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Post by deb on Sept 7, 2014 10:14:18 GMT -5
And yet somehow my relationship with TVD has become toxic. It's like an addiction where I can't tear myself away. When will it end? Like shoe20 said before, I remember that, by the end of season s01, 02 and 03, there was a part of me that wanted the summer to end, so I could have another season of TVD. I used to watch the previous seasons during the summer hiatus 1 or 2 times. Now, I really don't care much if the new season will begin in 4 months or just a few days, and I can't rewatch the previous seasons anymore Like shoe20 also said, and I quote because I couldn't agree more "What started out as a series I couldn't wait the see the next episode and talk about it....has turned into a series I watch only so I can talk about it." I really think that if it wasn't for this place and all of you, lovely members, not even Paul could make me still care about this show
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Post by demetra on Sept 7, 2014 11:45:02 GMT -5
And yet somehow my relationship with TVD has become toxic. It's like an addiction where I can't tear myself away. When will it end? Like shoe20 said before, I remember that, by the end of season s01, 02 and 03, there was a part of me that wanted the summer to end, so I could have another season of TVD. I used to watch the previous seasons during the summer hiatus 1 or 2 times. Now, I really don't care much if the new season will begin in 4 months or just a few days, and I can't rewatch the previous seasons anymore Like shoe20 also said, and I quote because I couldn't agree more "What started out as a series I couldn't wait the see the next episode and talk about it....has turned into a series I watch only so I can talk about it." I really think that if it wasn't for this place and all of you, lovely members, not even Paul could make me still care about this show All I can offer is to say that I just binge-watched Season Five all the way through, and, objectively, it doesn't really bog down story wise until 5x18 to 5x20, when Enzo kind of displaced the main actors. I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would. Very surprising. I was looking forward to the DVD of Season Five primarily for the gag reel. I had great difficulty watching the Delena scenes last year during the season. Sometimes I couldn't even look at Damon and Elena together without thinking EW. It was like Elena broke up with my favourite relationship on the show, and I couldn't move on, even the writers and characters had. Then they pulled Stefan's heart out. Gosh, that was awful. But it actually brought me back into the end of the season. Certainly the opportunity of TVDfanforum has helped tremendously over the hiatus: thank you!!! Anyway, I am still Stelena, but I was able to see the show again all of a piece. I really appreciated the relationship of Bonnie and Jeremy through the course of the season, something I really thought was minor to my interest last year. And altho I feel it was time to say goodbye to Katherine, now I am sorry we lost Nadia. She was a beautiful character. I also realized that Caroline has graduated from the B team to an A lead character. For others watching that probably happened long ago. But for me it happened in the car in the junkyard when Stefan and Caroline were able to realize a few moments of companionship and peace together. This deep friendship between Enzo and Damon felt forced and contrived, and still does. The whole thing with Enzo's revenge over Maggie. A lot of telling. There was no connection between Maggie and anyone else. At one point Sloan says that the Travellers already know Enzo, that's why they are concerned about him, that she's not the first Traveller Enzo has met. Was that supposed to be Maggie? Maggie should have had more of a connection to the A team. I just didn't buy that Damon could or would behead a black woman in the middle of the town square in the South regardless of the event of the day--and no one noticed it happening. Maybe they'll do more with the 1960 flashback period this season. I am going to try another re-watch with the DVD looking primarily at Damon through the whole season. He wasn't my primary interest last year. I really saw him only in relation to Stefan. I thought last night: I wonder what TVD DOES look like to a Delena? I am kind of excited to try it out.
