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caroline forbes || expectations

“I won't settle for a guy with a fake job He seems so desperate for loving, but, baby, I'm not Gave my heart with zero stipulations Now I take careful consideration”

Let me get this straight, she spreads her legs for a guy that basically enslaved her boyfriend because she was mad at him for leaving her and you guys just clap your hands at that?

@eyayah234 one day I will figure out why your asks don't show up in my inbox, I swear

OKAY SO.

I think that The Originals was real wasted potential because when they first proposed a spin-off about the Mikaelson siblings, I expected a really cool set through the centuries prequel series with fun costumes, showing their journey since they first became vampires leading up all the way to Vampire Diaries. That would have fucked so hard.

Instead, we got them squabbling in modern day New Orleans. Like. Up until the crappy finale, the show wasn't bad. I loved seeing more of the siblings. But I do still think that the show underdelivered on what a show about the Mikaelson siblings could have been. Especially since it remained mostly Klaus and Elijah, they even shelved Rebekah for significant amounts of time, with the other siblings more or less being recurring characters at best rather than actual regulars... aside from the retconned in sister, who did get a more prominent role.

I just think that a show called The Originals should have focused on THE ORIGINALS. All of them. Not just the ones that were already major in TVD.

The fact that they put Hayley and the baby plot so very front and center was just kind of not exactly what I expected from the show.

Which also leads into my answer for the second part: Never watched Legacies, never will watch Legacies. I'm sure these girls are very cool characters - this verse IS great at making really cool characters - but I loathe the way all three of them came to exist and am very fine pretending they don't.

I loved seeing Klaus as a father, love when the ruthless ones get to be soft and to actually love. But, ya know, on account of them killing off Klaus, I will not get to see him be Hope's father, so the major appeal is lost to me.

And the twins... Forcing Caroline to suddenly be pregnant with someone else's babies and essentially baby-trapping her with her former teacher slash best friend's father figure was THE most disturbing thing Vampire Diaries ever dick. Just the concept of having a pregnancy forced onto you through magic and carrying babies that aren't even your own is just an absolute horror story of a pitch to me personally.

If the show had not fridged Joe and the twins got to be Alaric/Joe's kids, or if Caroline had gotten a "I want to be a mother and am pregnant with my own kids by my own choice" plotline instead of being magically forced to be pregnant, I would feel different about them, but the way the show wrote these characters into existence makes me really want to pretend they don't exist.

I don’t dislike them purely on the fact that they like Stefan. I’m kind of a you do you sort of person as long as you’re respectful to me. Most of the stands have not been respectful towards me.

They’ve either given me, death threats, or take any sort of critique of the character so personal. It’s insane.

I didn’t start out in this fandom hating Stefan. I wasn’t a fan, but I didn’t dislike him at first. I really only started to dislike him on my re-watches because I could see the hypocrisy and what I can’t stand in a person is hypocrisy.

But even before I started to dislike him when I would come on the Internet and give my takes some of the fans would be down my throat about it. No character is above critique.

Just because someone is critiquing a character doesn’t mean they hate them. Critique is kind of required when you are trying to analyze the character in a story.

In real life, I am a very analytical person, and I am constantly analyzing the world around me. It’s just a part of me.

I hate it when I look back at my teenage self, back when I'd first seen this episode. Although I've always loved Elena and will always love her I was quite critical of her in this episode when I first watched it and had been a little peeved at her for going off on Stefan.

But looking at it through 2026 lens I can see her point. Stefan really refused to tell her anything because he didn't want to lie. HE knew what he was and wasn't prepared for what to say.

He knew he's a vampire, he knew she was a human and he wasn't prepared for her to ask him questions about himself. He didn't know how to balace the gray line.

This all makes me wonder was he just arogant or did Katherine and him never talk. Because he wasn't entirely sure she wasn't Katherine and was trying to make sure she wasn't. I am convinced he assumed that shared similar traits and he just seemingly was shocked that she was asking him any questions about himself and refused to answer.

Damon (while being held in the Salvatore cellar) even took (as his body was slowly deteriorating from the lack of blood) "look, she's gonna figure it out."

Ok, he didn't spell it out but as I've rewatched the begining of the series Damon very much was indirectly telling Stefan that.

If Elena hadn't came across that elderly man who'd met Stefan before I can guarantee Stefan would've continued not telling Elena anything and she most likely would have dumped him.

Stefan has such a holier than thou complex that he actually has the audacity to blame Damon for the shitty stuff he's done in his past.

Come on. Him turning into a ripper is NOT Damon's fault. How was he supposed to know that was going to happen. The man wasn't a vampire for very long by the time it happened by 1912. The last time he saw Stefan he hadn't actually become a ripper yet.

Those two girls he fed on in the 1860s. Still alive.