The Vampire Diaries (01-05)

16Nov09

Another rainy day… The Vampire Diaries is about two brothers who fall in love with the same woman, she dies they hate each other and now we are 500 years later( present time), yeah *shocker* they are both vampires. Stefan the younger of the brothers returns to the town where it all happened and decides to go to school there… yeah.. well anyway at school he meets this girl called Elena who looks more or less like his 500-year-old dead love Katherine. They fall in love on first sight and when things seems to be perfect Stefans darker and more dangerous older brother Damon returns and starts to stir up trouble between Elena and Stefan, and all the books pretty much follows this pattern. Ofc there happens supernatural stuff which makes the books mildly amusing and entertaining but the thing that I find boring about them is that I had hoped for some kind of threesome love drama between Elena, Damon and Stefan but there really isnt any sure she finds Damon attractive but thats about it. If you want to compare the tv-show with the books there arent really much similarities except for the name of the Books and the characters names, in the books Elena is blond and the most popular girl at school, in the tv-show shes brunette and I guess somewhat popular since she was a cheerleader there which she wasnt in the books (I think?). In the book she has two good girlfriends Bonnie and Meredith in the tv-show she has Bonnie and Caroline, Meredith isnt in it and in the books Caroline is Elenas rival at school for the Queen B title and she only gets mentioned like a couple of pages through the first five books. In the books Elena has a little sister that’s like for year old not a druggie brother. Vickie hardly gets mentioned in the books at all and she’s not Matts sister, on the tv-show she has a bigger role for the first few eps. Matt is pretty much the same in both the books and tv-show. So what can you conclude from this?… I actually think the tv-show has been better than the books so far (I never thought that I would say something like that), there is ofc some things that are better planed out in the books, but they do still lack a lot so I can just hope they dont do the same mistakes in the tv-show. Read them/watch the show if you want or dont I dont care.

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