“I’m worse than shallow — I’m a kiddie pool.” – Caroline
I’ve got to hand it to The Vampire Diaries. Just when I think they are going to deliver a boring episode, or go someplace entirely lame or sappy with the storyline, they fool me. In a good way, because they are not afraid to kill, maim or otherwise off a character that we all (well, those of us who didn’t read the books anyway) thought had some staying power for one reason or another.
Where I need to suspend my disbelief, or extend my total trust to the writers, is when it comes to everyone being so very stupid when it comes to Damon. OK, Caroline can’t really help it, but everyone else should be able to have a synapse or two from their brains firing at some point in the episode. It’s not going to be much fun if Damon gets away with everything, all the time.
If I were the leader of a secret organization, I wouldn’t trust anyone that came to me second-hand. Shame on you, Sheriff! Just because he’s Zach’s relative and comes bearing vervain? I bet you’d sleep with the first guy who brought you roses, would you? No wonder one of you has already gotten himself murdered. Take a lesson from Buffy 101: Don’t let in any new Scoobies without letting them build some trust first.
Then we have Lexi (a great guest appearance from Arielle Kibbel, for you Gilmore Girls fans), who is supposed to be an older, wiser, stronger vampire. Sure, she’s a little drunk and has some vervain coarsing through her dead circulatory system, but don’t you think she could have somehow seen it coming, saved herself, gotten out of it without ending up dead? Because a) I kind of liked her and b) Damon has yet to be thwarted, and that’s just ridiculous.
Finally, we have Stefan. Oooo, big scary vampire out for revenge. All that anger and angst. He finally gets the better of Damon, pins him, stakes him and then… spares his life? Seriously? I get that there wouldn’t be much of a series without Damon, but could Stefan at least have tried? Perhaps there’s some vampire mythology I’m not aware of, like when you are a good vampire you lose your testicles or something….
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Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Nov 06, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
Yes on Capri Sun. A big ole blood juice bag.
Damon is just too. Too everything. Maybe I missed it, but is he glamoring the sheriff? Everyone says they are looking at newbies to town and certainly the underground group knows about the family history. It doesn’t make sense for anyone to trust him without him using “the force”.
At least its consistently entertaining, and I really like the witch storyline, if only grandma would go away. She’s a tad on the young side to be a granny. Who cast that role??
*POST AUTHOR*
I was assuming the sheriff couldn’t be glamoured b/c she was protected with vervain…
She hadn’t run out the first time they met? For some reason I thought he gave it to them after their first meeting, which would have given him time to glamor her. Once glamored always glamored, right? If Jeremy takes vervain, will he bad memories come back?
If I was wrong, then she is the very worst sheriff that town could possibly have. :-)
I like that whoever is in charge of music is a fan of Tiesto since 2 of his tracks from his new album were playing in the club for the party! Don’t know if the third song was Tiesto’s as well.