TV Friending Meme

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STEP ONE: Fill out the following texty & Post it at this post
*(all questions are optional, feel free to skip some)
<B>Name </b> <B>Location </b> <B>Favorite currently airing shows </b> <B>Pilots you're most looking forward to</b> <B>Other shows you maybe haven't mentioned yet </b> <B>Top Five finished/canceled shows </b> <B>Other Hobbies</b> <B>What sort of posts do you post in your DW?</b> <B>Anything else interesting</b> <B>gif/image/etc</b>

STEP TWO: Talk to people & make fellow tv-friends

STEP THREE: Advertise it out so we get more members & friends & discussion.
feel free to copy/paste this code:
<center><a href="http://tv-talk.dreamwidth.org/179047.html"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/AwuXNUz.png"></a> Come find some friends/talk tv at <user name=tv-talk>!</center>

Comments

[shadowkat]

I'd agree. They got past the angst, and it was almost as if they all sort of realized that "romantic love" doesn't define you or necessarily make you happy. Stefan was actually happiest when he wasn't pursuing it. As was Elena in a way. I honestly think that was a major theme of the series -- how dying for your love or killing for your love or revolving your existence around this great passionate love or soul mate, isn't really that satisfying nor does it make you happy.

And it was nice and calm without the angst.

I rather liked the series as a whole. Found it funny, and characters on the whole likable.

[anoyo]

100% couldn't agree more.

I loved it way more than I thought I would. I picked it up after season two when a friend told me I'd enjoy it, and I absolutely have. I'll admit to having fallen behind in season seven for a while, but overall: it was fantastic. Vampire Diaries understood the concept that, really, no one is purely good or evil, and everyone has facets. I love it when stories really get that.

[shadowkat]

I do as well. It was character-center, but also for the most part the plotting worked and was satisfying, particularly in the early seasons.

What I liked was how both Stefan and Damon think that their romantic relationships or their consuming passion for some woman (usually Elena) would save them, when in reality what redeems them both are the platonic friendships they develop with others, along with working relationships. It's Damon's relationships with Alaric, Stefan, the Sheriff, and Bonnie that in many ways redeem him, not Elena. Same with Stefan. It really gets across how no one relationship defines you nor an act. That people aren't just their isolated actions, or their isolated relationships. But the sum total of those...and it did it without being preachy. (ie. showing not telling).

[anoyo]

Agreed. I felt, in a lot of places, that it was Stefan and Damon's relationship with one another that was the key point for the series. Nothing to do with Elena at all. And honestly, when they had key moments, I was way more emotionally into them than I was when, say, Damon and Elena finally made out (poor Jeremy). Those familial (and family-of-choice) relationships are the ones that get you through day-to-day, and TVD definitely made that clear.

(Also I added you as a friend. ♥)

[shadowkat]

Totally agree.

Thank you. Will add you when I've access to the journal. Currently responding by email.

[anoyo]

Fair enough! :)