Fantastical Musings

Ah! This episode! This episode is totally a classic . I mean, every teen show has to have a football episode, right? And, of course, the hero and the heroine have to be a football player and a cheerleader. Although, I’m pretty sure this episode marks the end of both of their high school sports careers. Let’s keep it real, all teen drama shows forget about school pretty quickly once things get rolling. Of course, the climax of the episode was when Damon kills Mr. Tanner, the history teacher and football coach. I know that this is supposed to make us dislike Damon, but Mr. Tanner is so unlikable I almost don’t care. Let’s keep it real, that guy is no great loss. He was weirdly aggressive towards his students, and he was a genuine jerk to everyone. Including Aunt Jenna! Like, come on now, Aunt Jenna is in a difficult situation and she’s doing her best. Plus, it’s not his place to give out parenting advice, especially not to a family that is grieving. Also, from an adult perspective, I no...

"I met a girl. We talked. It was epic.” That is such a quote! I had forgotten all about that classic Vampire Diaries utterance. I feel like it could be the tagline for the whole show. It’s also probably the most teenage sentence uttered in the entire show (that and “she’s big on texting.”). It makes me buy that Stefan and Elena are actually in high school. Honestly, that was probably the best moment of the episode for me. However, I should probably talk about what else happened. First of all, I want to comment on how the Salvatore house is absolutely GORGEOUS. Like, it’s so fancy and rich and moody and cozy, and it all just SCREAMS vampire to me. It’s so cool. Also, like, it’s HUGE. I’m surprised Zach has been able to take care of it on his own all this time. It would take all day just to clean that massive library, and the electricity bill would not be cheap. The things you think of when you’re a grownup. I also want to say that I feel bad for Matt. He gets a raw deal on this sh...

Note: This review may contain spoilers for future The Vampire Diaries episodes. When The Vampire Diaries first came out in 2009, I was all over it. Which makes sense because, at the time, I was the target audience for the show. I was about fifteen years old, I had read Twilight, and I was definitely part of the pop culture craze for moody, vampire dramas. For me, The Vampire Diaries instantly became appointment viewing. Every Thursday night at eight, I made sure to be in the living room with the TV tuned to the CW (remember when you actually had to watch things at the time they aired to see them? Crazy, right? It makes me wonder how anyone ever followed a TV show, but I guess I managed it). Anyway, I watched The Vampire Diaries religiously for a couple of years, and then slowly started to lose interest. I probably made it through the first three seasons before I decided it was too much teen *drama* for me and lost interest (or maybe I just couldn’t get to the TV at eight o’clock an...