TVD 2.12

[themadpoker]

So I didn't like TVD as much as usual this week? =( Bad show, bad, you're supposed to be awesome returning from a hiatus. But I will forgive you for now because I've missed you.

TOO MUCH DAMON IN THIS EPISODE. When it hit the end and he murdered that lady for NO REASON AT ALL? I was like Bonnie should kill him now. Or Elena! Or they could team up to stake him, omg I would love that. It would fix alot of my problems with this show if they'd stop trying to do a redemptive!arc with Damon and have everyone collectively be like yeah okay, he has killed TOO MANY people, it is time for him to go. They could have Stefan angsting over the fact that he has to kill his brother! I would find this 100 times more palatable than the Epic Manpain of Damon Killer Salvatore.

I was trying to decide whether I liked the werewolf woman or not but you know what? She appeared to actually be using her head this episode and it was refreshing. (Tell Elena to stay with the unstable vampire who hates her doppleganger. That was a super intelligent plan Damon!) So she can stay. Maybe she'll break Katherine out of the tomb and do a temporary Enemy of My Enemy truce. They could trade tips on the various ways of taking down Damon Salvatore! I will settle for this in lieu of Team Actually Good People killing him.

(It's possible I really just want Katherine back on screen and am hoping for any scenarios leading to this)

Final Verdict?

NEEDS MOAR BONNIE.



This gif is slightly incongruous in tone but it's the only one I have of her. Does anyone have a gif of that time she set Damon on fire? Because it is far more representative of what I hope she will do in future episodes. He broke her No Killing People truce, she'd absolutely be justified.

P.S. I really really need Luka and his dad to live through the season because TVD's track record with killing black guys is offically worse than Merlin's. As soon as I saw the cleaning guy I groaned because I knew what was coming. :/ Bonnie addendum: we should meet her dad and he should be alive.

Comments

[themadpoker.livejournal.com]

Oh right yeah, I was thinking mostly in terms of who's actually lived. She's gotten snacked on too though. :/ Seriously, race is the fastest indicator of who's going to get screwed over on this show.

I've seen some people comment on it? But there's also that usual thing where fandom prefers to pretend race issues don't exist and are like 'but LOTS of people die on TVD, there's no common denominator, remember that white teacher dude Damon killed earlier?' There was at least one kerfluffle about it on one of the major TVD ones, I don't remember which. (I kind of dropped alot of them after I got annoyed with the mainstream fandom)

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, do they? That's heartening. (I don't hang out in mainstream fandom either, I tend to disagree with 99% of what they say.)

Maybe if enough people make a stink about it, the writers will actually get a clue about their race issues.