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[frelling_tralk]

I really enjoyed The Vampire Diaries, especially the Elena and Caroline scenes (although I did lol at the awkward fatherly scenes with Damon and Jeremy. The Jeremy actor has buffed up so much that he looks about 25 now!), and it feels like it's going back to the show I loved before the Original's. I tried watching the pilot for that show, but unfortunately it just reminded me of how much I needed a break from those characters... I've never liked Klaus much, but Elijah is really grating on me too now. I'm just crossing my fingers that it's a hit so they don't bring them back to TVD quite honestly!

Otherwise I haven't been watching that much tv. After Breaking Bad finished I did watch the first season of Dexter, I really loved it and was excited about catching up with the rest, but then season 2 just didn't do it for me at all. I was super into it with the first season as well, but my interest pretty much died after the second. In the beginning I was really fascinated by Dexter's character and his looking into his past, but by the end of the second season I just could not stand Dexter any more. Or Harry and his code for that matter. Or :shudders: Lila

The only characters I was really attached too were Deb and LaGuerta. Even with Doakes, I did like him more towards the end of season 2, but most of the time he was just so rude and abrasive that I couldn't even root for the one person that I should have. I mean he was the only one who did recognise Dexter for what he was, but urgh the way he went about stalking the guy and swearing at him just really turned me off. Maybe I will watch the fourth still as everyone always raves about that, but Idk

I'm thinking of trying out The Shield next maybe as I've seen some recs for that on BB posts



And woot, seasonal_spuffy is now back on LJ!

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They haven't significantly changed Elijah's character I don't think, but for me it was all "whoa" and really exciting everytime Elijah got undaggered lol, and then when they did start using him more in season 4 I found myself getting more and more turned off by his character. Things like his hypocritical treatment of Katherine really stood out to me when he started lording it over Katherine and how he doesn't know if he can ever trust her, completely ignoring that Klaus and Elijah were the reason she had to flee for her life in the first place. That stuff was no doubt always there and consistent with his prior characterisation, but when he became more of a full-time character that's when it started standing out to me that he judged Elena and Katherine by very different standards and had a total madonna/whore complex.

Both Castiel and Elijah did, but their performance was singular and what made them so popular wasn't replicated with subsequent characters

I think a lot of people were underwhelmed by the presentation of Klaus after all the build-up because Elijah had led us to expect an even more awesome Original, and instead Klaus never felt like a really old vampire in the same way. Meh he always comes across more as someone who was changed in the 19th or 20th century to me


Actually, right up until the end, I thought they were going to succeed at putting him in the coffin.

I really thought that too :( It would have been a nice send-off too with the intense looks between Stefan and Klaus, so it's a real shame that they kept him round for so long after that when there wasnt all that much point to him still being in Mystic Falls for season 4. I think his crush on Caroline was meant to be one of the ways of giving him more dimension after they choose not to kill him off (and I know the actor was campaigning on twitter for a love interest for those reasons), but that was when his character first became ridiculous to me when he just instantly seemed to fall for her and drew pictures of her with his horse :P

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Yeah, after all the buildup to Klaus, he wasn't that spectacular. Some people seem to like the fact that he wasn't all he was build up to be, but I really don't.

And the Klaus/Caroline was definitely about keeping him around.

Things like his hypocritical treatment of Katherine really stood out to me when he started lording it over Katherine and how he doesn't know if he can ever trust her, completely ignoring that Klaus and Elijah were the reason she had to flee for her life in the first place.

Yeah, that rubbed me the wrong way. And see, until we saw him doing that in S4, I could sort of make sense of it. Like he was all feeling for her in 1492, and then in modern day is ready to hand her over to Klaus. I just figured they had had another run in in between there and she had actually betrayed him (because that's a thing she does, lol). But then we get S4 and they're apparently together without a word of explanation, and then they're not and he's talking about trusting her and it's just a mess.