Back to teeny weepy bohooing drama this week after a pretty good episode last week. I cannot get my head around why people would like to see or create episodes wherein adults mope, cry, and have cringe talk about feelings and sex as if they are very young teens stuck in a badly written episode of Days of Our Lives.
This is the second main drag of this show. The show is about the supernatural, vampires, ghosts, monsters, witches, but they spend 70% of this show crying in basements and sulk on each others shoulders.
Some of that is fine, it can develop characters, show their feelings and build suspense, but not all the freaking time. And I thought they had almost got away from that in this second season, but apparently not...
The writers of this show either copy paste their ideas, monsters, scenarios or even entire scenes from other shows and movies, or they fall into the teary american soap teen drama crap. Why?
I like the actors, they are all great, but they get bad writing to deal with, however since the show is still watchable you have to give a lot of props to the cast to manage to sell it.
Not that this episode was that bad, it was okay, but I really hope this is not how the rest of this season goes.
Of course we also get "normal" folk that in a town like Mystic Falls, where people seem to die more than in war-zones, goes out for a jog... at night.. in a cemetery... yea, that happen.
I also did not buy the "oh now suddenly everyone remembers" spell. I feel the writers did not know what to do with the pretty exciting, and slightly unique, premiss of a hero out of touch and a hero no one remembers. Instead of that great interesting premiss the writers wanted more teeny soapy drama. Why?
I give this episode a 6/10. It was not horrible, and the acting is as usual very solid.
I have said it before; this show need to grow up, it need to move on. This has to be the last season they are at that school, and it has to get better writers, because this show sometimes suck and I can really see it stink if this goes on.