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I am astonished by how clearly Vampire Diaries is trying to imitate Twilight.

They've white washed the cast, which pisses me off. And then what they did to them on a simple characterization level; no longer is Elena the fierce, intelligent young woman who pursued her love interest and worked to solve crimes and rule her school; no longer is Stefan the intelligent, gracious Italian gentleman. They've destroyed Elena's character in order to make her life revolve around Stefan. She is passive and bland; he is now the only reason she looks forward to the day--literally. They've destroyed Stefan's character to make him a 2D Edward ripoff, only with even less personality, and compounded this by whitewashing him into an actor that is a painful imitation of the movie's Edward, whatever that actor's name was. Damon is now a blustering, featureless bully that somehow manages to be totally disgustingly evil at the same time. Damon was a predator. Not totally evil.

Oh, and Stefan gives Elena a copy of Wuthering Heights, which she loves.

Also? No woman with brains would fall for the snide, ham handed remarks about an ex from some stranger who claims to be a close relative. Some stranger who is obviously an asshole.

They've erased her female friends in order to make room for extraneous male characters, replacing them with a couple of girls completely lacking personality who are only there to egg their bland relationship on. Seriously. The only thing they get to do; the only reason they exist. They completely destroyed the tight, complex female relationships that were so interesting. THEY DON'T HAVE MEREDITH, YOU GUYS. WHAT THE FUCK. And Caroline is now a sex-obsessed groupie of Elena's. They gave Elena a little brother instead of a little sister, and he's a total asshole. Not to mention what they did with the parental figures.

And....they have a daddy!figure now! How precious! How stupid. Just because Meyer's vampires act like adolescent assholes does not mean that ancient vampires in a competent narrative do. Oh--wait, there's my mistake. Calling it competent.

"Texting is an important step in every relationship!" Yes. We get it. You're ~gritty~ and ~hip~. Now please, let it rest.


They've turned it into a) a sitcom and b) a Twilight ripoff and completely obliterated any trace of original characterization that ever existed.

So: if you liked the book's originality, characters, freaking badass girls and female friendship, suspense and romance and adventure? Don't watch. For the first time, Matt is more appealing than Stefan. Vastly so.

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