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[krickets]

Stolen from ozmissage and missy_useless!

Give me a fandom and I will tell you...

The first character I fell in love with:
The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
The character everyone else loves that I don't:
The character I love that everyone else hates:
The character I used to love but don't any longer:
The character I would shag anytime:
The character I'd want to be like:
The character I'd slap:
My five favorite characters:
My five least favorite characters:
My deep dark fandom secret:

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[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

Vampire Diaries.

Because I recently started watching it (catching up the reruns on CW) and I know you've been watching it for a while. Just wanted to see your thoughts on it. :)

Spoilers herein!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Here you go! Someone asked me above so here are my answers for them:

The first character I fell in love with: It's a hard one with this show. Probably Stefan, Elena, or Caroline, and maybe in that order. For a long time I wasn't really loving anybody, I was just along for the ride. I remember Jenna throwing an apple at Jeremy in one of the very first episodes and I thought: I love this girl. But I don't know if that really counts, haha. I'm so bummed they didn't do more with her character. This show is allergic to grown-ups.

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Tyler Lockwood? But no. Even with his behavior in the first season I had so much sympathy for him. That episode where his dad tries to get Tyler and Jeremy to fight it out? He had me from that moment, pretty much. And that was early on. The real answer to this question is probably Katherine Pierce and Elijah equally. (Also, Rose, John Gilbert, and Liz Forbes.)

The character everyone else loves that I don't: Oh I'm going to get burned for this one, but Damon and Alaric pretty equally. Damon's character arc makes me nutso, even though I do find him amusing, and I just think Alaric is boring. They're like two of the most-loved characters in this show, so I'm in the minority on these two.

The character I love that everyone else hates: Liz Forbes and miss Bonnie Bennett!

The character I used to love but don't any longer: ...None? I guess, if this counts, I liked the idea of Klaus more than I liked Klaus in actuality. Hopefully that changes in S3.

The character I would shag anytime: Stefan Salvatore

The character I'd want to be like: Some combination of Bonnie Bennett, Caroline Forbes, and Elena Gilbert. They are all pretty awesome in my opinion.

The character I'd slap: Damon. ;P

My five favorite characters: Caroline Forbes, Stefan Salvatore, Elena Gilbert, Tyler Lockwood, and... Katherine Pierce?

My five least favorite characters: Damon Salvatore, Alaric Saltman, Isobel, Mason Lockwood, & Jules

My deep dark fandom secret: I don't really have any secrets. I ship a lot of weird things. I don't like Damon. I think Elena is awesome and am severely protective of her character. And I pretty much just love this show. I am terrified (and almost certain) that season three is going to suck and I am going to hate it.

Just so you know, season 2 was my favorite season by the way. I did love season one! But 2 was excellent and I only had a few overall problems with it. It was pretty awesome otherwise.

Re: Spoilers herein!

[turquoisetumult.livejournal.com]

Don't know what S3 (or the end of S2) has in store, so I can't talk to you about that, but...

OMG, I ♥♥♥ Bonnie and Caroline soooo much! And Katherine is so wily - I love badass chicks like that. Also - Bonnie's Grams (can't remember her name, so I'll just call her Roxy from DLM). Oh, I want her back so much!

I like Stefan quite a bit and I don't know why everyone ships Elena/Damon. Damon is so wishy-washy to me. He has his moments, but I think he would've been a stronger character if he wasn't so hung up over Elena. They just make him seem like the jealous brother - 145 years later and I think he is so much more than that. I contribute that to bad writing though because I pretty much love all his scenes with Katherine.

I like Alaric well enough simply because of the whole "hunter" aspect of him. I'm a sucker for stories where people get into the business for revenge, but then start to see how they protect innocent lives by killing monsters.

I still can't really forgive Tyler for his douchiness in S1, but maybe he'll keep growing on me.

And yeah, talk about an allergy to adult development. I feel like they can only be involved if they're in some crazy romance no one gives a crap about.

Re: Spoilers herein!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Sheila Bennett was her name. I'm so proud of myself for remembering that off the top of my head! I totally agree! It still makes me nuts that Bonnie's grandmother basically died because she was too weak to perform that spell and Jasmine Guy is still (to this day!) under 50 years old! The woman is not a feeble grandmother! Frustrating!

They just make him seem like the jealous brother This is true. It is kind of annoying that he's the most immature of them in a sea of teenagers. Come on, Damon. Get it together! Haha.

I feel like I might like Alaric better if they hadn't dropped the ball on his character. I don't feel like they've given him anything to do other than follow people (usually Damon) around. Unfortunately.

I think, even from the start, they always played with the complexities of Tyler's character. If you finish s2 and go back to re-watch season one, I think you will definitely see it. He was always played as incredibly conflicted, not really understanding himself, dealing with his dad, etc. It's definitely nuanced but it's definitely there. They definitely foreshadowed his wolf nature and how it effected him during the full moon.

This scene in this clip: http://youtu.be/dS17niJiwDg starting at 2:26 is probably one of my favorite scenes with him. Especially those last seconds where him and his mom just look at each other like they don't know what to do with one another. Yeah. I love me some Tyler Lockwood.