I am going to miss that little brat.

[krickets]

So... Jeremy Gilbert.

I'm just kind of coming to terms with the fact that I'm kind of super pissed about his departure, however temporary. The Vampire Diaries has been kind of the bane of my existence this entire season. For numerous reasons, but the major one being, they are fucking with all of my favorite people to write.

Stefan is under coercion at the same time as being compromised by bloodlust, then he's under compulsion, his free will completely taken from him, and now apparently under the revenge!crazy. And while Paul Wesley is apparently the greatest, and is totally hot while doing this all, I barely recognize Stefan. And it kind of kills me.

And I am still very annoyed that the only way the show could manage to make Damon look better is to drag his brother down to his level, and not actually give Damon a chance to redeem himself. (As a Damon fan, I personally would want that.) Stefan keeps saving him on the page, but he's saving him in the subtext as well. And it's all at Stefan's expense. I saw the promos for next week, and I don't think I can ever look at this character the same way again. Except for the fact that when he's sorry for everything he's done - or if? - I am pretty sure I will actually believe it. (Which is different from certain other people, who mostly just feel sorry for themselves.)

Tyler is turned into this mindless JesusKlaus!freak and is automatically deemed a villain by everybody excluding Jeremy, who we'll get to later. I just don't understand how they didn't even bother to try. Clearly this is something that vampires use to have to deal with and have overcome. So why does Tyler get the brushoff? (And I'm not just talking the characters, I mean the writers of this show as well.) They spend half a season trying to "save" Stefan and when Tyler needs a little TLC it's like they can't be bothered. It's annoying. And frustrating. And it just kills me to see another of my favorites completely lose their free will. I don't like it one bit, I guess I'll just RIP OUT MY HEART.

And now we get to Jeremy. I don't know why Elena thought it was a good idea to take away his free will (sensing a theme?) and have Damon compel him again. I'm even pissed at Alaric, perhaps even moreso, for his suggestion to have Jeremy not even think of Mystic Falls. If it's such a good idea to leave MF then why isn't everyone going? And why is Jeremy special? He's not the only one who can be hurt by Klaus. In fact, now that he's gone he could easily just focus his efforts on someone else. I have not always been happy with Jeremy's storylines. He's kind of lived in that area where he is sometimes rendered a useless background character. But what I have always liked about him is that he has always kind of done his own thing. It makes total sense that he was trying to be on Tyler's side when everyone else had given up on him. It makes absolute sense for Jeremy's character. And not just because he might secretly be in love with Tyler, but because that's just who Jeremy Gilbert is. So basically what I'm saying is that it will also make total sense when Jeremy somehow beats the compulsion (which is a thing that people do now), goes to some tough-guy Denver training camp, and comes back to beat the living snot out of everyone in Mystic Falls. (S'all I'm saying! BE WARNED.)

And then, last but not least. We have Caroline. Caroline who? You ask. GOOD QUESTION. She's been so back-burnered that it actually hurts.

So there you have it, all of the characters I've written most often, all pretty much fucking destroyed. NO WONDER I'M LOVING THIS SEASON. (And I wish I could say, "at least I still have Katherine" but I can't, because she's not even hanging out with Stefan having sexytimes and stuff. Which is just unacceptable!)

I have a massive problem with the canon on this show. Meaning, I can't make myself completely ignore it the way I've done with other fandoms (like my Lost fic, as a shining example of how to give a big FU to the canon). So all of this just makes it that much harder for me to write around it. And I'm bitter. And angry. AND I HATE EVERYONE. OKAY?

Comments

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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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Yeah the cast is so bloated that it makes a small amount of sense but at the same time it still doesn't, haha. Like, how about NOT ADD ANY MORE EXTRA CAST MEMBERS if at all possible? How about that? Novel idea, I know. They have plenty of material to work with. And I'm pretty sure they're adding at least 2 more characters soon (based on stuff I've read) not to mention the eventual re-emergence of Elijah and theoretically the rest of the originals.

The way they introduced her just seemed like such a secondary thing. It didn't work at all. Plus, I'm just not down with any new people at this point. Especially considering Jeremy's departure in the same episode.

What? Klaus is going to have a love interest? I hope it's the original Petrova, lol.

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I'm guessing it's Bonnie's vampire-ex-witch-mom. Which would be....interesting. But JoMo himself was giving a serious side-eye to the possibility of his love interest being a member of the current cast (they'd have to forgive him the whole blood sacrifice ritual thing... though they do forgive damon for a lot don't they? *ROFL*), which I think is a good sign/thing, even if the cast *is* getting large.

[ellensmithee.livejournal.com]

I was also thinking it might be Bonnie's mother. That would make the most sense considering Klaus's thing for witches.

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I kind of hope this spoiler is bogus. That or it's Stefan, lol.