Posted by Erin Brown | January 16, 2011, 13:53 (EST) | 28 Comments
Category: TV Series
If you have been a viewer of this series from the start, you’ll know what I mean when I say that if you fast forward from that first glimpse we had of Mystic Falls all those months ago to the Mystic Falls of 2011, you’d be forgiven for thinking that your mental Dorothy wasn’t exactly in Kansas anymore. So much has changed. Or died. Or been cursed by somebody. Indeed, gone are the days when this was the mere story of Stefan (the lone good guy with a bad past), Elena (the girl he had to know), and Damon (the quintessential badass shaped spanner in the works that no love story is complete without). Instead, we now find ourselves immersed in a storyline brimming with champions of one kind or another, no longer in a black and white world; a place where who you are and where you stand is everything but clear.
As we’ve already seen with Jeremy and Bonnie, the creative team behind The Vampire Diaries has decided to throw their plot nets a little wider this season, choosing to go beyond the core story of Elena, Damon, and Stefan. This has taken the form of a number of plot twists, but most notably it has been seen in the intricate and deliberate romantic tanglings of other characters, the most intriguing of which has to be the developing love triangle between Matt, Caroline and Tyler.
That said, as individuals these three also have a lot to offer on their own, too.
CONTINUE READING “BY EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION: MATT, CAROLINE & TYLER”…
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Posted by Erin Brown | January 11, 2011, 12:00 (EST) | 45 Comments
Category: TV Series
In 1849, a wise man named Henri Amiel was quoted as describing heroism like this: “[it] is the brilliant triumph of the soul over flesh – that is to say, over fear. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.”
Triumph over fear, courage, dazzling, glorious…well let’s just say that they weren’t exactly words I’d attach to the supporting characters of The Vampire Diaries (unless you count “dazzling” and “glorious” when describing Caroline’s hair). But in the course of the last season and a half, and especially in Season 2, a number of (what used to be) sub-characters have become integral parts of a broader tale slowly being brought to light, piece by tantalising piece, by Kevin and Julie (like Madonna, surnames are now a bit unnecessary here) and the rest of the creative team. As such, they indicate a fairly seismic shift in plot focus; unlike Season 1, the intricate evolutions and revolutions of all the characters in Season 2 are proof that – whether they are part of the core love triangle tangle or not – everyone can now be viewed in one way or another as a core element in the greater story, so much so that to tell the story without any of them seems almost unimaginable now.
CONTINUE READING KNOW THYSELF, BE THYSELF: THE CASE FOR JEREMY GILBERT & BONNIE BENNETT…
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Posted by Erin Brown | August 31, 2010, 21:22 (EST) | 14 Comments
Category: TV Series
Countdown to The Return is a series of guest posts by Vampire Diaries fans on topics they’re pondering as we head into Season 2. Blogger Erin Brown is having a fangirl crisis and a certain Lockwood’s animal magnetism is to blame.
For the record, I’m a Stefan girl; I’ve always been a Stefan girl.
I’d like to blame David Boreanaz for all of this, of course – Angel/Angelus, aka the Original Captain Brood – for instilling my love of a tortured expression on a handsome face, but in truth, I’ve always loved a good moper with supernatural abilities and chiseled features; one who is ever-searching for his redemption by playing the good guy and being the better man…or at least an undead version of.
Paul Wesley, playing Stefan Salvatore, of course filled all of these expectations. The eyes, the abs, the forehead that has more acting skills than all the Baldwin brothers put together (what are there, like a million? Forgive me, but I lost count at William) and the smouldering, bruised expression? If we were going on stereotypes, it made more sense than chocolate and peanut butter: Stefan Salvatore had me well before hello.
But as the premiere of the next chapter in Mystic Falls history draws nigh, I find myself needing to make a confession.
It’s the eve of a new season and I am being seriously courted by another team.
Yes.
I’m looking at YOU, Tyler Lockwood. With your cougar-loving, bad boy, my-daddy-issues-have-issues ways, and anti-emo-Jeremyness…ness.
CLICK TO CONTINUE READING “WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD WOLF?”
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