My theory is that they're fridging him temporarily till the originals plot has run its course and they get rid of some of the other extra actors they need for that, assuming that they are trying to save money or something. It does explain why they randomly gave Matt, who's nothing more than a plot device really, Jeremy's one special power. Now they have the ghost-seeing plot device without actually having to plot for the character who provides it. I also suspect they might be trying to streamline the subplots and make everything more centric to the main plot, but that would actually make sense, so I don't know. ;-)
As for Meredith, I think she's supposed to be book!Meredith (Alaric's book canon girlfriend) with a different last name. As to their meeting, I was annoyed that everything significant in that meeting happened offscreen - it would have been a lot more interesting if they'd shown her being worried about his condition and trying to save him, and then Damon saving him with his blood, and Meredith then mystified (sort of what every description of this ep for the past two months implied would happen). But I don't know what they could have cut to make that happen.
And with Klaus, there's a spoiler that he's going to find a love interest this season, and while I'd love for him to do that, a bunch of Klaus/Caroline fans on tumblr think that's confirmation that their ship is going to happen, and the idea just makes me ILL. With Caroline, it would probably be one-sided, but still. DO NOT WANT. (And what about her friendship with Stefan??? *sob*)
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Date: 2012-01-08 06:38 pm (UTC)As for Meredith, I think she's supposed to be book!Meredith (Alaric's book canon girlfriend) with a different last name. As to their meeting, I was annoyed that everything significant in that meeting happened offscreen - it would have been a lot more interesting if they'd shown her being worried about his condition and trying to save him, and then Damon saving him with his blood, and Meredith then mystified (sort of what every description of this ep for the past two months implied would happen). But I don't know what they could have cut to make that happen.
And with Klaus, there's a spoiler that he's going to find a love interest this season, and while I'd love for him to do that, a bunch of Klaus/Caroline fans on tumblr think that's confirmation that their ship is going to happen, and the idea just makes me ILL. With Caroline, it would probably be one-sided, but still. DO NOT WANT. (And what about her friendship with Stefan??? *sob*)