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Feb. 26th, 2010 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsDammit, so I caught the first ep of Vampire Diaries when it first came out, but the show didn't hold my interest. But with very few (well, my definition of very few prolly differs from yours, to me very few is less then 10 hours of non-repeats on the prime time schedule in a week) new things on these past couple of weeks, caught a couple of eps of this again, and these later eps have piqued my interest.
I'm not one of those Twilight freaks, but I suppose I do like shows about vampires. I mean, I watched Buffy and Angel and True Blood, caught some of Moonlight and Kindred. Of course, I could care less about the whole "forbidden" romance between a vampire and a human common in these things. I say, if you like them, then turn them! If it doesn't work out, oh well, what's the harm!? And I was also never into the whole brooding and lamenting their fate thing. Its like, "I have super speed and super strength and really hard to kill and can control people with my mind and have all other sorts of cool tricks". Oh boo hoo! Particularly in those mythologies where the vampires have some method of being able to go about in the daylight. Then the biggest problem is moot! What are they so sad about? That the people they care about will wither and die? Again, it doesn't have to be that way! Well, okay, if they all turned their friends and family, that would obviously lead to an overall problem. But some of these folks, they're kinda holier than thou if you think about it. They're all, "You don't know the kind of urges you'll have, the horrors you might end up committing!" So what, they're so great that they can manage it, but you apparently can't?
Anyways, I do like the secret connections between some of the various characters. And I didn't realize they've had somewhat famous hottie guest stars like Kelly Hu and Mia Kirshner. The whole trying to get those vamps out of the magically sealed tomb plot is interesting, particularly given a couple of different people are independently working towards that. I do like select elders of the town know about the existence of vampires and there's a secret society (The Founder's Council) that knows how to deal with their threat. And then there's that Alaric (who the hell is named Alaric nowadays?! And he's not even one of the vampires!) guy who was married to Mia Kirshner's character, Isobel, who also happens to be Elena's real birth mother.
From vampires onto zombies. Read the latest issue (#70) of Walking Dead. I was right, the sheriff looking guy on the cover was Rick! I thought so, he was just shaved and cleaned up. So, this place looks like its on the up and up, not another Woodbury. Or did it used to be? Their leader, Douglas Monroe, a former senator mentions a "Davidson", whom he tells Heath never to mention that name, "especially after what he made them do". What did he make them do? Was he a former leader who committed atrocities on par with the governor? And are they upset that they committed those atrocities along side him before they finally took him out? Or are they lamenting they had to something horrible to take him out (i.e., he "made" them have to punish him severely for whatever infraction he committed?)
But I can see the townsfolk being scared of them, after living out in the wild for so long, they must look creepy! I mean, Abraham is an imposing guy, and Michonne is pretty intimidating as well, and they're not even scarred up like Rick, who's all grizzly and missing a hand, or Andrea, with her slashed up face.
Oh, so the community they're in owes its existence to some government project designed to deal with something like this. Well, not a zombie world, but something that involved societal collapse. If it is a government thing, I wonder why it seems more "civilian" owned and operated. Perhaps the shadow government/any remaining government folks (other than Douglas, I guess) weren't able to make it there? I'm a little skeptical a group of only 60 is able to keep all those zombies out. That one fake scientist guy talked about the huge roving swarms, have none of them hit this place? Surely they have to have more defenses than just a wall.
I'm not one of those Twilight freaks, but I suppose I do like shows about vampires. I mean, I watched Buffy and Angel and True Blood, caught some of Moonlight and Kindred. Of course, I could care less about the whole "forbidden" romance between a vampire and a human common in these things. I say, if you like them, then turn them! If it doesn't work out, oh well, what's the harm!? And I was also never into the whole brooding and lamenting their fate thing. Its like, "I have super speed and super strength and really hard to kill and can control people with my mind and have all other sorts of cool tricks". Oh boo hoo! Particularly in those mythologies where the vampires have some method of being able to go about in the daylight. Then the biggest problem is moot! What are they so sad about? That the people they care about will wither and die? Again, it doesn't have to be that way! Well, okay, if they all turned their friends and family, that would obviously lead to an overall problem. But some of these folks, they're kinda holier than thou if you think about it. They're all, "You don't know the kind of urges you'll have, the horrors you might end up committing!" So what, they're so great that they can manage it, but you apparently can't?
Anyways, I do like the secret connections between some of the various characters. And I didn't realize they've had somewhat famous hottie guest stars like Kelly Hu and Mia Kirshner. The whole trying to get those vamps out of the magically sealed tomb plot is interesting, particularly given a couple of different people are independently working towards that. I do like select elders of the town know about the existence of vampires and there's a secret society (The Founder's Council) that knows how to deal with their threat. And then there's that Alaric (who the hell is named Alaric nowadays?! And he's not even one of the vampires!) guy who was married to Mia Kirshner's character, Isobel, who also happens to be Elena's real birth mother.
From vampires onto zombies. Read the latest issue (#70) of Walking Dead. I was right, the sheriff looking guy on the cover was Rick! I thought so, he was just shaved and cleaned up. So, this place looks like its on the up and up, not another Woodbury. Or did it used to be? Their leader, Douglas Monroe, a former senator mentions a "Davidson", whom he tells Heath never to mention that name, "especially after what he made them do". What did he make them do? Was he a former leader who committed atrocities on par with the governor? And are they upset that they committed those atrocities along side him before they finally took him out? Or are they lamenting they had to something horrible to take him out (i.e., he "made" them have to punish him severely for whatever infraction he committed?)
But I can see the townsfolk being scared of them, after living out in the wild for so long, they must look creepy! I mean, Abraham is an imposing guy, and Michonne is pretty intimidating as well, and they're not even scarred up like Rick, who's all grizzly and missing a hand, or Andrea, with her slashed up face.
Oh, so the community they're in owes its existence to some government project designed to deal with something like this. Well, not a zombie world, but something that involved societal collapse. If it is a government thing, I wonder why it seems more "civilian" owned and operated. Perhaps the shadow government/any remaining government folks (other than Douglas, I guess) weren't able to make it there? I'm a little skeptical a group of only 60 is able to keep all those zombies out. That one fake scientist guy talked about the huge roving swarms, have none of them hit this place? Surely they have to have more defenses than just a wall.
