r/TheVampireDiaries

I'm watching The Originals for the first time and I'm sooo bored by it. Does anyone else love TVD but not love The Originals? Does it eventually get less boring? I'm in season 2 and it's a total snoozefest to me. I'm basically just watching it so I'll know all the lore but oof it is bad.

I also recently started reading the vampire diaries books and I've just started the second book. It's a little cheesy so far but I feel like that's to be expected when it's a book about teenage romance. What did you think of the books?

In the episode Caroline is in some alternate reality where her mom finds out she's a vampire and hates her and I think tries to kill her.

I remember Caroline is in the Mystic Grill and she goes up to her mom who was dead atp I think and Caroline is talking to her and either she talks about being a vampire or Sheriff Forbes finds out and she flips out.

Am I crazy did this not happen haha I'm searching Google and can't find it

Caroline really had to deal with being a vampire all by herself, no one knew she got turned. She was probably scared shitless and also had to experience (who she thought) was her best friend smothering her to death 😭 she was craving blood and drank it and was grossed out by it but still craved it, she figured out compulsion by herself , i loved that episode of her. she handled it sooo well and i loved her new era of being a vampire. and the first thing she did was when she was confident was go and knock damon on his ass 😭

edit: i wanted to add that no one believed that she would make it as a vampire either, like they were ready for it to be another vicky situation but she ended up having the most self control and her character became even better as a vampire

I've never been a big Vampire fan I've only watched Twilight and didn't think it was that good is it worth the read.

So this is long but, so many of the arguments I see in this sub about morality and the characters in this show are entirely pointless if you just view it from the proper perspective. I also see a lot of people say that the fans of the show typically have watched things like this or twilight as their main source of vampire information, but in my opinion, twilight is honestly a perfect example of why people view the vampire diaries entirely wrong.

First of all the show is called the VAMPIRE diaries, not the Elena or the human diaries. The show is about vampires, specifically the development and story of two brothers and the girl they both fell in love with. Elena is literally the only human being in a sea of supernatural creatures, and even then she’s still a supernatural form of human being. The constant discourse about how awful some of the vampires are from a human perspective when legitimately no one in the show is human or views things the same way, makes no sense.

For example in Twilight (we’ll address the movies here), Bella is the only human in a literal COVEN of vampires, and she very quickly realized the danger her being a mortal brought to not only her but the Cullens, which led to her asking Edward to turn her and following through with it as soon as he was willing to do it. Everyone supported that idea, no one called The Cullens a bunch of evil immoral villains, because it was pretty obvious she just wasn’t gonna survive nor would the Cullens if she wasn’t turned eventually. Rosalie’s character also got so much hate for being so against Bella giving up her humanity for Edward.

In most other vampire media, I don’t see people having NEARLY this much discourse arguing about what characters are horrible and immoral and why. It makes no sense. They are vampires, they are doing what vampires have always done in any rendition of vampires ever. If a lot of you consumed vampire media like True Blood, or the Buffy series, or 30 days of night, you would realize that vampires aren’t really depicted to have humanity/souls in most renditions of them, and the humanity switch is this shows way of addressing that but still allowing the characters to be normal enough to love and care about each other because it was a teen show.

The incessant shit talking about Damon, the arguments over who’s the better person, etc, is all so worn out, and if you actually knew anything about vampire culture you’d know the vampires in this show are ANGELS compared to how they act in most.

So i just finished watching TVD , and i can't get over it , i keep watching edits of my fav character and rewatching some episodes i want to move on to another show but i can't so any help ?

I always loved Jeremy and Bonnie but after r watching Jeremy and Anna again, they have amazingggg chemistry! Vicky was whatever, and he also got with that Sarah Salvatore who wasn’t actually Sarah Salvatore. I’m curious who you guys think he had the best chemistry with

The fandom at large dislikes Bonnie in season 1 & 2 and honestly I thought those were some of her “better” writing bc she got to have an opinions, set boundaries and walk away even because after that Bonnie becomes doormat and has to constantly give and give for a friend group that NEVER does anything for her. She loses her life, her family all at her own determinant bc look somebody (usually Elena) needs saving! Bonnie’s the only one with magic so she just has to be on the offense line!

I just wish she did worse. Bonnie had to be the.. “mammy” of her friend group and honestly it got her nothing. I wish my girl lashed out, I wish she cut them off. I WISH SHE DID 10000 worse than the fandom pretend season 1 & 2 is. Bonnie didn’t get better friendships, she didn’t get better relationships… she should’ve did worse lmao

All that servitude and when was her friends ever helpful? When did her friends try to have sleepover bc something got too hard? How often do they check in on her?

For example if it was anybody else stuck in the prison world the group would’ve tried getting them out. Instead Bonnie was there nearly a year alone, when Caroline got kidnapped she got a night of support, when Caroline lost her mom another night of support. When Elena’s going through something she has her bfs or her brother to lean on. Matt even had more support.

Bonnie got nothing out of being a good person and should’ve gave the world hell

Currently on s2ep19 (Klaus). Watching for the 1st time so I dont know what people think about certain characters. By far, my favourite most is ofcourse Queen Katherine 😁😁 and if I am being honest, my least favourite would be Elena (remarkable that its the same actress). I dont know what it is about her that just bothers me. I feel like she is a worse person than Katherine herself. All through s1 and s2 all the Katherine/Salvators brothers lore we found out painted Katherine in a certain way (that she like playing with both brothers but she loved 1 of them and more importantly always played them both against 1 another). BUT Elena is also doing that. CONSTANTLY. She loves the attention. She loves that Damon is pining for her. I feel like she is most certainly either going to cheat on Stefan or keep going between the 2 just like Katherine but worse. To me atp in the season Elena feels like a Katherine in training. I have felt this for all of s1 and s2. This man killed her brother, almost killed Bonnie, didnt give a damn about releasing 27 hungry asf vampires loose on the town because as long as he gets what he wants "collateral damage" is acceptable. And yet, this little good girl loves getting near him, calls him before she calls Stefan and now in this episode has also started making the sensual, eye thingy movments of Katherine (in the hallway scene where she is going back to meet Elijah)(when she was in Damon's room etc). Oh I also hate her treatment of Jenna (telling John you are my only parent left) really??? This girl is just a few yrs older than you and is trying soo hard for Elena/Jeremy but she treats her with little respect and trust. 😑😑