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Post by crimmyj on Sept 7, 2014 17:27:09 GMT -5
Like shoe20 said before, I remember that, by the end of season s01, 02 and 03, there was a part of me that wanted the summer to end, so I could have another season of TVD. I used to watch the previous seasons during the summer hiatus 1 or 2 times. Now, I really don't care much if the new season will begin in 4 months or just a few days, and I can't rewatch the previous seasons anymore Like shoe20 also said, and I quote because I couldn't agree more "What started out as a series I couldn't wait the see the next episode and talk about it....has turned into a series I watch only so I can talk about it." I really think that if it wasn't for this place and all of you, lovely members, not even Paul could make me still care about this show All I can offer is to say that I just binge-watched Season Five all the way through, and, objectively, it doesn't really bog down story wise until 5x18 to 5x20, when Enzo kind of displaced the main actors. I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would. Very surprising. I was looking forward to the DVD of Season Five primarily for the gag reel. I had great difficulty watching the Delena scenes last year during the season. Sometimes I couldn't even look at Damon and Elena together without thinking EW. It was like Elena broke up with my favourite relationship on the show, and I couldn't move on, even the writers and characters had. Then they pulled Stefan's heart out. Gosh, that was awful. But it actually brought me back into the end of the season. Certainly the opportunity of TVDfanforum has helped tremendously over the hiatus: thank you!!! Anyway, I am still Stelena, but I was able to see the show again all of a piece. I really appreciated the relationship of Bonnie and Jeremy through the course of the season, something I really thought was minor to my interest last year. And altho I feel it was time to say goodbye to Katherine, now I am sorry we lost Nadia. She was a beautiful character. I also realized that Caroline has graduated from the B team to an A lead character. For others watching that probably happened long ago. But for me it happened in the car in the junkyard when Stefan and Caroline were able to realize a few moments of companionship and peace together. This deep friendship between Enzo and Damon felt forced and contrived, and still does. The whole thing with Enzo's revenge over Maggie. A lot of telling. There was no connection between Maggie and anyone else. At one point Sloan says that the Travellers already know Enzo, that's why they are concerned about him, that she's not the first Traveller Enzo has met. Was that supposed to be Maggie? Maggie should have had more of a connection to the A team. I just didn't buy that Damon could or would behead a black woman in the middle of the town square in the South regardless of the event of the day--and no one noticed it happening. Maybe they'll do more with the 1960 flashback period this season. I am going to try another re-watch with the DVD looking primarily at Damon through the whole season. He wasn't my primary interest last year. I really saw him only in relation to Stefan. I thought last night: I wonder what TVD DOES look like to a Delena? I am kind of excited to try it out. bless your TVD heart for rewatching it again. I have rewatched it twice over the summer, and each time I actually my opinion of it gets worse because I see more flaws in the story. I have a friend who just got into the show who wants to watch season 5 with me before the new season starts so we will see if that changes my opinion of it, but yeah the show becomes downright unbearable (and a total cluster fbomb) those last 5 or so episodes of the season.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 18:15:46 GMT -5
All I can offer is to say that I just binge-watched Season Five all the way through, and, objectively, it doesn't really bog down story wise until 5x18 to 5x20, when Enzo kind of displaced the main actors. I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would. Very surprising. I was looking forward to the DVD of Season Five primarily for the gag reel. I had great difficulty watching the Delena scenes last year during the season. Sometimes I couldn't even look at Damon and Elena together without thinking EW. It was like Elena broke up with my favourite relationship on the show, and I couldn't move on, even the writers and characters had. Then they pulled Stefan's heart out. Gosh, that was awful. But it actually brought me back into the end of the season. Certainly the opportunity of TVDfanforum has helped tremendously over the hiatus: thank you!!! Anyway, I am still Stelena, but I was able to see the show again all of a piece. I really appreciated the relationship of Bonnie and Jeremy through the course of the season, something I really thought was minor to my interest last year. And altho I feel it was time to say goodbye to Katherine, now I am sorry we lost Nadia. She was a beautiful character. I also realized that Caroline has graduated from the B team to an A lead character. For others watching that probably happened long ago. But for me it happened in the car in the junkyard when Stefan and Caroline were able to realize a few moments of companionship and peace together. This deep friendship between Enzo and Damon felt forced and contrived, and still does. The whole thing with Enzo's revenge over Maggie. A lot of telling. There was no connection between Maggie and anyone else. At one point Sloan says that the Travellers already know Enzo, that's why they are concerned about him, that she's not the first Traveller Enzo has met. Was that supposed to be Maggie? Maggie should have had more of a connection to the A team. I just didn't buy that Damon could or would behead a black woman in the middle of the town square in the South regardless of the event of the day--and no one noticed it happening. Maybe they'll do more with the 1960 flashback period this season. I am going to try another re-watch with the DVD looking primarily at Damon through the whole season. He wasn't my primary interest last year. I really saw him only in relation to Stefan. I thought last night: I wonder what TVD DOES look like to a Delena? I am kind of excited to try it out. bless your TVD heart for rewatching it again. I have rewatched it twice over the summer, and each time I actually my opinion of it gets worse because I see more flaws in the story. I have a friend who just got into the show who wants to watch season 5 with me before the new season starts so we will see if that changes my opinion of it, but yeah the show becomes downright unbearable (and a total cluster fbomb) those last 5 or so episodes of the season. Watching it one more time was enough for me. Anything else would've made me wonder if I was a glutton for punishment or secretly masking masochistic tendencies. Thankfully neither is the case. But to be honest, for all my ramblings, season five wasn't as bad as I made it out to be. Sure, it's mediocre at best, but it's not the colossal failure everyone thinks it is. It was just really, really disappointing, something I never thought would've happened to my beloved show. I'm PRAYING that season six is better, cause if what we witnessed was the tip of the iceberg: yikes!!! For as you know, an iceberg hides its most sinister parts below the surface, and the further down you go the more terrible the destructive power. Time will tell whether that is the case, but for now I'm hoping it's not, cause it would be nice to be pleasantly surprised for a change.
