The journals of undead citizens are awesome...

I continuously marvel at Vampire Diaries ability to do pacing. You know, stuff that happens in ONE episode of this show? Other shows would fit in at least two Seasons.

And they manage to juggle a boatload of characters, giving them intriguing arcs and interesting developments. I can't believe that after the Pilot of this show, I wrote it off as Twilight Smallville with Elena = Lana, Stefan = Clark and Damon = Lex. And in some bastardized version - in a totallly good way - it is like that.

Only I find Elena to be actually portrayed as awesome as they always kept telling me Lana was. They might employ some of the same "most beloved girl at center stage" tropes with Elena as they did with Lana but it's a LOT more earned in VD. They show me Elena being strong. And ditto with Damon, they do some of the same bad boy woobie tropes with him that have been done to death a thousand times on other shows but I simply feel they work better here. They sure grant him more sympathetic writing than Lex got after Season 2 or so. Lastly Stefan who I figured would be the weak link along with Elena? I find what they're doing with him right now so much more compelling because they commit to it. At least right now I don't see the huge bucket of whitewash standing in the far back, ready for the character to jump in. Or heck, how I thought characters like Caroline would be just there to annoy the fuck out of me? Ha.

Maybe, unfortunately, the show is too good for me to get as emotionally - and thus fannishly - invested with it. Though I remember back in the day also being pretty happy with the writing of Buffy and still getting into it deeply. Who knows. Maybe it's also a blessing not to get too deeply into a show on this level.

I just miss being hip-deep in meta and fanfic and fandom within a show I also love. Though I'm also apprehensive about it these days because in every show I ever watched, I had at least one clear favourite character (and maybe two or so second-faves) and that worked out fine for freaking YEARS. Only lately, no matter which character(s) I really latch onto, I can be assured that the writing fucks them over ten ways from Sunday while hiking its tongue up the ass of characters I was heretofore okay with but wasn't gaga about.

So, pets little VD for all it is (and especially for all it isn't).

The journals of undead citizens are awesome...

I continuously marvel at Vampire Diaries ability to do pacing. You know, stuff that happens in ONE episode of this show? Other shows would fit in at least two Seasons.

And they manage to juggle a boatload of characters, giving them intriguing arcs and interesting developments. I can't believe that after the Pilot of this show, I wrote it off as Twilight Smallville with Elena = Lana, Stefan = Clark and Damon = Lex. And in some bastardized version - in a totallly good way - it is like that.

Only I find Elena to be actually portrayed as awesome as they always kept telling me Lana was. They might employ some of the same "most beloved girl at center stage" tropes with Elena as they did with Lana but it's a LOT more earned in VD. They show me Elena being strong. And ditto with Damon, they do some of the same bad boy woobie tropes with him that have been done to death a thousand times on other shows but I simply feel they work better here. They sure grant him more sympathetic writing than Lex got after Season 2 or so. Lastly Stefan who I figured would be the weak link along with Elena? I find what they're doing with him right now so much more compelling because they commit to it. At least right now I don't see the huge bucket of whitewash standing in the far back, ready for the character to jump in. Or heck, how I thought characters like Caroline would be just there to annoy the fuck out of me? Ha.

Maybe, unfortunately, the show is too good for me to get as emotionally - and thus fannishly - invested with it. Though I remember back in the day also being pretty happy with the writing of Buffy and still getting into it deeply. Who knows. Maybe it's also a blessing not to get too deeply into a show on this level.

I just miss being hip-deep in meta and fanfic and fandom within a show I also love. Though I'm also apprehensive about it these days because in every show I ever watched, I had at least one clear favourite character (and maybe two or so second-faves) and that worked out fine for freaking YEARS. Only lately, no matter which character(s) I really latch onto, I can be assured that the writing fucks them over ten ways from Sunday while hiking its tongue up the ass of characters I was heretofore okay with but wasn't gaga about.

So, pets little VD for all it is (and especially for all it isn't).