sorry to bump this - I recently started binge watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix during the quarantine, and I really like it! The first few episodes were basically Dawson's Creek or Roswell-lite, with all the teen angst, and then it really started to pick up steam with the whole tomb vampire storyline. I give Nina Dobrev a lot of credit - when she does scenes together with Elena/Katherine Pierce, I almost forget they're played by the same person.

My only "quibble" so far has been the Elena/Damon relationship part of the triangle (I just finished Season 3.) I understand the show was produced before #MeToo, but it's bizarre that no one on the show seems to care that Damon spent a good chunk of the preceding three seasons compelling women to have sex with him (including Caroline!), essentially assaulted Elena by putting his blood in her mouth so she'd come back as a vampire if Klaus killed her at the end of the second season, and killed Jeremy at the beginning of Season 2 just to spite her when she said she didn't want to be with him. Stefan isn't perfect either (see also: his behavior towards Elena during his Ripper phase,) but I'd definitely argue that Stefan is the lesser of two evils in terms of problematic behavior.**

With all that being said, I liked the first three seasons overall, and I'll probably keep watching until Elena and Damon "officially" start hooking up in Season 4. (While I like Ian Somerhalder, and he and Dobrev have/had chemistry, I just find that pairing to be too problematic as written, and I don't want to watch it.)

** = To be honest, I've read recaps for the later seasons, and I wish they'd ended the show with both Stefan and Damon dying and Elena forging her own identity outside of that incestuous triangle. Or maybe they all could have died, and we could've gotten a Katherine Pierce spin-off! She's my favorite character.

[sardonictart]

Jun 6, 2020 16:13:52 GMT -4 askye said:

Sorry to bump this - I recently started binge watching The Vampire Diaries on Netflix during the quarantine, and I really like it! The first few episodes were basically Dawson's Creek or Roswell-lite, with all the teen angst, and then it really started to pick up steam with the whole tomb vampire storyline. I give Nina Dobrev a lot of credit - when she does scenes together with Elena/Katherine Pierce, I almost forget they're played by the same person.

My only "quibble" so far has been the Elena/Damon relationship part of the triangle (I just finished Season 3.) I understand the show was produced before #MeToo, but it's bizarre that no one on the show seems to care that Damon spent a good chunk of the preceding three seasons compelling women to have sex with him (including Caroline!), essentially assaulted Elena by putting his blood in her mouth so she'd come back as a vampire if Klaus killed her at the end of the second season, and killed Jeremy at the beginning of Season 2 just to spite her when she said she didn't want to be with him. Stefan isn't perfect either (see also: his behavior towards Elena during his Ripper phase,) but I'd definitely argue that Stefan is the lesser of two evils in terms of problematic behavior.**

With all that being said, I liked the first three seasons overall, and I'll probably keep watching until Elena and Damon "officially" start hooking up in Season 4. (While I like Ian Somerhalder, and he and Dobrev have/had chemistry, I just find that pairing to be too problematic as written, and I don't want to watch it.)

** = To be honest, I've read recaps for the later seasons, and I wish they'd ended the show with both Stefan and Damon dying and Elena forging her own identity outside of that incestuous triangle. Or maybe they all could have died, and we could've gotten a Katherine Pierce spin-off! She's my favorite character.

Stefan and Damon dying was going to be the original ending. Seems like they decided to forgo that to not make fans irate.

The Originals (which was the better show of the two, IMO) got that ending instead, and while I didn’t dislike it, it didn’t make as much sense as it happening on TVD.

I hung in there until the end of TVD for Bonnie and her beau. The actors knocked their relationship scenes out of the park, IMO. Way better acting than that show deserved.

[cubanitafresca]

Jun 14, 2020 14:59:13 GMT -4 sardonictart said:

he Originals (which was the better show of the two, IMO) got that ending instead, and while I didn’t dislike it, it didn’t make as much sense as it happening on TVD.

I could never get into TVD (or even past the first couple episodes TBH) but when I ran across The Originals, I absolutely loved it. In fact, I didn't realize for a while that it was a spin off from TVD. I really hated when the show ended - and I wasn't all that happy with how it ended either.