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Post by demetra on Sept 8, 2014 0:32:57 GMT -5
@dman24 and crimmyj, the thing that makes me ever so anxious about Season Six is the discrepancy between what Julie Plec said -- about a series re-set, which I hope for -- and what I thought I heard Caroline Dries say, something more about deeper mythology. Do we really need more mythology? I wrote out a list of about 1000 words to help myself remember the connection between Silas, Tessa, and Amara, the Travellers, Marcos and the doppelgangers and the difference between witch magic (spirit magic), Expression (black magic), and "pure magic" which is what the Travellers do. So then I re-watched the season again, and I couldn't tell you what "pure magic" is. And to bring this back to the thread of TVD Cast, none of them have any idea either. I don't think the cast even watches every episode. I think they do their work, and the way they know what's happening story-wise is the table run-through. I don't think the actors ever see it again. They know their character(s) but they'll never spend the time to re-watch an episode, let alone a season.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 3:21:42 GMT -5
@dman24 and crimmyj, the thing that makes me ever so anxious about Season Six is the discrepancy between what Julie Plec said -- about a series re-set, which I hope for -- and what I thought I heard Caroline Dries say, something more about deeper mythology. Do we really need more mythology? I wrote out a list of about 1000 words to help myself remember the connection between Silas, Tessa, and Amara, the Travellers, Marcos and the doppelgangers and the difference between witch magic (spirit magic), Expression (black magic), and "pure magic" which is what the Travellers do. So then I re-watched the season again, and I couldn't tell you what "pure magic" is. And to bring this back to the thread of TVD Cast, none of them have any idea either. I don't think the cast even watches every episode. I think they do their work, and the way they know what's happening story-wise is the table run-through. I don't think the actors ever see it again. They know their character(s) but they'll never spend the time to re-watch an episode, let alone a season. demetra, season five was really confusing. And while watching it again to decipher the convoluted storylines is admirable, it's essentially a fruitless endeavor. I just accept it on its own terms: a mediocre season that isn't worth me "figuring it out." That way I keep my sanity and a bit of hope for the new season. We'll see how everything goes though. *Fingers crossed* You're right, I doubt whether the cast actually takes the time to watch the show. There's that actor's cliche about not watching themselves on screen, which, I'm sure, is the major reason for not knowing their characters as well we want them to. But they do read the scripts so they have some clue, just more in a contextual way. We tend to watch the show as a whole which gives us a more informed view of everything, not just the individual characters.
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Post by Kiki on Sept 8, 2014 10:13:21 GMT -5
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Post by deb on Sept 8, 2014 14:45:34 GMT -5
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Post by stelena4ever on Sept 8, 2014 18:43:43 GMT -5
The two most beautiful women in Paul's life together at a fashion show. How great is that.
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Post by deb on Sept 9, 2014 18:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by shoe20 on Sept 9, 2014 19:54:12 GMT -5
Thanks deb, that was really a hoot....... still laughing.
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Post by deb on Sept 10, 2014 16:17:44 GMT -5
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Post by deb on Sept 11, 2014 16:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by stelena4ever on Sept 11, 2014 19:31:56 GMT -5
This is from July when the cast was at San Diego Comic Con.
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Post by deb on Sept 15, 2014 16:55:56 GMT -5
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