turnonmyheels | (no subject) (Reply)

I've got to say it. I normally think the writers of this show *get it*. They know how to tell the story, the audience, and get the best out of the actors. They dropped the ball last night. It's not that I don't think the characters would do the things they did -- they *absolutely would* most especially Damon and Alaric -- what didn't work was the pacing. Normally I love the breakneck speed but it also normally fits the characterizations. I feel like the writers took a gigantic short cut OR and this OR should totally be capitalized and bolded: there was a scene that didn't make it through the editing process that would explain why in one scene Damon is making chili and in the next he's doing everything he can to prove to everyone ::cough Elena and himself:: that he's still the same bad, scary, vampire he's always been.

Hello Bonnie!! Welcome back! Hello Anna OMG your scenes with Jeremy are always the best scenes Jeremy has ever had. Steven and Malese just have inexplicably magic chemistry with one another. OMG WAY TO BE A GROWN UP AND COMMUNICATE JER!!!!

Caroline is hands down, my favorite part of the show. She may believe she's shallow and petty and vapid, but she's not. She's everything she ever wanted to be and it's SO SAD that her Daddy is never going to love her again.

I think it's hysterical how in one scene I think: Oh, Elena. you're so sad and depressed. you look like you've forgotten to eat since Stefan's been gone. And in the next scene I'm all: Dang Katherine, your cheeks look nicely rounded. Chicagoans must taste great!

As if they're portrayed by completely different actresses. I'm sure last night it was the hair styling and make up that helped convey hollow-cheeked sad Elena, and round-cheeked rosy Katherine.

BUT!! I also NEVER think of Katherine and Elena as being portrayed by the same actress. They are completely individual to me so Kudos to Nina for being so incredibly awesome at her job.

I hate to say it, but Sarah Michelle Geller needs to work on her "I'm playing different people thing" because other than the clothes/booze/cigarettes I don't see a difference in her characters. /ringer slam

Something tells me that the hunter that Klaus is so afraid of is either the progenitor of the Forbes line [or another founding family] OR a Saltzman.

Not so secretly I'm hoping for a Saltzman. Or for Daddy!Forbes [whom I hate with a fiery, fiery passion] IS the original hunter.

Will the original witch be a Bennett?

SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Now, writers. Get your asses in line and make the rest of the season work to serve the characters and not the plot.