Please don't get me wrong, I am pretty sure this will be regarded as a highly controversial opinion, but I guess it has to be said. I'm sorry if I offend anyone, I really don't mean to.
I don't like where TVD is heading. At the moment, it feels as though the writers are being indecisive, changing crucial details as and when they feel like to string along all the shippers they can manage.
Need one example? The 'choice' Elena made in the season 3 finale. After an entire season of Delena, Stelena shippers though it was over. Elena would choose Damon. After all, that's the most likely decision. However, the producers notice the decline in numbers of people watching the show. Stelena fans have given up hope. What do they do? Ignore the entire season before it and let Elena choose Stefan. Now, I, even as a Delena fan, have no problem with this. If she had chosen Damon when Stefan was recovering from returning to the ripper side of things she would be heartless.
The problem I have with this was the conversation on the phone.
"Maybe if I had met you first..." she says. And then, in a 'shocking' twist, it turns out she did meet him first. Obviously (as can be seen on ANY website), the number of Delena shippers is higher than any other ship, so the writers didn't want to lose Delena fans, especially not during the finale.
What's the problem here? The show is being run by the relationships on it. Let's take another show now, for comparison's sake. Let's say...Grey's Anatomy. Now I know the genres are different, the target audience is different and the situation is different. Still, the show has just about as many main characters. They have relationships with anything that has two legs. Still, when something changes and a relationship doesn't work anymore, they move on. The show runs the relationships, not the other way around.
I'm not saying that the relationships aren't important. It's a teen angsty supernatural romance drama. There are bound to be love triangles or quadrangles or in this case, octagons. It only gets irritating when these relationships are the only thing driving the story forward. The show has to trust that the plot line is just as capable of attracting fans as its characters and not be so scared to let the characters make a choice.
I don't like where TVD is heading. At the moment, it feels as though the writers are being indecisive, changing crucial details as and when they feel like to string along all the shippers they can manage.
Need one example? The 'choice' Elena made in the season 3 finale. After an entire season of Delena, Stelena shippers though it was over. Elena would choose Damon. After all, that's the most likely decision. However, the producers notice the decline in numbers of people watching the show. Stelena fans have given up hope. What do they do? Ignore the entire season before it and let Elena choose Stefan. Now, I, even as a Delena fan, have no problem with this. If she had chosen Damon when Stefan was recovering from returning to the ripper side of things she would be heartless.
The problem I have with this was the conversation on the phone.
"Maybe if I had met you first..." she says. And then, in a 'shocking' twist, it turns out she did meet him first. Obviously (as can be seen on ANY website), the number of Delena shippers is higher than any other ship, so the writers didn't want to lose Delena fans, especially not during the finale.
What's the problem here? The show is being run by the relationships on it. Let's take another show now, for comparison's sake. Let's say...Grey's Anatomy. Now I know the genres are different, the target audience is different and the situation is different. Still, the show has just about as many main characters. They have relationships with anything that has two legs. Still, when something changes and a relationship doesn't work anymore, they move on. The show runs the relationships, not the other way around.
I'm not saying that the relationships aren't important. It's a teen angsty supernatural romance drama. There are bound to be love triangles or quadrangles or in this case, octagons. It only gets irritating when these relationships are the only thing driving the story forward. The show has to trust that the plot line is just as capable of attracting fans as its characters and not be so scared to let the characters make a choice.
Elena took a deep breath and started running down the hill. However, the grass on the hill started growing really fast and pushed Elena back. Elena angry pushed the grass away and came halfway the hill.
Then the earth started shaking and Elena rolled down.
The road that led to the open field cracked open and Elena’s feet got stuck in one of the cracks.
“Ha, damn it!” she cursed and she pulled her leg, but she couldn’t move it. The crack grew bigger and soon she fell in a whole. A deep one.
She looked up and saw how the crack slowly closed again.
“Elena”
Elena grabbed the wall which was raw and cut her hands open, but she didn’t care. With a fierce determination she climbed up and out of the crack. She crawled away from the crack, dodged the other cracks and reached the open field.
Then the earth started shaking and Elena rolled down.
The road that led to the open field cracked open and Elena’s feet got stuck in one of the cracks.
“Ha, damn it!” she cursed and she pulled her leg, but she couldn’t move it. The crack grew bigger and soon she fell in a whole. A deep one.
She looked up and saw how the crack slowly closed again.
“Elena”
Elena grabbed the wall which was raw and cut her hands open, but she didn’t care. With a fierce determination she climbed up and out of the crack. She crawled away from the crack, dodged the other cracks and reached the open field.