The characterisation is random, actions don't have ramifications, and the amount of casual mind-rape and strange racial stuff boggles my mind.

Which I always have to say.

However, it's fun, fast-paced, and racks up a huge body-count.

Someday, there may be a witch on TVD that isn't black or isn't somehow related to Bonnie. I, myself, am uncertain that Gina Torres' character wasn't actually some distant cousin of Bonnie's.

Sometime there might be a black person that isn't a witch or vamp or doesn't die by the end of the episode--come on, you can do it!

So true.

As soon as I saw him sitting in her room I knew it was going to be an emotional scene for me.

same. i was actually really annoyed that she didn't go hug him after she hugged Stefan when they saved her. i might've even yelled at my tv.

never speak of the other Salvatore brother again. Hah. I kid, sort of.

i'm not a fan of Stefan/Elena. they are a giant yawn fest for me. i think Elena's a lot more fun with Damon and Stefan is a lot more fun with Katherine. i'd enjoy it immensely if that's how things worked out on the show.

Also, your tagline is one of my favorite scenes from the show.

me too!! he will smack a bitch if they threaten Elena. i love it.

Are you all telling me that Vampire Diaries is actually a good show? My world is askew.

I was you until i saw the Founder's Day ep(which is the season one finale). my mom always had it on and i mocked it and her for watching. then i watched that ep and fell in love with Damon and subsequently really enjoyed other characters. they definitely never stall things out like a lot of shows like to do. something big happens in pretty much every ep.

plus? Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev have chemistry through the roof. it's enough to keep me watching.

Watching this week's Fringe... Cool to see Aaron Ashmore (Logan from VM, Jimmy from SV) and Shawn Ashmore (Bobby from Xmen) playing the twins they are.

I started watching TVD as a guilty pleasure while i was laid up with a broken foot and enjoying vicodin like whoa. Also read all the books (which started out embarrasing and finished with me wanting to actually burn a book, and i am heavily against book burning). But the show? Continues to please. It's total brain/eye candy, but impressively well done for a prime time soap opera featuring supernatural elements. Plus all those iliac crests and not so horrible covers of songs i love. Yes, please.

Watching this week's Fringe... Cool to see Aaron Ashmore (Logan from VM, Jimmy from SV) and Shawn Ashmore (Bobby from Xmen) playing the twins they are.

Yeah! (Troy, not Logan.) During the opening scene, I recognized the voice of one of the guys and, even though it was hard to tell from the face, I remarked, "That's an Ashmore!" I'm still not sure which was which, though. I was guessing the non-Ambered one was Shawn, but now that I think about it, it was probably Aaron, since I'd be more likely to recognize his voice. (But, nope, I'm wrong. Shawn was Joshua, and Aaron was Matthew.)

Cary Grant in The Maltese Falcon ? Hee.

Fringe: Do you remember Kirk Acevedo and his weird firing/not firing the way he left the show last season? Do you think the writers knew he was going to come back full force a season later?

I have been wondering about that while watching this season.

The Walking Dead: I like it when characters are smart and think of ploys like covering themselves in zombie guts to stagger undetected (well, almost) through the mob.

Also really liked the one character noted that the zombie they chopped up for guts was an organ donor. It's part of why this show reaches beyond the routine scary grossness of the zombie movie genre and remembers that the zombies were once real people.